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) (1962–003), 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"