Successor may refer to: An entity that comes after another (see Succession (disambiguation)) 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 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 See also Success (disambiguation) Legal successor (disambiguation)