A regent (from the Latin regens: ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state pro tempore (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy, or the throne is vacant and the new monarch has not yet been determined. The rule of a regent or regents is called a regency.

Prince George of Cambridge (born 2013), first son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and third in line to the British throne; Fictional. George (Blackadder), a fictional caricature of George IV while he was Prince Regent; Other princes. George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (1405–1468), Albanian prince and national hero