Sleeper

A sleeper is a person who is sleeping. It may also refer to:

Entertainment

• Sleeper hit, a work that obtains unexpected recognition or success

Music

• Sleeper (band), a Britpop band in the 1990s
• The Sleepers (San Francisco band), a punk/post-punk band active from 1978 until 1981
• The Sleepers (Chicago band), an American rock band formed in 2002
• Sleepers (album), a solo album from rapper Big Pooh
• Sleeper (Tribe album), by American alternative rock band Tribe
• Sleeper (Godstar album)
• Sleeper (Everyday Sunday album)

Films

• Sleeper (film), a 1973 Woody Allen film
• Sleeper (2005 film), a 2005 Austrian/German film
• Sleeper (2009 film), an action/thriller film starring Scott Levy and Bruce Hopkins
• Sleeper (2012 film), an horror/thriller film starring Brittany Belland, Jessica Cameron and John Bloom, and directed by Justin Russell
• Sleepers (film), a 1996 film based on the novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Television

• "Sleeper" (Buffy episode), from the seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• "Sleeper" (The New Avengers episode), from the first season of The New Avengers
• "Sleeper" (Torchwood), an episode from Series 2 of the series Torchwood
• "Sleepers" (Sanctuary), an episode fron the second season of Sanctuary
• Sleepers (TV series), a British comedy/drama
• An extra-terrestrial in the U.S. TV series The Event

Other

• Sleeper (comic book), published by DC Comics
• Sleepers, a 1995 novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• The Sleeper (Wild Cards), a character in the Wild Cards science fiction series who periodically hibernates, awakening each time in a new body
• The Sleeper, the main antagonist in Gothic (computer game)
• Sleeper, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Hypno

Transportation

• Sleeper bus, designed to carry fewer passengers in greater comfort
• Sleeper (car), an automobile that has been modified to improve its performance without changing its outward appearance; the British term for this is Q-car
• Sleeper truck, a truck with a sleeping compartment
• Sleeping car, a railway passenger car with beds
• Railway sleeper, a railroad tie

Biology

• Sleepers or sleeper gobies, the common names for fish belonging to the family Eleotridae
• Sleeper cichlid, perch-like member of the genus Nimbochromis

Other uses

• Le Sommeil (The Sleepers), a painting by Gustave Courbet
• The Sleepers (New Hampshire), a pair of mountain peaks in the United States
• Sleeper, a sleeping partner in business
• Sleeper, a strong internal beam (structure) in construction and shipbuilding
• Sleeper dike (construction), a low inland dike, made obsolete by a newer dike closer to shore
• Sleeper agent, a secret agent or similar operative left long inactive
• Blanket sleeper, a one-piece, footed sleeping garment
• Sleeper couch, also known as a fold-out couch or hide-a-bed
• Sleeper earring, originally designed to be worn while sleeping to keep the hole in a pierced ear open
• Sleeper hold, a rear naked choke hold used in professional wrestling
• "The sleeper", a yo-yo trick