Desert rat or Desert Rat or their plurals may refer to:
Rodents Gerbils (Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia Jerboas (Dipodidae) of the deserts of North Africa and Asia Kangaroo rats (Dipodomys) from North America Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa
Military Desert Rats, the British 7th Armoured Division in World War II The Desert Rats (film), 1953 war film starring Richard Burton Operation Desert Rat, a military offensive of the Laotian Civil War
Other Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA Desert Rat Scrap Book, a California humor publication (1945–1967) focusing on the American Southwest Desert Rats, a book by Charles Lewis Camp
See also Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, a 2004 real time strategy game based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II Desert woodrat, a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America The Rat Patrol, an American TV program (1966–1968) loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II The Rats of Tobruk, nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege in World War II