# Head (disambiguation)

The head is the part of an animal or human that usually includes the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Head or Heads may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Music
#### Albums

* Heads (Bob James album), 1977
* Head (The Jesus Lizard album), 1990
* Head (The Monkees album), a 1968 soundtrack of the movie
* Heads (Osibisa album), 1972

#### Songs

* "Head" (Julian Cope song), 1991
* "Head" (Prince song)
* "Head", a song by Mark Lanegan from Bubblegum
* "Head", a song by Static-X from Beneath... Between... Beyond...
* "Head", a song by Todd Sheaffer from The Black Bear Sessions and Elko
* "Head", a song by Lotion from full Isaac
* "Head", a song by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes
* "Head", a song by The Cooper Temple Clause from the album Make This Your Own
* "Head", a song by Don Patterson from the album Mellow Soul
* "Heads", a song by Hawkwind from The Xenon Codex
* "Heads", a song by James from the album Living in Extraordinary Times

#### Other music

* Head (band), an English rock band
* The Head (band), an indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia
* Head (music), a main theme in jazz
* Drumhead, a membrane on a drum
* Headstock, a part of an instrument
* Brian Welch (born 1970), American musician better known as Head

### Film and television

* Head (film), a 1968 film starring The Monkees
* Heads (film), a 1994 black comedy about a reporter investigating decapitations
* The Head (1959 film), a German horror film directed by Victor Trivas
* The Head (2003 film), a Russian black comedy
* The Head (1994 TV series), a 1994–1996 American animated television series
* The Head (2020 TV series), a 2020 psychological thriller series
* "Head" (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of Blackadder
* "Head" (American Horror Story), a 2013 episode of the anthology television series

### Other arts

* Head (Csaky), a 1913 Cubist sculpture by Joseph Csaky
* Head (DC Comics), a minor character in the fictional DC universe

## Business

* Head (company), a manufacturer and marketer of skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tennis and other racket sports equipment
* Head Entertainment, a former British entertainment retailer
* Head Records, a British entertainment retailer
* Head Shampoo, an American organic hair product

## Computing

* head (Unix), a UNIX command
* <head>, an HTML document structure element
* HEAD, an HTTP request method
* Head, a reference to a commit object to a Repository

## Maritime

* Head (watercraft), the toilet on a watercraft
* Head (sail), the uppermost corner part of a sail
* Head race or crew race, a time-trial rowing competition and related events called 'Head of the __ River'
* Headsail, any sail set forward of the foremost mast

## Science

* Head (botany), a structure composed of numerous individual flowers
* Head (geology), a recent near-surface deposit
* Head (linguistics), the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member
* Head of tide, the highest point on a river affected by tidal fluctuations
* Head (hydrology), the point on a watercourse, up to which it has been changed by damming
* Headland, also known as a head, a type of peninsula
* High Energy Astrophysics Division, a division of the American Astronomical Society
* Hydraulic head, an elevation difference between two fluid surfaces that drives flow
** Pressure head, a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container
** Total dynamic head, the total equivalent height that a fluid is to be pumped, taking into account friction losses in the pipe

## Technology

* Cylinder head, a part of an internal combustion engine
* Head (vessel), an end cap on a pressure vessel
* Head unit, a component of an automobile or home stereo system
* Recording head, the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
** Disk read-and-write head, part of a disk drive
* Sprinkler head, a component of a fire sprinkler system

## Titles

* Head coach, senior coach of an athletic team
* Head girl and head boy, positions in student government
* Head of government, the most senior executive of a cabinet and government
* Head of mission, the senior diplomat in a foreign post
* Head of state, the most senior public representative of a state
* Head teacher, the most senior teacher and leader of a school
* Head, a person who uses psychoactive drugs, such as a cokehead

## Other uses

* Head (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
* The Head, Queensland, a locality in Australia
* Beer head, a frothy emulsion at the top of a serving of beer
* Head of radius, part of the forearm bone
* Sydney Heads or simply The Heads, headlands that form the entrance to Sydney Harbour
* Viscount Head, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
* Head baronets, two titles, one extinct in the Baronetage of England, the other extant in the Baronetage of the UK
* Head, the flat end of a barrel
* Head, slang for fellatio
* Heads, the obverse of a coin; as in "heads or tails"