Abilene

Abilene may refer to:

Places

United States

• Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene, Texas
• Abilene, Texas metropolitan area
• Abilene, Virginia
• Abilene State Park, near Abilene, Texas
• Abilene Trail, from Texas to Abilene, Kansas, used in the 19th century

Elsewhere

• Abilene (ancient), a plain in Syria on the eastern slope of Anti-Lebanon mountain range
• Abilene, Alberta, Canada

Films

• Abilene Town, a 1946 western film starring Randolph Scott
• Gunfighters of Abilene, a 1960 film starring Buster Crabbe
• Gunfight in Abilene, a 1967 western film starring Bobby Darin and Leslie Nielsen
• Abilene (film), a 1999 drama film starring Ernest Borgnine

Military

• Operation Abilene (1966), a joint US-Australian military operation in 1966 during the Vietnam War
• Operation Abilene (2003), a US military operation in Al Anbar province in 2003 during the Iraq War
• USS Abilene (PF-58), a 1943 Tacoma-class US navy frigate named after Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene Trophy, awarded annually to the community in Air Mobility Command

Other uses

• Abilene Christian University. Abilene, Texas
• Abilene Network, the American national academic backbone network
• Abilene paradox, a form of dysfunctional group dynamics
• "Abilene" (song), a 1963 song recorded by George Hamilton IV
• Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, in Abilene, Kansas
• Abilene and Southern Railway, taken over by Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1978