Awakening can refer to:

• Awakening - Youth movement in Melbourne, Australia
• The term Awake
• Periodic Anglo-American religious revivals, see Great Awakening
• Nationalist movements, e.g., the Latvian National Awakening
• The Awakening, a novel
• The Awakening is a setting for White Wolf's World of Darkness roleplaying game.
• Awakenings, a movie starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro
• "Awakening (Enterprise episode)", a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• The Awakening is a cyclic (millenia) event which describes the reemergence of magic and also of mythical humanoids and other fabled creatures, among many other occurrences, in the history of the fictional Shadowrun universe.