Cannon (disambiguation) explained

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery.

Cannon or Cannons may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Cannons (house), an 18th-century palace built for the Duke of Chandos in Stanmore
• Cannon Street, London
  • Cannon Street station

United States

• Cannon, Delaware
• Cannon, Kentucky
• Cannon City, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Cannon County, Tennessee
• Cannon Township, Michigan
• Cannon Township, Kittson County, Minnesota
• Cannon Lake (disambiguation)
• Lake Cannon, Florida
• Cannon Mountain (New Hampshire)
• Cannon Mountain (Washington)
• Mount Cannon, Montana
• Cannon Hill (Chatham, Massachusetts), a mountain
• Cannon Hill (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), a mountain
• Cannon Park (Charleston, South Carolina), a public park
• Cannon River (Minnesota)
• Cannon Island (Alaska)

Elsewhere

• Cannon River (Queensland), Australia, a tributary of the Langlo River
• Cape Cannon, Greenland
• Cannon Rock, an island in County Down, Northern Ireland
• Cannon (crater), on the Moon

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Il Cannone Guarnerius (The Cannon), a violin made by Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri in 1743
• Cannon depth, tom-toms and bass drums deeper than power depth
• Cannon (band), a post rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, active between 1999 and 2003
• Cannons (band), a Los Angeles indie pop band
• Cannons (album), a 2007 album by Phil Wickham
• "Cannon", a 1995 single from Subliminal Plastic Motives by American pop/rock band Self
• "Cannon", a song from The White Stripes by the White Stripes
• "Cannons", a song from the debut album The Year of Hibernation by Youth Lagoon

Other arts and entertainment

• Cannon (TV series), 1971–1976, starring William Conrad as Frank Cannon
  • Cannon, the 1971 pilot TV movie for the series
• Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon, a comic book

Business

• The Cannon Group, Inc., an American group of companies, including:
  • Cannon Films, a former motion picture studio
• Cannon (ITT Corporation), a manufacturer of cables, switches and connectors
• Cannon Mills, a textile manufacturer
• CannonDesign, an architectural firm founded in 1945
• Great Wall Pao, a Chinese pickup truck also called the Cannon
• Cannon (automobile), produced from 1902 to 1906

Military

• Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, United States
• Cannon-class destroyer escort, a World War II United States Navy class of destroyer escorts
  • USS Cannon (DE-99), lead ship of the class
• Old Jeremiah, a British naval gun, affectionately referred to as The Cannon

People

• Cannon (surname)
• Cannon family, an American political family
• Cannon (given name)
• Freddy Cannon, stage name of American singer Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born 1940)
• Patty Cannon, American slave trader and serial killer Lucretia Patricia Hanly (c. 1760–1829)
• Poppy Cannon, American cookbook writer and food editor Lillian Gruskin (1905–1975)
• Tommy Cannon, stage name of British comedian Thomas Derbyshire (born 1938)

Sports

• Boston Cannons, a professional men's field lacrosse team
• Calder Cannons, an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia
• Ohio Cannon, a professional American football team in 1999
• Cannon, a British/Canadian term for a snooker or billiards shot

Other uses

• Cannon bone, a bone in the forelimb of a horse
• Cannon School, a private school in Concord, North Carolina, United States
• Cannon Field, Texas, United States, a privately owned, public use airport

See also

• Cannon Building (disambiguation)
• Cannon & Fetzer, an American architectural firm from 1909 to 1937
• Great Cannon, a cyberweapon used by the Chinese government
• Cannon or XLR connector
• Cannons Creek (disambiguation)
• Canon (disambiguation)