An orphan is one who has lost both parents.

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

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • The Orphan (1920 film)
  • The Orphan (1960 film), a Hong Kong film starring Bruce Lee
  • The Orphan, a 1979 horror film starring Peggy Feury and Joanna Miles
  • Orphan (2009 film), a psychological thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Orphan (2016 film), a French film
  • Orphan (2025 film), a Hungarian historical drama film
  • The Orphan (2018 film), a Brazilian film directed by Carolina Markowicz
  • Orphans (1987 film), an American film by Alan J. Pakula, based on the play by Lyle Kessler (see below)
  • Orphan: First Kill, a 2022 American psychological horror film, prequel to the 2009 film
  • Orphans (1998 film), a Scottish film by Peter Mullan
  • "The Orphan" (Alias), a television episode
  • Orphan film, a film abandoned by its owner or copyright holder, or any film that has suffered neglect

Literature

  • The Orphans series, a 1998 novel series attributed to V. C. Andrews, by Andrew Neiderman
  • Orphan (DC Comics), a superheroine associated with Batman
  • Orphan (Marvel Comics), a character in the X-Statix series
  • The Orphan, a 1980 novel by Robert Lester Stallman

Music

Albums

  • Orphan (Darwin's Waiting Room album), 2001
  • Orphan (Empires album) or the title song, 2014
  • Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, by Tom Waits, 2006
  • The Orphans, by Kristeen Young, 2006
  • Orphans (EP), by Charlotte Martin, 2008

Songs

  • "Orphans" (Beck song), 2008
  • "Orphans" (Coldplay song), 2019
  • "Orphans", by Impending Doom from There Will Be Violence, 2010
  • "Orphans", by the Living Tombstone from Rust, 2025
  • "Orphan", by In Hearts Wake from Incarnation, 2024
  • "Orphan", by Silent Planet from Everything Was Sound, 2016
  • "Orphan", by Slipknot from We Are Not Your Kind, 2019
  • "Orphan", by Toto from Toto XIV, 2015
  • "Orphan", by Whitechapel from Kin, 2021
  • "The Orphan", by Amorphis from Elegy, 1996
  • "The Orphan", a composition by Modest Mussorgsky, 1871
  • "Orphaned", a 2006 song from No Heroes by Converge

Plays

  • The Orphan (play), a 1680 play by Thomas Otway
  • Orphans (Lyle Kessler play), a 1983 play by Lyle Kessler
  • Orphans (Dennis Kelly play), a 2009 play by Dennis Kelly

People

  • Les Orphan (1923–1995), Welsh footballer
  • Victoria Orphan, American geobiologist
  • Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł (1549–1616), Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, Grand Marshal of Lithuania, voivode and Imperial Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
  • ORFN (born Aaron Curry; 1974-2016), American artist

Other uses

  • Orphan (car), any marque of motor vehicle built by a manufacturer that has discontinued business entirely
  • Orphan Basin, an Atlantic Ocean area off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Orphan Knoll, an undersea peak, horst and continental fragment in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland
  • Orphan (typesetting), the first line of a paragraph appearing at the bottom of a page
  • Cambridge Orphans, a minor league baseball team based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1899
  • Sirotci or Orphans, a regional faction of Hussites
  • The Orphan (painting), an 1834 painting by William Allan

See also

  • Orphan disease, a rare disease
  • Orphan drug, one developed under the 1983 U.S. Orphan Drug Act for orphan diseases
  • Orphan process, a computer process whose parent process has finished
  • Orphan receptor, apparent receptor that has a similar structure to other identified receptors but whose endogenous ligand has not yet been identified
  • Orphan source, a self-contained radioactive source that is no longer under proper regulatory control
  • Orphaned technology, technology that has been abandoned by its original developers
  • Orphan works, copyrighted works whose holder is hard to find