Acton
Acton may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
Australia
- Acton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
 - Acton, Tasmania, a suburb of Burnie
 - Acton Park, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, formerly known as Acton
 
Canada
- Acton, Ontario, a community
 - Acton Island, District of Muskoka, Ontario
 - Acton, New Brunswick
 - Acton Regional County Municipality, Quebec
 
New Zealand
- Acton, New Zealand, a rural community
 
United Kingdom
- Acton, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, a hamlet and townland
 - Acton, Cheshire, a village and civil parish
 - Acton, Cheshire (ancient parish)
 - Acton, Dorset, a hamlet
 - Acton, London, an area of west London
- Acton Green, London, between Acton and Chiswick
 - East Acton
 - North Acton
 - South Acton, London
 - West Acton
 - Municipal Borough of Acton, former local government district
 - Acton (UK Parliament constituency)
 
 - Acton, Northumberland, a hamlet
 - Acton, Shropshire, a village
 - Acton, Staffordshire, a hamlet
 - Acton, Suffolk, a village and civil parish
 - Acton, Worcestershire
 - Acton, Wrexham, a local government community
 - Acton Bridge, a village in Cheshire
 - Acton Burnell, a village in Shropshire
 - Acton Green, Herefordshire
 - Acton Round, a village in Shropshire
 
United States
- Acton, Alabama, an unincorporated community
 - Acton, California, an unincorporated census-designated place
 - Acton, Florida, a former town
 - Acton, Georgia, an unincorporated community
 - Acton, Indiana, a community
 - Acton, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
 - Acton, Maine, a town
 - Acton, Massachusetts, a town
 - Acton Township, Meeker County, Minnesota
- Acton, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
 
 - Acton, Montana, an unincorporated community
 - Acton, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
 - Acton Township, Walsh County, North Dakota
 - Acton Lake, Ohio
 - Acton, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
 - Acton, Texas, an unincorporated community
 - Acton State Historic Site, Texas
 
Schools
- Acton School of Business, Austin, Texas
 - Acton Technical College, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom
 - Acton High School (Massachusetts), a former American high school, on the National Register of Historic Places
 - Ark Acton Academy, in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England
 
People
- Acton (surname)
 - Acton Bell, a pen name of Anne Brontë (1820–1849), English novelist and poet
 - Eugenia de Acton, a pen name of Alethea Lewis (1749–1827), English novelist
 - Acton Adams (1843–1924), British politician
 - Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British barrister and politician
 
Other uses
- Acton Institute, an American think tank
 - Acton Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund
 - Acton station (disambiguation)
 - Baron Acton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
 - Acton Football Club, a defunct Australian rules football club
 - Acton (Turrell), an artwork by James Turrell
 - The Actons, a family in The Europeans, a Henry James novel
 - Acton, a minor character in The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
 - Acton, an alternative spelling of aketon (gambeson)
 
See also
- Acton Castle, near Perranuthnoe, Cornwall
 - Acton Green (disambiguation)
 - Acton Park (disambiguation)
 - Acton Vale (disambiguation)
 - Acton Works, a London Underground maintenance facility