Rainmaker

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Rainmaker or The Rainmaker may refer to:

"Making" rain

• Rainmaking, attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation
  • Rain dancing, a ceremonial dance that is performed in order to invoke rain
  • Rainstick, a percussion instrument originally used when performing in order to invoke rain
  • Cloud seeding, dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei

Fiction, film and television

• The Rainmaker (play), by N. Richard Nash
  • The Rainmaker (1956 film) starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn
  • The Rainmaker, John Frankenheimer's 1982 television remake
• The Rainmaker (novel), a novel by John Grisham
  • The Rainmaker (1997 film), starring Matt Damon and Danny DeVito
• The Rainmaker, a mysterious character in the film Looper

Music

Albums

• Rainmaker (Fair Warning album) (1995)
• Rainmaker (Kevin Moore album) (1980), debut album by performer later known as Keb' Mo' and the title song
• Rainmaker (YFriday album), (1999) and the title song
• Rainmaker, a 1969 album by Michael Chapman
• The Rainmaker (album) (2001)

Songs

• "Rainmaker" (Iron Maiden song), 2003 single from the album Dance of Death
• "Rainmaker", by Kansas from the 1988 album In the Spirit of Things
• "Rainmaker", by The Partridge Family from the 2001 album Sound Magazine
• "Rainmaker", by Preston Reed from the 1996 album Ladies Night
• "Rainmaker", by Traffic from the 1971 album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
• "Rainmaker", by Sparklehorse from the 1996 album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• "Rainmaker", by Harry Nilsson and Bill Martin from the 1969 album Harry, with cover versions by:
  • Tom Northcott, Canadian singer in 1969
  • The Dillards, from the 1970 album Copperfields
  • Bobbie Gentry, from the 1970 album Fancy
  • Michael Nesmith, from the 1970 album Nevada Fighter
  • The 5th Dimension, from the 1971 album Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes
• "Rainmaker", by Vanden Plas from the 1997 album The God Thing
• "Rainmaker", by Yanni from the 2003 album Ethnicity
• "Mr. Rainmaker", by Warrant from the 1990 album Cherry Pie

People

• Boyd Melson, American boxer
• Sarah Rainmaker, a fictional character from the Gen¹³ comic book series
• Honi HaM'agel, from the Talmud
• Rainmaker, ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Kazuchika Okada
• Keith Davey, a Canadian politician nicknamed "The Rainmaker"

Other uses

• Rainmaker (business), generating new business or additional cash flow
• Rainmaker Digital Effects, a digital effects studio

See also

• Rain Man
• The Rainmakers (disambiguation)

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