Master

Master or masters may refer to:

Ranks or titles

• Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans
• Grandmaster (chess), National Master, International Master, FIDE Master, Candidate Master, all ranks of chess player
• Grandmaster (martial arts) or Master, an honorary title
• Maestro, an orchestral conductor, or the master within some other musical discipline
• Master, a title of Jesus in the New Testament
• Master or shipmaster, the sea captain of a merchant vessel
• Master (college), head of a college
• Master (form of address), an English honorific for boys and young men
• Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
• Master (naval), a former naval rank
• Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
• Master craftsman, in the Medieval guilds
• Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance
• Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
• Master/slave (BDSM), a type of personal relationship
• Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
• Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
• Old Master, a term for a recognised Western painter active before about 1800
• Schoolmaster or master, presiding officer of a school
• Slave master, an owner of victims of slavery
• Station master, formerly the person in charge of railway stations
• Worshipful Master, the senior Masonic lodge officer
• Zen master, a somewhat vague English term, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices

Aircraft and vehicles

• Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
• Miles Master, a British 2-seat training aircraft during the Second World War
• Renault Master, a van

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Master (Manos), the head villain in the horror movie Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
• Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Master (Fallout), a character in the computer game Fallout
• Master (Master and Margarita), a character from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel
• The Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
  • The Master (The Doctor Who Role Playing Game), a supplement for The Doctor Who Role-playing Game about The Doctor's nemesis
• The Master, a nickname for Ancient One (Marvel Comics)
• The Master, the player's character in the Nintendo game series ActRaiser
• The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in Paper Mario
• The Master, a title character in the novel The Master and Margarita
• The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from Power Rangers Mystic Force
• The Master, a character from the adult swim television series The Venture Bros.

Films

• Master (1997 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
• Master (2001 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
• Master (2016 film), a South Korean film
• Master (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
• Master (upcoming film), an upcoming American film
• Masters (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language film
• The Master (1980 film), a Hong Kong film
• The Master (1992 film), a Hong Kong film
• The Master (1995 film), a Syrian documentary film
• The Master (2005 film), a Polish film
• The Master (2009 film), a Turkish film
• The Master (2012 film), an American film
• The Master (2015 film), a Chinese film
• The Master (2016 film), a computer animated Lego short

Literature

• The Master, an 1895 best-selling novel by Israel Zangwill
• The Masters (novel), a 1951 novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence by C. P. Snow
• The Master: An Adventure Story, a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White
• The Master (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín

Music and audio

• A master tape, also known as a master, created by audio mastering
• Master (American band), a Czech-American death metal band
• Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
• Bojan Adamič (1912–1995), known as Master, Slovene music composer
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP), a 2001 record by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, this EP also called "Master"
• Master (album of Russian band Master), a 1987 album by Russian thrash metal band Master
• Master (album of American band Master), a 1990 album by American band Master
• Master (soundtrack), 2020 soundtrack album to the 2020 Tamil-language film Master
• Master (audio drama), in the Doctor Who series (2003)
• The Master (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye
• The Master, 2010 box set by Ravi Shankar
• The Master... (Pepper Adams album) (1980)
• The Master (Jimmy Raney album) (1983)
• The Master (Rakim album) (1999)
• The Master (Stan Getz album), recorded 1975, released 1982
• The Masters, compilation album by The Stranglers

Television

• The Master (U.S. TV series), a 1984 American television series starring Lee Van Cleef that aired on NBC
• The Master (Australian game show), a 2006 Australian quiz show that aired on Seven Network
• The Master (Indonesian TV series), a 2009 Indonesian magic show television series

People

• Masami Hirosaka (born 1966), known as Master Masami, Japanese radio-controlled racer
• King Curtis Iaukea (1937–2010), wrestler, ring name The Master

Places

• Master, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
• Masters, Colorado, USA; a ghost town in the United States

Schools

• Graduate school, for obtaining Cycle II Tertiary Education (Master's degree)
• Master's Academy & College, Canadian school in Calgary, Alberta
• Masters School, an American independent school in New York

Sport

Golf

• Australian Masters, a golf tournament held in Australia
• British Masters, a golf tournament held in the United Kingdom
• Masters Tournament, known as The Masters, one of the four men's major championships
• South African Masters, a golf tournament held in South Africa

Tennis

• ATP World Tour Finals, the season-ending tournament on the ATP tour known in the past as The Masters (derived from 'Masters Grand Prix' and subsequently 'Tennis Masters Cup')
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000, a series of top tier men's tennis tournaments on the ATP tour calendar

Other sports

• Masters (curling), an annual Grand Slam of Curling event
• Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
• Masters (darts), a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation
• Masters (snooker), professional invitational snooker tournament
• Masters athletics, a competition age classification used by many sports
• Masters Football, six-a-side indoor football competition in UK
• Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
• World Masters (darts), professional darts tournament

Other uses

• MASTER, a Russian network of telescopes
• Master (software), pseudonym AlphaGo, artificial intelligence Computer Go program
• Master Lock, a brand of padlock
• Master recording, the original of a visual or sound recording
• Master/slave (BDSM), consensual role-playing in a sexual relationship
• Master/slave (technology), a model of communication
• Masters Home Improvement, an Australian Home Improvement Retailer
• Sega Master System, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console

See also

• Grandmaster (disambiguation)
• Maestro (disambiguation)
• Master/Slave (disambiguation)
• Master of the Universe (disambiguation)
• Masters (surname)
• Meister (surname)
• Metal Master (disambiguation)
• Miss (disambiguation)
• Mister (disambiguation)
• Mistress (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing master or masters
• All pages with titles beginning with The Master
• All pages with titles beginning with Master
• Marsters (surname)
• Standard (metrology), a master reference for measurement