Beacon (disambiguation)
# Beacon (disambiguation)

A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.

Beacon may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media

### Music

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

### 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
* 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, 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, Australia
* Beacon, Devon, 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 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
