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Q (disambiguation)

Last updated January 13, 2026

Q , or q, is the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet.

People

Q, pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the Cornish writer
Q, pseudonym used by the supposed originator of QAnon, an American far-right conspiracy theory
Q, pseudonym of Quentin Elias in his appearances in gay porn site Randy Blue
Q, stage name for Qurram Hussain of JoSH
Q, stage name for Q Marsden
Q, stage name for Robert Severson (born 1996)
Q, nickname for NBA assistant coach Bruce Fraser
Q, or Q Martel, nicknames of Giffard Le Quesne Martel
Q, nickname for Joel Quenneville
Q, nickname of Qaushiq Mukherjee, an Indian film director
Q, nickname of Quincy Jones
Q, nickname of American basketball player Quintin Dailey (1961–2010)
Q, nickname of former American football player Anquan Boldin
Q, main dancer and vocalist of South Korean boy band The Boyz
Q (drag queen), American contestant on RuPaul's Drag Race season 16
Maggie Q (born 1979), American actress
Schoolboy Q, rapper
Stacey Q, disco singer
Brian "Q" Quinn, member of the American comedy troupe The Tenderloins

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Q (James Bond), a character in the James Bond novels and films
Q (Star Trek), a character and the name of the character's species
Q (Street Fighter), a character from the video game series Street Fighter
Q, an amnesiac child from the video-game Zero Time Dilemma
Quinton "Q" Brooks, a character from the TV series Moesha
Ah Q, the main character in the novella The True Story of Ah Q
The Q, a character from the TV series The Lost Islands

Literature

Q (magazine), British music magazine
- Q Awards, yearly music awards given by Q magazine
Q (novel), historical novel by Luther Blissett first published in Italian in 1999
Q source, usually referred to as Q, hypothetical source document inferred from shared material in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
Codex Marchalianus, designated by the abbreviation Q, 6th-century Greek manuscript copy of the Septuagint
"Q" Is for Quarry , the seventeenth novel in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mystery series, published in 2002
A Voyage Around the Queen , 2024 book by Craig Brown published in the U.S. as Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

Music

Q (1970s band), an American disco group
SSQ (band), formerly Q, an American synth-pop band
Q (album), Japanese language album by Mr. Children, 2000
Q, jazz album by Tom Hasslan's Krokofant
"Q", a song by Mental Cube (The Future Sound of London), 1990
"Q", a song by AAA, 2006

Networks, stations, and channels

Q (TV network), Philippine network previously known as Quality TeleVision (QTV)
ARY Qtv, a Pakistani television channel
Q Radio, a UK radio station run by Q magazine
Q Radio, a former Philippine radio network (2019–2023) of Mareco Broadcasting Network and Horizon of the Sun Communications
- DWBM-FM, its former flagship station
Q Television Network, an American cable television network
Q TV, a UK music channel based on Q magazine
Q Channel, former names of BTV, an Indonesian television network
Q 104.3, a radio station in New York City
Canal Q, a Portuguese television channel

Other titled works

Q (1982 film), horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen (Also known as Q – The Winged Serpent)
Q (2011 film), French film
q (radio show), CBC Radio One show, formerly called Q
Q (TV series), Spike Milligan's BBC2 comedy series that ran between 1969 and 1983
Q, the production code for the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Space Museum

Business and government

Q (dairy), Norwegian dairy brand
Q clearance, United States Department of Energy security clearance
Q Score, in marketing, way to measure the familiarity of an item
Q Theatre, a theatre in London, England
Q-telecom, Greek operator
Motorola Q, smartphone released in 2006
Pentax Q, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera released in 2011
Tobin's q, a financial ratio developed by James Tobin

Computing and computer games

Amazon Q, AI–powered assistant released in 2023
Q (cipher), encryption algorithm
Q (emulator), open-source x86 emulator for Mac OS X
Q (equational programming language), functional programming language based on term rewriting
Q (game engine), 3D middleware from Qube Software
Q-learning, AI algorithm
Q (number format), fixed-point number format built into certain computer processors
Q (programming language from Kx Systems), array processing language
Q (software), a computer software package for molecular dynamics simulation
Q Sharp (Q#), domain-specific programming language
Q, a channel service in QuakeNet's IRC services
Panasonic Q, a hybrid video game console between a GameCube and a DVD player, manufactured by Nintendo and Panasonic
Q*, a rumored OpenAI project
Q Entertainment, developer of Rez HD and the Lumines and Meteos games
Q-Games, developer of the Pixel Junk series of PlayStation 3 games

Engineering

Q, the standard abbreviation for an electronic transistor, used e.g. in circuit diagrams
Q the first moment of area, used in calculating shear stress distributions
Q, the reactive power component of apparent power
Q Factor (bicycles), the width between where the pedals attach to the cranks
Q factor or Q in resonant systems, a measurement of the effect of resistance to oscillation

Linguistics

Voiceless uvular stop in the International Phonetic Alphabet
Abbreviation for Question

Mathematics

$\mathbb {Q}$ or Q, set of all rational numbers
Q, the Quaternion group
Q, Robinson arithmetic, a finitely axiomatized fragment of Peano Arithmetic
Q value in statistics, the minimum false discovery rate at which the test may be called significant

Science

Biology and chemistry

Q, the symbol for discharge (hydrology)
q, an abbreviation for "every" in medicine
Q, abbreviation for the amino acid, glutamine
Q, abbreviation for quinone
Q, abbreviation for quantitative
q, designation for the long arm of a chromosome
Q, reaction quotient
Cardiac output (Q), the volume of blood pumped by each ventricle per minute
Coenzyme Q, a carrier in electron transport
Haplogroup Q (mtDNA), a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup
Haplogroup Q-M242 (Y-DNA), a Y-chromosomal DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroup
Q value (nuclear science), the differences of energies of the parent nuclides to the daughter nuclides

Physics and astronomy

Sports

Great Southern Bank Arena, formerly JQH Arena, a nickname for the arena on the campus of Missouri State University
Q (San Jose Earthquakes mascot), furry blue mascot of the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes
San Diego Stadium, later Qualcomm Stadium, a nickname for a stadium in San Diego, California
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, often referred to as "The Q"
Q, a nickname for Rocket Arena, Cleveland, Ohio; from the arena's previous name, Quicken Loans Arena

Transportation

Q (New York City Subway service)
The Q, a nickname for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Q-ship, converted merchant vessels with concealed armament intended to lure and destroy submarines
, the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Kansai Line and Yamatoji Line

Other uses

Q Society of Australia, right-wing, anti-Islamic political society
Q, a nickname for Chuluaqui-Quodoushka, a series of New Age sexual meditation exercises developed by Harley Reagan
Quintals, an archaic method of measuring crop yield, was often abbreviated as q
Quarter, as in "Q1", "Q2", "Q3" and "Q4", a three-month period in a calendar year
Q. texture, a Taiwanese term describing the ideal texture of many foods
Initiative Q, a new payment network and digital currency devised by Saar Wilf
Quebec, the military time zone code for UTC−04:00
Sky Q, a subscription-based television and entertainment service
The Q (nightclub), an LGBT nightclub in New York City

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Q (disambiguation)

Contents

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Literature

Music

Networks, stations, and channels

Other titled works

Business and government

Computing and computer games

Engineering

Linguistics

Mathematics

Science

Biology and chemistry

Physics and astronomy

Sports

Transportation

Other uses

See also