A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery.

Cannon or Cannons may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

  • Cannons (house), an 18th-century palace built for the Duke of Chandos in Stanmore
  • Cannon Street, London
  • Cannon Street station

United States

  • Cannon, Delaware
  • Cannon, Kentucky
  • Cannon City, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
  • Cannon County, Tennessee
  • Cannon Township, Michigan
  • Cannon Township, Kittson County, Minnesota
  • Cannon Lake (disambiguation)
  • Lake Cannon, Florida
  • Cannon Mountain (New Hampshire)
  • Cannon Mountain (Washington)
  • Mount Cannon, Montana
  • Cannon Park (Charleston, South Carolina), a public park
  • Cannon River (Minnesota)
  • Cannon Island (Alaska)

Elsewhere

  • Cannon River (Queensland), Australia, a tributary of the Langlo River
  • Cape Cannon, Greenland
  • Cannon Rock, an island in County Down, Northern Ireland
  • Cannon (crater), on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Il Cannone Guarnerius (The Cannon), a violin made by Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri in 1743
  • Cannon depth, tom-toms and bass drums deeper than power depth
  • Cannon (band), a post rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, active between 1999 and 2003
  • Cannons (band), a Los Angeles indie pop band
  • Cannons (album), a 2007 album by Phil Wickham
  • "Cannon" (song), from Subliminal Plastic Motives by Self
  • "Cannon", a song from The White Stripes by the White Stripes
  • "Cannons", a song from the debut album The Year of Hibernation by Youth Lagoon

Other arts and entertainment

  • Cannon (TV series), 1971–1976, starring William Conrad as Frank Cannon
  • Cannon, the 1971 pilot TV movie for the series
  • Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon, a comic book

Business

  • The Cannon Group, Inc., an American group of companies, including:
  • Cannon Films, a former motion picture studio
  • Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
  • Cannon Mills, a textile manufacturer
  • CannonDesign, an architectural firm founded in 1945
  • Great Wall Pao, a Chinese pickup truck also called the Cannon
  • Cannon (automobile), produced from 1902 to 1906

Military

  • Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, United States
  • Cannon-class destroyer escort, a World War II United States Navy class of destroyer escorts
  • USS Cannon (DE-99), lead ship of the class
  • Old Jeremiah, a British naval gun, affectionately referred to as The Cannon

People

  • Cannon (surname)
  • Cannon family, an American political family
  • Cannon (given name)
  • Freddy Cannon, stage name of American singer Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born 1940)
  • Patty Cannon, American slave trader and serial killer Lucretia Patricia Hanly (c. 1760–1829)
  • Poppy Cannon, American cookbook writer and food editor Lillian Gruskin (1905–1975)
  • Tommy Cannon, stage name of British comedian Thomas Derbyshire (born 1938)

Sports

  • Boston Cannons, a professional men's field lacrosse team
  • Calder Cannons, an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia
  • Ohio Cannon, a professional American football team in 1999
  • Cannon, a British/Canadian term for a snooker or billiards shot

Other uses

  • Cannon bone, a bone in the forelimb of a horse
  • Cannon Field, Texas, United States, a privately owned, public use airport
  • Cannon School, a private school in Concord, North Carolina, United States
  • Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War, part of the rivalry between American universities Rutgers and Princeton

See also

  • Cannon & Fetzer, an American architectural firm from 1909 to 1937
  • Great Cannon, a cyberweapon used by the Chinese government
  • Cannon or XLR connector
  • Cannons Creek (disambiguation)
  • Canon (disambiguation)