Bacon (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Bacon is a cured meat prepared from a pig.
Bacon may also refer to:
People
[edit]- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), a philosopher, scientist, politician, jurist, librarian
- Roger Bacon (c 1210 – c 1292), a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar
- Kevin Bacon (1958-), an actor
- Bacon (name), a comprehensive list of people with family name "Bacon"
Schools
[edit]- Bacon Academy, Connecticut
- Bacon College (1837–1851), a forerunner of Transylvania University, a private university in Lexington, Kentucky
- Bacon's College, London, a secondary school and sixth-form college previously known as Bacon Free School
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- Bacon Hills, a mountain range in California
- Bacon Island, California
- Bacons, Delaware, an unincorporated community
- Bacon County, Georgia
- Bacon, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Bacon, Missouri, an unincorporated community
- Bacon Township, Vernon County, Missouri
- Bacon, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Bacon Creek, near Mammoth Cave in Kentucky
- Bacon Creek, Washington
- Bacon Glacier, Alaska
- Bacon Peak, a mountain in Washington
Elsewhere
[edit]- Bacon, Ivory Coast, a village in Lagunes District, Ivory Coast
- Bacon Lake, British Columbia, Canada
- Bacon River, Nunavut, Canada
Music and books
[edit]- "Bacon" (song), by Nick Jonas
- Bacon (album), a 2014 album by Igor & the Red Elvises
- Bacon: A Love Story, a 2009 non-fiction book by Heather Lauer
Other uses
[edit]- Bacon baronets, three titles in the Baronetage of England, one extinct
- 2940 Bacon, an asteroid
- Bacon's, a chain of department stores
- Bacon's cipher, a method of steganographic message encoding devised by Francis Bacon
- Bacon Hotel, Whitehall, Arkansas, on the National Register of Historic Places
- OnePlus One, an Android smartphone released in 2014 (codename "bacon")
- Bacon (god), a Gaulish Celtic god
- Bacon's Rebellion, a rebellion in British North America
- Macon Bacon, a collegiate summer baseball team
See also
[edit]- Bacn, e-mail that has been subscribed to but which the recipient may not want to read for a long period of time
- Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN)