Butcher (nickname)
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Butcher or The Butcher is used as an epithet or nickname for several people and fictional characters:
- Butcher of Amritsar: Reginald Dyer (1864–1927), British Indian Army officer responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar
- Butcher of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), President of Iraq until deposed in 2003
- 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 Bangui: Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921-1996), Central African politician, military officer, and Emperor of the Central African Empire
- Butcher of Bega: Graeme Stephen Reeves (born 1949), Australian deregistered gynecologist and obstetrician
- Butcher of Beijing: Li Peng (李鹏; 1928–2019) top level Chinese Communist Party official known for supporting the use of violence against the Tiananmen Square Protests
- 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 1943), 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 Brentwood: O.J. Simpson (1947-2024), American football player, actor, media personality, and accused murderer
- Butcher of Bucha: Azatbek Omurbekov (born 1983), Russian military officer
- Butcher of Budapest: Yuri Andropov (1914-1984), Chairman of the KGB, and leader of the Soviet Union
- 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
- Bucther of Damascus: Bashar al-Assad (born 1965), President of Syria until deposed in 2024
- Butcher of Drogheda: Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Commonwealth military and political leader
- Butcher of Eastern Visayas: Jovito Palparan (born 1950), Filipino fugitive, politician and former army general
- Butcher of England: John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (1427-1470), English nobleman
- Butcher of Genoa: Friedrich Engel (1909–2006)
- Butcher of Hama: Rifaat al-Assad (1937-2026), Syrian military officer and politician
- Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann (1879–1925), German serial killer
- Butcher of Kentucky: Stephen G. Burbridge (1831–1894), Union major general during the American Civil War
- 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 the Somme: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), British First World War field marshal
- Butcher of the Syria: Aleksandr Dvornikov (born 1961), Russian army general
- 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
- Heinz Reinefarth (1903–1979), German SS officer
- The Butcher Brothers, alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores
