Headhunter or head hunter may refer to:
General use
- Headhunting, the practice of literally taking a person's head after killing them
- Headhunter, an informal name for an employment recruiter, sometimes referred to as executive search
Entertainment
Music
- Headhunter (album), a 1983 album by Krokus
- Head Hunters, a 1973 Herbie Hancock album
- The Head Hunters, a 1969 album by Chico Hamilton
- "Headhunter" (song), a Front 242 song from their 1988 album Front by Front
- "Head Hunter" (song), of 2019 by Dance Gavin Dance
- "Headhunters", an 808 State song from their 1988 album Newbuild
- Headhunterz (born 1985), Dutch Hardstyle DJ/producer
- The Headhunters, a jazz fusion band founded by Herbie Hancock
- The Kentucky Headhunters, a country rock band
- Headhunter Records, a record label
Fiction
- Headhunter (novel), 1993 work by Timothy Findley
- Headhunters (novel), 1997 novel by John Kin
- Headhunter (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Headhunter, 1984 novel by Michael Slade
- Headhunters, 2008 novel by Jo Nesbø
Film and television
- Headhunter (2009 film), a 2009 Danish film directed by Rumle Hammerich
- Headhunter Redemption, the 2003 sequel to the movie Headhunter
- Headhunters (film), (Norwegian: Hodejegerne), a 2011 Norwegian film directed by Morten Tyldum
- Head Hunters (game show), a British television game show
- "Headhunters" (Gravity Falls), an episode of animated TV series Gravity Falls
Sports
- Headhunter (baseball), a baseball pitcher who aims at a player's head
- The Headhunters (professional wrestling) (born 1968), professional wrestling tag team
- Chelsea Headhunters, hooligans associated with Chelsea football club in London
- Mississippi Headhunters, a professional indoor football member
- Jade Jones (taekwondo), British taekwondo fighter nicknamed "The Headhunter"
- Headhunter, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Other
- Headhunter (video game), released for the Sega Dreamcast in 2001
- Headhunter (series), a series of video games developed by the Swedish studio Amuze
- Head Hunters MC, a motorcycle gang in New Zealand
- Headhunter, a former performing name of Addison Groove
- Headhunters, nickname of the 80th Fighter Squadron at Kunsan Air Base, Korea
- Headhunters, nickname of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment out of Ft Hood, part of 1st Cavalry Division