Spotlight can refer to:

• Spotlight - a new search technology integrated into a future version of the Mac OS X operating system
• The Spotlight a weekly US newspaper, now out of print
• In theatre, a spotlight is a particular type of stage lighting which can be used to focus attention on a particular performer or event.
• Thus metaphorically, "the spotlight" refers to focussed public or media attention.
• A searchlight.
• Spotlight , a defunct premium cable television network.