Clarion may refer to:

Music

Clarion (instrument) Clarion is a name for a high-pitched trumpet used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also a name for a 4' organ reed stop that produces a high-pitched or clarion-like sound on a pipe organ in the clarion trumpet's range of notes. The ...

, a type of trumpet used in the Middle Ages * The

register Register or registration may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc. * ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller * Registration (organ), ...

of a clarinet that ranges from B4 to C6 * A trumpet organ stop that usually plays an octave above unison pitch * "Clarion" (song), a 2008 single by multinational band Guillemots

Places

Mexico

Clarion Island Clarion Island (), formerly Santa Rosa, is the second largest, westernmost and most remote of Mexico, Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands. The island is located west of Socorro Island and just under from the Mexican mainland. It has an area of an ...

(Isla Clarión), Colima

United States

* Clarion, Illinois *

Clarion, Iowa Clarion is a city in and the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,810 at the time of the 2020 census. History Clarion is the birthplace of the four-leaf clover emblem used by the 4-H Clubs of America, conc ...

* Clarion, Michigan * Clarion, Utah, a ghost town settled as a Jewish farming colony

Pennsylvania

Clarion County, Pennsylvania Clarion County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,241. Its county seat is Clarion. The county was formed on March 11, 1839, from parts of Venango and Armstrong counties. Clarion Cou ...

** Clarion, Pennsylvania, a borough in and the county seat of Clarion County ** Clarion Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania *

Clarion River The Clarion River is a tributary of the Allegheny River, approximately 110 mi (177 km) long, in west central Pennsylvania in the United States. It drains a rugged area of the Allegheny Plateau in the Ohio River watershed, flowing throu ...

, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River * Clarion University of Pennsylvania, a public university located in Clarion, Pennsylvania

Publishing

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Peninsula Clarion The ''Peninsula Clarion'' is a regional newspaper published in Kenai, Alaska that serves the population of the Kenai Peninsula. History The paper was founded in 1970. Five years later it was purchased by Dick Morgan, Max Swearingen and Pat ...

'', a regional newspaper published in Kenai, Alaska, U.S. * '' Clarion Herald'', the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana * ''Clarion'' (magazine), a literary magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. * ''

The Clarion-Ledger ''The Clarion Ledger'' is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. It is the second-oldest company in the state of Mississippi, and is one of the few newspapers in the nation that continues to circulate statewide. It is an operating ...

'', a daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Mississippi, and the second oldest company in that state *

Clarion Workshop The Clarion Workshop is an American six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers. Originally an outgrowth of Damon Knight's and Kate Wilhelm's Milford Writer's Workshop, Milford Writer's Conference, held at their home in Milfo ...

, a science fiction and fantasy workshop based in San Diego, California, U.S. *

Clarion West Writers Workshop Clarion West is a non-profit organization best known for their intensive six-week workshop for writers preparing for professional careers in speculative fiction. The Six-Week Workshop is a space for writing short stories and learning how to worksho ...

, a science fiction and fantasy workshop based in Seattle, Washington, U.S. * ''The Clarion'' (British newspaper), a defunct weekly socialist newspaper that was published in the United Kingdom * '' Western Clarion'', a defunct newspaper that served as the official organ of the Socialist Party of Canada from 1903 to 1925 * ''The Clarion'', a defunct quarterly magazine published by the American Folk Art Museum from 1971 until 1992 * Clarion Books, a young adult publishing imprint of

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company ( ; HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works. The company is based in the Financial District, Boston, Boston Financial District. It was fo ...

* ''The Clarion'' (Canadian newspaper), the Canadian newspaper started by Carrie Best in 1946 * DU Clarion, university newspaper of the University of Denver

Computing

CLARION (cognitive architecture) Connectionist Learning with Adaptive Rule Induction On-line (CLARION) is a computational cognitive architecture that has been used to simulate many domains and tasks in cognitive psychology and social psychology, as well as implementing intelligent ...

Clarion (programming language) Clarion is a commercial, proprietary, fourth-generation programming language (4GL), multi-paradigm, programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from SoftVelocity used to program database applications. It is compatible with ' ...

* CLARiiON, an EMC disk array

Animals

* Clarion nightsnake (''Hypsiglena unaocularis''), a small colubrid snake * Clarion snake eel (''Myrichthys pantostigmius''), a tropical, marine eel * Clarión wren (''Troglodytes tanneri''), a species of bird * Proud Clarion, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1967 Kentucky Derby * Clarion angelfish (''Holacanthus clarionensis''), a species of saltwater angelfish

Companies and organizations

Clarion (company) is a Japanese manufacturer of car audio, automotive navigation systems, AutoPCs, visual equipment, bus equipment, and communication equipment. Since 2019 it has been fully owned by Faurecia Clarion Electronics. Up until the end of 2005, prod ...

, a Japanese automotive and consumer electronics manufacturer * Clarion Project, a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C., USA *

Clarion Hotel Choice Hotels International, Inc. is an American multinational hospitality industry, hospitality company based in North Bethesda, Maryland. The company, which is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, owns various hotel brands ranging fro ...

, a hotel brand in the United States *

Clarion Hotel Limerick Clayton Hotel Limerick (formerly branded as a Clarion Hotel) is a 17-storey hotel located beside the River Shannon on Steamboat Quay in Limerick. Part of the Dalata Hotel Group, the hotel was built in 2002 at a cost of €20 Million. Facilit ...

, a hotel in Limerick, Ireland *

Clarion Housing Group Clarion Housing Group is the largest housing association in the United Kingdom with 125,000 properties across more than 170 local authorities. Clarion Provides a home to over 350,000 people. Clarion is based in London Borough of Camden, Camd ...

, a British housing association * National Clarion Cycling Club, a cycling club with some 29 member sections in the United Kingdom

Other uses

* Clarion Award, an honor for excellence in communications from the Association for Women in Communications *

Clarion (heraldry) The clarion (also rest or sufflue) is a rare charge (heraldry), charge in heraldry of uncertain meaning and purpose. It originates from England and is still largely exclusive to that country, though latterly it has been imported to other Anglophon ...

, a charge or bearing in heraldry *

Operation Clarion Operation Clarion was a late-war campaign of the Allied strategic bombing of Germany. Two hundred German transport targets were attacked to open Operation Veritable–Operation Grenade During World War II, Operation Grenade was the crossing ...

, an extensive Allied campaign of strategic bombing during World War II against Nazi Germany * Clarion University of Pennsylvania, a university located in Clarion, PA