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Rainmaker or The Rainmaker may refer to:
"Making" rain
- Rainmaking, attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation
- Rain dancing, a ceremonial dance that is performed in order to invoke rain
- Rainstick, a percussion instrument originally used when performing in order to invoke rain
- Cloud seeding, dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei
Fiction, film and television
- The Rainmaker (1926 film), a lost American silent film
- The Rainmaker (play), by N. Richard Nash
- The Rainmaker (1956 film), starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn
- The Rainmaker, John Frankenheimer's 1982 television remake
- The Rainmaker (novel), a novel by John Grisham
- The Rainmaker (1997 film), starring Matt Damon and Danny DeVito
- The Rainmaker, a mysterious character in the film Looper
- Sarah Rainmaker, a fictional character from the Gen¹³ comic book series
Music
Albums
- Rainmaker (Fair Warning album) (1995)
- Rainmaker (Kevin Moore album) (1980), and the title song
- Rainmaker (YFriday album) (1999), and the title song
- The Rainmaker (album) (2001), by The Flower Kings
- Rainmaker, a 1969 album by Michael Chapman
Songs
- "Rainmaker" (Emmelie de Forest song) (2014)
- "Rainmaker" (Iron Maiden song) (2003)
- "Rainmaker", by Harry Nilsson and Bill Martin from the 1969 album Harry, with cover versions by:
- Tom Northcott (1969)
- The Dillards, from the 1970 album Copperfields
- Bobbie Gentry, from the 1970 album Fancy
- Michael Nesmith, from the 1970 album Nevada Fighter
- The 5th Dimension, from the 1971 album Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes
- "Rainmaker", by Kansas from the 1988 album In the Spirit of Things
- "Rainmaker", by The Partridge Family from the 2001 album Sound Magazine
- "Rainmaker", by Preston Reed from the 1996 album Ladies Night
- "Rainmaker", by Sleigh Bells from the 2017 EP Kid Kruschev
- "Rainmaker", by Sparklehorse from the 1996 album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
- "Rainmaker", by Traffic from the 1971 album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
- "Rainmaker", by Vanden Plas from the 1997 album The God Thing
- "Rainmaker", by Yanni from the 2003 album Ethnicity
- "Mr. Rainmaker", by Warrant from the 1990 album Cherry Pie
People
- Boyd Melson (born 1981), American boxer
- Honi ha-M'agel, from the Talmud
- Rainmaker, ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Kazuchika Okada
Other uses
- Rainmaker (business), generating new business or additional cash flow
- Rainmaker Digital Effects, a digital effects studio
- The Rainmaker: a Passion for Politics, a political memoir by Keith Davey
- Rainmaker, a mode in the video game Splatoon
See also
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