A piper is a musician, a player of the

bagpipe Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

. As a noun proper, Piper may also refer to:

People

* Piper (given name) * Piper (surname)

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Comics

* Piper (Morlock), in the Marvel Universe * Piper (Mutate), in the Marvel Universe

Television

Piper Chapman Piper Elizabeth Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling) is the protagonist of the Netflix series ''Orange Is the New Black''. The character is based on Piper Kerman, author of the non-fiction book '' Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's P ...

, lead character in the American comedy-drama series ''Orange Is the New Black'' * Piper Halliwell, one of the lead characters on ''Charmed'' * Piper Hart, Henry Hart's little sister in the Nickelodeon series ''

Henry Danger ''Henry Danger'' is an American comedy television series created by Dan Schneider and Dana Olsen that aired on Nickelodeon from July 26, 2014 to March 21, 2020. The series stars Jace Norman, Cooper Barnes, Riele Downs, Sean Ryan Fox, Ella ...

'' *

Piper Willis Piper Willis is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', played by Mavournee Hazel. The actress went through a long casting process, which involved her travelling to Melbourne to audition three times. Months later, sh ...

, in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Piper Willowbrook, an elf in the Nickelodeon series ''

Mysticons ''Mysticons'' is an animated television series that aired from August 28, 2017, to September 15, 2018. A collaboration between companies Nelvana, Playmates Toys, and The Topps Company, it was created by Sean Jara, who also served as executive st ...

'' * Mr. Piper, host on the 1960s Canadian television show of the same name * Piper, an artificial intelligence in ''

Emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Emergence plays a central rol ...

'' * Piper, a tactical expert in ''Storm Hawks'' * Piper O'Possum, a '' Nick Jr.'' mascot. * Piper Gray, one of the lead characters in the Canadian sitcom '' Some Assembly Required''

Other

* Piper, a character in the 2012 American independent feature movie '' California Solo'' * Piper McLean, a daughter of Aphrodite and one of the seven in Rick Riordan's ''The Heroes of Olympus'' * Piper Pinwheeler, a character in the 2005 animated film ''Robots'' * Piper Wheel, a character in

Zenless Zone Zero ''Zenless Zone Zero'' is a free-to-play action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo (with publishing outside mainland China under HoYoverse, Cognosphere, d/b/a ''HoYoverse''). The game was released on Windows, iOS, Android (oper ...

* Piper, in the video game '' Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga'' * Piper, a character in a sidequest in the video game '' Paper Mario: Color Splash'' * Piper Wright, a reporter in the video game ''

Fallout 4 ''Fallout 4'' is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fourth main game in the ''Fallout'' series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for Microsoft Windo ...

'' * Piper Willowbrook, a main character of ''

'' * Piper de la Prim, a playable character in the mobile game ''

Brawl Stars ''Brawl Stars'' is a multiplayer online battle arena and third-person hero shooter video game developed and published by Finnish video game company Supercell (company), Supercell. The game was released worldwide on 12 December 2018, on iOS an ...

'' * Piper, a character from ''

Bendy and the Ink Machine ''Bendy and the Ink Machine'' is an Episodic video game, episodic survival horror game developed and published by Joey Drew Studios. It was initially released to Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, as the first of five chapters, with a full worldwi ...

'' * The Piper, a character in ''The Keys to the Kingdom'' book series

Films

* ''The Piper'' (1985 film), an Egyptian film * ''The Piper'' (2015 film), a South Korean mystery film * ''Piper'' (film), a 2016 Pixar short film * ''The Piper'' (2023 film), a horror film written and directed by

Erlingur Thoroddsen Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen (born 27 April 1984) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. Erlingur graduated from Columbia University's MFA Film Directing Program in 2013. In 2017, Erlingur directed his second feature film, ''Rift' ...

Music

* Piper, a 1970s rock band fronted by

Billy Squier William Haislip Squier (, born May 12, 1950) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who had a string of arena rock and crossover hits in the early 1980s. His best-known songs include " The Stroke", " Lonely Is the Night", " My Kinda Love ...

* Piper, a Japanese city pop band formed in the early 1980s fronted by Keisuke Yamamoto * "Piper" from the 1985 P-Model ''

Karkador ''Karkador'' is the sixth album by the Japanese electronic rock band P-Model, and the first where frontman Susumu Hirasawa was the sole remaining founding member. Background and composition ''Karkador'' was mainly inspired by the dreams of P-Mode ...

'' album * "Piper", from the 2000 Phish ''

Farmhouse FarmHouse (FH) is a men's social fraternity founded at the University of Missouri on April 15, 1905. It became a national organization in 1921. Today FarmHouse has 34 active chapters in the United States and Canada.FarmHouse Fraternity New Memb ...

'' album * "The Piper" (song), from the 1980 ABBA ''Super Trouper'' album

Video games

* ''Piper'' (video game), a 1995 interactive movie video game

Biology

* ''Piper'' (plant), a plant genus * Piper gurnard (''Trigla lyra''), a species of fish that makes a distinctive sound when taken out of the water * Piper, '' Hyporhamphus ihi'', a species of fish with a long lower jaw * '' Eurytela'', a genus of butterflies known as pipers *

Piper diagram A Piper diagram is a graphic procedure proposed by Arthur Maine Piper, Arthur M. Piper in 1944 for presenting water chemistry data to help in understanding the sources of the dissolved constituent salts in water. This procedure is based on the pre ...

, for water chemistry data

Places

Piper, Iowa Piper is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Iowa, in the United States. History Piper was a station on the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad. The population of Piper was 20 in 1940. Referen ...

, an unincorporated community in the United States * Piper, Kansas, a neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas, United States * Piper, Missouri, an unincorporated community in the United States * Piper oilfield, in the North Sea * Piper Pass, a pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Piper Peak (Nevada), a mountain *

Piperville Piperville is a small rural community in Osgoode Ward in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, about 4 kilometres southwest of Carlsbad Springs and 16 kilometres southeast of Downtown Ottawa. History Piperville was originally marshland, with what is now ...

, rural community in eastern Ontario, Canada

Transportation

Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft, Inc. is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located at the Vero Beach Regional Airport in Vero Beach, Florida, United States and owned since 2009 by the Government of Brunei. Throughout much of the mid-to-late 20th cent ...

, an American manufacturer of general aviation aircraft * Piper Cars, a former British maker of sports cars * ST ''Piper'', a tugboat

Other uses

* , a US Navy submarine which served in World War II *

Piper (source control system) Piper is a centralized version control system used by Google for its internal software development. Originally designed for Linux, it supports Microsoft Windows and macOS since October 2012. Scale Since its founding years Google used a central ...

, a centralized version control system used by Google * ETA10-P or "Piper", a model of the ETA10 supercomputer