Caretaker

Caretaker may refer to:

• Janitor (chiefly in the United States), a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals and schools
• Property caretaker, a person who cares for a property
• Caregiver or carer (UK), a person who cares for another person
• Caretaker manager, someone who takes temporary charge of team affairs of a football club

• The Caretaker (play), a 1960 play by Harold Pinter
• The Caretaker (film), a 1963 British adaptation of Pinter's play
• The Caretakers (1963 film), an American drama film
• The Caretakers (2025 film), a Philippine horror film
• Caretaker, a character in the 1974 film The Longest Yard and the 2005 remake

• "Caretaker" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), 2018
• "Caretaker" (Not Going Out), 2006
• "Caretaker" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1995
• "The Caretaker" (Doctor Who), 2014
• "The Caretaker" (Motherland), 2017

• Caretaker (comics), a Marvel Comics character who appeared in Ghost Rider
• The Caretaker (Pelevin novel), a 2015 novel by Victor Pelevin
• The Caretaker (Rash novel)
• The Caretaker Trilogy, a 2006–2009 series of science-fiction novels by David Klass

• Caretaker (band), an English rock band
• The Caretaker (musician), James Leyland Kirby (born 1974), English ambient musician
• The Caretaker (album), a 2020 album by Half Waif

• Caretaker (military), a detachment assigned to maintain an inactive facility
• Caretaker gene, a group of tumour suppressor genes
• Caretaker government, a temporary government
• Caretaker Ministry (disambiguation), one of three short-lived governments of Great Britain

• Caretakers Cottage, an Australian organisation which assists homeless kids