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Falcon may also refer to:
People
- Falcon (surname)
- Falcon Heene, the young boy involved in the balloon boy hoax of 2009
- Falcon Stuart, a British photographer
Transport
Aviation
- AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force
- Buckeye Falcon, an American powered parachute design
- Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane
- DARPA Falcon Project, an unmanned spaceplane capable of hypersonic speeds
- Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured 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
- General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
- 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 used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
- Wills Wing Falcon, an American hang glider design
Maritime
- Falcon, a ship of the Third Supply fleet to Virginia colony in 1609
- HMS Falcon, the name of 22 ships of the Royal Navy
- SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.
- USS Falcon, the name of four ships of the United States Navy
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-Knight, a brand of automobile produced between 1927 and 1928 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio
- Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
- Falcon Motorsports, an American manufacturer of high performance automobiles
- Chrysler Falcon, a concept sports car made by Chrysler
- 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 (Americas), a compact car produced by Ford Motor Company
- Ford Falcon van, a passenger van produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s
- Falken Tires, a subsidiary of Sumitomo
Rocketry and space
- AIM-4 Falcon, the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the US 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
- Falcon 1
- Falcon 5 (proposed; never built)
- Falcon 9
- Falcon Heavy
- Big Falcon Rocket
- 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
Military
- Falcon Turret, main battle tank turret
- ZVI Falcon, sniper rifle
- Falcon a small cannon developed in the late 15th century
Culture
Film
- Millennium Falcon, a fictional spaceship from the Star Wars films
- Falcons (film), a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
- Banović Strahinja (film), English title The Falcon
- 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
- Falcón (TV series), a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels
Fictional characters
- Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe
- The Falcon (fictional detective), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
- 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
Music
- An operatic voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon
- Falcon Records (disambiguation)
- The Falcons, an American rhythm and blues band in the 1950s
- 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 (video game series), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
- 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
Sports
- Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
- Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team
- Mario Fenech, the rugby league footballer nicknamed "The Maltese Falcon"
- Newcastle Falcons, a rugby union team based in Newcastle, England
- The New Zealand national Australian rules football team, called the Falcons
- Pakistan national cricket team, nicknamed the "Shaheens" in Urdu, meaning the "Falcons"
- NIST International School Falcons, the sports teams of NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand
- Polish Falcons of America, a Polish fraternal and sporting organization
- Sokół Nisko, literally "Falcon Nisko" in Polish
- Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
- St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based in St. Catharines, Ontario
- USA Falcons, a rugby union team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
- West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
- Winnipeg Falcons, an amateur ice hockey team which, representing Canada, won the first ever Olympic gold medal in ice hockey
Schools
- Falcon College, an all-boys independent boarding school in Esigodini, Zimbabwe
School mascots
- American Cooperative School of Tunis
- Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green University
- United States Air Force Academy
- Aplington–Parkersburg High School
- Clear Lake High School
- Flowery Branch High School
Places
United States
- Falcon, Colorado
- Falcon, Kentucky
- Falcon, Mississippi
- Falcon, North Carolina
- Falcon, Tennessee
- Falcon Dam, Texas
- Falcon Village, Texas
- New Falcon, Texas
Other
- Falcón, a state in northern Venezuela
- Falcon, Battersea, a public house in Battersea, London
- The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, England
- 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
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
In business
- FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
- Bryggeri AB Falken, a Swedish brewery which sold beer under the name Falcon
Other uses
- The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), an American film starring Humphrey Bogart.
- Falcon (Duinrell), a Gerstlauer Eurofighter model roller coaster at Duinrell amusement park
- RAF Hal Far, an airfield on Malta called HMS Falcon while it was a Royal Navy base
- Operation FALCON, several dragnets for fugitives organized by the United States Marshals Service
- Typhoon Falcon (disambiguation)
See also
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- Falconer (disambiguation)
- Falcones (disambiguation)
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