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Master or Masters may refer to:
[edit] Arts and entertainment
[edit] Sports
- Masters athletics (track and field), a competition age classification used by many sports
- Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
- Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
- Masters (snooker), a snooker tournament
- Masters football, a football league in Britain contested by retired footballing legends
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000, the second tier of men's tennis, comprising nine annual tournaments
- Tennis Masters Cup, a tennis tournament
- Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
- Magnolia Beverage Masters, Philippine basketball
- Tanduay Rhum Masters, defunct Philippine basketball team
[edit] Ranks and titles
- Master craftsman in the Medieval guilds. Many modern usages of "master" are directly or indirectly derived from this one.
- Master (form of address), a title
- Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
- Master (college), head of a college
- Chess master, a rank of chess player
- Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
- Master (naval), a former naval rank
- Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
- Master, a common English translation for various titles such as Sifu given to instructors or mentors in Asian Martial arts.
- Jedi Master, a rank in the fictional Star Wars universe.
[edit] Religion
[edit] Surnames
The surname Masters is of Norman origin, thought to be probably an anglicized form of the French Maystres, Maystre, or Maistre.
- Masters and Johnson, sexologists
- Charles Harcourt Masters (b.1759), British surveyor and architect in Bath, Somerset
- Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler, better known by his stage name Chris Masters
- Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), an American poet
- Ian Masters (songwriter)
- Ian Masters (broadcaster)
- Ian Masters (journalist)
- John Masters (1914–1983), an English soldier and novelist
- Mark Masters, an American radio company owner
- Martha Masters, American classical guitarist, winner of the year 2000 Guitar Foundation of America international solo competition.
- Maxwell T. Masters, British botanist
- Roy Masters (radio presenter), a British-born American talk radio personality
- Roy Masters (sport), an Australian rugby league coach, sport administrator and sports journalist
- William Masters (1915-2001), an American gynecologist and sexologist
- Master Tara Singh, or as "Masterji", a name he earned from his days as school teacher in Gujranwala, a prominent political leader of Sikhs during the Colonial period in India.
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