Acton
# Acton

Acton may refer to:

## Places

### Antarctica

* Mount Acton

### Australia

* Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
* Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
* Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton

### Canada

* Acton, Ontario, a community
* Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario
* Acton, New Brunswick
* Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec

### New Zealand

* Acton, New Zealand, a rural community

### United Kingdom

* Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland
* Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
* Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)
* Acton, Dorset, a hamlet
* Acton, London, an area of west London
   * East Acton
   * North Acton
   * South Acton, London
   * West Acton
   * Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district
   * Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
* Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet
* Acton, Shropshire, a village
* Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet
* Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil parish
* Acton, Worcestershire
* Acton, Wrexham, a local government community

### United States

* Acton, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Acton, California, an unincorporated census-designated place
* Acton, Florida, a former town
* Acton, Georgia, an unincorporated community
* Acton, Indiana, a community
* Acton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Acton, Maine, a town
* Acton, Massachusetts, a town
* Acton Township, Meeker County, Minnesota
   * Acton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
* Acton, Montana, an unincorporated community
* Acton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
* Acton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota
* Acton Lake, Ohio
* Acton, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
* Acton, Texas, an unincorporated community
* Acton State Historic Site, Texas

## Schools

* Acton School of Business, Austin, Texas
* Acton Technical College, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom
* Acton High School (Massachusetts), a former American high school, on the National Register of Historic Places
* Ark Acton Academy, in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England

## People

* Acton (surname)
* Acton Bell, a pen name of Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet
* Eugenia de Acton, a pen name of Alethea Lewis (1749–1827), English novelist
* Acton Adams (1843–1924), British politician
* Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British barrister and politician

## Other uses

* Acton Institute, an American think tank
* Acton Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund
* Acton station (disambiguation)
* Baron Acton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
* Acton Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
* Acton (Turrell), an artwork by James Turrell
* The Actons, a family in The Europeans, a Henry James novel
* Acton, a minor character in The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
* Acton, an alternative spelling of aketon (gambeson)
