Acton

Acton may refer to:

Antarctica

 * Mount Acton

Australia

 * Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
 * Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
 * Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton

Canada

 * Acton, Ontario, a community
 * Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario
 * Acton, New Brunswick
 * Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec

New Zealand

 * Acton, New Zealand, a rural community

United Kingdom

 * Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland
 * Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
 * Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)
 * Acton, Dorset, a hamlet
 * Acton, London, an area of west London
 * East Acton
 * North Acton
 * South Acton, London
 * West Acton
 * Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district
 * Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
 * Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet
 * Acton, Shropshire, a village
 * Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet
 * Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil parish
 * Acton, Worcestershire
 * Acton, Wrexham, a local government community

United States

 * Acton, Alabama, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, California, an unincorporated census-designated place
 * Acton, Florida, a former town
 * Acton, Georgia, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, Indiana, a community
 * Acton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, Maine, a town
 * Acton, Massachusetts, a town
 * Acton Township, Meeker County, Minnesota
 * Acton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, Montana, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
 * Acton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota
 * Acton Lake, Ohio
 * Acton, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
 * Acton, Texas, an unincorporated community
 * Acton State Historic Site, Texas

Schools

 * Acton School of Business, Austin, Texas
 * Acton Technical College, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom
 * Acton High School (Massachusetts), a former American high school, on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Ark Acton Academy, in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England

People

 * Acton (surname)
 * Acton Bell, a pen name of Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet
 * Eugenia de Acton, a pen name of Alethea Lewis (1749–1827), English novelist
 * Acton Adams (1843–1924), British politician
 * Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British barrister and politician

Other uses

 * Acton Institute, an American think tank
 * Acton Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund
 * Acton station (disambiguation)
 * Baron Acton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
 * Acton Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
 * Acton (Turrell), an artwork by James Turrell
 * The Actons, a family in The Europeans, a Henry James novel
 * Acton, a minor character in The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
 * Acton, an alternative spelling of aketon (gambeson)