Falcon (disambiguation)

A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey.

Falcon may also refer to:

Film

 * Millennium Falcon, a fictional spaceship from the Star Wars films
 * The Falcon (film), or Banović Strahinja, a 1981 Yugoslavian-German adventure film
 * Falcons (film), a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
 * Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios
 * Falcon Studios, a large company producing gay pornography, based in San Francisco
 * Falcón (TV series), a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels

Fictional characters

 * Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe
 * The Falcon (fictional detective), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
 * The Falcon (radio series), a radio drama featuring the detective created by Drexel Drake in 1936
 * Falcon (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
 * Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
 * Falcon from Stuart Little 2
 * Blue Falcon, a superhero in the American animated television series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
 * Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
 * Edward Falcon, a character in the Power Stone series of video games

Music

 * An operatic voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon
 * Falcon Records (disambiguation)
 * The Falcons, an American rhythm and blues band in the 1950s
 * The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band
 * Falcon (album), by British alternative rock band The Courteeners
 * Falcon (singer) (born 1984), stage name of Amanda Lindsey Cook

Video games

 * Falcon (video game series), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
 * Novint Falcon, a USB haptic controller designed to replace the mouse in video games and other applications
 * Falcon, a motherboard formerly included in all Xbox 360 console models

Businesses

 * Bryggeri AB Falken, a Swedish brewery which sold beer under the name Falcon
 * Falcon, Battersea, a public house (pub) in Battersea, London
 * The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, England
 * The Falcon, York, a public house in York, in England

Computing

 * Atari Falcon, Atari's last released general-use computer
 * Falcon (storage engine), a MySQL storage engine
 * Falcon (video game), a flight simulator video game
 * Falcon Northwest, a high-end computer manufacturer in the US, specialising in gaming PCs
 * A nickname for a PDP-11 model, the SBC 11/21 (boardname KXT11)
 * Falcon, a hardware revision of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console
 * Falcon (Signature), “Fast Fourier lattice-based compact signatures over NTRU”, a digital signature scheme

Military

 * AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force
 * AIM-26 Falcon, a U.S. nuclear capable air-to-air missile
 * AIM-47 Falcon, a U.S. long-range air-to-air missile
 * AGM-76 Falcon, an experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile
 * Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane
 * General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
 * HMS Falcon, the name of 22 ships of the Royal Navy
 * RAF Hal Far, an airfield on Malta called HMS Falcon while it was a Royal Navy base
 * USS Falcon, the name of four ships of the United States Navy
 * DARPA Falcon Project, a two-part joint project between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the United States Air Force
 * Falcon Air Force Base, former name of Schriever Space Force Base, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
 * Joint Security Station Falcon, a former United States military forward operating base in Iraq
 * Falcon Turret, a Jordanian main battle tank turret
 * ZVI Falcon, a sniper rifle

People

 * Falcon (surname)
 * Falcon Heene, the young boy involved in the balloon boy hoax of 2009
 * Falcon Stuart (1941–2002), British photographer, retailer, filmmaker, manager and music producer

United States

 * Falcon, Colorado, an unincorporated community
 * Falcon, Kentucky
 * Falcon, Mississippi
 * Falcon, North Carolina
 * Falcon, Tennessee
 * Falcon Dam, Texas
 * Falcon Village, Texas

Elsewhere

 * Falcon, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah, Australia
 * Falcon Lake (disambiguation), various bodies of water in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
 * Falkenfelsen, or Falcon Rock, a granite formation in Germany

Schools

 * Falcon College, an all-boys independent boarding school in Esigodini, Zimbabwe
 * Falcon High School, Falcon, Colorado, United States

School mascots

 * American Cooperative School of Tunis
 * Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green University
 * United States Air Force Academy
 * Aplington–Parkersburg High School
 * Clear Lake High School (Houston, Texas)
 * Flowery Branch High School

