# Family (disambiguation)

A family is a domestic or social group.
Family or The Family may also refer to:

## Mathematics

* Family of curves, a set of 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 specified by a set of parameters

## Religion

* Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph
* Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God
* The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group
* The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.–based U.S. Christian group
* "The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

## 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
* Tornado family, a series of tornadoes spawned by the same storm cell

## Linguistics

* Language family, a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Art

* The Family (Schiele), a 1918 oil painting by Egon Schiele
* A Family (painting), a 1951 oil on canvas by Louis le Brocquy
* The Family (Gross), a 1979 bronze sculpture in Manhattan, New York
* The Family (Puccetti), a 1982 steel statue in West Allis, Wisconsin
* Family (Blumenfeld), a 1983 public artwork by Helaine Blumenfeld, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

### Films

* A Family (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet 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 (1996 film), a 1996 Telugu drama
* Family (2001 film), a Takashi Miike film
* Family (2001 Dutch film), a 2001 Dutch drama
* A Family (2004 film), a South Korean film starring Soo Ae
* Family (2006 film), an Indian Hindi film
* A Family (2010 film), a Danish drama
* The Family (2013 film), a French action comedy directed by Luc Besson
* Families (2015 film), a French film
* Family: Ek Deal, Hindi title of the 2016 Indian Telugu film Nannaku Prematho
* The Family (2017 film), a Venezuelan film
* A Family (2017 film), an Italian film
* Family (2018 film), an American film
* A Family (2024 film), a French documentary directed by Christine Angot

### Literature

* The Family (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
* Family (Cooper novel), 1991
* The Family (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

### Music
#### Groups

* Family (band), a 1966–73 English rock band
* Family (Spanish band), a 1990s pop band
* Family (Willie Nelson's band), Willie Nelson's recording and touring group
* The Family (band), an American R&B band formed by Prince
* The Family (songwriters), a Swedish songwriting and music production team
* The Family, an urban contemporary gospel choir led by Kirk Franklin

#### Albums

* Family (Ignite album), 1995
* Family (LeAnn Rimes album), 2007
* Family (Le Loup album), 2009
* Family (May J. album), 2009
* Family (Noah Gundersen EP), 2011
* Family (Think About Life album), 2009
* Family (Thompson album), 2014
* The Family (Brockhampton album), 2022
* 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" (The Chainsmokers and Kygo song), 2019
* "Family", by Björk from Vulnicura
* "Family", by Ed Sheeran from No. 5 Collaborations Project
* "Family", by Joe Walsh from Analog Man
* "Family", by Hed PE from New World Orphans
* "Family", by Rodney Atkins from Take a Back Road
* "Family", by the Rolling Stones from Metamorphosis
* "Family", by S Club 3
* "Family", by TobyMac from Eye on It

### Television
#### Channels

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

#### Series

* Family (1976 TV series), a 1976–80 U.S. drama series
* Family (1994 TV series), an Irish miniseries by Roddy Doyle
* Family (2003 TV series), a British crime drama
* Family (2012 TV series), a South Korean sitcom
* #Family (2018 TV series), a Ugandan sitcom
* Family: The Unbreakable Bond, a 2023 South Korean television series
* Family: the web series, an episodic 2008 web series
* Families (TV series), a 1990–93 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
* The Family (2016 TV series), an American thriller/drama series
* The Family (miniseries), a 2019 documentary series

#### Episodes and segments

* "Family" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
* "Family" (House)
* "Family" (Masters of Horror), 2006
* "Family" (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
* "Family" (Stargate SG-1)
* "Family" (The Secret Circle)
* "The Family" (sketch), from The Carol Burnett Show
* "Families", a Series F episode of the television series QI (2008)

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Family (musical instruments), a grouping of similar musical instruments
* The Family, a fictional group of aliens battled by the DC Comics character Metamorpho
* The Family, a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Tony D'Angelo, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Luca Crusifino and Adriana Rizzo

## Groups and organizations

* Family (US Census), a group of related people residing together
* The Family (American crime organization), an NJ African-American crime organization founded by Akbar Pray
* The Family (Arkansas politics), a 19th-century American political coalition
* The Family (club), a private club formed in San Francisco in 1901
* "The Family", a group of 18th-century Carolina planters opposed by George Burrington
* "The Family", a 2005–06 American terrorist cell arrested in Operation Backfire
* "The Family", a gang responsible for The Family Murders in Adelaide, Australia.
* Crime family, a name for crime organizations.
* The Families, a gang in GTA San Andreas and GTA V.

## Other

* Family Butte, a landform in Utah, USA