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A castaway is a person cast adrift or ashore.

Castaway or Cast Away may also refer to:

Businesses

• Castaways (casino), a former Las Vegas, Nevada hotel
• Castaway Cay, a private island operated by the Walt Disney Company
• Castaway Entertainment, a software company
• Castaway Island, a tourist resort in the Mamanuca Island group in Fiji
• Castaways Hotel and Casino, a former Las Vegas hotel and casino

Film and TV

• The Castaways (film), a 1910 American silent film
• Cast Away, a 2000 film starring Tom Hanks
• Castaway (film), a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, adapted from the Lucy Irvine memoir
• Castaway 2000, a BBC series
• Castaway 2007, a BBC series
• Castaways, a 1978 historical drama series featuring Annie Whittle
• Castaway (TV series), a 2011 Australian television series
• Castaways (TV series), an American reality television series produced by ABC
• The Castaway (film), a 1931 Mickey Mouse animated short
• The Castaways (Australian TV series), a 1974 Australian television series
• The Castaways (British TV series), a 2023 British television series
• "Castaways" (Dawson's Creek), a 2003 television episode

Literature

• "The Castaways" (short story), P.G. Wodehouse
• Castaway (book), a 1984 memoir by Lucy Irvine
• The Castaway, Hallie Erminie Rives's 1904 novel that was the subject of Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, a landmark US copyright case
• "The Castaway" (poem), a 1799 poem/ballad by William Cowper

Music

• The Castaways (band), an American garage rock band
• Cast Away (album), a 2004 album by Visions of Atlantis
• Cast Away, a 2013 album by Strange Talk
• "Castaway" (Zac Brown Band song), from Jekyll + Hyde
• "Castaway" (Mi-Sex song), a 1982 song by Mi-Sex
• "Castaway", a song by 5 Seconds of Summer from Sounds Good Feels Good
• "Castaway", a song by Andromeda from Two Is One
• "Castaway", a song by Benny Benassi from ...Phobia
• "Castaway", a song by Dog Fashion Disco from Committed to a Bright Future
• "Castaway", a song by Green Day from Warning
• "Castaway", a song by Jerry Cantrell from Degradation Trip
• "Castaway", a song by Mike Oldfield from Man on the Rocks
• "Castaway", a song by Of Mice & Men from Tether
• "Castaway", a song by Paul Van Dyk from In Between
• "Castaway", a song by Starkill from Gravity
• "Castaway", a song by Yuna from Rouge
• "Castaway", a song from In Search of the Castaways
• "Castaways" (song), a song from the children's show The Backyardigans which became a popular meme song
• "The Castaway", a song by Amorphis from Tales from the Thousand Lakes
• "The Castaway", a song by The Autumn Offering from Fear Will Cast No Shadow
• Castaway, an opera by Lennox Berkeley

Other uses

• Castaways' Club, a club for Royal Navy officers who left the service whilst still young

See also

• In Search of the Castaways, by Jules Verne (1868)
• In Search of the Castaways (film), a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film
• Johnny Castaway, a screensaver from 1992