Private may refer to:
- Private (rank), a military rank
- Private (missile), a U.S. step rocket
- Private (band), a Denmark-based band
- Private (film), a 2004 Italian film
- Private (novel series), a young-adult book series launched in 2006
- Private (web series), a web series based on the novel series
- Private Media Group, a producer of pornography
- Privately held company
- Private, a way of encapsulation in object-oriented programming
- Private, a character from Madagascar
Famous quotes containing the word private:
“I throw myself on your discretion and shew my confidence in it when I thus venture to write in a private character what seems to contradict my public duty.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Eddie: Who are you soldier?
Philip Marlowe: Marlowe’s my name. I’m a private detective.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)