Butcher (disambiguation)

A butcher is a person who slaughters animals, dresses their flesh and sells their meat.

Butcher, The Butcher or Butchers may also refer to:

People

• Butcher (surname), a common surname

Epithet

• Butcher of Amritsar: Reginald Dyer (1864-1927), British Indian Army colonel responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar
• Butcher of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), President of Iraq
• Butcher of the Balkans (disambiguation), several people
• Butcher of Balochistan and Butcher of Bengal: Tikka Khan (1915-2002), Pakistan Army four-star general and first Chief of Staff
• Butcher of Bega: Graeme Stephen Reeves (born 1949), Australian deregistered gynecologist and obstetrician
• Butcher of Beirut: Ariel Sharon (1928-2014), Israeli Prime Minister and general
• Butcher of Beslan: Shamil Basayev (1965-2006), Chechen militant Islamist and rebel leader
• Butcher of Bosnia:
  • Ratko Mladić (born 1942), Bosnian Serb former general and Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska
  • Radovan Karadžić (born 1945), Bosnian Serb former politician and President of Republika Srpska
• Butcher of La Cabaña: Che Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist
• Butcher of Cesena: Antipope Clement VII (1342-1394)
• Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium
• Butcher of Eastern Visayas: Jovito Palparan (born 1950), Filipino fugitive, politician and former army general
• Butcher of Genoa: Friedrich Engel (SS officer) (1909-2006)
• Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarman (1879-1925), German serial killer
• Butcher of Kurdistan: Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941-2010), Iraqi Defense Minister, Interior Minister, military commander and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, better known as "Chemical Ali"
• Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), World War II SS-Hauptsturmführer and Gestapo member
• Butcher of Mirpur: Abdul Quader Molla (1948-2013), Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician
• Butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein (1906-1984), American murderer
• Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942), German World War II Nazi official and one of the main architects of the Holocaust
• Butcher of Rangoon: Sein Lwin (1923-2004), Burmese brigadier general and briefly President of Myanmar (Burma)
• Butcher of Riga: Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Austrian SS officer and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943
• Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (1936-1994), Soviet serial killer
• Butcher of Samar: Littleton Waller (1856-1926), US Marine Corps officer
• Butcher of Uganda: Idi Amin (c. 1925-2003), President of Uganda and major general
• Butcher of Warsaw: Josef Albert Meisinger (1899–1947), German SS officer
• Butcher of Warsaw: Heinz Reinefarth (1903–1979), German SS officer

Nickname

• Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), son of King George II of England and general known to his enemies as "Butcher" Cumberland
• Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), British First World War field marshal
• Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892-1984), Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
• Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí (1838-1930), Spanish general and Governor General of the Philippines and Cuba
• John Ronald Brown (1922-2010), American surgeon convicted of second-degree murder after operating without a license
• Edward Cummiskey (died 1976), New York City mobster known as "the Butcher"
• Andrew Mrotek, "the Butcher", American drummer for the band The Academy Is...
• William Poole (1821-1855), leader of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement, known as "Bill the Butcher"

Other

• The Butcher (Brutus Beefcake), a ring name of professional wrestler Edward Leslie (born 1957)
• Abdullah the Butcher, a ring name of professional wrestler Larry Shreve (born 1941)
• "Butcher", a ring name of former professional wrestler Paul Vachon (born 1938)
• The Butcher Brothers, alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores
• Butcher Bros., American record producers

Fictional characters

• On the British soap opera Eastenders:
  • Bianca Butcher
  • Diane Butcher
  • Frank Butcher
  • Liam Butcher
  • Mo Butcher
  • Ricky Butcher
• Butcher, a DC Comics character
• Aral Vorkosigan, the "Butcher of Komarr" in the Vorkosigan Saga science fiction novel series

Arts and entertainment

• 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
• "Supercollider / The Butcher", a 2011 single by Radiohead
• Butcher's Film Service, a British film production and distribution company

Places

• Butcher Hills, Montana
• Butchers Knob, part of Cooper Mountain (West Virginia)
• Butchers Lake, Victoria, Australia
• Butcher Nunatak, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
• Butcher Ridge, Oates Land, Antarctica
• Butchers Spur, Ross Dependency, Antarctica
• Butcher Island, off the coast of Mumbai, India

Other uses

• Butcher baronets, two titles in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, both extinct
• Shankill Butchers, an Ulster loyalist gang active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Butcher, a small beer glass in South Australia

See also

• 4th Armored Division (United States), nicknamed Roosevelt's Butchers
• Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, "adulescentulus carnifex", Latin for "The Teenage Butcher"
• Le Boucher (The Butcher), a 1970 French drama/thriller