Butcher (disambiguation)

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

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Butcher, The Butcher, Butchers, or Butcher's may also refer to:

People

In real life
  • 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 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 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 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 Genoa: Friedrich Engel (1909–2006)
  • 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 Uganda: Idi Amin (c. 1925–2003), President of Uganda and major general
  • Butcher of Warsaw:

In fiction

Nickname
  • Imre Arakas, Estonian criminal known as "The Butcher"
  • Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), son of King George II of Great Britain and general known to his political enemies as "Butcher" Cumberland
  • 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"
  • Robert Hansen (died 2014), an American serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher Baker
  • Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892–1984), Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, "adulescentulus carnifex" (Latin for "The Teenage Butcher"), also known in English as "Pompey the Great"
  • Andrew Mrotek (born 1983), "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"
  • Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí (1838–1930), Spanish general and Governor General of the Philippines and Cuba
  • Andoni Goikoetxea (born 1956), Spanish footballer, "The Butcher of Bilbao"
  • Lisandro Martínez (born 1998), Argentinian footballer, "The Butcher" or "Butcher of Amsterdam" when playing for Ajax Amsterdam

Aliases
  • The Butcher (Brutus Beefcake, born 1957), ring name of professional wrestler Edward Leslie
  • Abdullah the Butcher (born 1941), ring name of professional wrestler Larry Shreve
  • "Butcher", a ring name of former professional wrestler Paul Vachon (born 1938)
  • The Butcher, ring name of professional wrestler Andy Williams (born 1977)
  • The Butcher Brothers, alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Film and television

Music

Places

Other uses
  • Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker, spin-off comic miniseries of The Boys, following Billy Butcher
  • Butcher, a small beer glass in South Australia
  • 4th Armored Division (United States), nicknamed "Roosevelt's Butchers"
  • 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
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