Brute

Brute or The Brute may refer to:

People

 * Brute, a pseudonym of English commercial artist Aidan Hughes (born 1956)
 * "Brute", nickname of US Marine Corps Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak (1913–2008)
 * Brute Bernard, ring name of Canadian wrestler Jim Bernard (1921–1984)
 * Simon Bruté (1779–1839), missionary and first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana
 * Brutus, the cognomen of an Ancient Roman family whose vocative form is "Brute"
 * Bill "The Brute" Sanger, a member of the Cherry Hill Gang, a late nineteenth century New York City street gang
 * The Brute (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler John Czawlytko in the early 1990s
 * "The Brute", nickname of American jazz tenor saxophonist Ben Webster (1909–1973)
 * Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, a Roman politician and one of Julius Caesar's assassins

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * BRUTE!, a magazine published by English artist Aidan Hughes who also occasionally uses "Brute" as pseudonym
 * Et tu, Brute?, famous statement by Julius Caesar to Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
 * The Brute: A Joke in One Act (1888), a play by Anton Chekhov
 * The Brute: A Comic Opera in One Act (1967), an comic opera by Lawrence Moss based on the Chekhov play

Fictional or mythological entities

 * Brute (comics), various characters
 * Brute or Brutus of Troy, a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, in mediæval British legend the founder and first king of Britain
 * Brutes (Halo), an alien race in the Halo video game franchise

Films

 * The Brute (1914 film), a lost early silent feature film
 * The Brute (1920 film), an American film produced for African-American audiences by director Oscar Micheaux
 * The Brute (1927 film), a lost silent American Western film
 * La Brute (1921), a French film directed by Daniel Bompard
 * El Bruto (1953), a Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel
 * The Brute (1961 film), a Hungarian production directed by Zoltán Fábri
 * The Brute (1977), a British film directed by Gerry O'Hara

Literature

 * "The Brute" (1906), a short story by Joseph Conrad
 * The Brute (1912), a novel by Frederic Arnold Kummer
 * The Brute (1924), a novel by W. Douglas Newton
 * The Brute (1925), a novel by Max Brand, writing as David Manning
 * The Brute (1946), a novel by Paul Rénin
 * The Brute (1951), a novel by Guy des Cars
 * Les Brutes (2006), a novel by Philippe Jaenada
 * Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine (2010), a biography by Robert Coram
 * Brutes (2015), a novel by Anthony Breznican
 * Brutes (2021), a book by Bill Whitten

Music

 * Brute (band), a side project band of guitarist Vic Chesnutt and members of blues-rock band Widespread Panic
 * Brute (album), a 2016 protest album by Kuwait musician Fatima Al Qadiri
 * "Brute" (song), a single from 1995 album, Nihil, by Hamburg-based, German industrial rock/metal group KMFDM

Transportation

 * AEV Brute, a compact pickup truck in production since 2011
 * British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment (BRUTE), trolleys used from 1964 until 1999