People

Frank Minion Frank Minion (born January 3, 1929 in Baltimore) is an American jazz and bop singer, with some rhythm and blues and reggae influences. In 1954 he covered "How High the Moon" and "Sweet Lorraine". He later worked with Roland Alexander. In 1960 he r ...

(born 1929), American jazz and bop singer * Fred Minion, English professional footballer * Joseph Minion (born 1957), American film director and screenwriter * Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, Indonesian badminton men's doubles pair often called "the Minions"

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

*Minion, the title character's best friend from the animated film ''

Megamind ''Megamind'' is a 2010 American computer-animated superhero comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, the film stars t ...

'' *Minion, a character and vehicle from the video game series '' Twisted Metal'' *Minions, Blair Waldorf's followers at in the television show ''

Gossip Girl ''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, ran on The CW network for six ...

'' *Minions, the creatures controlled by the player character in ''

Overlord An overlord in the English feudal system was a lord of a manor who had subinfeudated a particular manor, estate or fee, to a tenant. The tenant thenceforth owed to the overlord one of a variety of services, usually military service or s ...

'' *Alexander Minion, a character from the movie '' Spy Kids'' *

Maelstrom's Minions The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features. Places Certain places fe ...

, Marvel Comics supervillains Gronk, Helio, and Phobius that work for Maelstrom *

Minions Places *Minions, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom People *Frank Minion (born 1929), American jazz and bop singer * Fred Minion, English professional footballer *Joseph Minion (born 1957), American film director and screenwriter *Marcus F ...

, characters from the ''Despicable Me'' franchise.

Films

* ''Minions'' (film), a 2015 animated film based on the creatures from the ''Despicable Me'' franchise *'' Minions: The Rise of Gru'', a 2022 animated film based on the creatures from the ''Despicable Me'' franchise *'' The Minion'', a 1998 American and Canadian action supernatural horror film directed by Jean-Marc Piché

Games

* ''Minions'' (video game), a 2008 Flash game featured on the Casual Collective website *'' Overlord: Minions'', a 2009 puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS

Technology

* Minion (cannon), a type of cannon with a small bore during the 16th and 17th centuries *

Minion (chat widget) ''Minion'' (Hangul: 미니온) is a chatting widget developed by DevArzz, the South Korean server. It is created with Python 2.7.x version and twistedmatrix 11.0 library. Minion can be built on to the Web browsers. In addition, there are public ...

, a chat widget that runs in web browsers *

Minion (solver) Minion is a solver for constraint satisfaction problems. Unlike constraint programming toolkits, which expect users to write programs in a traditional programming language like C++, Java or Prolog, Minion takes a text file which specifies the probl ...

, constraint solver *MinION, a nanopore DNA sequencing platform developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Other uses

* Minion (typeface), the name of a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems *

Minion (typography) Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry. As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies"—acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their ...

, the name of a type size between nonpareil and brevier