Descendant(s) or descendent(s) may refer to:
- Lineal descendant, a consanguinous (i.e. biological) relative directly related to a person
- Collateral descendant, a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor
Books
- "The Descendant" (short story), a short story by early 20th-century science-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft
- The Descendants (novel), a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Film and television
- Descendant (2003 film), a thriller film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London
- Descendants (2008 film), an animated short film, Winner Tokyo Anime Award 2009
- Descendents (2008 film), a Chilean experimental horror film
- The Descendants, a 2011 American drama film directed by Alexander Payne with George Clooney
- The Descendants (2015 film), an Iranian film directed by Yaser Talebi
- Descendants (franchise), a Disney Channel television film franchise
- Descendants (2015 film), the television film that started the above franchise
- Descendants (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the television film
- Descendant (2022 film), Netflix documentary
- Descendants (2022 film), a Series D episode of the television series QI (2006)
- Descendent (2025 film), a science fiction thriller film
Music
- Descendents, a punk rock band from southern California
Other
- A type of node (element) in a tree structure
- A subordinate in a hierarchy
- Descendant (astrology), the western horizon-point directly opposite from the eastern horizon; also known as the ascendant (the rising sign); point at which the Sun sets in the west