Canon
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
- Western canon, the accepted body of works considered as high culture in the West
- Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe by its fan base
- The Canon, a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
- 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
- Biblical canon, a set of texts regarded by a Christian community as authoritative scripture
- Canon (canon law), a rule or norm
- Canon law, the judicial system in Christian churches
- Canon (priest), a title of certain Christian priests
- Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
- Pāli Canon, scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism (these include the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka)
People
- Canon (rapper) (born 1989)
- Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
- Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter
Other uses
- The Canon of Medicine, a 1025 CE medical encyclopedia by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
- 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
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- Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
- Cannon (disambiguation)
- Canonical – Standard or referential form; includes many examples of canons
- Canonization, the act of a pope's declaring a deceased person a saint
- Canyon (disambiguation)
- Kanon (disambiguation)
- Kanoon (disambiguation)
- Qanun (disambiguation)
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