Specialist

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A specialist is a person with great knowledge or skill in a particular field. It can also mean:

In occupations

• Specialist (rank), a military ranking with specialized duties
• Specialist degree, in academia
• Specialty (medicine)
• Designated Market Maker, in the American stock market
• Payload Specialist, a Space Shuttle crew member with duties associated with a flight's payload
• A player in a special teams position in American football
  • Return specialist
  • Kicking specialist
• Specialist (Belbin Team Role), in occupational psychology

Arts and entertainment

• "Specialist", a song by the band Interpol, from their album Turn on the Bright Lights
• Lo Sconosciuto, an Italian comic, known in English as The Specialist
• The Specialist, a 1994 action film
• "Specialist" (short story), a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley
• Specialist (2016 TV series), a Japanese drama starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
• The Specialist (1969 film), a spaghetti Western

Other uses

• Specialist species, a species that thrives best in a particular habitat, or has a limited diet

See also

• Expert
• The Specialists, a Half-Life game mod
• The Specialists (TV series), a detective-themed series of animated shorts