Bluebeard (disambiguation)

Bluebeard is the title character in a 1697 fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Bluebeard may also refer to:

People

• Joe Ball (1896-1938), American serial killer
• Clara Green Carl (1877-???), American suspected serial killer
• Alfred Leonard Cline (1888–1948), American serial killer
• Alexey Gromov (born 1970), Russian serial killer
• Johann Otto Hoch (1855–1906), German-American serial killer
• Arwed Imiela (1929-1982), German serial killer
• Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922), French serial killer
• Robin Page (1932–2015), artist also known as Bluebeard
• Francisco Guerrero Pérez (1840-1910), Mexican serial killer
• Harry Powers (1892-1932), Dutch-American serial killer
• Gilles de Rais (c. 1405–1440), Baron de Rais, medieval serial killer
• Helmuth Schmidt (1876–1918), American serial killer

Film

• Blue Beard (1901 film), a film by Georges Méliès
• Bluebeard (1944 film), a film by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine
• Bluebeard (1951 film), a film by Christian-Jaque
• Bluebeard (1955 film), a Mexican comedy film
• Bluebeard (1972 film), a film by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton
• Bluebeard (2009 film), a film by Catherine Breillat, starring Dominique Thomas
• Bluebeard (2016 film), an Argentine film
• Bluebeard (2017 film), a film by Lee Soo-yeon
• Landru (film) or Bluebeard, a 1963 French film by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner

Literature

• Bluebeard (Frisch novel), a 1982 novel by Max Frisch
• Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel), a 1987 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• Bluebeard, a 1970 play by Charles Ludlam
• In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture, 1971 book by essayist and literary critic George Steiner
• Fables (comics), a comic book series published 2002 and 2015 featuring Bluebeard from the fairytale among its characters
• Bluebeard's Castle, a 2023 novel by Anna Biller

Music

• Blue Beard, Jr., a 1889 musical by Clay M. Greene, Fred J. Eustis, Richard Maddern, and John Joseph Braham Sr.
• "Bluebeard" (song), a 1993 song by Cocteau Twins from Four-Calendar Café
• "Bluebeard", a 1996 song by Combustible Edison from Schizophonic!
• "Blue Beard", a 2010 song by Band of Horses from the album Infinite Arms

Other uses

• Caryopteris or bluebeard, a genus of the mint family
• Bluebeard, an operetta known for the song "If Ever I Cease to Love"
• Bluebeard (ballet), a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk
• Bluebeard, a restaurant in the US state of Indiana
• The callsigns of eight American Sea Stallion helicopters in Operation Eagle Claw

See also

• Barbe-bleue (opera) (Blue-beard), an 1866 operetta by Jacques Offenbach
• Mavi Sakal ("Bluebeard" in Turkish), a Turkish rock band formed in 1980
• Bluebeard's Castle, a 1911 opera by Béla Bartók
• Ariane et Barbe-bleue, a 1907 opera by Paul Dukas
• Ritter Blaubart, a 1920 opera by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
• Conomor (fl. c. 540), also known as Conomerus or Conomor the Cursed
• Bye, Bye Bluebeard, a 1949 Warner Brothers cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series
• Blackbeard (disambiguation)
• Redbeard (disambiguation)
• Bluebead (disambiguation)
• Bluebeam (disambiguation)
• Bluebeat (disambiguation)