The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

Head or Heads may also refer to:

  • Human head

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums

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  • Heads (Bob James album), 1977
  • Head (The Jesus Lizard album), 1990
  • Head (The Monkees album), a 1968 soundtrack of the movie
  • Heads (Osibisa album), 1972

Songs

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  • "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
  • "Head" (Prince song)
  • "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
  • "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath... Between... Beyond...
  • "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
  • "Head", a song by Lotion from full Isaac
  • "Head", a song by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes
  • "Head", a song by The Cooper Temple Clause from the album Make This Your Own
  • "Head", a song by Don Patterson from the album Mellow Soul
  • "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
  • "Heads", a song by James from the album Living in Extraordinary Times

Other music

  • Head (band), an English rock band
  • The Head (band), an indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
  • Head (music), a main theme in jazz
  • Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
  • Headstock, a part of an instrument
  • Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head

Film and television

  • Head (film), a 1968 film starring The Monkees
  • Heads (film), a 1994 black comedy about a reporter investigating decapitations
  • The Head (1959 film), a German horror film directed by Victor Trivas
  • The Head (2003 film), a Russian black comedy
  • The Head (1994 TV series), a 1994–1996 American animated television series
  • The Head (2020 TV series), a 2020 psychological thriller series
  • "Head" (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of Blackadder
  • "Head" (American Horror Story), a 2013 episode of the anthology television series

Other arts

  • Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
  • Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe

Business

  • Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tennis and other racket sports equipment
  • Head Entertainment, a former British entertainment retailer
  • Head Records, a British entertainment retailer
  • Head Shampoo, an American organic hair product

Computing

  • head (Unix), a UNIX command
  • <nowiki><head></nowiki>, an HTML document structure element
  • HEAD, an HTTP request method
  • Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository

Maritime

  • Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
  • Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
  • Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
  • Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast

Science

  • Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
  • Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
  • Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
  • Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
  • Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
  • Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
  • High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
  • Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
  • Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
  • Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe

Technology

  • Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
  • Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
  • Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
  • Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
  • Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
  • Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system

Titles

  • Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
  • Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
  • Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
  • Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
  • Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
  • Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
  • Head, a person who uses psychoactive drugs, such as a cokehead

Other uses

  • Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
  • The Head, Queensland, a locality in Australia
  • Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
  • Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
  • Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
  • Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
  • Head, the flat end of a barrel
  • Head, slang for oral sex
  • Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"
  • Head, also called loop, a part of Thai typography

See also

  • Headed (disambiguation)
  • Header (disambiguation)
  • Heading (disambiguation)
  • Heads in heraldry