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

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

• Butcher (surname), a common surname

• 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 Bucha: Azatbek Omurbekov (born 1983), Russian military officer
• 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 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

• Butcher of Arlav: Biff Simpson (Hunters)
• Butcher of Bakersfield: Benjamin "Ben" Richards (The Running Man)
• Butcher of Blaviken: Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
• Butcher of Bogon: Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
• Butcher of Skull Moon: The Doctor (Doctor Who)
• Butcher of Stilwater: The Protagonist/The Boss/"Playa" (Saints Row)
• Butcher of Torfan: Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)
• Butcher of White Orchard: Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

• 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), Argentine footballer, "The Butcher" or "Butcher of Amsterdam" when playing for Ajax Amsterdam

• 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

• Billy "The Butcher" Butcher, from the comic series The Boys, its spin-off Butcher, and TV series adaptations
• The Butcher (American Horror Story), from the TV series American Horror Story: Roanoke
• The Butcher, a demon in the Diablo video game series and Heroes of the Storm
• The Butcher, a monster in the video game Silent Hill: Origins
• The Butcher, a physical embodiment of "rage" of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum, the emotion that powers the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe
• On the British soap opera Eastenders:
  • Bianca Butcher
  • Diane Butcher
  • Frank Butcher
  • Liam Butcher
  • Mo Butcher
  • Ricky Butcher

• Le Boucher (The Butcher), a 1970 French drama/thriller
• The Butcher (2006 film), an American horror film
• The Butcher (2007 film), a South Korean horror film
• The Butcher (2009 film), an American action film
• The Butchers (film), a 2014 American horror film
• Butcher's Film Service, a British film production and distribution company
• The Butcher (TV series), a 2019 butchering reality competition show
• Butchers (2020 film), a 2020 American horror film

• "The Butcher" (song), a 2011 song by Radiohead
• Butcher Bros., American record producers

• Butcher Hills, Montana

• Butcher (or Butcher's) Inlet, on which Cossack, Western Australia is situated
• Butcher Island, off the coast of Mumbai, India
• Butcher Nunatak, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
• Butcher Ridge, Oates Land, Antarctica
• Butchers Knob, part of Cooper Mountain
• Butchers Lake, Victoria, Australia
• Butchers Spur, Ross Dependency, Antarctica
• Butcher Hollow, Kentucky

• 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