{{wiktionary|old man}} '''Old man''', '''Old Man''' or '''The Old Man''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}

==Basic meanings== * An elderly man * A father * A husband * Commanding officer of a military unit * Captain of a merchant ship or a warship * Any male amateur radio operator

==People== * La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 ("The Old Man"), an almost-complete male Neanderthal skeleton discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France * Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Bolshevik revolutionary nicknamed the "Old Man" by both supporters and adversaries * Richard Benjamin Harrison (1941–2018), American businessman and reality television personality of the series ''Pawn Stars'', nicknamed "The Old Man" * Joseph Paruta (1929–1986), member of the Gambino crime family nicknamed "Old Man" * Yitzhak Sadeh (1890–1952), Israeli military commander nicknamed "The Old Man" * Old Man, the CEO of a company in the ''RoboCop'' movies

==Literature== *''The Old Man'' (Gorky play) (Старик), a 1915 play by Maxim Gorky * ''The Old Man'' (Wallace play), a 1931 play by Edgar Wallace * "Old Man", a poem by Edward Thomas * "Old Man", a narrative thread in William Faulkner's 1939 novel ''If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem'' *''The Old Man'' (Perry novel), a 2017 novel by Thomas Perry *''The Old Man'' (Trifonov novel) (Старик), a novel by Yuri Trifonov * ''The Old Man and the Sea'', a short novel by Ernest Hemingway

==Film, television and stage== * ''Old Man'' (film), a 2022 American film * ''The Old Man'' (1931 film), based on the Edgar Wallace play of the same name * ''The Old Man'' (2012 film), a 2012 Kazakhstani film * ''The Old Man'' (2019 film), a 2019 Estonian animated film * "The Old Man" (Seinfeld), an episode of the television series ''Seinfeld'' * ''The Old Man'' (TV series), an American thriller drama television series on FX based on the Thomas Perry novel of the same name * ''Old Man'', a Primetime Emmy Award–winning television movie based on the "Old Man" narrative thread in William Faulkner's novel ''If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem'' * ''Old Man'' (Playhouse 90), a 1958 American television play * The Old Man, a character in the film ''A Christmas Story''

==Music== * Old Man Luedecke, a Canadian indie banjo band

===Songs=== * "Old Man" (song) by Neil Young * "Old Man", a song by Love, from the album ''Forever Changes'' * "Old Man", a song by Randy Newman from ''Sail Away'', covered by Art Garfunkel, 1974 * "Old Man", a song by Clouds, 1970 * "Old Man", a song by the Collectors, 1967 * "Old Man", a song by Harrys Gym, 2011 * "Old Man", a song by John David, 1976 * "Old Man", a song by Lighthouse, 1972 * "The Old Man" a song by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, 1954 * "The Old Man", a song by Colm C.T. Wilkinson, 1977 * "The Old Man", a song written by Phil Coulter and sung by John McDermott about a man remembering his father after he has died * "The Old Man", a song by the Fureys and Davey Arthur, 1982 * "The Old Man", a song by Matt Lucas * "This Old Man" a children's song

==Geography== * Old Man of the Hills, a mountain in Montana * Old Man of the Mountain, a geological formation in New Hampshire * Old Man of Hoy, a sea stack in Scotland * Old Man of Coniston, a mountain in the Lake District of England * Old Man of the Lake, a hemlock tree stump floating in Crater Lake, Oregon

==Other== * Old Man (''The Legend of Zelda''), a recurring character in ''The Legend of Zelda'' video game series * ''old man'' (magazine), a journal of the Union of Swiss Short Wave Amateurs * Old Man, a name for Gerson Boom in ''Deltarune''

==See also== * Old Man of the Mountain (disambiguation) * Old Man River (disambiguation) * My Old Man (disambiguation) * Oldman (disambiguation) * Der Alte (disambiguation)

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