Falcon (disambiguation)

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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
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

Places

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

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

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

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
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"