The Beast is a nickname which may refer to:

• Calvin Abueva (born 1988), Filipino basketball player
• Adhiban Baskaran (born 1992), Indian chess Grandmaster
• Adebayo Akinfenwa (born 1982), English football player
• Júlio Baptista (born 1981), Brazilian football player
• Yohan Blake (born 1989), Jamaican sprinter
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer
• Jimmie Foxx (1907–1967), American Major League Baseball player, member of the Hall of Fame
• Eddie Hall (born 1988), British strongman
• Braden Holtby (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• Kevin Iro (born 1968), New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Brian Jensen (footballer born 1975), Danish footballer
• Mark Labbett (born 1965), British television personality on the game show The Chase
• Brock Lesnar (born 1977), professional wrestler
• Maria Mandl (1912–1948), Austrian World War II concentration camp leader
• Hildegard Mende (1922–?), German World War II concentration camp guard
• Max Mirnyi (born 1977), professional tennis player from Belarus
• Tendai Mtawarira (born 1985), Zimbabwean-born South Africa rugby player
• John Mugabi (born 1960), Ugandan retired middleweight boxer and world junior middleweight champion
• Miguel Ángel Nadal (born 1966), Spanish retired footballer
• Sretko Kalinić (born 1974), Serbian criminal
• Jon Parkin (born 1981), English football player
• Shang Ping (born 1984), first Chinese basketball player to join a Euroleague club
• Daigo Umehara (born 1981), Japanese arcade fighting video game player
• Manu Vatuvei (born 1986), New Zealand rugby league footballer
• Gustav Wagner (1911–1980), Austrian SS-Oberscharführer at Sobibór extermination camp, "The Beast"
• L.A. Beast (Kevin Strahle), competitive eater.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with The Beast
• All pages with titles containing The Beast
• The Beast (disambiguation)
• Mr Beast, studio album by the Scottish post-rock group Mogwai
• MrBeast (born 1998), American YouTuber
• Benjamin Butler (politician) (1813–1893), American politician and Governor of Massachusetts, American Civil War Union Army general nicknamed "Beast Butler" by Southern whites
• Irma Grese (1923–1945), German World War II female concentration camp guard, "The Beast of Belsen" and "The Beautiful Beast"
• Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), high-ranking German Nazi official, "The Blonde Beast"
• Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German World War II female concentration camp guard, "The Beast of Buchenwald"
• Josef Kramer (1906–1945), German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, "The Beast of Belsen"
• Salvatore Riina (born 1930), former Sicilian Mafia leader nicknamed "La Belva" ("The Beast")
• Luis Garavito (born 1957), Colombian serial killer and rapist nicknamed "La Bestia" ("The Beast")
• Siert Bruins (born 1921), Dutch member of the SS and SD during World War II, "The Beast of Appingedam"
• Dennis Skinner (born 1932), British politician, "The Beast of Bolsover"
• Nuno Mindelis (born 1957), Angolan-born Brazilian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, "The Beast from Brazil"
• Edward Paisnel (1925–1994), sex offender from the Channel Island of Jersey, "the beast of Jersey"
• Anatoly Onoprienko (1959–2013), Ukrainian serial killer, "The Beast of Ukraine"
• Maxi Rodríguez (born 1981), Argentine footballer, "La fiera" ("The beast")
• Álvaro Negredo (born 1985), Spanish football player, "La fiera de Vallecas" ("The beast of Vallecas")
• Gaius Antonius Hybrida, Roman Republic 1st century BC politician, nicknamed "Hybrida" ("half-beast")
• The Animal (nickname)