Agent

Agent may refer to:

Espionage, investigation and law

• Espionage#Agents in espionage, a spy or intelligence officer
• Special agent, an American criminal investigator or detective
• Agent (law), a person authorized to act on behalf of another
  • Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insurance policy owner
  • Election agent, a person responsible for the conduct of a political campaign
  • Free agent, a sports player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise
  • Press agent, a professional publicist
  • Talent agent or booking agent, a person who finds jobs for entertainment professionals
  • Foreign agent, a person who carries out the interests of a foreign country
  • Political agent (disambiguation)
  • Patent agent, an attorney who represents clients in patent matters
  • Real estate agent, an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate
  • Registered agent, in the US, receives service of process for a party in a legal action
  • Shipping agent, a person responsible for handling shipments and cargo
  • Travel agent, a retailer that provides travel and tourism related services

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Agent (The Matrix), a group of characters in the series
• Agent, a number of Marvel Comics characters
• The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX

Film and television

• Agent (Polish reality show), a version of The Mole tv series
• The Agent (1922 film), featuring Oliver Hardy
• The Agent (2008 film), featuring William Beck

Gaming

• Agent (video game)

Music

• Agent (band), an American hardcore band from Long Island, New York
• Agents (Finnish band), a Finnish schlager/rock'n'roll band
• "The Agent" (Little Man Tate song) (2006)
• The Agents (Australian band), led by James Griffin
• The Agents (English band), a Bristol post-punk band
• "Intro: The Agent", by Rhymefest from El Che (2010)

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

• Biological agent, a bacterium etc used in biological warfare
• Chemical agent, used as a Chemical weapon

Computing

• Agent architecture, a blueprint for software agents and control systems
• Agent-based model, a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of individuals
• Intelligent agent, an autonomous, goal-directed entity which observes and acts upon an environment
• Software agent, a piece of software that acts for a user or other program

Other uses

• Agent (economics), an actor and decision maker in a model
• Agent (grammar), in linguistics, the thematic relation of a cause or initiator to an event
• Agent noun, a word identifying an actor, derived from a word denoting an action
• Agent (philosophy), the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment

See also

• All pages with a title containing Agent
• All pages beginning with Agent
• Agent X (disambiguation)
• Bot (disambiguation)
• Agency (disambiguation)