Melee or mêlée is combat fought at close range, usually with lack of organization or cohesion. It may also refer to:

• Hand-to-hand combat in general
• Close combat
• Melee (tournament), a form of "mixed" combat at medieval tournaments

• Melee (video games), the term for "close quarter combat" between video game characters
• Mêlée (engine), a game engine created by Toys for Bob for the Star Control computer game
• Melee (game), a board game by Metagaming Concepts
• Mêlée Island, a locale in the Monkey Island series, primarily in The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
• Melee Pokémon Scramble, the translated Japanese name of Pokémon Rumble
• Super Smash Bros. Melee, a platform fighting game released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2001

• Melee (Gizmachi album)
• Melee (Dogleg album)
• Mêlée (band), an alternative rock band
  • Mêlée (EP), a 2002 EP by Mêlée
• "Melee" (song), a 2019 song by Tory Lanez

• Robert Melee (born 1966), American artist
• Melee (comics), the code name of a fictional Marvel comic book character
• Melée, small cut gem diamonds
• Scrum (rugby), known in French as mêlée

• Melee weapon