Profile or profiles may refer to:

Art, entertainment and media

Music

* ''Profile'' (Jan Akkerman album), 1973 * ''Profile'' (Githead album), 2005 * ''Profile'' (Pat Donohue album), 2005 * ''Profile'' (Duke Pearson album), 1959 * '' ''Profiles'' (Nick Mason and Rick Fenn album)'', a 1985 album by Nick Mason and Rick Fenn * ''Profiles'' (Gary McFarland album), a 1966 live album by Gary McFarland * ''Profile'' (Misako Odani album), 1997 * ''Profile'' (Wolfe Tones album)

Film and television

* ''Profile'' (2018 film), a film directed by Timur Bekmambetov * Profile (1954 film), British thriller film * ''Profile'' (1955 TV series) (1955–1957), a Canadian biographical television series * ''Profiles'' (TV series) (1979–1980), a Canadian biographical television series * ''Profile'' (2018 TV series), an American streaming television talk show

Other art, entertainment and media

* Profile (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character * ''Profile'' (novel), a 2009 novel by Chris Westwood * "The Profile" (short story), a 1907 short story by Willa Cather

Classification of individuals and groups of people

Demographic profile Demographic profiling is a form of demographic analysis used by marketers so that they may be as efficient as possible with advertising products or services and identifying any possible gaps in their marketing strategy. Demographic profiling can ...

, information about a person or market segment, commonly used in marketing. May also include photographic information (e.g., "profile picture") *

Investor profile An investor profile or style defines an individual's preferences in investment decisions, for example: * Short-term trading ( active management) or long term holding ( buy and hold) * Risk-averse or risk tolerant / seeker * All classes of assets ...

, a classification of investor behavior * Profile, a dossier of

offender profiling Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator ...

data

Computing and technology

* Profile (engineering), with several meanings in the context of engineering * Profile (UML), a concept in Unified Modeling Language * Apple ProFile, a hard drive * FIS Profile, a banking transaction processing database engine *

ICC profile In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of ...

, used for colour management of computer displays and digital images *

User profile A user profile is a collection of settings and information associated with a user. It contains critical information that is used to identify an individual, such as their name, age, portrait photograph and individual characteristics such as ...

, refers to the computer representation of user information *

Profiling (computer programming) In software engineering, profiling ("program profiling", "software profiling") is a form of dynamic program analysis that measures, for example, the space (memory) or time complexity of a program, the usage of particular instructions, or the f ...

, a form of performance analysis to investigate the behavior of a software program

Other meanings

Profile Books Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996. It publishes non-fiction subjects including history, biography, memoir, politics, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distributed in the UK by ...

, a British independent publisher * Profile portrait * Profile Spotlight, a stage lighting fixture *

Strategy profile In game theory, a player's strategy is any of the options which they choose in a setting where the outcome depends ''not only'' on their own actions ''but'' on the actions of others. The discipline mainly concerns the action of a player in a game ...

, a concept in game theory *

Old Man of the Mountain The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States, that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when ...

, a former rock formation in New Hampshire also known as the Profile * a curved ( molding) or plain fascia connecting surfaces, mostly decoratively, in architecture * a genre of

portrait art Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...

depicted from the perspective of the side