Family (disambiguation)

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A family is a domestic or social group.

Family or The Family may refer to:

Science

• Family (biology), 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

Mathematics

• Family of curves, a collection of a 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 be specified by a set of parameters

Statistics

• Family (U.S. Census)

Religion

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

Art and entertainment

Art

• Family (Blumenfeld), a public artwork by Helaine Blumenfeld, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
• A Family (painting), an oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy

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 (2001 film), a Takashi Miike film
• A Family (2004 film), a South Korean film starring Soo Ae
• Family (2006 film), an Indian Hindi film
• A Family (2010 film), a 2010 Danish drama
• The Family (2011 film), a film by Joe Hollow and Wolfgang Meyer
• The Family (2013 film), a French action comedy directed by Luc Besson

Literature and theatre

• The Family (Tōson 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
• The Family (Mario 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
• The Family, a fictional group of aliens battled by the DC Comics character Metamorpho

Music

• Family (musical instruments), a grouping of similar musical instruments

Performers

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

Albums

• Family (Ignite album)
• Family (LeAnn Rimes album), 2007
• Family (Le Loup album), 2009
• Family (May J. album), 2009
• Family (Noah Gundersen album), 2011
• Family (Think About Life album), 2009
• 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", by Hed PE from New World Orphans
• "Family", by the Rolling Stones from Metamorphosis

Television

Channels

• Family (TV channel), a Canadian kids' channel
• ABC Family, a U.S. television network
• TVNZ Family, a programming block on TVNZ 6, New Zealand

Series

• An American Family, a 1971 US fly-on-the-wall documentary series
• Family (1976 TV series), a 1976-80 drama series
• Family (1994 TV series), an Irish miniseries by Roddy Doyle
• Family (2012 TV series), a South Korean sitcom
• Families (TV series), a 1990-1993 British daytime soap opera
• The Family (1971 TV series), a 1971 Canadian drama television series
• The Family (1974 TV series), a fly-on-the-wall documentary series
• The Family (2003 TV series), a 2003 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
• All in the Family, a 1970s American sitcom

Episodes and segments

• "Family" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• "Family" (House)
• "Family" (Masters of Horror)
• "Family" (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• "Family" (Stargate SG-1)
• "The Family" (comedy sketch), from The Carol Burnett Show

Other

• The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
• "The Family," a group of powerful Carolina planters who, early in the 18th century, settled illegally in the Cape Fear (region) of colonial North Carolina; opposed by Royal Governor George Burrington
• The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
• The Family (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1972 to 1985), a group of approximately 60 to 100 runaway street children who populated Fort Lauderdale's beach; most were petty criminals to support themselves and each other. (Reference - Tropic Magazine, Oct. 9, 1977, "Ft. Lauderdale's Children of the Night.")
• Family Radio, a non-commercial traditional religious broadcasting network in the United States
• Manson Family, followers of criminal Charles Manson
• The Family Murders, an alleged conspiracy in Adelaide, Australia, in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s
• "The Family," an American terrorist cell indicted in 2005-06 as a result of the FBI's Operation Backfire

See also

• Crime family
• Familia (disambiguation)
• La Familia (disambiguation)

• Family 1 manuscripts
• Family 1 engine, GM car engine family
• Family II (disambiguation)