William Dalrymple (historian)

A pencil is a handheld instrument used to write and draw, usually on paper.

Pencil may also refer to:

• Pencil (film), a 2016 Tamil film
• Pencil (optics), a beam of radiant energy in the form of a narrow cone or cylinder
• Pencil (geometry), a family of geometric objects
• Pencil2D, an open-source drawing and animation app
• Apple Pencil, a stylus device released by Apple Inc.
• Matrix pencil, a pair of matrices used in a generalized eigenvalue problem

• Flying pencil (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Pencil
• Penciller, a stage in the creation of a comic book
• Pinsel (disambiguation)