A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a river.

Waterfall may also refer to:

Places

  • Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia
  • Waterfall, Ontario, Canada
  • Waterfall, County Cork, Ireland
  • Waterfall, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Waterfall, Alaska, United States
  • Waterfall, Virginia, United States
  • Waterfall Village, Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
  • Waterfalls, Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Waterfall station (disambiguation), several railway stations

Business and finance

  • Waterfall model, in project management for business and software
  • Cash flow waterfall, a securitization arrangement in finance
  • Distribution waterfall, the process by which returned capital is distributed in private equity and real estate funds

Infographics and visualization

  • Waterfall display or spectrogram, to visualize sonar operation, animal calls, and other sounds
  • Waterfall display (hardware), used in smartphones
  • Waterfall chart, a kind of floating column bar chart
  • Waterfall plot, a 3D plot of the information on a spectrogram, resembling mountain ranges

Arts and entertainment

  • Waterfall (M. C. Escher), a 1961 paradoxical lithograph print by Escher
  • Waterfall furniture, a design style closely related to Art Deco

Music

Albums

  • Waterfall (If album), 1972
  • Waterfall (B.I album), 2021
  • Waterfalls (album), a 1972 album by John Klemmer
  • Waterfall, a 1994 album by Atlantic Ocean

Songs

  • "Waterfall" (Carly Simon song), 1975
  • "Waterfall" (James song), 2008
  • "Waterfall" (Sopho Gelovani & Nodiko Tatishvili song), 2013
  • "Waterfall" (Stargate song), 2017
  • "Waterfall" (The Stone Roses song), 1991
  • "Waterfalls" (James Hype song), 2025
  • "Waterfalls" (Paul McCartney song), 1980
  • "Waterfalls" (Timomatic song), 2013
  • "Waterfalls" (TLC song), 1995
  • "Waterfall", by 10cc, 1972
  • "Waterfall", by Adler from Back from the Dead
  • "Waterfall", by Atlantic Ocean, 1993
  • "Waterfall", by Charli XCX from XCX World
  • "Waterfall", by Electric Light Orchestra from Face the Music
  • "Waterfall", by Feeder from Polythene, 1997
  • "Waterfall", by Gabry Ponte from his eponymous album, 2002
  • "Waterfall", by Gavin DeGraw from Free, 2009
  • "Waterfall", by Heavenstamp, 2011
  • "Waterfall", by Jon Schmidt
  • "Waterfall", by Joy and the Boy from Paradise
  • "Waterfall", by Kim Waters from Someone to Love You
  • "Waterfall", by Toby Fox, a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale
  • "Waterfall", by Wendy & Lisa from Wendy and Lisa
  • "May This Be Love", also known as "Waterfall", by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from Are You Experienced
  • "Waterfalls", by Doda from Aquaria, 2022
  • Étude Op. 10, No. 1 (Chopin), the Waterfall Etude
  • "Waterfall", by Park Bo-gum, 2025

People

  • Arnold C. Waterfall (1914–1990), British philatelist
  • Linda Waterfall (1949–2019), American folk musician and singer-songwriter
  • Luke Waterfall (born 1990), English footballer

Other uses

  • Operation Waterfall, a World War II Allied deception
  • Waterfall bong, a type of bong used to smoke marijuana

See also

  • Falling water (disambiguation)
  • Vattenfall, a Swedish power company
  • Wasserfall, a World War II guided surface-to-air missile
  • Waterval, a residential township in South Africa