Canon or Canons may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author
 - Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
- Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West
 
 - Canon of proportions, a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art
 - Canon (music), a type of composition
 - Canon (hymnography), a type of hymn used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
 - Canon (album), a 2007 album by Ani DiFranco
 - Canon (film), a 1964 Canadian animated short
 - Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
 - Canon (manga), by Nikki
 - Canonical plays of William Shakespeare
 - The Canon (Natalie Angier book), a 2007 science book by Natalie Angier
 - The Canon (podcast), concerning film
 - The Cannons, an indie band
 
Brands and enterprises
- Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
 - Château Canon (disambiguation), a number of wineries
 - UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles
 
People
- Canon (rapper) (born Aaron McCain, 1989)
 - Fernando Canon (1860–1938), Filipino revolutionary general, poet, inventor, engineer, musician and chess player
 - Lou Canon, stage name of Leanne Greyerbiehl, a Canadian indie pop singer-songwriter
 
Places
- Canon, Georgia, a city in the United States
 - Canons Park, London, UK
 - Canon Row, a street in Westminster, London
 - Cañon City, Colorado, United States
 - Cañon Fiord, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada
 - Canon Rock, an island in Northern Ireland
 
Religion
- Religious text: some religious texts are accepted or categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical.
 - Biblical canon, a set of texts regarded by a Christian or Jewish community as part of the Bible
 - Canon law, the whole judicial system in Christian churches
- Canon (canon law), a law or ordinance promulgated by a synod, ecumenical council, or individual bishop (within the canon law system of that Church).
 
 - Canon (clergy), a title of certain Christian priests
- Canon regular, a priest who lives in community under a rule
 
 - Canon (hymnography), a kind of hymn in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
 - Pāli Canon, scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism (these include the Sutta Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka)
 
Other uses
- Canon (basic principle), an accepted body of rules
 - Canon, in bellfounding, one or more hanging loops cast integrally with the crown
 - The Canon of Medicine, a 1025 CE medical encyclopedia by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
 - Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club based in the capital city of Yaoundé
 - Canons High School, Edgware, Greater London
 
See also
Look up Canonical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Canaan, a region in the Ancient Near East
 - Cannon (disambiguation)
 - Canonical, standard or referential form; includes many examples of canons
 - Canonization, the act of a pope's declaring a deceased person a saint
 - Canyon (disambiguation)
 - Kanon (disambiguation)
 - Kanoon (disambiguation)
 - Qanun (disambiguation)
 
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