- A Changeling is a creature from various european legends known to steal human children, replacing them with their own.
- Changeling is the name given to two different shapeshifting comic book characters; one of them appears in appear in Marvel Comics and the other in DC Comics.
- Changelings are a race of alien shape-shifted in the Star Trek universe. Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a Changeling.
- The Changeling is an Elizabethan-era play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
- The Changeling is the title of several films based on the play by Middleton and Rowley. It is also the title of a 1980 film starring George C. Scott, and of a 2002 German film.
- The Changeling is a computer role-playing game.
- The Changelings was the working title of the Animorphs television series.