# Volunteer (disambiguation)

Volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain.
Volunteer or volunteers may also refer to:

## Volunteerism

* Voluntears, Disney cast members who volunteer their time for charitable or community causes
* Loyal Volunteers, a white settler movement in the Conococheague Valley of colonial Pennsylvania sometimes known as the Black Boys Rebellion

### Military and paramilitary

* Military volunteer, may refer to either non-conscripts, or to reservists

#### American and Irish

* Volunteer (Irish republican)
* Volunteer (Ulster loyalist)
* Volunteers of Ireland, a Loyalist American regiment of Irish ancestry 1778–84
* Irish Volunteers
* Irish Volunteers (18th century), formed to support the Irish Patriot Party 1778–85

#### British

* British Volunteer Corps, a home defence force raised as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of 1803–1805
* Volunteer Force, a home defence force from 1857 to 1908

### Religious

* Volunteers of America, a social welfare group

## Film and television

* The Volunteer (1917 film), an American silent drama film
* The Volunteer (1944 film), a recruitment short
* Volunteers (1958 film), a Soviet feature film
* Volunteers (1985 film), a comedy starring John Candy and Tom Hanks
* "Volunteers" (Abbott Elementary), a 2025 episode of the workplace sitcom
* "The Volunteer" (Full House), a 1991 episode of the family sitcom

## Books

* The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, a 2012 book reprinting a report by Witold Pilecki
* The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army Inside Auschwitz and Stop the Holocaust, a 2019 book by Jack Fairweather about Pilecki

## Music

* Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album), 1969
* Volunteer (Sham 69 album), 1988
* Volunteers (Spear of Destiny album), 2001
* Volunteer (Old Crow Medicine Show album), 2018
* The Volunteers (album) (2004), by onelinedrawing
* "Volunteers" (song), by Jefferson Airplane
* "The Volunteer" (1966), a single by Autry Inman

## Places

* Volunteer Hotel, a former pub in Sydney, Australia
* Volunteer Island, among the Line Islands of Kiribati
* Volunteer Park, Armadale, a football ground in West Lothian, Scotland
* Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands

### United States

* Volunteer, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
* Volunteer Park (Seattle)
* Volunteer State Community College, in Gallatin, Tennessee
* The Volunteer State, nickname for Tennessee

## Ships

* Volunteer (yacht), winner of the 1887 America's Cup
* HMS Volunteer, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
* The Volunteer (canal boat), operational replica of a 19th-century canal boat based in Illinois, United States
* USS Volunteer, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

## Sports

* Volunteer State Athletic Conference, a defunct Tennessee college conference
* Volunteer 500, the original name of the Sharpie 500 NASCAR race
* Tennessee Volunteers, the sports teams of the University of Tennessee

## Other uses

* Volunteer (botany), a desirable plant that grows on its own, rather than being planted
* Volunteer (capital punishment), a prisoner who wishes to be sentenced to death