Master or Masters may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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
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.
Religion
- The Masters may refer to the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom which are believed in Theosophy to be a group of beings that are the governing deities of Earth. In the Theosophy derived Ascended Master Teachings, the Ascended masters include all of the original Masters of the Ancient Wisdom of Theosophy plus several dozen additional deities.
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.
Other uses
See also
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