Teams

 * Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
 * Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team
 * Newcastle Falcons, a rugby union team based in Newcastle, England
 * New Zealand national Australian rules football team, called the Falcons
 * NIST International School Falcons, the sports teams of NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand
 * Polish Falcons of America, a Polish fraternal and sporting organization
 * Sokół Nisko, literally "Falcon Nisko" in Polish
 * Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
 * St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based in St. Catharines, Ontario
 * USA Falcons, a rugby union team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
 * West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
 * Winnipeg Falcons, an amateur ice hockey team which, representing Canada, won the first ever Olympic gold medal in ice hockey

Fields

 * Falcon Field (Corinth, Texas), a baseball field
 * Falcon Baseball Field, in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Aviation

 * Buckeye Falcon, an American powered parachute design
 * Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
 * Dassault Falcon 900, a French-built corporate trijet aircraft made by Dassault Aviation
 * Falcon Air, a defunct Swedish airline
 * Falcon Air Express, a defunct airline based in Miami, Florida
 * Falcon Express Cargo Airlines, an airline based in the United Arab Emirates
 * Hansjörg Streifeneder Falcon, a German sailplane
 * Miles Falcon, a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane
 * Rolls-Royce Falcon, a World War I-era aircraft engine
 * Wills Wing Falcon, an American hang glider design
 * Falcon Field (Arizona), an airport
 * Atlanta Regional Airport, also known as Falcon Field, a public use airport in Fayette County, Georgia, United States

Maritime

 * Falcon, a ship of the Third Supply fleet to Virginia colony in 1609
 * Falcon, a small sailing vessel used by Edward Frederick Knight to explore the Baltic
 * SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.

Rail

 * British Rail Class 53 Falcon, a class of lightweight electric-diesel locomotives made in 1961
 * Falcon, a South Devon Railway Comet class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive involved in a crash

Road

 * Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
 * Falcon Cycles, a British bicycle manufacturer
 * Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
 * Falcon Motorsports, an American manufacturer of high performance automobiles
 * Chrysler Falcon, a concept sports car made by Chrysler
 * Ford Falcon (Argentina), a compact car built by the Ford Motor Company of Argentina
 * Ford Falcon (Australia), a full-size car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company of Australia
 * Ford Falcon (XK)
 * Ford Falcon (XL)
 * Ford Falcon (XM)
 * Ford Falcon (XP)
 * Ford Falcon (XR)
 * Ford Falcon (XT)
 * Ford Falcon (XW)
 * Ford Falcon (XY)
 * Ford Falcon (XA)
 * Ford Falcon (XB)
 * Ford Falcon (XC)
 * Ford Falcon (XD)
 * Ford Falcon (XE)
 * Ford Falcon (XF)
 * Ford Falcon (XG)
 * Ford Falcon (XH)
 * Ford Falcon (EA)
 * Ford Falcon (EB)
 * Ford Falcon (ED)
 * Ford Falcon (EF)
 * Ford Falcon (EL)
 * Ford Falcon (AU)
 * Ford Falcon (BA)
 * Ford Falcon (BF)
 * Ford Falcon (FG)
 * Ford Falcon (FG X)
 * Ford Falcon (North America), a compact car produced by Ford Motor Company
 * Ford Falcon van, a passenger van produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s

Rocketry and space

 * Falcon 1, a SpaceX launch vehicle
 * Falcon 5, a proposed partially reusable launch vehicle designed by SpaceX
 * Falcon 9, a partially reusable launch vehicle produced by SpaceX
 * Falcon Heavy, a partially reusable launch vehicle produced by SpaceX
 * "Falcon", the callsign of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module
 * Viper Falcon, a U.S. sounding rocket
 * The Falcon Project, a U.K. and U.S. rocket company by Daniel Jubb

Other uses

 * Operation FALCON, several dragnets for fugitives organized by the United States Marshals Service
 * Typhoon Falcon (disambiguation)
 * FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
 * Falcon (Duinrell), a Gerstlauer Eurofighter model roller coaster at Duinrell amusement park
 * Corpus Christi Carol, a medieval song sometimes called the "Falcon Carol"