Beacon (disambiguation)

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common historical example was the fire beacon, for sending optical signals.

Beacon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

• Beacon (band), an American electronic music group
• Beacons (festival), a British music festival
• Beacon (Two Door Cinema Club album), 2012
• Beacon (Susumu Hirasawa album), 2021
• Beacons (EP), by I Like Trains, 2012
• Beacons, a 2009 album by Ohbijou

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Beacon (character), the name of two fictional characters
• Beacon (Scheer), an art installation in New York, U.S.
• Beacon, a magazine published on the Isle of Wight by Total Sense Media

Businesses and organisations

Companies

• Beacon, a retail fuel brand of Valero Energy
• The Beacon, an online local news nonprofit in Kansas City.
• Beacon Communications (publisher), a publisher of weekly newspapers in Rhode Island, U.S.
• Beacon Communications Corporation, a defunct newspaper publisher in Massachusetts, U.S.
• Beacon Pictures an American film production company, also known as "Beacon Communications, LLC"
• Beacon Press, an American publisher
• Beacon UK, a private provider of mental health services in England
• Beacon Health Options a behavioral health company based in Boston, Massachusetts

Schools

• Beacon Status, a school designation in England
• Beacon high schools in Beijing, a school designation in China
• Beacon School (Stamford, Connecticut), U.S.
• Beacon English School, Korba, Chhattisgarh, India
• New Beacon School, formerly The Beacon, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• The Beacon School, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
• The Beacon School, Banstead, Surrey, England
• Beacon Academy, Crowborough, formerly Beacon Community College, Crowborough, East Sussex, England
• Beacon Academy, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England
• The Beacon Academy, Biñan, Philippines
• Beacon College in Leesburg, Florida, U.S.
• Beacon College (Hong Kong)

Places

• Beacon, Western Australia
• Beacon, Devon, United Kingdom
• Beacon (ward), Dorset, United Kingdom
• Beacon, Iowa, U.S.
• Beacon, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
• Beacon, New York, U.S.
  • Beacon station
  • Beacon Mountain
• Beacon Valley, Antarctica

Transportation and military

• MV Beacon, a ship, later Empire Guernsey
• HMS Beacon, various ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Beacon, various ships of the U.S. Navy

Other uses

• Beacon (apple), a cultivar of apple
• Beacon (streaming service), a boutique subscription streaming service by Critical Role Productions
• Beacon Supergroup, a rock formation in Antarctica
• Beacon-class gunvessel, 19th century British ships
• Beacon, an Appro supercomputer
• 'Beacon', a cultivar of barley
• Beacon, an oscillator in Conway's Game of Life
• Bluetooth Low Energy beacon, providing location to devices in its vicinity
• Facebook Beacon, advertising software
• Project Beacon, an early American space satellite program
• Rotating beacon (disambiguation)
• Valparaiso Beacons, the athletic program of Valparaiso University in Indiana
• Web beacon, an Internet web tracking technique

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Beacon
• All pages with titles containing Beacon
• Bacon (disambiguation)
• The Beacon (disambiguation)
• Beacon Fell (disambiguation)
• Beacon Hill (disambiguation)
• Beacon Island (disambiguation)