Follower or variants may refer to:

People and roles

Follower (Australian rules football) In Australian rules football, the followers are the players in the three positions- ruckman, ruck rover, and rover. These three players are known as followers because they have traditionally been used as players that follow the ball all around th ...

, Australian rules position * Follower, a colloquial term for a

debt collector Debt is an obligation that requires one party, the debtor, to pay money or other agreed-upon value to another party, the creditor. Debt is a deferred payment, or series of payments, which differentiates it from an immediate purchase. The de ...

Camp follower Camp followers are civilians who follow armies. There are two common types of camp followers; first, the wives and children of soldiers, who follow their spouse or parent's army from place to place; the second type of camp followers have histori ...

, a civilian who follows in the wake of an army *

Friending and following Friending is the act of adding someone to a list of "friends" on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. It is also distinct from the idea of a " fan"—as employed on the WWW sites of busi ...

on social networks **

Ghost followers Ghost followers, also referred to as ghosts and ghost accounts or lurkers, are users on social media platforms who remain inactive or do not engage in activity. They register on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. These users follow active mem ...

Groupie The term groupie is a slang word that refers to a fan of a particular musical group who follows the band around while they are on tour or who attends as many of their public appearances as possible, with the hope of meeting them. The term is usu ...

, a fan or aficionado

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Followers'' (2000 film), an American film * Followers (2021 film), a British horror film *''The Follower'' (1984 film), Soviet film directed by

Rodion Nakhapetov Rodion Rafailovich Nakhapetov (Russian: Родион Рафаилович Нахапетов; born 1944) is a Soviet-American-Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He received the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Asteroid 256697&nb ...

*''The Follower'' (2014 film), film directed by

Dennis Gansel Dennis Gansel (born 4 October 1973) is a German film director, writer and actor . Life and career Gansel was born in 1973 in Hannover, West Germany, where he graduated from high school in 1993. Gansel worked in the festivals for film and televi ...

*''The Followers'', 1939 television film of the play by Harold Brighouse, with

Austin Trevor Claude Austin Trevor Schilsky (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was an Irish actor who had a long career in film and television. He played the parson in John Galsworthy's ''Escape'' at the world premiere in London's West End in 1926 an ...

, Marjorie Mars, Marjorie Lane

Literature

* "Follower" (short story), a 1990 story by Orson Scott Card *''Follower'', novel by

Stephen Gallagher Stephen Gallagher (born 13 October 1954) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. Career Gallagher has written novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series ''Doctor Wh ...

*''Followers'', teen horror novel by Anna Davies 2014 * "The Follower" (poem), a poem by Seamus Heaney * '' Jedi Apprentice: The Followers'', a

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop-culture Cultural impact of S ...

novel *''The Follower'', novel by

Patrick Quentin Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (30 April 1906 – 2005) and Mary Louise ...

1950 *''The Follower'', novel by

Henry Bromell Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director. Career Bromell joined the crew of NBC police drama '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' in 1994. He served as a writer and co-execu ...

1983 *''The Follower'', novel by

Jason Starr Jason Starr (born 1966) is an American author, comic book writer, and screenwriter from New York City. Starr has written numerous crime fiction novels and thrillers. Starr's ''Tough Luck'', a novel published in 2003, was a Barry Award Winne ...

2007 *''The Followers'', by

Jude Watson Judy Blundell, pseudonym Jude Watson, is an American author of books for middle grade, young adult, and adult readers. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2008 for the young adult novel '' What I Saw and How I L ...

2002 *''The Followers'', by

Christopher Nicole Christopher Robin Nicole (born 7 December 1930) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin ...

2005 *''The Followers'', 1915 play by

Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is '' Hobson's Choice''. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manche ...

, after the story by Elizabeth Gaskell

Music

* ''The Follower'' (album), 2016 album by The Field, or the title song * ''Followers'' (album), 2016 album by Tenth Avenue North

Television

*" Rm9sbG93ZXJz", an ''X-Files'' episode that signifies "followers" in Base64 *

Followers (TV series) Followers is a Japanese J-Drama streaming television series and the first drama series by the director Mika Ninagawa. The series premiered on Netflix on February 27, 2020. Plot The series revolves around the pulsating capital of Tokyo with a ...

, a 2020 Japanese streaming television series

Other uses

Cam follower In mechanical engineering, a cam follower, also known as a track follower, is a specialized type of roller or needle bearing designed to follow cam lobe profiles. Cam followers come in a vast array of different configurations, however the most d ...

, a specialized type of roller or needle bearing designed to follow cams.