Butcher

People known by the epithet

Butcher of Amritsar: Reginald Dyer (1864–1927), British Indian Army officer responsible for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Butcher of Baghdad: Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), President of Iraq known for a prolonged, systemic regime of state terror and purges

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), then Israeli defense minister associated with the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre

Butcher of Bosnia:

Ratko Mladić (1943–2026), 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 Budapest: Yuri Andropov (1914-1984), Leader of the Soviet Union and former Chairman of the KGB, at the time was Ambassador to Hungary and took a major part in suppressing the 1956 Hungarian Uprising

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 Chechnya:

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

Vladimir Shamanov, Russian politician, senior commander of the Ground Forces during the First Chechen War

Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium

Bucther of Damascus: Bashar al-Assad (born 1965), President of Syria characterized by systemic state violence during the Syrian civil war

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 Hama: Rifaat al-Assad (1937-2026), Syrian military officer and politician

Butcher of Kentucky: Stephen G. Burbridge (1831–1894), Union major general during the American Civil War

Butcher of Khan Younis: Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024), Hamas leader linked to killings of suspect collaborators

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 Mirpur: Abdul Quader Molla (1948–2013), Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician

Butcher of Rangoon: Sein Lwin (1923–2004), Burmese brigadier general and briefly President of Myanmar (Burma)

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

Nazi officials and officers

Butcher of Genoa: Friedrich Engel (1909–2006)

Butcher of Lyon: Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), World War II SS-Hauptsturmführer and Gestapo member

Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), German World War II Nazi official and one of the main architects of the Holocaust

Butcher of Riga: Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Austrian SS officer and commandant of the Riga ghetto during 1943

Butcher of Warsaw:

Josef Albert Meisinger (1899–1947), German SS officer

Heinz Reinefarth (1903–1979), German SS officer

Serial killers

Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann (1879–1925), German serial killer

Butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein (1906–1984), American serial killer

Butcher of Rostov: Andrei Chikatilo (1936–1994), Soviet serial killer

People with the 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

The Butcher Brothers, alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores

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

Lisandro Martínez (born 1998), Argentine footballer, "The Butcher" or "Butcher of Amsterdam" when playing for Ajax Amsterdam

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"

Ivan Serov (1905–1990), Soviet intelligence officer and first chairman of the KGB, called "The Butcher" by British media.

Archie Skym (1906–1970), Welsh rugby union footballer

Wrestlers with the ring name

The Butcher (Brutus Beefcake, born 1957), ring name of professional wrestler Edward Leslie

Abdullah the Butcher, ring name of professional wrestler Larry Shreve (born 1941)

"Butcher", a ring name of former professional wrestler Paul Vachon (1938-2024)

The Butcher, ring name of professional wrestler Andy Williams (1977-2026)

Necro Butcher, ring name of American professional wrestler Dylan Keith Summers (born 1973)

Fictional characters

Billy Butcher, nicknamed "The Butcher" (The Boys)

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)

The Butcher (American Horror Story), from the TV series American Horror Story: Roanoke

The Butcher, a monster in the video game Silent Hill: Origins

The Butcher, a physical embodiment of "rage" that powers the Red Lantern Corps in the DC Comics universe