Fiction and Drama
- The Vagabond, an 1878 play by W. S. Gilbert
- The Vagabond (film), a 1916 film starring Charlie Chaplin
- Vagabond (film), a 1985 film by Agnès Varda
- Vagabond (novel), second book in The Grail Quest series of Bernard Cornwell
- Vagabond (manga), a 1998 manga by Takehiko Inoue
- Vagabond (comics), a Marvel Universe character
- Vagabond, a planet in the Perry Rhodan universe
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