title: Lyon (disambiguation)
text: # Lyon (disambiguation)
  
  Lyon is a city in France.
  
  Lyon may also refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Lyon, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, a location in the U.K.
  * Loch Lyon, a lake in Scotland
  
  ### United States
  
  * Lyon, Mississippi
  * Lyon, Missouri
  * Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas
  * Lyon County (disambiguation)
  * Lyon Mountain (disambiguation)
  * Lyon Township (disambiguation)
  * Lyon Village, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
  * Fort Lyon (disambiguation)
  
  ## People
  
  * Lyon (surname)
  
  ## Ancestry and heraldry
  
  * Lyon Court, the institution that regulates heraldry in Scotland
  * Lord Lyon King of Arms, head of Lyon Court, a Scottish heraldic official
  * Clan Lyon, Scottish clan associated with the lands of Glen Lyon in Perthshire, Scotland
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Lyon, the main antagonist in the video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
  * Lyon, a major character in the video game Suikoden V
  * Lyon School, a style of painting that flourished around 1800
  * Merriman Lyon, a main character in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising book series
  * Lyon, an S-Type guitar manufactured by Washburn Guitars
  
  ## Business
  
  * Lyon's, a chain of restaurants headquartered in the US state of California
  * J. Lyons and Co., a chain of restaurants in England
  * Lyon & Healy, US company which manufactured harps
  * Lyon & Lyon, a US legal company
  
  ## Religion
  
  * Council of Lyon, two 13th century ecclesiastical councils held in Lyon, France
     * First Council of Lyon (1245), regarding the Crusades
     * Second Council of Lyon (1274), regarding papal election procedures
  
  ## Science
  
  * Lyon hypothesis, see X-inactivation
  * 9381 Lyon, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1993
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Olympique Lyonnais, a men's football club based in Lyon
  * Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, a women's football club based in Lyon
  
  ## Naval vessels
  
  * Lyon-class battleship, a proposed fleet of 4 battleships for the French Navy (1914)
  * American steamship General Lyon (1864), a US steamship
  * USS General Lyon (1860), a US warship in US Civil War
  * USS Lyon (AP-71), a US warship of World War II
  