Minion or Minions may refer to:

Places

Minions, Cornwall Minions () is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor northwest of Caradon Hill approximately four miles (6 km) north of Liskeard.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth ...

, 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 Fernaldi Gideon Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (born 9 March 1991) is an Indonesian former badminton player who was ranked world No. 1 in the men's doubles by the Badminton World Federation alongside Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. He plays for PB Jaya Raya, and has been a mem ...

and

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (born 2 August 1995) is an Indonesian former badminton player who was ranked world number 1 in the men's doubles by the Badminton World Federation. Considered as one of the best players of his generation, he won the men' ...

, 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 animated superhero comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Pacific Data Images, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, ...

'' *Minion, a character and vehicle from the video game series ''

Twisted Metal ''Twisted Metal'' is a series of Vehicular combat game, vehicular combat video games originally developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series has appeared on the PlayStation (console), PlayStation, PlaySta ...

'' *Minions, Blair Waldorf's followers at in the television show ''

Gossip Girl ''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series created and developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and based on the series of novels of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar. It follows a group of students on Manhattan's ...

'' *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 ...

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

Spy Kids ''Spy Kids'' is an American media franchise centered on a series of spy action comedy films created by Robert Rodriguez. The plot follows children siblings, who discover that their respective parents are spies and become involved in an espionag ...

'' * Maelstrom's Minions, Marvel Comics supervillains Gronk, Helio, and Phobius that work for Maelstrom * Minions (''Despicable Me''), 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 ''The Minion'' is a 1998 action supernatural horror film directed by Jean-Marc Piché and starring Dolph Lundgren and Françoise Robertson. It was released to television and video in various countries. Plot The film's plot revolves around the co ...

'', 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) The minion (from the French language, French ''mignon'' or "dainty") was a type of smoothbore cannon used during the Tudor period and into the late 17th century. It was of a smaller caliber, bore diameter - typically - than larger cannons such ...

, 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 pr ...

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

Other uses

Minion (typeface) Minion is a serif typeface released in 1990 by Adobe Systems. Designed by Robert Slimbach, it is inspired by late Renaissance-era type and intended for body text and extended reading. Minion's name comes from the Traditional point-size names, tra ...

, 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