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