Resident may refer to:

People and functions

Resident minister A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indir ...

, a representative of a government in a foreign country *

Resident (medicine) Residency or postgraduate training is specifically a stage of graduate medical education. It refers to a qualified physician (one who holds the degree of Doctor of medicine, MD, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, DO, MBBS, MBChB), veterinarian (Doc ...

, a stage of postgraduate medical training * Resident (pharmacy), a stage of postgraduate pharmaceutical training *

Resident engineer In general, a resident engineer is a person who works at or from the clients' side of a project. He or she possess a high degree of technical and social skills. One of the main goals of the designated role is to foster knowledge transfer. The role e ...

, an engineer or expert who works at client-side * Resident, a person who maintains

residency (domicile) Domicile is relevant to an individual's "personal law," which includes the law that governs a person's status and their property. It is independent of a person's nationality. Although a domicile may change from time to time, a person has only one ...

in a given place * Resident, a person who has

tax residence The criteria for residence for tax purposes vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and "residence" can be different for other, non-tax purposes. For individuals, physical presence in a jurisdiction is the main test. Some jurisdictio ...

in a country or jurisdiction * Resident, a

patient A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other hea ...

at a long-term care facility or senior center * Resident (Second Life), a member of the Second Life community * Resident DJ, a DJ who performs at a venue on a regular basis or permanently * Resident spy, a spy who operates in a foreign country

Culture

* ''Resident'' (magazine), an Austrian music magazine * ''The Resident'' (film), a 2011 film starring Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Christopher Lee * ''The Resident'' (TV series), a 2018 American medical drama television series airing on Fox that was created by Amy Holden Jones * The Residents, an American avant garde music and visual arts group

Other

Resident module In computing, a resident module or resident program stays in memory throughout the lifetime of a computing session. One such program might be an anti-virus program. This has given rise to the term resident protection. See also *Memory management ...

, a program that stays in memory throughout the lifetime of a computing session *

Resident bird Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by ...

, a bird that does not migrate