- Chronos is the personification of time in Greek mythology
- There is also Cronus, the similarly named Greek mythological Titan, father of Zeus. The two should not be confused.
- Kronos Quartet is a string quartet.
- Chronos is an IMAX film created with custom-built, time-lapse cameras.
- "Kronos" is the anglicisation of Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld in the fictional Star Trek universe.
- Kronos appears as a chronovore, a creature that devours time, in The Time Monster, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- Kronos is the title of a 1957 science fiction film.
- Kronos (http://www.kronos.com/) is a public company specialising in workforce management, listed on the Nasdaq with code KRON.
- Kronos is a Java based personal information manager.
- Kronos was the name of a secret workstation (32 bit, graphical user interface) developed in the Soviet Union in the mid 1980s. It was based on the Lilith built earlier.
- "Kronos" was also the password to Syndrome's central computer in The Incredibles
- Kronos is the name of a circa-2003 (presumably) Italian dance project who released a number of Latin-language Italo-Dance songs, including "Magica Europa", "Salve Regina", and "Party's Deorum".
- Kronos (http://kronosbrutaldeath.free.fr/) is the the name of a French Death Metal band.