Panampilly Govinda Menon (1 October 1906 – 23 May 1970) was an Indian politician, freedom fighter, and lawyer.

In 2006, the birth centenary celebrations of Panampilly Govinda Menon were inaugurated by the then President of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

Govinda Menon was born on 1 October 1906, in the village of Kakkad which on the eastern bank of the Chalakudy River, in the district of Thrissur in Kerala, India.

He was the fourth son of Kumarapilly Krishna Menon and Madhavi Amma.

During this time he was staying with his elder sister Janaki Amma and her husband Madhava Menon who was a lawyer.

When Rabindranath Tagore the famous poet visited Kerala, and was going to attend a public event at Aluva, via Chalakudy, Govinda Menon and his friends went to meet him.