Lifeboat may refer to:
Rescue vessels
- Lifeboat (shipboard), a small craft aboard a ship to allow for emergency escape
- Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues
- Airborne lifeboat, an air-dropped boat used to save downed airmen
Art and entertainment
- Lifeboat (1944 film), a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Lifeboat (2018 film), a documentary
- "Lifeboat" (Stargate SG-1), a 2003 television episode
- "Lifeboats" (Succession), a 2018 television episode
- Lifeboat sketch, a sketch shown on Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Lifeboat (album), a 2008 album by Jimmy Herring
- Lifeboat, a 1972 album by the Sutherland Brothers
- "Lifeboats", a song on Snow Patrol's 2008 album, A Hundred Million Suns
- "Lifeboat", a song from Heathers: The Musical
Other uses
- Lifeboat, journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
- Lifeboat ethics, proposed by Garret Hardin based on the metaphor of a lifeboat
- Lifeboat Associates, a software distributor and magazine publisher in the 1970s and 1980s
- Lifeboat Distribution, an international software distributor
- Lifeboat Foundation, an existential risk reduction organization