Nikon is a given name from . Notable people with the name include:

Nikon the Metanoeite (c. 930–c. 998), a Byzantine monk, preacher and saint Nikon of the Black Mountain (c. 1025–c. 1100), a Byzantine ecclesiastical writer Nikon of Jerusalem (c. 1380 – after 1468), Serbian writer Nikon I (Serbian patriarch), patriarch from 1419 to 1435 Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605–1681), a Russian prelate Nikon of Karoulia (1875–1963), Russian military officer and Orthodox monk Nikon Liolin (born 1945), Albanian bishop in the United States Nikon Nizetas, cover name of WW1 spy Alfred Redl

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