Canon

Canon may refer to:

Places

Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
Canons Ashby, a village in Northamptonshire, England
- Canons Ashby House, a National Trust property near the village
Canon Frome, a hamlet and small rural parish in Herefordshire, England
Canons Park, London, UK
- Canons Park tube station
Canon Row, a street in Westminster (London)
- Canon Row Police Station

The Spanish word Cañon is equivalent to canyon in English

Cañon City, Colorado, United States
- Cañon City Downtown Historic District
- Cañon City School District
  - Cañon City High School
Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada

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
The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book
Canon of Dutch History, 50 topics to be taught in schools in the Netherlands
Canon of Dutch Literature, a list of the most important Dutch literary works
Canon of Eclipses, an 1887 compilation of eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
Canon of Kings, a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena
Danish Culture Canon, a list of 108 works of cultural excellence
Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture

Bayreuth canon, the operas by the German composer Richard Wagner that have been performed at the Bayreuth Festival.
Canon (music), a type of contrapuntal composition
Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
Canon on a Russian Popular Tune, an orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky
Pachelbel's Canon, a German Baroque chamber work
Prolation canon, a type of musical composition
Round (music), also 'perpetual canon', a type of musical composition for voices

Artistic canons of body proportions, rules for the proportions of a human figure in art
- Egyptian canon of proportion: the rules that were used for tomb painting in Classical Egypt
- Polykleitos § Canon of Polykleitos: the mathematical bases of artistic perfection, according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos
- Lysippos § Canon of Lysippos: a less rigid canon developed 100 years later by the sculptor Lysippos
Canons of page construction, historical reconstructions of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe by its fan base
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

Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
- Canon Digital Ixus, a camera series
- Canon EOS, a camera system
- Canon Tokki, a Japanese manufacturer of material deposition equipment for making OLED displays.
- Canon Powershot, a camera system
Château Canon (disambiguation), any of a number of wineries
UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

Canon law, a set of rules of conduct or belief prescribed by various churches
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
  - Penitential canons, the Catholic canon laws regarding certain penances to be done for certain sins
- Canonization, the formal process of recognizing a Christian saint

Canon (rapper) (born 1989)
Lou Canon is the stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter.

Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
Canon arithmeticus, is a table of indices and powers with respect to primitive roots for prime powers less than 1000
Canon of construction, a rule or generally accepted principle of statutory interpretation in law
The Canon of Judo, a book by Kodokan 10th dan, Kyuzo Mifune (1883-1965).
The Canon of Medicine, an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian Muslim physician-philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club
Morgan's Canon, a precept of comparative (animal) psychology
The Other Canon Foundation, a center and network for research of heterodox economics