Agent may refer to:

Espionage, investigation, and law

  • , spies or intelligence officers
  • Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another
  • Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
  • Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
  • Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
  • Literary agent, an agent who represents writers and their written works
  • Modeling agency, a person or a corporation which represents fashion models
  • Press agent, a professional publicist
  • Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
  • Political agent (disambiguation)
  • Patent attorney, an attorney who represents clients in patent matters
  • Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
  • Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
  • Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
  • Sports agent, a legal representative for professional sports figures such as athletes and coaches
  • Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
  • Trade mark agent, a person who represents clients in trade mark matters
  • Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services
  • Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective for example

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Agent (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Agent (The Matrix), a group of characters in the series
  • The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX

Film and television

  • The Agent (1922 film), featuring Oliver Hardy
  • The Agent (2010 film), a short film
  • Agent (film), a spy thriller film
  • Agent (TV series), a Polish reality competition

Music

  • Agent (band), an American hardcore band from Long Island, New York
  • Agents (Finnish band), a Finnish schlager/rock'n'roll band
  • The Agents (Australian band), led by James Griffin
  • "Intro: The Agent", by Rhymefest from El Che (2010)
  • "The Agent" (Little Man Tate song) (2006)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Agent (video game), a stealth action game

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

  • Biological agent, a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus used as a weapon
  • Chemical agent, used as a chemical weapon

Computing

  • Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
  • Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
  • Agentic AI, autonomous artificial intelligence that can make decisions and act on those decisions on its own
  • Forté Agent, an email and Usenet news client
  • Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
  • Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program
  • User agent, software that is acting on behalf of a user

Other uses

  • Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment
  • Agency (psychology), an attribute of humans and non-human animals
  • Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
  • Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
  • Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
  • Cleaning agent, a substance used to remove bad smells, clutter, dirt, dust, or stains on surfaces

See also

  • Agency (disambiguation)
  • Agent 13 (disambiguation)
  • Agent X (disambiguation)
  • Bot (disambiguation)
  • Get Smart, an American comedy TV series which parodies the secret agent genre
  • Secret Agent (disambiguation)