Pest

Pest or The Pest may refer to:

Science and medicine

 * Pest (organism), an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to humans or human concerns
 * Weed, a plant considered undesirable
 * Infectious disease, an illness resulting from an infection
 * Plague (disease), an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis
 * Black Death (the Plague), the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history

Film

 * The Pest (1914 film), an American short film starring Charlie Chaplin
 * The Pest (1917 film), an American film starring Oliver Hardy
 * The Pest (1919 film), an American film starring Mabel Normand
 * The Pest (1922 film), an American film starring Stan Laurel
 * The Pest (1997 film), an American film starring John Leguizamo

Music

 * Pest (band), a British music group
 * Pest (musician) (born 1975), Norwegian black metal vocalist

Places

 * Pest, Hungary, the geographic region of Budapest
 * Royal University of Pest
 * Pest County, an administrative division of Hungary, surrounding Budapest

Other uses

 * PESTS, an anonymous activist arts group
 * Pest (ice hockey), an ice hockey player specialising in aggravating opponents