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Special may refer to:
- Special needs, a diagnosis used to classify children as needing more services than those children without special needs
- Special teams, units in American football and Canadian football that are on the field during kickoffs, free kicks, punts, and field goal and extra point attempts
- Television special, a television program, typically a short film or television movie, which interrupts or temporarily replaces scheduled programming
- Very special episode, an advertising term for an episode of a television programme that deals with a serious and/or controversial social issue
- Special effects, visual effects used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create scenes that cannot be achieved by normal means
- The Specials, a British Two Tone band formed in 1977 in Coventry
- "Special", a 1998 song by Garbage
- The Specials (film), a 2000 film about a group of superheroes on their day off
- Special (Lost), an episode of the TV series Lost
- Special (lighting), a stage light that is used for a single, specific purpose
- Adcox Special, a biplane built in Portland, Oregon in 1929
- Special (film), a 2006 film about a man who believes he is a superhero.
Special may also be:
- A synonym for sale, especially rotating daily sales on one particular item in restaurants and department stores
- A euphemism for someone with a mental disability