Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres.

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

Publishing and academia

  • Newspaper, a periodical publication
  • Paper (magazine), an American monthly fashion and culture magazine
  • The Paper (newspaper), a digital newspaper from Shanghai, China
  • The Paper (American newspaper), a 1960s underground newspaper published in East Lansing, Michigan, United States
  • Papers (software), a reference management package
  • Scholarly paper, in academic publishing, a work published in a peer-reviewed journal
  • Scientific paper
  • Term paper, a research paper written by a student as a school assignment

Society, government, and business

  • Aide-mémoire or non-paper, a document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes
  • Banknote, or paper money
  • Commercial paper, a type of unsecured promissory note
  • Document, a physical representation of a body of information
  • Legal instrument or legal document
  • Identity documents
  • Breed registry or pedigreed animal documentation
  • Paper (company), an education technology software company
  • White paper, an authoritative report by a government or other organization
  • Green paper, in Europe, a non-committal report that may lead to a white paper
  • Papers (information leaks), a popular term for leaks of financial or governmental data

Film and television

  • The Paper (film), a 1994 film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton
  • Paper (film), a 2010 Turkish film
  • The Paper (2008 TV series), an American reality show
  • "The Paper" (SpongeBob SquarePants)
  • Papers (film), a 2025 thriller drama film directed by Arturo Montenegro
  • Novine, a 2016 Croatian TV series translated into English as The Paper by international broadcasters
  • Paper, a 2020 Indian web series by Ullu
  • The Paper (2025 TV series), an American comedy series created by Greg Daniels

Music

  • Paper (album), an album by Rich Robinson
  • "Paper" (Krayzie Bone song), 1999
  • "Paper" (Queen Latifah song), 1998
  • "Paper" (Svala song), 2017
  • "Papers" (song), a 2009 song by Usher
  • "Paper", a song by Talking Heads from Fear of Music
  • "Paper", a song by Falz from Moral Instruction

Other media

  • Yomiko Readman or "The Paper", a fictional character in the Japanese light-novel series Read or Die and related manga and OVA
  • Papers, a play by Allan Stratton

Other

  • Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER), a radio telescope
  • Facebook Paper, a defunct news portal, released 2014
  • Dropbox Paper, a web-based document editing tool, released 2015
  • (c. 14th century), ruler of Makuria

See also

  • Papier (disambiguation)
  • Papër, a village in Albania
  • Papar (disambiguation)