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