A registrar is an official keeper of records made in a register. The term may refer to:

Education

Registrar (education) A registrar is a senior administrative executive within an academic institution (consisting of a college, university, or secondary school) who oversees the management and leadership of the Registrar's Office. General duties and function Typically ...

, an official in an academic institution who handles student records *

Registrar of the University of Oxford The Registrar of the University of Oxford is one of the senior officials of the university. According to its statutes, the Registrar acts as the "head of the central administrative services", with responsibility for "the management and professio ...

, one of the senior officials of the university.

Government records

Registrar (law) The registrar is a chief executive officer of a judicial forum. They are in charge of the entire registry of the department. In common law jurisdictions, registrars are usually judicial officers with the power to hear certain civil matters such as ...

, the official in charge of a court registry, usually a judicial appointment *

Registrar of Companies, India The Registrar of Companies (ROC) is an office under the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs that deals with administration of the Companies Act, 2013, The Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, The Company Secretaries Act, 1980 and The Chart ...

Registrar general General Register Office or General Registry Office (GRO) is the name given to the civil registry in the United Kingdom, many other Commonwealth nations and Ireland. The GRO is the government agency responsible for the recording of vital recor ...

, government officer in Britain and Commonwealth nations concerned with civil registration * Registrar General's Department, the Government of Ghana agency responsible for the registration of companies and business * Registrar of the treasury, an office of the United States Treasury Department *

County registrar A county registrar () is an official attached to the Irish Circuit Court who carries out a number of quasi-judicial and administrative functions regarding the functioning of the court within their assigned county or counties. The county registra ...

, an official of the Irish Circuit Court who carries out quasi-judicial and administrative functions *

Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations The Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) assists the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations in administering the ''Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006'' ("CATSI Act") and in supporting and regulating ...

, an Australian Government statutory office * Superintendent Registrar, the senior official at a

Register office (United Kingdom) A register office or The General Register Office, much more commonly but erroneously registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths, marriages, civil partnership, stillbirths and adoptions in England, ...

Canada

Registrar General of Canada The registrar general of Canada (french: registraire général du Canada) is responsible for registering all letters patent, commissions, instruments, proclamations, and any other documents that may, from time to time, be issued under the Great Se ...

, responsible for registering all documents issued under the Great Seal of Canada or the Privy Seal of Canada *

Registrar of Imported Vehicles The Registrar of Imported Vehicles (RIV) is a program started by Transport Canada, and contracted to Livingston International Inc., to help regulate Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards on vehicles being imported from the U.S. into Canada. The pr ...

, a program to help regulate Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

Medicine

Specialist registrar A specialist registrar (SpR) is a doctor in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland who is receiving advanced training in a specialist field of medicine in order to become a consultant in that specialty. After graduation from medical school ...

, a medical doctor in the United Kingdom receiving advanced training in a specialist field *

Senior registrar :''This article primarily explains the Senior Registrar doctor grade within the United Kingdom until 1996'' A Senior Registrar was a grade of doctor in the United Kingdom or Ireland before being superseded during reforms in the 1990s. The senior ...

, type of medical or dental practitioner in the UK, Ireland, and Australia *

Specialty registrar A specialty registrar (StR) is a doctor, public health practitioner or dentist who is working as part of a specialty training programme in the UK. This is known as a training grade as these doctors are supervised to an extent, as part of a struct ...

, new training grade intended to replace specialist registrar

Technology and telecommunication

Registrar (software) Registrar was software used in the personnel or human resources (HR) area of businesses. It was the first piece of software developed to provide HR with the ability to manage training administration, booking people on courses, sending call-up le ...

, software used in the personnel or human resources (HR) area of businesses * Domain name registrar, a company authorized to register Internet domain names **

Drop registrar A drop registrar is a domain name registrar who registers expiring Internet domain names immediately after they expire and are deleted by the domain name registry. A drop registrar will typically use automated software to send up to 250 simultan ...

, a domain name registrar who registers expiring Internet domain names *

Pool Registrar In computing, a Pool Registrar (PR) is a component of the reliable server pooling ( RSerPool) framework which manages a handlespace. PRs are also denoted as ENRP server or Name Server A name server refers to the server component of the Domain Nam ...

, a component of the reliable server pooling in software design *

SIP registrar The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating communication sessions that include voice, video and messaging applications. SIP is used in Internet telephony, in private IP telepho ...

, a Session Initiation Protocol endpoint that accepts REGISTER requests

Other uses

Registrar (Church of England) A consistory court is a type of ecclesiastical court, especially within the Church of England where they were originally established pursuant to a charter of King William the Conqueror, and still exist today, although since about the middle of th ...

, an ecclesiastical office *

Registrar (museum) A museum/library/archival registrar is responsible for implementing policies and procedures that relate to caring for collections of cultural institutions like archives, libraries, and museums. These policies are found in the museum's collections ...