• an informal name for an employment recruiter, sometimes referred to as Executive search.

In the Military

• a member of the 1^st squadron of the 9th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
• a member of Alpha Company, 980th Engineer Battalion United States Army Reserve.
• Headhunters, nickname of a USAF F-16 fighter squadron at Kunsan Air Base Korea.

In Sports

• headhunter (baseball), a baseball pitcher who aims at a player's head.
• headhunter (boxing), a boxer who only targets punches at his/her opponent's head.
• The Headhunters (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling tag team.
• Chelsea Headhunters, a football firm.

In Video Games

• Headhunter (video game), a video game for DreamCast and PlayStation 2
• Headhunter Redemption, its sequel for the Xbox and PlayStation 2
• An announcement in the video game Unreal Tournament 2004 after the player has performed 25 headshots.

In Music

• Head Hunters (album), a 1973 Herbie Hancock album.
• The Headhunters, a jazz fusion band founded by Hancock.
• "Headhunter (song)", a Front 242 song from their 1988 album Front by Front.
• Headhunter (Swiss band), a Swiss heavy metal band (founded in 1985).
• Headhunter (German band), a German heavy metal band (founded in 1989).
• Headhunter (Artist), a UK dub-step producer/DJ from Bristol.
• Headhunter (album), an album by Krokus.
• Headhunter Records, a record label.
• The Kentucky Headhunters, a country rock band.

In TV/Film

• Headhunters (film), an "in-production" movie that will star Nicole Kidman in 2007.
• Headhunters (TV series), a 2004 Finnish TV series.

In Literature

• Headhunter (novel), by Timothy Findley.
• Headhunter (John King novel), by John King.
• Headhunter (Slade), a novel by Michael Slade.