Butcher (disambiguation)

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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 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 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 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 (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"

Other

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 Brothers, alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores
Butcher Bros., American record producers

Characters

On the British soap opera Eastenders:
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
"The Butcher" (song), a 2011 song by Radiohead
Butcher's Film Service, a British film production and distribution company

Places

Butcher Hills, Montana
Butchers Knob, part of Cooper Mountain
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