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:
“Alone in the public clearing
This private thing was owned by all the town,
Though never claimed by us within my hearing.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“stop the darkness and its amputations
and find the real McCoy
in the private holiness
of my hands.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)