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:
“Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)