Lyon is a city in France.

Lyon may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

  • Lyon, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, a location in the U.K.
  • Loch Lyon, a lake in Scotland

United States

  • Lyon, Mississippi
  • Lyon, Missouri
  • Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas
  • Lyon County (disambiguation)
  • Lyon Mountain (disambiguation)
  • Lyon Township (disambiguation)
  • Lyon Village, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
  • Fort Lyon (disambiguation)

People

  • Lyon (surname)

Ancestry and heraldry

  • Lyon Court, the institution that regulates heraldry in Scotland
  • Lord Lyon King of Arms, head of Lyon Court, a Scottish heraldic official
  • Clan Lyon, Scottish clan associated with the lands of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland

Arts and entertainment

  • Lyon, the main antagonist in the video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
  • Lyon, a major character in the video game Suikoden V
  • Lyon School, a style of painting that flourished around 1800
  • Merriman Lyon, a main character in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising book series
  • Lyon, an S-Type guitar manufactured by Washburn Guitars

Business

  • Lyon's, a chain of restaurants headquartered in the US state of California
  • J. Lyons and Co., a chain of restaurants in England
  • Lyon & Healy, US company which manufactured harps
  • Lyon & Lyon, a US legal company

Religion

  • Council of Lyon, two 13th-century ecclesiastical councils held in Lyon, France
  • First Council of Lyon (1245), regarding the Crusades
  • Second Council of Lyon (1274), regarding papal election procedures

Science

  • Lyon hypothesis, see X-inactivation
  • 9381 Lyon, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1993

Sports

  • Olympique Lyonnais, a men's football club based in Lyon
  • Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, a women's football club based in Lyon
  • Lyon-class battleship, a proposed fleet of 4 battleships for the French Navy (1914)
  • American steamship General Lyon (1864), a US steamship
  • USS General Lyon (1860), a US warship in US Civil War
  • USS Lyon (AP-71), a US warship of World War II

See also

  • Lyons (disambiguation)
  • Lion (disambiguation)
  • Lyonnaise (disambiguation)
  • Justice Lyon (disambiguation)