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
• The Specials (film), a 2000 film about a group of superheroes on their day off
• Special (song), song by Danish indie rock band Mew
• 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

See also

• Special forces (disambiguation)
• Specialization