Beacon (disambiguation)

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

Beacon may also refer to:

Music

 * Beacon (band), an American electronic music group
 * Beacon (Two Door Cinema Club album), 2012
 * Beacon (Susumu Hirasawa album), 2021
 * Beacons (album), by Ohbijou, 2009
 * Beacons (EP), by I Like Trains, 2012
 * Beacons (festival), a British music festival

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * Beacon (character), the name of two fictional characters
 * Beacon (Scheer), an art installation in New York, U.S.
 * Beacon, a magazine published on the Isle of Wight by Total Sense Media

Companies

 * Beacon, a retail fuel brand of Valero Energy
 * Beacon Communications (publisher), a publisher of weekly newspapers in Rhode Island, U.S.
 * Beacon Communications Corporation, a defunct newspaper publisher in Massachusetts, U.S.
 * Beacon Pictures an American film production company, also known as "Beacon Communications, LLC"
 * Beacon Press, an American publisher
 * Beacon UK, a private provider of mental health services in England
 * Beacon Health Options a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts

Schools

 * Beacon Status, a school designation in England
 * Beacon high schools in Beijing, a school designation in China
 * Beacon School (Stamford, Connecticut), U.S.
 * Beacon English School, Korba, Chhattisgarh, India
 * New Beacon School, formerly The Beacon, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
 * The Beacon School, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
 * The Beacon School, Banstead, Surrey, England
 * Beacon Academy, formerly Beacon Community College, Crowborough, East Sussex, England
 * Beacon Academy, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England
 * The Beacon Academy, Biñan, Philippines
 * Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, U.S.
 * Beacon College (Hong Kong)

Places

 * Beacon, Western Australia, Australia
 * Beacon, Devon, United Kingdom
 * Beacon (ward), Dorset, United Kingdom
 * Beacon, Iowa, U.S.
 * Beacon, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
 * Beacon, New York, U.S.
 * Beacon station
 * Beacon Mountain
 * Beacon Valley, Antarctica

Transportation and military

 * MV Beacon, a ship, later Empire Guernsey
 * HMS Beacon, various ships of the Royal Navy
 * USS Beacon, various ships of the U.S. Navy

Other uses

 * Beacon (apple), a cultivar of apple
 * Beacon (streaming service), a boutique subscription streaming service by Critical Role Productions
 * Beacon Supergroup, a rock formation in Antarctica
 * Beacon-class gunvessel, 19th century British ships
 * Beacon, an Appro supercomputer
 * 'Beacon', a cultivar of barley
 * Beacon, an oscillator in Conway's Game of Life
 * Bluetooth Low Energy beacon, providing location to devices in its vicinity
 * Facebook Beacon, advertising software
 * Project Beacon, an early American space satellite program
 * Rotating beacon (disambiguation)
 * Valparaiso Beacons, the athletic program of Valparaiso University in Indiana
 * Web beacon, an Internet web tracking technique