List of people known as the Terrible

The Terrible or el Terrible is an epithet applied to:

• Afonso de Albuquerque (c. 1453–1515), Portuguese general, admiral and empire builder
• Ants Kaljurand (1917–1951), Estonian anti-Soviet guerrilla fighter
• Charles the Bold (1433–1477), last Valois Duke of Burgundy
• John III the Terrible (1521–1574), Voivode of Moldavia
• Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584), Tsar of Russia
• Ivan the Terrible (disambiguation), various other people
• Shingas (fl. 1740–1763), a Native American warrior and leader during the French and Indian Wars
• Iván Calderón (baseball) (1962–2003), Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• Ralph Toohy (1926–1999), Canadian Football League player
• Roger Touhy (1898–1959) and his brother Tommy Touhy, American gangsters in Chicago
• "Abdul the Terrible", nickname given a Turkish sniper assigned to kill Chinese-Australian sniper Billy Sing during World War I

In fiction and mythology:

• Humbaba, a giant in Akkadian mythology
• Ivy the Terrible, a character in The Beano comic strip
• Trigon (comics), a DC Comics villain

See also

• El Terrible, ring name of Mexican wrestler Damián Gutiérrez Hernández (born 1976)
• El Terrible, ring name of Mexican boxer Erik Morales (born 1976)
• El Terrible, nickname of Mexican football goalkeeper Iván Vázquez Mellado (born 1982)
• Jason the Terrible, ring name of wrestler Karl Moffat (born 1960)
• Tiny the Terrible, ring name of wrestler Douglas Allen Tunstall Jr.
• Ted Lindsay (1925–2019), Canadian Hall-of-Fame ice hockey player nicknamed "Terrible Ted"