Academy (disambiguation)

An academy is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Academy may also refer to:

Education

• Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece circa 385 BCE
• Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly-financed but independently-run school

Organisations

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), American organisation responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)

National Language Regulators

• Accademia della Crusca, the Italian institution seeking to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language
• Académie française, the French Academy, pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language, officially established in 1635
• Real Academia Española, Spanish Royal Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language
• Svenska Akademien, the Swedish Academy founded to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language

See List of language regulators for complete list.

Music

• The Academy Is..., pop punk band
• The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
• The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland

Business

• Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
• Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
• Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
• Academy Media, Korean retail company
• Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
• The Academy (Hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury
• Academi, previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide

Television

• The Academy (TVB), drama by Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong
• The Academy (TV series), American reality television series documenting the training process for recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
• "The Academy (Hercules episode)", a fifth season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
• "Academy (Max Headroom)", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series

Places

• Academy, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
• Academy Glacier, Antarctica
• Academy, Alberta Canada

Other

• Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
• Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game
• The Academy (periodical), a London periodical, 1869–1902, published as The Academy and Literature, 1902–1916
• The Academy Shopping Centre, a shopping mall in Aberdeen, Scotland

See also

• Academia, sometimes collectively called the academy
• National Academy, includes links to several such organisations
• Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
• List of Wikipedia articles starting with "Academy"
• List of Wikipedia articles starting with "The Academy"