First class (or 1st class, Firstclass) generally implies a high level of service, importance or quality. Specific uses of the term include:

Books and Comics

* ''First Class'', a comic strip in ''The Dandy'' (1983-1998) * ''X-Men: First Class'' (comics)

Film and TV

* '' X-Men: First Class'', a 2011 film * ''First Class'' (game show), a UK game show * ''First Class'' (TV series), a Singaporean comedy

Music

Artists

The First Class The First Class were a British pop music studio-based group, put together by songwriter and record producer John Carter. They are best known for their hit song "Beach Baby," a top 20 hit in both the US and UK. Career The First Class was the ...

, a British pop band formed in 1974

Albums

* ''1st Class'' (album), by Large Professor, 2002 *''First Class'', by

Billy Paul Paul Williams (December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016), known professionally as Billy Paul, was a Grammy Award-winning American soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single '' War of the Go ...

, 1979 *''First Class'', by

Mickey Gilley Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 19 ...

, 1977 *''First Class'', by

Claude Bolling Claude Bolling (10 April 1930 – 29 December 2020) was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor. Biography He was born in Cannes, France, and studied at the Nice Conservatory, and then in Paris. A child prodigy, by the ...

, 1991

Songs

* "First Class" (song), by Jack Harlow, 2022 *"First Class", by Henry Rollins from ''

Big Ugly Mouth ''Big Ugly Mouth'' is the second live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released in 1987 on Quarterstick Records Quarterstick Records is a sublabel of Touch and Go Records. Artists * Bad Livers *Calexico * DK3 *Dead Child * June of 44 * Kep ...

'', 1987 *"First Class", by Lil Baby from ''

Harder Than Ever ''Harder Than Ever'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Baby. It was released on May 18, 2018 by 4 Pockets Full, Wolfpack Music Group, Quality Control Music, Motown and Capitol Records. The album features guest appearances from St ...

'', 2018 *"First Class", from the Hindi film ''

Kalank ''Kalank'' (; ) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Abhishek Varman and produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under Dharma Productions and Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Ente ...

'', 2019 *"First Class", by Khruangbin from ''Mordechai'', 2020

Computing

* First-class type, a concept in programming *

First class (computing) : merge with primary key In database modeling, a first class item is one that has an identity independent of any other item. The identity allows the item to persist when its attributes change, and allows other items to claim relationships with ...

, a concept in data modeling *

First-class function In computer science, a programming language is said to have first-class functions if it treats functions as first-class citizens. This means the language supports passing functions as arguments to other functions, returning them as the values from ...

First-class object In programming language design, a first-class citizen (also type, object, entity, or value) in a given programming language is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities. These operations typically include ...

, a concept in programming *

FirstClass FirstClass is a client–server groupware, email, online conferencing, voice and fax services, and bulletin-board system for Windows, macOS, and Linux. FirstClass's primary markets are the higher-education and K-12 education sectors, including ...

, e-mail and online conferencing system

Leisure

First Class rank Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme was a progressive series of tests for Boy Scouts, in skills which the founder of the Scout Movement believed would be useful in building character and good citizenship. Background Robert Baden-Powell tested hi ...

, in Baden-Powell's Scout training scheme *

First Class Scout (Boy Scouts of America) First Class Scout is a rank in the Boy Scouts of America, the rank above Second Class and below Star Scout. It is the highest of the lower four ranks in Scouting, and is the minimum rank that need be attained for entry into the Order of the Arrow. ...

, rank in Boy Scouts

Sports

First-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

* First Class Diver – the highest grade of diver in the original (and now obsolete) classification system of the

British Sub Aqua Club The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by UK Sport as the national governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom. The club was founded in 1953 and at its peak in the mid-1990s had over 50,000 members de ...

Travel

First class travel First class is the most luxurious and most expensive travel class of seats and service on a train, passenger ship, airplane, bus, or other system of transport. Compared to business class and economy class, it offers the best service and mos ...

First class (aviation) First class (also known as a suite) is a travel class on some passenger airliners intended to be more luxurious than business class, premium economy, and economy class. Originally all planes offered only one class of service (often equivalen ...

FirstClass (airline) Copterline Oy was Finland's largest helicopter airline established on 15 October 1990 as Copter Action and renamed to Copterline in 2000. In 2004 the company ferried over 75,000 passengers. On December 19, 2008, Copterline confirmed that it h ...

, was a Finnish airline

Other uses

First class constraint A first class constraint is a dynamical quantity in a constrained Hamiltonian system whose Poisson bracket with all the other constraints vanishes on the constraint surface in phase space (the surface implicitly defined by the simultaneous vanishi ...

First Class mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal syst ...

* First class honours degree, see

British undergraduate degree classification The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied (sometimes with significant variat ...

* First class city, an income classification for

cities in the Philippines A city ( fil, lungsod/siyudad) is one of the units of local government in the Philippines. All Philippine cities are chartered cities ( fil, nakakartang lungsod), whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own ...

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