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{{Incoming links}}{{wiktionary}}{{TOCright}}Identity may refer to:

Social sciences

Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
Identity (social science), umbrella term used to describe an individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity
Cultural identity, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
Gender identity, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies with oneself
Identity formation, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
Identity politics, refers to political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups or minorities
Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
National identity, belief in membership of a nation

Personal identity (philosophy), refers to the numerical identity of persons through time
Sexual orientation identity, describes how persons identify their own sexuality

Accounting identity, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
Corporate identity, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks

Identity (object-oriented programming), describes the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
Identity column, database field that uniquely identifies every row in the table and is made up of values generated by the database
Identity management, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites

iD_eNTITY, manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon, along with Kim Youn-kyung, distributed by Tokyopop in North America
Identity (album), 1984 album by Richard Wright and Dave Harris of Zee
"Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
Identity (game show), a short-lived game show
Identity, an episode of Legend of the Seeker.
(Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 6)|"Identity" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
"Identity", a song from the album Germ Free Adolescents by X-Ray Spex
The name of the BNP magazine
Identity (dj), a new england based hard dance disc jockey

Identity document
Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
Illegal resident, a spy assuming the false identity of a national

Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
Identity matrix, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere