Agent
Appearance
Agent may refer to:
Espionage, investigation and law
- Espionage#Agents in espionage, a spy or intelligence officer
- Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective
- Agent (law), a person authorized to act on behalf of another
- Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
- Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
- Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
- Press agent, a professional publicist
- Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
- Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
- Political agent (disambiguation)
- Patent agent, an attorney who represents clients in patent matters
- Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
- Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
- Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
- Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Agent (The Matrix), a group of characters in the series
- Agent, a number of Marvel Comics characters
- The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
Film and television
- Agent (Polish reality show), a version of The Mole tv series
- The Agent (1922 film), featuring Oliver Hardy
- The Agent (2008 film), featuring William Beck
Gaming
Music
- Agent (band), an American hardcore band from Long Island, New York
- Agents (Finnish band), a Finnish schlager/rock'n'roll band
- "The Agent" (Little Man Tate song) (2006)
- The Agents (Australian band), led by James Griffin
- The Agents (English band), a Bristol post-punk band
- "Intro: The Agent", by Rhymefest from El Che (2010)
Science and technology
Biology and chemistry
- Biological agent, a bacterium etc used in biological warfare
- Chemical agent, used as a Chemical weapon
Computing
- Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
- Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
- Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
- Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program
Other uses
- Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
- Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
- Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
- Agent (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment