Independent or Independents may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Artist groups

Independents (artist group) The Independents were a group of Modern Art, modernist painting, painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s. They evolved out of The New Group (founded in 1930), a collecti ...

, a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s *

Independents (Oporto artist group) Portuguese abstract art is historically linked to the Portuguese artist group Independents' exhibitions. The exhibitions' main organizer and coordinator, painter and architect Fernando Lanhas, coincidentally is the central figure of Portuguese ab ...

, a Portuguese artist group historically linked to abstract art and to Fernando Lanhas, the central figure of Portuguese abstractionism

Music

Groups, labels, and genres

* Independent music, a number of genres associated with independent labels *

Independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

, a record label not associated with a major label *

Independent Albums The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by '' Billboard'' maga ...

, American albums chart

Albums

* ''Independent'' (Ai album), 2012 * ''Independent'' (Faze album), 2006 * ''Independent'' (Sacred Reich album), 1993

Songs

* "Independent" (song), a 2007 song by Webbie * "Independent", a 2002 song by Ayumi Hamasaki from '' H''

News and media organizations

* '' The Independent'', a British online newspaper. * '' The Malta Independent'', a Maltese newspaper and online newspaper * ''Independent Online'' (South Africa), a news and information website based in South Africa, owned by Sekunjalo Investments since 2013 *

Independent News & Media Mediahuis Ireland (formally Independent News and Media (INM) )) is a media organisation that is based in Dublin and publishes national daily newspapers, Sunday newspapers, regional newspapers and operates multiple websites including Independent. ...

, the largest publisher of print material in South Africa and owner of ''Independent Online'' until 2013 * Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC), an open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues, e.g., in ''The Indypendent'' newspaper of NYC *

ITV (TV network) ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passi ...

(Independent Television), a British television channel

Periodicals

*'' Grand Island Independent'', a newspaper published in Grand Island, Nebraska *''

Indy Week ''Indy Week'', formerly known as the ''Independent Weekly'' and originally the ''North Carolina Independent'', is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Res ...

'', formerly known as the ''Independent Weekly'' and originally the ''North Carolina Independent'' * ''

Irish Independent The ''Irish Independent'' is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis. The newspaper version often includes glossy magazines. Traditionally a broadsheet new ...

'', newspaper * '' Long Beach Independent'', a morning edition newspaper published in Long Beach, California * '' Marshall Independent'', a daily newspaper published in Marshall, Minnesota * ''

San Francisco Independent The ''San Francisco Independent'' was the largest non-daily newspaper in the United States. It helped to popularize the free newspaper as a business model at the beginning of the 21st century, and also rescued the ''San Francisco Examiner'' from ...

'', formerly the largest non-daily U.S. newspaper * ''

Santa Barbara Independent The ''Santa Barbara Independent'' is a news, arts, and alternative newspaper published every Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, United States. History The weekly paper was founded in November 1986, the result of a merger between ''The Santa ...

'', a news, arts, and alternative newspaper published every Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, United States

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Independents'' (film), a 2008 American documentary *

Independent bookstore An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned. Usually, independent stores consist of only a single actual store (although there are some multi-store independents). They may be structured as sole proprietorships, cl ...

, bookstore that is not part of a chain *

Independent film An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, i ...

, film produced by a small movie studio *

Independent publisher A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is general ...

, small press not associated with a major publisher *

Independent radio Independent radio indicates a radio station that is run in a manner different from usual for the country it broadcasts in. In countries where there exist government-run radio stations that served as the primary or only the variety of licensed broa ...

, radio stations independent of government or conglomerate interference *

Independent sources The term "multiple independent sources" in journalism, criminal justice, science and general research, refers to two or more unconnected people, organizations, entities or objects which provide a given set of information or samples. For example, tw ...

, in journalism, two or more sources which attest to a given piece of information *

Independent station An independent station is an independent radio or terrestrial television station which is independent in some way from broadcast networks. The definition of "independence" varies from country to country, reflecting governmental regulations, market ...

, television or radio station that is not affiliated with any network

Mathematics and statistics

Dependent and independent variables Dependent and independent variables are variables in mathematical modeling, statistical modeling and experimental sciences. Dependent variables receive this name because, in an experiment, their values are studied under the supposition or demand ...

, the argument of a mathematical function * Independent, in

Independence (probability theory) Independence is a fundamental notion in probability theory, as in statistics and the theory of stochastic processes. Two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent if, informally speaking, the occurrence of ...

, a variable whose occurrence does not affect the probability of occurrence of another * Independence (mathematical logic), unprovability of a sentence (e.g. the Parallel postulate) from other sentences (e.g. the remaining Euclidean geometry axioms)

Military

* Independent Company, a World War II British unit *

Independent Highland Companies The Independent Highland Companies were irregular militia raised from the Scottish clans of the Scottish Highlands by order of the Government between 1603 and 1760 in order to help keep the peace and enforce the law in the Highlands and were reco ...

, units of Scottish Highlanders in the 17th and 18th centuries * Independent Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Companies of the American Civil War * Norwegian Independent Company 1, a World War II Norwegian unit * British Army Independent Companies of Foot, British units in the French and Indian Wars

Politics

* Independent city, city that does not form part of another local government entity * Independent politician, not affiliated with any political party *

Independent voter An independent voter, often also called an unaffiliated voter or non-affiliated voter in the United States, is a voter who does not align themselves with a political party. An independent is variously defined as a voter who votes for candidates o ...

, not a member of any political party * Independent voting movement (U.S.), not affiliated with any political party * Independents (political party), a political party in the Czech Republic

Religion

* Independent (religion), name for supporters of a disestablished Protestant church during the English Civil War, closely identified with support for the English Commonwealth, of which Oliver Cromwell is best known * Independent church, or

non-denominational church Nondenominational Christianity (or non-denominational Christianity) consists of churches which typically distance themselves from the confessionalism or creedalism of other Christian communities by not formally aligning with a specific Christian d ...

, a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization * Union of Welsh Independents, Congregationlist denomination in Wales

Sports

Independent circuit In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indie circuit is the collective noun, collective name of independent professional wrestling promotions which are smaller than major televised promotions. It is roughly analogous to a minor lea ...

, professional wrestling shows not associated with the major wrestling promotions In U.S. college sports, schools that are not members of an NCAA or NAIA athletic conference, including: *

NCAA Division I FBS independent schools National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions whose football programs are not part of an NCAA-affiliated conference. This means that FBS independents are not required to ...

, for football * NCAA Division I FCS independent schools, for football * NCAA Division I independent schools (baseball) * NCAA Division I independent schools (basketball) * NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey) * NCAA Division I independent schools (soccer) * NCAA Division II independent schools, for all sports * NCAA Division III independent schools, for all sports * NCAA independent schools (lacrosse), for all divisions * NAIA independent schools, for all sports

Other uses

* Independent Institute, an American libertarian think tank * Dependent and independent verb forms in Goidelic languages *

Independent business A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is ...

, privately owned companies *

Independent clothes store A boutique () is a small shop that deals in fashionable clothing or accessories. The word is French for "shop", which derives ultimately from the Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (''apothēkē'') "storehouse". The term ''boutique'' and also ''de ...

, boutique not associated with the larger retailers * Independent contractor, organisation or individual which provides goods or services under terms specified in a contract *

Independent school An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British Eng ...

, school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation * Independent Truck Company, an American skateboarding brand * Vickers A1E1 Independent, British multi-turreted tank designed during the Interwar period