Bacon is primarily known as type of food, but has several other meanings as well: [edit] Food related - Bacon, a cured pork meat
- Bacon Explosion, a barbecue dish of bacon wrapped around spiced sausage and bacon bits.
- Bacon vodka, a vodka infused with bacon flavour
- The Bacon Tuxedo, a tuxedo made of Bacon
- International Bacon Day or Bacon Day, an unofficial observance on the Saturday before US Labor Day
- List of bacon dishes - various dishes with Bacon as a major ingredient, though not necessarily in the name
- Turkey bacon, a Turkey based alternative to Bacon
[edit] Education [edit] Entertainment [edit] Places - Bacon County, a county in the U.S. state of Georgia.
- Bacon, Côte d'Ivoire, a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire
- Bacon Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, a settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Bacon Creek (Kentucky), a river in Kentucky near Mammoth Cave
- Bacon End, a village in Essex, England
- Bacon Hill, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia
- Bacon Hills, a mountain range in Kern County, California
- Bacon, Indiana, a small town south of Paoli, Indiana
- Bacon Island (California), an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta of California
- Bacon Level, Alabama, a small community near Roanoke, Alabama
- Bacon Peak a mountain in the cascade range of Washington USA
- Bacons, Delaware, an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware
- Bacon Lake (British Columbia) - a lake in British Columbia, Canada
- Bacon River - a river in Nunavut, Canada
- Bacon Bowl, an annual charity football game between the Seattle and Tacoma Police Departments
- Bacon (surname) There are many notable people with the surname Bacon, ones who also have articles for other things named after them include:
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Author and philosopher.
- Bacon's cipher, a method of steganography invented by Sir Francis Bacon
- Baconian method the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon.
- 2940 Bacon, Asteroid named after Sir Francis Bacon.
- Kevin Bacon (b. 1958), American film actor
- Bacon number, a figure applied to actors and actresses to show their acting links to actor & 21st Century American dramatist Kevin Bacon
- Nathaniel Bacon (colonist) (c. 1640s – 1676)
- Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising that took place in Jamestown, Virginia in 1676, named after Nathaniel Bacon.
- Bacon's Castle, (built 1665), an old house in Surry County, Virginia. Named for its role in Bacon's rebellion
- Robert Low Bacon (1884 – 1938), American banker, soldier and politician
- Davis-Bacon Act (1931), a US law re the payment of prevailing wages on public works - named after R L Bacon
- Roger Bacon (1214–1294) - English philosopher and Franciscan. His book Opus Majus contains treatments of mathematics,optics, alchemy and gunpowder.
- Baco (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon, named after Roger Bacon
- Bacon's was a chain of department stores based in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842 - 1933), was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer
- Estonian Bacon (Eesti peekon), a pig breed from Estonia
- Perkins Bacon (1829 - 1935), a British printing company known for bank notes and postage stamps
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a US law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri
- USS William Bacon (1863), a US warship
- Wilford Bacon Hoggatt (1865 – 1938) was an American Republican politician
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