Butcher (disambiguation)

A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh and sell their meat.

Butcher or The butcher may also refer to:

In People:

• Butcher (surname), is a common surname
• The butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein
• The butcher of Bega, Dr Graeme Stephen Reeves
• The butcher of Beirut, Ariel Sharon
• The butcher of Beslan, Shamil Basayev
• The butcher of Congo, King Leopold II of Belgium
• The butcher of Hannover, Fritz Haarman
• The butcher of La Cabaña, Che Guevara
• The butcher of Lyons, Klaus Barbie
• The butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein
• The butcher of Uganda, Idi Amin
• Professional wrestler Ed Leslie, who wrestled under the ringname 'The Butcher' in the mid 1990s.
• Jovito Palparan, "the butcher"
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, "adulescentulus carnifex", which translates from Latin as 'The Teenage Butcher'

In Television:

• Bianca Butcher (Eastenders)
• Diane Butcher (Eastenders)
• Frank Butcher (Eastenders)
• Liam Butcher (Eastenders)
• Mo Butcher (Eastenders)
• Ricky Butcher (Eastenders)

In Media:

• The Butcher (1970 film), a 1970 French drama/thriller
• The Butcher (2009 film), a 2009 American action film
• "The Butcher", a song by Leonard Cohen from the album Songs from a Room
• "Butchers", nickname for Bloodthirsty Butchers
• "The Butcher", a 2011 single by Radiohead
• Butcher, a DC Comics character

In Literature:

• Jim Butcher, author of the The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera series

See also

• Roosevelt's Butchers