An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo develops.

Egg, EGG, eggs, or similar terms may also refer to:

Biology

  • Egg cell, the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms

Food

  • Eggs as food

Places

  • Egg, Austria
  • Egg, Switzerland

People

  • Antonio Brack Egg (1940–2014), former Peruvian Minister of the Environment
  • Augustus Egg (1816–1863), English artist
  • Mr Egg (born 1959), Scottish musician, born James Matthew McDonald
  • Oscar Egg (1890–1961), Swiss racing cyclist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Egg, the name of the inhabited neutron star in the book Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
  • Aegon V Targaryen, nicknamed "Egg", a titular character from the Tales of Dunk and Egg stories by George R. R. Martin
  • Ann Veal, also known as Egg, a character on the show Arrested Development
  • The Egg, an antagonist featured in two episodes of the animated series Count Duckula; "00 Duck", series 3, episode 12 (1991) and "Venice a Duck, Not a Duck!", series 4, episode 13 (1991)
  • Eggs Trubshaw, the protagonist of the 2014 animated film The Boxtrolls

Films

  • Egg (2007 film), a 2007 Turkish-Greek drama
  • Egg (2018 film), a 2018 American comedy film
  • Eggs (film) a 1995 Norwegian comedy

Games

  • Egg (video game), a 1981 video game made by Nintendo
  • EGG Console, also known as Project EGG for Nintendo Switch, a brand of classic games by D4 Enterprise#EGG ConsoleD4 Enterprise
  • Elemental Gimmick Gear or EGG, a 1999 Sega Dreamcast game

Music

Groups

  • Egg (band), English group founded 1969
  • Eggs (band), an American group founded 1990
  • The Egg (band), a British electronic dance music band

Albums

  • Egg (album), an album by English group Egg

Television

  • The Eggs, an Australian-Canadian animated series
  • EGG, the Arts Show, a TV program
  • eGG HD, a TV channel by Astro Malaysia, focusing on e-sports
  • "🥚" (Battle for Dream Island), a 2025 animated web series episode

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Egg (magazine), a Japanese style magazine published since 1995
  • Eggs (novel), a novel by Jerry Spinelli, published in 2007
  • "The Egg" (de Camp short story), a short story by L. Sprague de Camp published in 1956
  • "The Egg" (Weir short story) a short story by Andy Weir published in 2009

Brands and enterprises

  • Egg (car), a Swiss car make in business from 1896 to 1919
  • Egg (chair), a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958
  • EG&G, an American defense contractor, founded in 1931 and defunct since 2009
  • Egg Banking, a British internet bank established in 1996
  • Egg London, a famous nightclub in England
  • L'Oeuf (the Egg), an aluminum and plexiglass car designed by Paul Arzens

Science and technology

  • EGG (file format), a compressed archive file format used in computers
  • Electrogastrogram, a graphic showing electrical signals in the stomach muscles
  • Electroglottograph, a device for measuring vocal fold movement
  • Evaporating gaseous globule, a type of interstellar gas cloud that is thought to give rise to new stars

Other uses

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  • Darning egg, a sewing tool
  • EGG Project, or Global Consciousness Project, a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 at Princeton University
  • Erbgesundheitsgericht, the Genetic Health Court of Nazi Germany
  • World egg or Cosmic egg, a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations
  • Egging, the act of throwing eggs at people or property
  • Egg, in LGBT slang a transgender person who has not yet realized that they are trans
  • Easter egg, an egg decorated for the holiday Easter
  • Easter egg (media), a secret message hidden in media

See also

  • Egg Island (disambiguation)
  • Egge (disambiguation)
  • Egged (disambiguation)
  • Golden egg (disambiguation)
  • The Egg (disambiguation)