Autograph

Not to be confused with Signature or Audograph.

For autograph as manuscript written by its author, see Autograph (manuscript). For collecting of autographs, see Autograph collecting. For other uses, see Autograph (disambiguation).

"B-A-C-H is beginning and end of all music", signed autograph document by Max Reger (dated 7 May 1912)

An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically:

• a manuscript written by the author of its content. In this meaning the term autograph can often be used interchangeably with holograph.
• a celebrity's handwritten signature. Autograph collecting is the activity of collecting such autographs.