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"