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A family is a domestic or social group.

Family or The Family may also refer to:

Science

• Family (taxonomy), a level of scientific classification for organisms
• Family (periodic table), a group in the periodic table of elements
• Gene family, a set of similar genes resulting from gene duplications
• Protein family, a set of similar proteins resulting from gene duplications
• Tornado family, a series of tornadoes spawned by the same storm cell

Mathematics

• Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters
• Family of sets, a collection of sets
• Indexed family, a family where each element can be given an index
• Normal family, a collection of continuous functions
• Parametric family, a family where elements are specified by a set of parameters

Religion

• Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph
• Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God
• The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group
• The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.–based American Christian group
• "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Linguistics

• Language family, a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

• The Family (Schiele), a 1918 oil painting by Egon Schiele
• A Family (painting), a 1951 oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy
• The Family (Gross), a 1979 bronze sculpture in Manhattan, New York
• The Family (Puccetti), a 1982 steel statue in West Allis, Wisconsin
• Family (Blumenfeld), a 1983 public artwork by Helaine Blumenfeld, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

Films

• A Family (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet film
• The Family (1970 film) or Città violenta, an Italian crime film directed by Sergio Sollima
• The Family (1972 film), an Ivorian film directed by Henri Duparc
• The Family (1987 film) or La famiglia, an Italian film directed by Ettore Scola
• Family (1996 film), a 1996 Telugu drama
• Family (2001 film), a Takashi Miike film
• Family (2001 Dutch film), a 2001 Dutch drama
• A Family (2004 film), a South Korean film starring Soo Ae
• Family (2006 film), an Indian Hindi film
• A Family (2010 film), a Danish drama
• The Family (2013 film), a French action comedy directed by Luc Besson
• Families (2015 film), a French film
• Family: Ek Deal, Hindi title of the 2016 Indian Telugu film Nannaku Prematho
• The Family (2017 film), a Venezuelan film
• A Family (2017 film), an Italian film
• Family (2018 film), an American film
• A Family (2024 film), a French documentary directed by Christine Angot
• A Family (2026 film), a Dutch - Belgian drama film

Literature

• The Family (Shimazaki novel), 1911
• The Family (Ba Jin novel), 1933
• The Family, a 1971 book by Ed Sanders
• A Family, a 1978 play by Ronald Harwood
• The Family (Buchi Emecheta novel) (U.S.) or Gwendolen (UK), 1989
• Family (Cooper novel), 1991
• The Family (Puzo novel), 2001
• The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, a 2004 book by Kitty Kelley
• The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, a 2008 book by Jeff Sharlet

Music

Groups

• Family (British band), a 1966–73 English rock band
• Family (Spanish band), a 1990s pop band
• Family (Willie Nelson's band), Willie Nelson's recording and touring group
• The Family (band), an American R&B band formed by Prince
• The Family (songwriters), a Swedish songwriting and music production team
• The Family, an urban contemporary gospel choir led by Kirk Franklin

Albums

• Family (Ignite album), 1995
• Family (LeAnn Rimes album), 2007
• Family (Le Loup album), 2009
• Family (May J. album), 2009
• Family (Noah Gundersen EP), 2011
• Family (Roy Hargrove album), 1995
• Family (Think About Life album), 2009
• Family (Thompson album), 2014
• The Family (Brockhampton album), 2022
• The Family (The Family album), by the R&B band, 1985
• The Family (Mashmakhan album), 1971
• The Family, an album by Satchel, 1996

Songs

• "Family" (song), by the Chainsmokers and Kygo, 2019
• "Family", by Björk from Vulnicura
• "Family", by Ed Sheeran from No. 5 Collaborations Project
• "Family", by Joe Walsh from Analog Man
• "Family", by Hed PE from New World Orphans
• "Family", by Rodney Atkins from Take a Back Road
• "Family", by the Rolling Stones from Metamorphosis
• "Family", by S Club 3
• "Family", by TobyMac from Eye on It

Television

Channels

• AFN Family
• Freeform (TV channel), formerly ABC Family, an American television network
• Family Channel (Canadian TV network), a defunct Canadian kids' channel
• TVNZ Family, a programming block on TVNZ 6, New Zealand
• Family Television Network, a defunct New Zealand network of local television stations

Series

• Family (1976 TV series), a 1976–80 American drama series
• Family (1994 TV series), an Irish miniseries by Roddy Doyle
• Family (2003 TV series), a British crime drama
• Family (2012 TV series), a South Korean sitcom
• #Family (2018 TV series), a Ugandan sitcom
• Family: The Unbreakable Bond, a 2023 South Korean television series
• Family: the web series, an episodic 2008 web series
• Families (TV series), a 1990–93 British daytime soap opera
• The Family (1971 TV series), a 1971 Canadian drama television series
• The Family (1974 TV series), a British fly-on-the-wall documentary series
• The Family (2003 TV series), a 2003 American reality television show
• The Family (2008 TV series), a documentary series following British families
• The Family (2011 TV series), an Australian version of the British series
• The Family (2016 TV series), an American thriller/drama series
• The Family (miniseries), a 2019 American documentary series

Episodes and segments

• "Family" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• "Family" (Domina)
• "Family" (House)
• "Family" (Masters of Horror), 2006
• "Family" (The Secret Circle)
• "Family" (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• "Family" (Stargate SG-1)
• "Family" (The Walking Dead)
• "The Family" (sketch), from The Carol Burnett Show
• "Families", a Series F episode of the television series QI (2008)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Family (musical instruments), a grouping of similar musical instruments
• The Family, a fictional group of aliens battled by the DC Comics character Metamorpho
• The Family, a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Tony D'Angelo, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Luca Crusifino and Adriana Rizzo

Groups and organizations

• Family (US Census), a group of related people residing together
• The Family (American crime organization), an NJ African-American crime organization founded by Akbar Pray
• The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
• The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
• "The Family", a group of 18th-century Carolina planters opposed by George Burrington
• "The Family", a 2005–06 American terrorist cell arrested in Operation Backfire
• "The Family", a gang responsible for The Family Murders in Adelaide, Australia.
• Crime family, a name for crime organizations.
• The Families, a gang in GTA San Andreas and GTA V.
• The Fellowship (Christian organization), also known as "The Family"

Other

• Family Butte, a landform in Utah, USA

See also

• Familia (disambiguation)
• Familial (disambiguation)
• La Familia (disambiguation)