Avalon (disambiguation)

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Avalon is an island in the Arthurian legend.

Avalon may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Comics

Film and television

Games

Literature

Music

Bands

Albums

Songs

Businesses

  • Avalon Books, a New York-based book publishing imprint (1950–2012), purchased by Amazon.com
  • AvalonBay Communities, now marketed as Avalon Communities or AVA, an American real estate investment trust and property management firm
  • Avalon Entertainment, a television production and management company co-founded by Jon Thoday
  • Avalon Guitars, a Northern Ireland guitar manufacturer
  • Avalon Hill, an American game company that specializes in wargames and strategic board games
  • Avalon Hotel, in Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Avalon Hotel (Beverly Hills)
    , in California, US
  • Avalon Hotel (Rochester, Minnesota)
    , US
  • Avalon Interactive
    , a defunct video game distribution company
  • Avalon Mall, St. John's, 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

Given name

Surname

  • Frankie Avalon (born 1940), American actor, singer, and former teen idol born Francis Thomas Avallone
  • Mickey Avalon, American rapper Yeshe Perl (born 1975)
  • Whitney Avalon, American YouTuber
  • Arthur Avalon, pseudonym of Sir John Woodroffe (1865–1936), British Orientalist and translator

Places

Australia

Canada

United States

Other places

Technology

Transportation

  • For ships, see List of ships named Avalon
  • Avalon (Los Angeles Metro station)
    , on the Metro Green Line
  • Avalon (MPV) a Sri Lankan armoured vehicle
  • Avalon (RTA Rapid Transit station)
    , a station stop on the RTA Blue Line in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Avalon Boulevard, a north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County
  • Independence Avalon, a German paraglider design
  • Toyota Avalon, a sedan car produced from 1994
  • Toyota Avalon (concept)
    , a concept car introduced at the 1991 Tokyo Auto Show

Other uses

  • Avalon Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  • Avalon Foundation, founded by Ailsa Mellon-Bruce in 1940 and later merged into the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Sakura Avalon
    , the Cardcaptors name for the titular Cardcaptor Sakura fictional character, Sakura Kinomoto

See also