Bluebeard is the title character in a 1697 fairy-tale by Charles Perrault.
Bluebeard may also refer to:
People Joe Ball (1896–1938), American serial killer Clara Green Carl (1877–1962), American suspected serial killer Alfred Leonard Cline (1888–1948), American serial killer Alexey Gromov (born 1970), Russian serial killer Johann Otto Hoch (1855–1906), German-American serial killer Arwed Imiela (1929–1982), German serial killer Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922), French serial killer Robin Page (1932–2015), artist also known as Bluebeard Francisco Guerrero Pérez (1840–1910), Mexican serial killer Harry Powers (1892–1932), Dutch-American serial killer Gilles de Rais ( 1405–1440), Baron de Rais, medieval serial killer Helmuth Schmidt (1876–1918), American serial killer
Film Blue Beard (1901 film), a film by Georges Méliès Bluebeard (1944 film), a film by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine Bluebeard (1951 film), a film by Christian-Jaque Bluebeard (1955 film), a Mexican comedy film Bluebeard (1972 film), a film by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton Bluebeard (2009 film), a film by Catherine Breillat, starring Dominique Thomas Bluebeard (2016 film), an Argentine film Bluebeard (2017 film), a film by Lee Soo-yeon Landru (film) or Bluebeard, a 1963 French film by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner
Literature Bluebeard (Frisch novel), a 1982 novel by Max Frisch Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel), a 1987 novel by Kurt Vonnegut Bluebeard, a 1970 play by Charles Ludlam Bluebeard's Castle, a 2023 novel by Anna Biller Fables (comics), a comic book series published 2002 and 2015 featuring Bluebeard from the fairy-tale among its characters.
Music Bluebeard's Castle, opera by Béla Bartók Barbe-bleue (opera) (Blue-beard), an 1866 operetta by Jacques Offenbach Bluebeard, an operetta known for the song "If Ever I Cease to Love" Blue Beard, Jr., a 1889 musical by Clay M. Greene, Fred J. Eustis, Richard Maddern, and John Joseph Braham Sr. Bluebeard (ballet), a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk "Bluebeard" (song), a 1993 song by Cocteau Twins from Four-Calendar Café "Bluebeard", a 1996 song by Combustible Edison from Schizophonic! "Blue Beard", a 2010 song by Band of Horses from the album Infinite Arms
Other uses Caryopteris or bluebeards, a genus of the mint family Caryopteris × clandonensis, the bluebeard commonly found in gardens Bluebeard (restaurant), a restaurant in the US state of Indiana The callsigns of eight American Sea Stallion helicopters in Operation Eagle Claw
See also Mavi Sakal ("Bluebeard" in Turkish), a Turkish rock band formed in 1980
List of plants known as bluebead Bluebeat (disambiguation)