Alias may refer to:

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  • Pseudonym, a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose
  • Pen name, a pseudonym adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name
  • Stage name, a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers
  • Nickname, a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing
  • Sobriquet, a familiar name used in place of a real name without the need for explanation; it may become more familiar than the original name
  • Code name, a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person
  • Art name, a pseudonym used in Sinosphere

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Alias (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian documentary film
  • Alias (TV series), an American action thriller series 2001–2006
  • Alias the Jester, a 1995 British animated series
  • Alias – the Bad Man, a 1931 American Western film

Gaming

  • Alias (board game)
  • Alias (Forgotten Realms), a fictional character in Dungeons & Dragons
  • Alias (video game), 2004, based on the TV series

Literature

  • Alias (comics), an American comic book series
  • Alias Enterprises, an American publishing company
  • Alias, a character in the British comic book series Kingsman: The Red Diamond

Music

  • Alias (band), a Canadian rock supergroup
  • Alias (album), 1990
  • Alias (The Magic Numbers album), 2014
  • Alias (EP), by Shygirl, 2020
  • Alias (musician) (Brendon Whitney, 1976–2018), an American rapper
  • Alias (Ryan Tedder, born 1979), American singer, songwriter and record producer
  • Alias Records, a record label
  • "Alias", a song by In Flames from the 2008 album A Sense of Purpose
  • "Alias", a song by Scar Tissue from the 2008 album Form/Alkaline

Computing

  • alias (command), a shell command
  • Alias (Mac OS), a small file representing another object
  • Alias (SQL), a feature of SQL
  • Aliasing (computing), where a data location can be accessed through different symbolic names
  • Alias Systems Corporation, a former software company
  • PowerAnimator, also known as Alias
  • Autodesk Alias, a family of computer-aided industrial design software
  • Email alias, a forwarding email address
  • URL shortening, where a (short) URL redirects to a longer URL

People

  • Alias Ali (1939–2014), Malaysian politician
  • Alias Avidzba (fl. from 2015), Abkhazian politician
  • Florina Alías (1921–1999), Spanish writer
  • Siti Aisyah Alias (born 1966), Malaysian polar scientist

Other uses

  • Alias, Iran, or Qahremanabad, a village

See also

  • Aliasing, an effect in signal processing
  • Alias method, a family of algorithms for sampling from a discrete probability distribution
  • Alias transformation, in analytic geometry
  • Allias, a neighbourhood of Tirana, Albania