Talent
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Talent has two principal meanings:
- Aptitude, a talent is a group of aptitudes useful for some activities; talents may refer to aptitudes themselves
- Talent (measurement)
Talent may also refer to:
Culture
- A celebrity, or group of them
- Talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses
- Talent manager (or personal manager), one who guides the career of artists in the entertainment business
- Talent scout, responsible for finding and developing talent
- Talent show, a live performance spectacle (sometimes on TV) where contestants perform acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics and other art forms
- Tarento, the Japanese pronunciation of the word, a Japanese show-business personality
Television
- The Got Talent series of television shows, in several national versions
- Young Talent Time (1971-1989; 2012), an Australian television variety program on Network Ten
Literature
- The Talent Series of books by Zoey Dean
- Talent, the first novel in that series
- The Talents universe series or setting of Anne McCaffrey's science fiction, where Talents are members of the fictional psionic professions
Other uses in culture
- Billy Talent, a Canadian rock group from Toronto, who formed in 1993
- Talent (comics), a comic book series written by Christopher Golden and Tom Sngoski and drawn by Paul Azaceta, 2006
- Talent (play), a 1978 play by Victoria Wood
- Talent (artwork), a seminal work of art by David Robbins, 1986
Other uses
- Jim Talent (born 1956), American politician, former Senator from Missouri
- Bombardier Talent, a type of multiple unit passenger train manufactured by Bombardier
- Talent (horse), a racehorse
- Talent (measurement), an ancient unit of mass and value
- Talent management, the recruitment and management of talented workers
- Talent, Oregon, a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States
See also
- All pages beginning with Talent
- All pages with a title containing Talent
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