Canon

Canon or Canons may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author
 * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
 * Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West
 * Canon of proportions, a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art
 * Canon (music), a type of composition
 * Canon (hymnography), a type of hymn used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
 * Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
 * Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
 * Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
 * Canon (manga), by Nikki
 * Canonical plays of William Shakespeare
 * The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
 * The Canon (podcast), concerning film
 * The Cannons, an indie band

Brands and enterprises

 * Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
 * Château Canon (disambiguation), a number of wineries
 * UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

People

 * Canon (rapper) (born Aaron McCain, 1989)
 * Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
 * Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter

Places

 * Canon, Georgia, United States
 * Canons Park, London, United Kingdom
 * Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London
 * Cañon City, Colorado, United States
 * Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
 * Canon Rock, an island in Northern Ireland

Religion

 * : some religious texts are accepted or categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical
 * Biblical canon, a set of texts regarded by a Christian or Jewish community as part of the Bible
 * Canon law, the whole judicial system in Christian churches
 * Canon (canon law), a law or ordinance promulgated by a synod, ecumenical council, or individual bishop (within the canon law system of that Church).
 * Canon (clergy), a title of certain Christian priests
 * Canon regular, a priest who lives in community under a rule
 * Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
 * Pāli Canon, scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism (these include the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka)

Other uses

 * Canon (basic principle), an accepted body of rules
 * Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
 * The Canon of Medicine, a 1025 CE medical encyclopedia by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
 * Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club based in the capital city of Yaoundé
 * Canons High School, Edgware, Greater London