Avalon (disambiguation)

Avalon is an island in the Arthurian legend.

Avalon may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Avalon (webcomic), written by Josh Phillips
• Avalon (DC Comics), a fictional planet
• Avalon (Marvel Comics), a fictional island

Film

• Avalon (1990 film), a film by Barry Levinson
• Avalon (2001 film), a Japanese/Polish film by Mamoru Oshii
• Avalon (2011 film), a Swedish drama film directed by Axel Petersén
• Avalon, a fictional starship from Passengers (2016 film)

Games

• Avalon The 3D Adventure Movie, a 1984 video game
• Avalon (MUD), a text-based online game series
• Avalon, a King Arthur-themed variant to the game The Resistance
• Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia, one of Saber's Noble Phantasms in the 2004 visual novelFate/Stay Night

Literature

• Avalon (novel), a 1965 novel by Anya Seton
• Avalon Series, a series of novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Avalon: Web of Magic, a series of children's fantasy novels by the American author Rachel Roberts
• Avalon, a world in The Guns of Avalon, a 1972 science-fiction novel by Roger Zelazny

Music

Bands

• Avalon (Finnish band), a Finnish metal opera project
• Avalon (American group), a contemporary Christian music group
• Avalon (Swedish group), a musical duo made up of the Swedish-Congolese brothers Djo and Mohombi Moupondo

Albums

• Avalon (Roxy Music album) (1982)
• Avalon (Avalon album) (1996)
• Avalon (Anthony Green album) (2008)
• Avalon (Sully Erna album) (2010)
• Avalon (soundtrack), a soundtrack of the 1990 film Avalon
• Avalon Los Angeles CA 24/06/06, a 2006 album by Sasha
• Avalon (Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge album) (2014)
• Avalon (EP), 2017 by Gabrielle Aplin

Songs

• "Avalon" (Al Jolson song) (1920)
• "Avalon" (Roxy Music song) (1982)
• "Avalon", a 1999 song by Sigur Rós from Ágætis byrjun
• "Avalon", a 1999 song by Blackmore's Night from Under a Violet Moon
• "Avalon" a 2005 song by Juliet Richardson
• "Avalon" (Lovebugs song) (2006)
• "Avalon", a 2010 song by Bad Religion from The Dissent of Man
• "Avalon" (Professor Green song) (2011)
• "Avalon", a 2013 song by Taku Iwasaki from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency
• "Avalon", a 2014 song by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators from World on Fire
• "Avalon", a 2014 song by Gamma Ray from Empire of the Undead
• "Avalon", a 2017 song by Foxygen from Hang

Television

• "Avalon" (Stargate SG-1), the first two episodes of the ninth season of Stargate SG-1
• The Mists of Avalon, a 2001 TV mini-series broadcast on TNT

Businesses

• Avalon Books, a New York-based book publishing imprint (1950-2012), purchased by Amazon.com
• Avalon Guitars, a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer
• Avalon Hill, an American game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games
• Avalon Hotel (Gothenburg), Sweden
• Avalon Hotel (Rochester, Minnesota), US
• Avalon Interactive, a defunct video game distribution company
• Avalon Mall, St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Avalon Publishing Group (1994–2007), a New York publisher, absorbed by Perseus Books Group
• Avalon Rare Metals, a mineral development company focused on rare metal deposits in Canada
• Avalon Studios, a film and television studio, located in Avalon, New Zealand
• Avalon Waterways, an American ship and river cruise line owned by Globus
• Chateau Avalon, Kansas City, Kansas, US, a luxury hotel and bed and breakfast
• Radio Avalon, a pirate radio station near Glastonbury, England in 1983, later a legally recognised station

People

• Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer, and former teen idol born Francis Thomas Avallone
• Mickey Avalon, American rapper Yeshe Perl (born 1975)
• Sakura Avalon, the Cardcaptors name for the titular Cardcaptor Sakura fictional character, Sakura Kinomoto
• Whitney Avalon, American YouTuber
• Avalon Roberts (born 1945), Canadian psychiatrist and political activist

Places

Australia

• Avalon Beach, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney known until 2012 as Avalon
• Avalon, Victoria
• Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia
• Australian International Airshow, sometimes called the Avalon Airshow after its hosting airport

Canada

• Avalon (electoral district), Newfoundland
• Avalon, Ottawa, a neighborhood in a suburb of the city of Ottawa, Ontario
• Avalon, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood in the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
• Province of Avalon, Newfoundland

United States

• The Avalon (Birmingham, Alabama), or "The Avalon", apartment buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
• Avalon, California, the only city on Santa Catalina Island
• Avalon, Delaware, an unincorporated community
• Avalon State Park, North Hutchinson Island, Florida
• Avalon, Georgia, a town
• Avalon (Alpharetta, Georgia), a planned mixed-use development
• Avalon (New Windsor, Maryland), a historic home listed on the NRHP
• Avalon, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
• Avalon, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Mount Avalon, New Hampshire
• Avalon Dam, on the Pecos River near Carlsbad, New Mexico
• Avalon, New Jersey, a barrier island resort community
• Avalon, North Carolina, an abandoned mill town
• Avalon, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Avalon, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Avalon, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Avalon, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Other places

• Avalon, France, a village outside of Pontcharra, Isère, France
• Avalon, New Zealand, a suburb of Lower Hutt, New Zealand
• Avalon graveyard, in Soweto, South Africa

Technology

• Avalon Project, a digital library of documents held by the Yale Law School
• Avalon, the codename for Windows Presentation Foundation, a user interface API designed by Microsoft
• Apache Avalon, a computer software framework
• Avalon switch fabric, the peripheral interface used in Altera's Nios II embedded processor

Transportation

• Avalon Boulevard, a north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County
• Avalon (Los Angeles Metro station), on the Metro Green Line
• Avalon (RTA Rapid Transit station), a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio
• Belle of Louisville or Avalon, a steamboat formerly
• Independence Avalon, a German paraglider design
• SS Avalon (1891), a ship purchased by William Wrigley Jr in 1920 that sank in 1964
• Toyota Avalon, a sedan car
• USS Avalon (1908), a motorboat acquired for use as a patrol boat in 1917
• USS Blue Ridge (ID-2432) or USS Avalon, a steamer in commission from 1918 to 1919
• DSRV-2 Avalon, a deep submergence rescue vehicle launched in 1971 and decommissioned in 2000

Other uses

• Avalon Historico-Geographical Society, based in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
• Avalon Hollywood, San Francisco, California
• Avalon School (disambiguation)
• Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

See also

• Avalon Theater (disambiguation)
• Avallon, Burgundy, France, a commune
• Avalonia or Avalon terrane, an ancient microcontinent
• SS Avalon, a list of ships
• USS Avalon, a list of ships of the US Navy