Thon

Thon may refer to:

People
  • Dickie Thon, Major League baseball player
  • Konstantin Thon, Russian architect
  • Olaf Thon, German footballer
  • Olav Thon, Norwegian businessman
  • Ozjasz Thon, Polish rabbi
Places
  • Thon Buri, former capital of Thailand and a current district of Bangkok
Fiction and Mythology
  • Thon (mythology), a figure from Greek mythology
  • In the post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, a "thon" is an academic rank similar to a "don" of today's oxonian and cantabrigian usage (also used elsewhere in academia).
  • In the Star Wars expanded universe, the ancient Jedi Master Thon
Other
  • The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon
  • "Thon", proposed third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun
  • Thon rammana, a pair of Thai and Cambodian drums.
  • -thon, a generic suffix, usually used for fundraising events like walk-a-thons or telethons, usually implying a long duration. Derived from marathon.