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=                               Mason                                =
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                            Introduction
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Mason may refer to:


                            Occupations
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* Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to
construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks,
cinder blocks, or similar pieces
* Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cutting and shaping industry


                           Organizations
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* Mason (Freemasonry), a general term for a Freemason
* George Mason University in Virginia, US
** Its athletic program, the George Mason Patriots


                               People
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* Mason (given name)
* Mason (surname), an English, French or Italian surname
* Mason sept of Clan Sinclair
* Mason (musician) (born 1980), Dutch electronic music producer, real
name Iason Chronis


                               Places
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* Mason, Illinois
* Mason, Grant County, Kentucky
* Mason, Magoffin County, Kentucky
* Masons, Maryland
* Mason, Michigan, in Ingham County
* Mason, Houghton County, Michigan
* Mason, Nevada
* Mason, New Hampshire
* Mason, Ohio
* Mason, Oklahoma
* Mason, South Dakota
* Mason, Tennessee
* Mason, Texas
* Mason, West Virginia
* Mason (town), Wisconsin
** Mason, Wisconsin, village within the town
* Mason City (disambiguation)
* Mason County (disambiguation)
* Mason Township (disambiguation)


                       Science and technology
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* Mason (crater), on the Moon
* MASON (Java), an artificial-life computer simulation development
environment
* Mason jar, a molded glass jar used in home canning to preserve food


                       Transport and military
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* Mason (streetcar), first streetcar in the U.S.
* Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Massachusetts, known for its
locomotives
* Mason Motor Car Company, a brass era car company
* Mason Truck, a subsidiary of Durant Motors of the 1920s
* USS 'Mason', several warships


                             Other uses
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* Mason (American band), a rock band from Virginia
* 'Masons' (novel), a novel by Alexey Pisemsky
* Mason bee ('Osmia' species), of the family Megachilidae


                              See also
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* Masone, a town in the Alps Region of northern Italy
* Macon (disambiguation)
* Marson (disambiguation)
* Masson (disambiguation)
* Justice Mason (disambiguation)
* Mason-Dixon line
* 'William Mason' (locomotive), currently on display at the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Museum


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