Fingerprint identification of a person is widely used in all over the world, as there are no two fingerprints like. Authentication and validation of an individual is done with the help of various factors like signature, user-ids and passwords, palm, fingerprint, face, voice, heartbeat , iris, etc. The fingerprint technique is advantageous for such recognition as compare other techniques. This paper is a brief review in the field of fingerprint identification. The aim of this paper is to review various latest minutiae based, correlation based and other global, local methods for fingerprint matching and status of succe concurrent methods.