The Wave may refer to:

• The Wave (1981 film), a TV movie based on The Third Wave social experiment
• The Wave (2008 film) (Die Welle), a German film, also based on The Third Wave social experiment
• The Wave (2015 film) (Bølgen), a Norwegian film
• The Wave (2019 film), an American film starring Justin Long
• The Wave (2018 TV series), a British game show
• Redes (film), a 1936 Mexican film known in English as The Wave

• The Wave (novel), by Todd Strasser, based on the 1981 film
• The Wave, a novel by Lochlan Bloom
• "The Wave" (poem), by Gruffudd Gryg
• The Wave of Long Island, a New York newspaper
• Los Angeles Wave, a weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California
• The Wave, a weekly newspaper in Huntington Beach, California published by the Orange County Register
• The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
• The Wave, San Francisco magazine where A Deal in Wheat was first published

• The Wave (album), by Tom Chaplin, 2016, and a song from the album
• The Wave, a 2018 album by R3hab
• "The Wave" (Sneakbo song), 2011
• "The Wave" (Miike Snow song), 2012
• "The Wave", a song by Blake Shelton from the 2017 album Texoma Shore
• "The Wave", a 2018 single by Lion Babe
• The Wave, a movement of post-hardcore and emo bands in the late 2000s and 2010s

• The Wave 96.4 FM, Swansea, Wales, U.K.
• CHWV-FM, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
• CHKX-FM, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• CJLS-FM, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
• CKWV-FM, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
• KANS, Emporia, Kansas, U.S.
• KTWV, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
• WNWV, Elyria, Ohio, U.S.
• The Wave, a German radio station owned by RTL Group

• The Wave (Courbet), several paintings between 1869 and 1870
• The Wave (Paul Gauguin), an 1888 painting
• The Wave, an 1896 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
• The Great Wave off Kanagawa, or The Wave, a 19th-century Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai

• The Wave (audience), a stadium cheer in sports
• The Wave (company), a British artificial wave pool company
• The Wave (Gold Coast), a residential skyscraper in Australia
• The Wave (streetcar), Fort Lauderdale, Florida's planned streetcar line
• The Wave (Vejle), a residential building complex in Vejle, Denmark
• The Wave (Arizona), a sandstone formation
• The Wave, Coventry, an indoor waterpark in Coventry, UK
• The Wave Transit System, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
• Western Washtenaw Area Value Express, also known as The WAVE, a Michigan bus system

• All pages with titles beginning with The Wave
• Wave (disambiguation)
• Great Wave (disambiguation)
• The Waves, a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf
• The Pearl and the Wave or The Wave and the Pearl, an 1862 painting by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry
• We Are the Wave, a German web TV series, based on the novel The Wave