• Master (college), head of a college
• Schoolmaster, presiding officer of a school
• Master (form of address), a title used for boys and young men, in formal correspondence, and used by slaves for their owner
• Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
• Master (martial arts)
• 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
• Chess master, a rank of chess player
• Master, the Captain of a ship
• Master craftsman, in the Medieval guilds
• Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy
• Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance
• Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the founders of the Theosophical Society
• Master/slave (BDSM)
• Old Master, a term for a recognised Western painter active before about 1800
• Slave master, an owner of slaves
• Station master, formerly the person in charge of railway stations
• Venerable Master, the master of a French freemasonic lodge
• Worshipful Master, the governing authority over a Masonic Lodge
• Zen master, a somewhat vague English term, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices
• Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
• Maestro, an orchestral conductor or the master within some other musical discipline

• Renault Master, a van
• Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
• Miles M.9 Master, a British 2-seat training aircraft during the Second World War

• Master (Manos), the head villain in the horror movie Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
• Master of the Land of Fiction, a villain from the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber
• Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Master (Fallout), a character in the computer game Fallout
• The Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
• The Master, the player's character in the Nintendo game series ActRaiser
• The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in Paper Mario
• The Master, a title character in the novel The Master and Margarita
• The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from Power Rangers Mystic Force
• The Master, a character from the adult swim television series The Venture Bros.

• Master (1997 film), a 1997 Indian Telugu-language film
• Master (2016 film), a South Korean crime drama film
• Masters (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam thriller film
• The Master (1980 film), directed by Lu Chin Ku
• The Master (1989 film), directed by Tsui Hark
• The Master (1995 film), a Syrian documentary film by Omar Amiralay
• The Master (2005 film), directed by Piotr Trzaskalski
• The Master (2009 film), a Turkish film
• The Master (2012 film), a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Master (2015 film), a Chinese film directed by Xu Haofeng
• The Master (Australian quiz show), a 2006 Australian quiz show
• The Master (Indonesia TV series), a 2009 magic show Television series
• The Master (TV series), a 1984 television series starring Lee Van Cleef

• The Master, an 1895 best-selling novel by Israel Zangwill
• The Masters (novel), a 1951 novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence by C. P. Snow
• The Master: An Adventure Story, a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White
• The Master (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín

• Master (American band), a Czech-American death metal band
• Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
• Bojan Adami? (1912–1995), known as Master, Slovene music composer
• Master (audio drama), in the Doctor Who series (2003)
• The Master (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye
• The Master, 2010 box set by Ravi Shankar
• The Master... (Pepper Adams album) (1980)
• The Master (Rakim album) (1999)
• The Master (Stan Getz album), recorded 1975, released 1982
• The Masters, compilation album by The Stranglers

• Master, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
• Masters, Colorado, a ghost town in the United States
• Masters, Missouri, a community in the United States

Golf

• Masters Tournament, known as The Masters, one of the four major golf championships
• Australian Masters, an Australian golf tournament

Tennis

• ATP World Tour Finals, the season-ending tournament on the ATP tour known in the past as The Masters (derived from 'Masters Grand Prix' and subsequently 'Tennis Masters Cup')
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000, a series of top tier men's tennis tournaments on the ATP tour calendar

Other sports

• Masters athletics, a competition age classification used by many sports
• Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
• Masters (darts), a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation
• Masters Football, six-a-side indoor football competition in UK
• Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
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