- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- Stranger was a band based in Tampa, FL, formed in the early '80s. Stranger toured the U.S. as opening act for many prominent headliners throughout the '80s.
- The Stranger is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Stranger first appeared in X-Men #11 (May 1965), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
- Stranger is a song written by Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra.
- "Stranger" is a song written by Hilary Duff, Kara DioGuardi, Vada Nobles, Derrick Harvin and Julius Diaz, and recorded for Duff's third studio album, Dignity (2007). ...
- Stranger is a bi-monthly creative lifestyle magazine based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom that focuses on the alternative, creative, non-metrocentric side of British culture. ...
- Stranger is a popular culture term for a specific act of masturbation. When performing a stranger, the person, more likely a male, sits on their hand until it turns numb then performs manual stimulation on themselves. This simulates the feeling of another person, or Stranger, doing the stimulating.
- The Myst series of adventure computer games deal with the events following the player's discovery of a mysterious book describing an island known as Myst. The book is no ordinary volume; it is a linking book, which serves as a portal to the world it describes. ...
- Stranger is a real-time strategy game.
- The Stranger is a 1920 short Western film featuring Hoot Gibson.
- The Stranger (1946) is an American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper. ...
- The Stranger (Lo straniero) is a 1967 film by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, based on Albert Camus' novel L'Étranger, with Marcello Mastroianni.
- The Stranger, also known as Stranded in Space, is a television movie made in 1973 as a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network. It was directed by Lee H. Katzin.
- Agantuk (The Stranger) is a 1991 Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray. It was Ray's last film, and is based on one of his short stories, Atithi ("The Guest").
- The Stranger (Die Fremde) is a 2000 Austrian film directed by Götz Spielmann. It was Austria's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
- The Stranger is a 2010 action thriller film written by Quinn Scott and directed by Robert Lieberman.
- The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician Billy Joel, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). While his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes, this was his breakthrough album, spending six weeks at #2 in the U.S. album charts. ...
- Animorphs (also known under the promotional title AniTV and the working title The Changelings) is a 26-episode television adaptation made by Nickelodeon of the Scholastic book series of the same name. The series was broadcast from September 1998 to March 2000 in the United States and Canada. ...
- The Stranger is the seventh book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It is narrated by Rachel.
- The Stranger (1964-65) was an Australian science fiction television series made for children and produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (then known as the Australian Broadcasting Commission). ...
- The Stranger is a children's picture book written in 1986 by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It tells a story of a stranger with no memory of who he is or where he's from. He recuperates in the home of a farmer and his family during the fall season.
- The Stranger is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Tor Books in 1987. ...
- The Stranger is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the London Mercury in January 1921, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.
- A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance; An outsider or foreigner; A newcomer; comparative form of strange: more strange