Myron (given name)
Myron is a masculine given name used in English-spoking and Eastern European countries including Romania, Ukraine and Russia (in the countries of the former USSR it is usually spelled Miron, except for Ukraine whereas in Ukrainian language this name is spelled Myron). Non-religious or Christianized Jews used this name as a Gentile replacement of the Jewish name Meir. This use was originally in honor of the ancient Greek sculptor Myron (Greek Μύρων), whose name meant 'myrrh, perfume' in ancient Greek.[1] The female equivalent of Myron is considered to be Myra.
Notable people
- Myron, Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC
- Myron Walter "Moe" Drabowsky (1935–2006), American major league baseball pitcher
- Myron Floren (1919–2005), American accordionist and band leader
- Myron "Mike" Franks (born 1936), American tennis player
- Myron Markevych (born 1951), former Ukrainian football midfielder, and current head coach of Metalist Kharkiv
- Myron Mathisson (1897–1940), Polish theoretical physicist
- Myron S. McNeil (1873–1944), American politician and state senator from Mississippi
- Myron Scholes (born 1941), Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner, a co-author of Black–Scholes model for option pricing
- Myron Waldman (1908–2006), animator and director at Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios
- Myron "Mike" Wallace (1918–2012), American television news reporter and anchor for 60 Minutes
References
- Evans, C.K. (2006). The Great Big Book of Baby Names. Publications International Ltd.
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