Pretender (disambiguation)

A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else.

Pretender or The Pretender may also refer to:

Film and television

• The Pretender (film), a 1947 American crime film
• The Pretender (TV series), a 1996–2000 American television series
  • The Pretender 2001, a January 2001 TV movie
  • The Pretender: Island of the Haunted, a December 2001 TV movie
• "The Pretender" (Code Lyoko), an episode of Code Lyoko

Novels

• The Pretender (Animorphs), a novel by K. A. Applegate
• The Pretender, a 2008 novel about literary forgery by David Belbin
• Pretender (C. J. Cherryh novel), a 2006 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
• The Pretender, a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger
• The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter, a novel by Robert W. Service
• The Pretender: Rebirth, a first of many novels by Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle based on cult television show The Pretender

Music

• The Pretender (album), a 1976 album by Jackson Browne
  • "The Pretender" (Jackson Browne song), a song from the album
• "The Pretender" (Foo Fighters song), 2007
• "The Pretender", a song by Datarock from Red, 2009
• "Pretender" (Official Hige Dandism song), 2019
• "Pretender", a song by Madonna from Like a Virgin, 1984
• "Pretender", a song by Miike Snow from Happy to You, 2012
• "Pretender", a song by Steve Aoki from Neon Future III, 2018

Other uses

• Pretender (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1869 Epsom Derby

See also

• Pretending (disambiguation)
• Pretenders (disambiguation)
• The Great Pretender (disambiguation)
• Antipope, a pretender to the papacy