Representative

Representative may refer to:

Politics

 * Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people
 * House of Representatives, legislative body in various countries or sub-national entities
 * Legislator, someone who is a member of a legislature

Mathematics

 * Representative (mathematics), an element of an equivalence class representing the class

Other uses

 * Sales representative
 * Manufacturers' representative
 * Customer service representative
 * Holiday rep
 * Representative sample, in statistics a sample or subset meant to represent a population
 * Representative director (Japan), most senior executive in charge of managing a corporation in Japan
 * The Representative (newspaper), unsuccessful 1826 London newspaper