Identity Explained

Identity may refer to:

• Identity document
• Identity (philosophy)
• Identity (social science)
• Identity (mathematics)

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Identity (1987 film), an Iranian film
• Identity (2003 film), an American slasher film
• Identity (game show), an American game show
• Identity (TV series), a British police procedural drama television series
• "Identity" (Arrow), a 2013 episode
• "Identity" (Burn Notice), a 2007 episode
• "Identity" (Charlie Jade), a 2005 episode
• "Identity" (Legend of the Seeker), a 2008 episode
• "Identity" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode), 2005
• "Identity" (NCIS: Los Angeles), a 2009 pilot episode
• "Identity" (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle), a 2011 episode

Music

Albums

• Identity (3T album), 2004
• Identity (BoA album), 2010
• Identity (Far East Movement album), 2016
• Identity (Robert Pierre album), 2008
• Identity (Raghav album), 2008
• Identity (Victon EP), 2017
• Identity (Zee album), 1984

Songs

• "Identity" (Sakanaction song), 2010
• "Identity" (X-Ray Spex song), 1978
• "Identity", a 1983 song by Bucks Fizz, B-side to "London Town"
• "Identity", a 2022 song by Bush, from the album The Art of Survival
• "Identity", a 2020 song by Grandson, from the album Death of an Optimist
• "Identity", a 2024 song by MiSaMo, from the EP Haute Couture

Other uses in music

• Identity (music), in post-tonal music theory
• Identity (tuning), an odd member below and including a limit

Publications

• Identity, a defunct quarterly Australian magazine published by the Aboriginal Publications Foundation (1971–1982)
• Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera, 1998

Business

• Accounting identity, calculation that must be true regardless of its variables
• Brand identity, the expression of a brand
• Corporate identity, the manner a corporation presents itself to the public

Philosophy and social science

• Identity (philosophy), the relation each thing bears only to itself
• Law of identity, that each thing is identical with itself
• Personal identity, the numerical identity of a person over time
• Identity (social science), qualities etc that characterize a person or group
• Political identity

Mathematics

• Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity element, an element of the set which leaves unchanged every element when the operation is applied
• Identity function, a function that leaves its argument unchanged
• Identity matrix, with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Science and technology

• Digital identity, information used by computer systems to represent an external agent
• Identity (object-oriented programming), the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects

Other uses

• Identity document, or ID

See also

• Biometrics
• Collective identity
• Cultural diversity
• Cultural identity
• Entity (disambiguation)
• ID (disambiguation)
• Identification (disambiguation)
• Identifier, a name that identifies a unique object or class of objects
• Identity politics
• National identity
• Outline of self
• Personal data
• Personal identity (disambiguation)
• Secret identity (disambiguation)
• The Bourne Identity (disambiguation)