Falconer or The Falconer may refer to:

People:

  • A person skilled in the art of falconry
  • Falconer (surname), a family name
  • Falconer Larkworthy (1833–1928), New Zealand banker and financier
  • Falconer Madan (1851—1935), librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University

Places:

  • Falconer, New York, United States, a village
  • Mount Falconer, Victoria Land, Antarctica

In arts and entertainment:

  • The Falconer (sculpture), a bronze sculpture in Central Park, New York City
  • Falconer (band), a power metal band from Sweden
  • Falconer (album), an album by the band
  • Falconer (novel), a novel by John Cheever
  • "The Falconer", a recurring sketch on the TV program Saturday Night Live

In the military:

  • Air Operations Center, AN/USQ-163 Falconer, a U.S. Air Force weapon system
  • Australian contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, codenamed Operation Falconer
  • MQM-57 Falconer, a target drone in the Radioplane BTT family

Other uses:

  • Falconer School, a boys school in Hertfordshire, England
  • The Falconer, a Torrey Pines High School newspaper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer

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