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 B.C.E.
* Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly-financed but independently-run school
* The Academy of Irving ISD, magnet school in Irving, TX
*Academy at the Lakes, private school in Florida
*Academy at Dundee Ranch, American behaviour modification facility / residential school in Costa Rica
*Albuquerque Academy, private school in Albuquerque, New Mexico

;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
* Academy (band), synthpop group of the 1980s
* The Academy Is..., pop punk band
*The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona
* The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band The Academy Is...
* The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor

;Business
* Academy Sports and Outdoors, sporting goods store
* Academy Plastic Model Co., Korean scale model manufacturer
* Academy Bus, bus company based in New Jersey
*The Academy Group, Inc, American forensic behavioural science company
*Academy Media, Korean retail company
*Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)

;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", a fifth season episode of the fantasy television series, ""
* Academy (Max Headroom), an episode of the "Max Headroom" TV series

;Places
*Academy, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
*Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
*Academy Glacier, Antarctica

;Other
* Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
* Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game

ee also

*Academia, sometimes collectively called "the academy"
*National Academy, includes links to several such organisations
*Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Prefixindex/Academy List of Wikipedia articles starting with "Academy"]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Prefixindex/The_Academy List of Wikipedia articles starting with "The Academy"]