title: Beacon (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  