Alien

Alien most commonly refers to:

• Extraterrestrial life, or alien life which does not originate from Earth
• Extraterrestrial intelligence, hypothetical advanced alien life
• Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country

Alien(s) or The Alien(s) may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Alien (franchise), a media franchise
• Xenomorph, the titular alien in the franchise

Films

• Alien (film), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott
• Aliens (film), second film in the franchise from 1986 by James Cameron
• Alien 3, third film in the franchise from 1992 by David Fincher
• Alien Resurrection, fourth film in the franchise from 1997 by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Alien vs. Predator (film), fifth film in the franchise from 2004 by Paul W. S. Anderson
• Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, sixth film in the franchise from 2007 by the Brothers Strause
• Alien: Covenant, eighth film in the franchise from 2017 by Ridley Scott
• Alien: Romulus, ninth film in the franchise from 2024 by Fede Álvarez
• Alien 2: On Earth, a 1980 unofficial sequel of the 1979 Alien film
• Alien Visitor (also titled Epsilon) (1995 film) Australian–Italian science fiction film by Rolf de Heer
• Alienoid, a 2022 South Korean film
• The Alien (2016 film), a 2016 Mexican film
• The Alien (unproduced film), an incomplete 1960s Indian–American film

Literature

• Fictional alien life-forms, extraterrestrials in fiction

Novels

• Alien novels, an extension of the Alien franchise
• Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual, a 1995 book by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, a guide to the fictional United States Colonial Marines
• Aliens (Tappan Wright novel), a 1902 novel by Mary Tappan Wright
• Aliens!, a 1980 anthology of science fiction edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• The Alien (novel), the eighth book in the Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate

Plays

• The Aliens (play), a 2010 play by Annie Baker

Music

Albums

• Alien (Alien album), 1988
• Alien (Beam album), 2022
• Alien (Northlane album), 2019
• Alien (Strapping Young Lad album), 2005
• Alien (soundtrack), 1979
• Alien, a 1989 EP by Tankard
• Aliens (soundtrack), 1987

Performers

• Alien (band), a 1980s Swedish rock group
• The Aliens (Australian band), a 1970s new wave group
• The Aliens, the backing band for the American musician Jared Louche on his 1999 solo debut album Covergirl
• The Aliens (Scottish band), a 2005–2008 rock group

Songs

• "Alien", by Atlanta Rhythm from Quinella, 1981
• "Alien", by Beach House, 2018
• "Alien" (Jonas Blue and Sabrina Carpenter song), 2018
• "Alien" (Britney Spears song), 2013
• "Aliens" by BTS from Arirang, 2026
• "Alien", by Bush from Sixteen Stone, 1994
• "Alien", by Dead Letter Circus from Dead Letter Circus, 2007
• "Alien", by The Devil Wears Prada from Space, 2014
• "Alien", by Erasure from Loveboat, 2000
• "Alien", by Japan from Quiet Life, 1979
• "Alien", by Lamb from Fear of Fours, 1999
• "Alien", by Lee Su-hyun, 2020
• "Alien", by Dennis Lloyd, 2020
• "Alien", by the National from First Two Pages of Frankenstein, 2023
• "Alien", by Nerina Pallot from Dear Frustrated Superstar, 2001
• "Alien", by P-Model from Landsale, 1980
• "Alien", by Pennywise from Straight Ahead, 1999
• "Alien", by Stray Kids from SKZ-Replay, 2022
• "Alien", by Structures from Life Through a Window, 2014
• "Alien", by Third Day from Conspiracy No. 5, 1997
• "Alien", by Thriving Ivory from Thriving Ivory, 2003
• "Alien", by Tokio Hotel from Humanoid, 2009
• "Aliens" (song), by Coldplay, 2017
• "Aliens", by Warlord, 1984
• "The Alien", by Dream Theater from A View from the Top of the World, 2021

Video games

Based on the 1979 and 1986 films

• Alien (1982 video game), a 1982 maze game based on the 1979 film
• Alien (1984 video game), based on the 1979 film
• Alien: Isolation, a 2014 video game based on the Alien science fiction horror film series

• Aliens (1990 video game), a game by Konami, based on the 1986 film
• Aliens: The Computer Game (UK Version), a 1986 game by Electric Dreams based on the 1986 film
• Aliens: The Computer Game (US Version), a 1986 game by Activision based on the 1986 film of the same name

Other video games

• Aliens (1982 video game), a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP/M operating system on the Kaypro computer

Other media

• Alien (Armenian TV series), a 2017 melodrama series
• Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series, web series in the Alien franchise from 2019 by Fabien Dubois
• Alien: Earth, a science fiction horror television series in the franchise by Noah Hawley
• Alien (sculpture), a 2012 work by David Breuer-Weil, in Mottisfont, Hampshire, England
• Aliens (Dark Horse Comics line)
• "Aliens" (Roseanne), a 1992 television episode
• "The Alien" (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet), a 1984 television episode
• The Aliens (TV series), 2016 British sci-fi television series
• Aliens (Star Trek Roleplaying Game), published 2003

Botany

• Alien species, adventive or introduced species; a species not native to its environment
• Adventive plants or alien plants, species that are foreign to the native flora

Science and technology

• AliEn (ALICE Environment), a grid framework
• Alien (file converter), a Linux program
• Alien Technology, a manufacturer of RFID technology

Other uses

• Enemy alien, a person in a country who is not a national of that country specifically during a time of war
• Alien UFO technologies, speculative hypothesis that some UFOs are alien spacecraft
• Alien (shipping company), a Russian company
• Alian District (Alien), a rural district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Alien Sun (born 1974), Singaporean actress
• Alien, a perfume by Thierry Mugler

See also

• Alians, an Islamic order
• Alien Project (disambiguation)
• Alien 4 (disambiguation)
• Alien vs. Predator (disambiguation)
• Allen (disambiguation)
• Astrobiology, the study of hypothetical alien life
• ATLiens, a 1996 album by OutKast
• Predator (disambiguation)
• UFO (disambiguation)
• Unidentified flying object (disambiguation)
• Outsider (disambiguation)