A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey.
Falcon may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television Millennium Falcon, a fictional spaceship from the Star Wars films The Falcon (film), or Banović Strahinja, a 1981 Yugoslavian-German adventure film Falcón (TV series), a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels "Falcon" (Marvel Studios: Legends), an episode of Marvel Studios: Legends
Fictional characters Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe Falcon (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the Marvel Cinematic Universe version The Falcon (fictional detective), the name of two detective characters created independently by Drexel Drake in 1936 and Michael Arlen in 1940, the second of which inspired a film series 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
Literature The Falcon, a literary magazine published by Commonwealth University-Mansfield (then Mansfield State College) from 1970 to 1980
Music DJ Falcon (born 1973), stage name of French house music DJ Stéphane Quême An operatic voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon Falcon Records (disambiguation) 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 (series), a series of combat flight simulator computer games Falcon (video game), the first game of the series 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 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 , an Indonesian house film production 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 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 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 United States Air Force Academy Aplington–Parkersburg High School Clear Lake High School (Houston, Texas) Flowery Branch High School Henry Ford II High School
Sports 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 , 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 Various cars produced by Ford. 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 (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 Jonway Falcon, a crossover SUV by Jonway Automobile
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
Falcons (disambiguation) Falcón (disambiguation) Falkon, a web browser Falcon Heights (disambiguation) Falcone (disambiguation) Falcones (disambiguation) Flacon Falken Tires, a subsidiary of Sumitomo