Canon may refer to:

• Canon (fiction), a body of works considered genuine or official within a fictional universe
• Canon (company), a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
• Canon (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
• Pachelbel's Canon
• Canon (priest), a Christian priest who belongs to one of certain chapters
• Canon (hymnography), a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn
• Canon (manga), a shōjo manga by Chika Shiomi
• Canon (game), an online Browser-based strategy war game
• Canon, Georgia, a city in Franklin County, Georgia, United States
• Cañon or canyon, a deep valley between cliffs

Canon may also be used for:

• Canon law
• Canon law (Catholic Church)
• Penitential canons
• Biblical canon
• Taoist canon or Daozang
• Pali Canon
• Chinese Buddhist Canon
• Tibetan Buddhist canon
• Chinese classic texts or Chinese canonical texts
• Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
• Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
• The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• Canon of Eclipses, a compilation eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer
• Film canon, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged

See also

• Canonization
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)