Anonymous Explained

Anonymous may refer to:

• Anonymity, the state of an individual's identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown
  • Anonymous work, a work of art or literature that has an unnamed or unknown creator or author
• Anonymity (social choice), a property of a voting rule, saying that it does not discriminate apriori between voters

Organizations

• Anonymous (hacker group), the collective name of loosely affiliated individuals who participate in hacktivism

Film and television

• "Anonymous" (Australian Playhouse), an Australian television play
• Anonymous (film), a 2011 film
• Anonymous (TV series), a 2006 Irish television show
• "Anonymous" (CSI), a 2000 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• "Anonymous" (NCIS: Los Angeles), a 2010 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles

Music

• Anonymous (band), an Andorran band
• Anonymous (Blackbear album) (2019)
• Anonymous (Stray from the Path album) (2013)
• Anonymous (Tomahawk album) (2007)
• Anonymous (Tyske Ludder album) (2009)
• "Anonymous" (Sleater-Kinney song) (1996)
• "Anonymous" (Spacehog song) (1998)
• "Anonymous" (Bobby Valentino song) (2007)
• "Anonymous", a song by Three Days Grace from Transit of Venus (2012)
• "A.N.O.N.Y.M.O.U.S.", a song by Reks from The Greatest X (2016)

People

• Rodney Anonymous (born 1963), Philadelphia musician and humorist
• Joe Klein or Anonymous (born 1946), author of Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
• Jayson Sherlock or Anonymous (born 1969), Christian metal musician from Australia
• Miles Taylor (security expert), former Donald Trump administration staffer, who wrote an op-ed and a book under the pen name "Anonymous"

Other uses

• , a 2006 play by Naomi Iizuka

See also

• Anon (disambiguation), for the abbreviation
• Anonymous IV, a 13th-century English student of medieval music theory
• Anonymous 4, a female a cappella quartet
• Anonymouse (collective), an anonymous Swedish artists collective
• Nomen nescio, used to signify an anonymous or non-specific person