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A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university.

Professor may also refer to:

Entertainment

Fictional characters

• The Professor (Gilligan's Island), a character in the 1960s TV series
• The Professor, a McDonaldland character
• The Professor, a nickname for the Seventh Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who
• The Professor (Money Heist), a character in the Netflix series
• Professor, an anthropomorphic mole character from the Spyro video game series
• Professor, a character from the Ape Escape video game series
• Professor, a character in the 1979 Soviet film Stalker

Literature

• The Professor (novel), by Charlotte Brontë, 1857
• The Professor, a 1938 novel by Rex Warner
• The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, by conservative American author David Horowitz

Film, television and theatre

• Professor (1962 film), an Indian Hindi musical
• Professor (1972 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• The Professor (1919 film), an uncompleted silent comedy by Charlie Chaplin
• The Professor (1986 film) or Il camorrista, an Italian film based on the life of crime boss Raffaele Cutolo
• The Professor (2018 film), an American comedy-drama
• "The Professor" (My Name Is Earl), a television episode
• Professor, the puppeteer of Punch and Judy shows

People

Stage name

• Prof (rapper) (born 1984), American rapper
• Professor (musician) (born 1978), South African Kwaito musician

Nicknamed "The Professor"

• Roy Bittan (born 1949), American keyboardist in the E Street Band
• Grayson Boucher (born 1984), American street basketball player
• Raffaele Cutolo ("Il professore") (1941–2021), Italian crime boss
• Mohammad Hafeez (born 1980), Pakistani cricketer
• Jan Janssen (born 1940), Dutch professional cyclist
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis ("Ordinaryüs") (1925–2012), Turkish footballer
• Igor Larionov (born 1960), Russian ice hockey player
• Howard Lederer (born 1964), American professional poker player
• Greg Maddux (born 1966), American baseball pitcher
• Neil Peart (1952–2020), Canadian drummer for Rush
• Alain Prost (born 1955), French Formula One racing driver
• Mike Tenay (born 1954), American professional wrestling play-by-play announcer
• Alan Turing (1912–1954), nicknamed "Prof", English mathematician and computer scientist
  • Prof: Alan Turing Decoded, a 2015 biography of Turing
• Dai Vernon (1894–1992), Canadian sleight of hand magician
• Petpanomrung Kiatmuu9, (Petch), Thai kickboxer (1995)

See also

• Professor T. (British TV series)
• Professor Griff (born 1960), American rapper in the group Public Enemy
• Professor Longhair (1918–1980), American New Orleans blues pianist
• Casey Stengel ("The Old Perfesser") (1890–1975), American baseball player and manager

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