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, 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
  • 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