Falcon (disambiguation) explained
A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey.
Falcon may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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, England
- The Falcon, Camden, a public house in Camden, London, England
- The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, England
- The Falcon, York, a public house in York, 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
- , 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
- , 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
Places
United States
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
School mascots
Sports
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
Transport
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
- , a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.
Rail
Road
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"
See also
