Menelaus (/ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs/; Greek: Μενέλαος, Menelaos), is one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope.
Menelaus may also refer to:
Astronomy
- 1647 Menelaus, Jovian asteroid
- Menelaus (crater) on the Moon
People and mythology
- Menelaus of Macedon (various)
- Menelaus (son of Amyntas III)
- Menelaus (son of Lagus), brother of Ptolemy I Soter
- Menelaus of Pelagonia who received Athenian citizenship
- Menelaus (High Priest), 2nd century BC High Priest of the Second Temple
- Menelaus, pupil of Stephanus (fl. 33 BC) sculptor in the workshop of Pasiteles in the time of Caesar Augustus
- Menelaus of Alexandria, a Hellenistic mathematician and astronomer
- Menelaus's theorem, a theorem attributed to Menelaus of Alexandria
Contemporary
- Jane Menelaus (born 1959), Australian actress
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