Canon

Canon or Canons may refer to:

Places

• Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
• Canons Park, London, UK
• Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London
• Cañon City, Colorado, United States
• Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
• Canon Rock, an island in Northern Ireland

Arts and entertainment

• Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
• Literary canon, the accepted body of works within a classification
• Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe by its fan base
• The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book
• Canon (music), a type of contrapuntal composition
• Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
• Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
• Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
• Canon (manga), by Nikki
• The Canon (podcast), concerning film

Brands and enterprises

• Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
• Château Canon (disambiguation), a number of wineries
• UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

Religion

• Canon (canon law), a rule or norm
• Canon (priest), a title of certain Christian priests
• Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity

People

• Canon (rapper) (born 1989)
• Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
• John Canon (1726–1798), American Revolutionary soldier
• John the Canon, fourteenth century Catalan philosopher
• Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter

Other uses

• Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club based in the capital city of Yaoundé
• Canons High School, Edgware, Greater London
• Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown

See also

• Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Canyon (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)
• Kanoon (disambiguation)
• Qanun (disambiguation)