McCandless may refer to:
People McCandless (surname)
Places McCandless, Pennsylvania, US, a home-rule municipality of 29,000 people McCandless Archeological Site, near Elkton, Maryland, US
Other uses The McCandless method for stage lighting, authored by Stanley McCandless USS McCandless (FF-1084), a US Navy frigate named for Byron McCandless and Bruce McCandless I McCandless Lunar Lander, named for Bruce McCandless II
See also McCandlish, a less common form of the name McCanles Gang (sometimes also rendered McCandless), an alleged outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s "Mac" McCandless, antagonist (played by Anthony Hopkins) in the film Freejack McCandles, protagonist family in the 1971 western film Big Jake McCanles, protagonist family in the 1946 western film Duel in the Sun and the Niven Busch novel on which it was based