Melas may refer to: Plural of mela People Melas (mythology), a number of different characters in Greek mythology Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), a Hellenic Army officer and a symbol of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia Chloe Melas, an American journalist Leon Melas (1812–1879), a Greek politician Michael von Melas, a field marshal for the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars Mihail Melas (1833–1897), a Greek politician and merchant Vasileios Melas (1879–1956), an officer of the Hellenic army, brother of Pavlos Melas Zafeiris Melas (born 1957), a Greek pop-folk singer Places Melas, Kastoria, a village in Western Macedonia, Greece, formerly Statitsa, renamed for Pavlos Melas Pavlos Melas (municipality), in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece Melas (Naxos), a town in ancient Greece Melas, now Manavgat River, in Turkey Melas Chasma, a canyon on Mars Gulf of Melas, the previous name of Gulf of Saros, in Turkey Other uses MELAS syndrome, one of the family of mitochondrial cytopathies See also Mela (disambiguation)