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Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

is a men's magazine.

Playboy may also refer to:
  • Playboy (lifestyle)
    Playboy (lifestyle)
    A playboy is a modern version of a public Casanova — a man of means with ample time for leisure, who demonstratively appreciates the pleasures of the world.The term has also been applied to a flashy womanizer, such as a player, pappagallo, or Don Juan....

  • The Playboys
    The Playboys
    The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright. The plot follows an unwed young mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a traveling troupe of actors to her Irish village. The script was written by Shane...

    , 1992 film starring Robin Wright
  • Jeremy Klein
    Jeremy Klein
    Jeremy "Playboy" Klein is a professional American skateboarder.Klein rose to prominence as one of the original riders for Steve Rocco's World Industries. He switched to Birdhouse Skateboards team. After being one of the first pros on Birdhouse, Jeremy retired from Birdhouse in 2008...

    , nicknamed Playboy, American professional skateboarder
  • Playboy Automobile Company
    Playboy Automobile Company
    Playboy Motor Car Corporation was a Buffalo, New York-based automobile company, established in 1947. The company only produced 97 cars before going bankrupt in 1951....

    , an automobile company (1947-1951)

Adult entertainment

  • Playboy Enterprises
    Playboy Enterprises
    Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is a privately held global media and lifestyle company founded by Hugh Marston Hefner to manage the Playboy magazine empire. Its programming and content are available worldwide on television networks, Websites, mobile platforms and radio...

    , publisher of Playboy
    • Playboy UK
    • Playboy TV
      Playboy TV
      Playboy TV is a premium monthly subscription television channel. Since its launch in 1982 in partnership with Cablevision which eventually sold their share back to Playboy, Playboy TV has become a leading entertainment channel for adult entertainment...

      , cable channel formerly known as The Playboy Channel
    • Playboy One
      Playboy One
      Playboy One was a free-to-air satellite television channel in the United Kingdom, the only permanently free-to-air television station operated by Playboy Enterprises....

      , a satellite television channel in the United Kingdom
    • Playboy Online
      Playboy Online
      Playboy Online is the internet business segment of Playboy Enterprises. It produces some original content that differs from print editions of the publications produced by Playboy Publishing, one of the three business segments of Playboy Enterpises...

    • Playboy Press, their imprint for book publishing
    • Playboy Radio
      Playboy Radio
      Playboy Radio is a radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio. Playboy Radio was originally launched on XM Satellite Radio in September 2002. Included were programs such as Night Calls Radio, originally hosted by adult film star Juli Ashton and Playboy TV star Tiffany Granath...

    • Playboy Club
      Playboy Club
      The Playboy Club initially was a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises. The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, on February 29, 1960. Each club generally featured a Living Room, a Playmate Bar, a Dining Room...

      , a chain of nightclubs run by Playboy Enterprises
    • Playboy Records
      Playboy Records
      Playboy Records was a record label in Los Angeles, California, and a unit of Playboy Enterprises. Artists recording for the label included Barbi Benton, Blue Ash, Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, Brenda Patterson, Jeanne French , Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, Ivory, Wynn Stewart, Mickey Gilley...

      , a record label
    • Playboy Foundation
      Playboy Foundation
      The Playboy Foundation is a corporate-giving organization that provides grants to non-profit groups involved in fighting censorship and researching human sexuality. It gives grants and in-kind contributions, such as advertising space in the Playboy magazine to organizations concerned with US First...

      , a non-profit charity
  • Weekly Playboy
    Weekly Playboy
    also known as or WPB is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966.This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.-People in...

    , a Japanese magazine not affiliated with Playboy Enterprises

Music

  • Playboy (The Marvelettes album)
    Playboy (The Marvelettes album)
    Playboy is the third album by Motown girl group, The Marvelettes, released to capitalize on their hit singles "Playboy" and "Beechwood 4-5789", in 1962. It also includes the single, "Someday, Someway", and heartfelt standard, "Forever", which would be released as a single the following year. Other...

    • "Playboy" (The Marvelettes song)
      Playboy (The Marvelettes song)
      "Playboy" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Mickey Stevenson and singer Gladys Horton, lead vocalist of the Motown singing group The Marvelettes, who recorded the song and released it as a single on Motown's Tamla imprint in 1962...

  • "Playboy" (Ann Christine song)
  • "Playboy", a 2009 single by Candy Coated Killahz
    Candy Coated Killahz
    CCK are an urban trio from Toronto, Canada, known for their blend of hip-hop, r&b, and electronic styles, a sound the group has termed "Ghettotronic" Hailed by The Globe and Mail as one of the bands responsible for Toronto’s emergence as a “music capital”, original group members Tasha Schumann...

  • "Playboy", a 1968 single by Gene & Debbe
    Gene & Debbe
    Gene and Debbe were a pseudo-pop/country duo hailing from Nashville, Tennessee.They had some brief successes on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Gene Thomas and had some minor success in the early 1960s with the songs "Sometimes" and "Baby's Gone"...

  • "Playboy", a 2004 song by Lloyd Banks from his album The Hunger for More
    The Hunger for More
    The Hunger for More is the debut album by G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks, released June 29, 2004 on G-Unit Records and Interscope Records. Banks had been featured on 50 Cent's multi-platinum 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin, and on G-Unit's Beg for Mercy in November of the same year...

  • "Playboy", a 2004 song by Hot Chip from their album Coming on Strong
    Coming On Strong
    Coming on Strong is the debut studio album by English electronic band Hot Chip. It was released in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2004 by Moshi Moshi Records and in the United States and Canada on 29 November 2005 by Astralwerks.-Critical reception:...

  • Bad Girl (La Toya Jackson album) or Playboy, an album and song by La Toya Jackson
  • Playboys (The Rasmus album)
    • "Playboys" (song)
      Playboys (song)
      "Playboys" is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus , originally released on the band's second album with the same name, Playboys on 29 August 1997.The single was released in 1997 by the record label Warner Music Finland...

      , the title track to the album above
  • Playboys (Chet Baker & Art Pepper album), 1956
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