Grandmaster
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Grandmaster or Grand Master may refer to:
- Organizations & history
- A title acknowledging important or superior talent in various sports and other competitions, e.g.
- Grandmaster (chess)
- Grandmaster (martial arts)
- Grand Master (of Science Fiction) was the original name of the award now known as the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, a title given to a writer or other figure who has, over a life's body of work, mastered the genre and contributed significantly to its development.
- Grand Master (Masonic), the jurisdictional state / provincial head of a Masonic Grand Lodge
- Grand Master (order), the supreme head of various orders of knighthood, either honorary or military orders where they can even be its head of state, ranking as a Prince
- Grandmaster, master or master craftsman, leader of a guild
- Some other organisations, such as the civilian households of certain princely courts, designate a most senior dignitary as Grand Master.
- Grand Master, the leadership position in the Reiki Alliance, and a disputed leadership role in the larger Reiki community
- Grand Master of Education, Science, and Culture, empty title of the first president of Equatorial Guinea
- In bodybuilding, Grandmaster is an aged-related competitive classification in, usually refering to a competitor aged 50-59.
- Music
- DJ Grandmaster Flash, a hip-hop disc jockey
- Grandmasters (album), by DJ Muggs and GZA
- Fiction
- Grandmaster (DC Comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics universe
- Grandmaster (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- Grand Masters of the Jedi Order in the Star Wars universe