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 A demographic profile is a form of demographic analysis in which information is gathered about a group to better understand the group's composition or behaviors for the purpose of providing more relevant services. In business, a demographic pro ...

, 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 Detective, investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same ...

data

Computing and technology

Profile (engineering) In standardization, a profile is a subset internal to a specification. Aspects of a complex technical specification may necessarily have more than one interpretation, and there are probably many optional features. These aspects constitute a profi ...

, with several meanings in the context of engineering * Profile (UML), a concept in Unified Modeling Language *

Apple ProFile The ProFile (codenamed Pippin) is the first hard disk drive produced by Apple Computer, initially for use with the Apple III. The original model had a formatted capacity of 5 MB and connected to a special interface card that plugged into an App ...

, a hard drive *

FIS Profile Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech. Annually, FIS f ...

, 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 o ...

, 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 kn ...

, 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 freque ...

, 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 events, current affairs, travel and popular science. Profile Books is distribu ...

, a British independent publisher *

Profile portrait A silhouette (, ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouett ...

Profile Spotlight Ellipsoidal reflector spot (abbreviated to ERS, or colloquially ellipsoidal or ellipse) is the name for a type of stage lighting instrument, named for the ellipsoidal mirror, reflector used to collect and direct the light through a barrel (dis ...

, a stage lighting fixture *

Strategy profile In game theory, a move, action, or play is any one of the options which a player can choose in a setting where the optimal outcome depends ''not only'' on their own actions ''but'' on the actions of others. The discipline mainly concerns the actio ...

, a concept in game theory * Old Man of the Mountain, 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 Hierarchy of genres, 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 commissio ...

depicted from the perspective of the side