title: Successor
text: # Successor
  
  Successor may refer to:
  
  ## Film and TV
  
  * The Successor (film), a 1996 film including Laura Girling
  * The Successor (TV program), a 2007 Israeli television program
  
  ## Music
  
  * Successor (EP), an EP by Sonata Arctica
  * Successor (album), an album by Dedekind Cut
  
  ## Mathematics
  
  * A successor cardinal
  * A successor ordinal
  * The successor function, the primitive defined as $S(n)=n+1$
  * A successor (graph theory), a node following the current one in a path
  
  ## Other
  
  * The Successor (novel), a 2003 novel by Ismail Kadare
  * The Diadochi, or Successors to Alexander the Great
  * Successor (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
  * Successor, the working name for the class of British ballistic missile submarines, since renamed the Dreadnought-class
  * Khalifa, a Muslim who is considered a political-religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad
  * Spiritual successor, a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work
  * "The Successor" (short story), 1951 short story by Paul Bowles
  