Thursday is a day of the week, it is also the name of a number of other things:

• Thursday is the name of a rock band on Island Records from New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
• Thursday is also the first name of the main character of Jasper Fforde's popular books: The Eyre Affair, Lost In A Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots , and Something Rotten . Her full name is Thursday Next, playing on the British phrase. Her mother's name is Wednesday.
• Thursday is also the name of a movie directed by Skip Woods in 1998, starring Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart.
• Thursday Island is an island located in the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea.