The Green Man is an architectural image of a foliate head.

Green Man or greenman may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Characters

  • Green Man (character), a DC Comics superhero
  • Greenman, a giant fighting robot and the central character of Ike! Greenman, a tokusatsu television series
  • Green Man, a persona assumed by Charlie Kelly in the sitcom It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
  • Someshta, the Green Man, a character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy series

Films, television, and stage

  • The Green Man (film), a 1956 film starring Alastair Sim as a jovial freelance assassin
  • The Green Man (TV serial), a 1990 BBC adaptation of the Kingsley Amis novel
  • The Green Man, play by Doug Lucie
  • "The Green Man", an episode of Midsomer Murders
  • "The Green Man", an episode of Worzel Gummidge (2019 TV series)

Music

  • Green Man (album), a 1996 album from British singer Mark Owen
  • The Green Man (album), a 2000 album from British recording artist Roy Harper
  • Green Man Festival, a major folk music festival held in the United Kingdom
  • "Green Man", a song on the album October Rust by the band Type O Negative
  • "Greenman", a song on the album Apple Venus Volume 1 by the new wave band XTC
  • "Green Man", a song by the band Shut Up and Dance

Publications

  • The Green Man, a 1966 novel by Henry Treece adapted from the tale of Amleth
  • The Green Man (Amis novel), a 1969 ghost-story novel by British author Kingsley Amis
  • The Green Man, a 1946 Harold Sherman novel
  • The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, a 2002 anthology of short stories
  • The Green Man Press, comic-book illustrator Charles Vess' publishing company

People

  • Greenman (surname)
  • Albert DeSalvo, a 1960s serial rapist/killer – was arrested for the "Green Man" attacks, and then confessed to being the Boston Strangler
  • Raymond Robinson (Green Man), a figure of Pennsylvania urban legend
  • Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War), troops without insignia who participated in the Russian annexation of Crimea

Public houses in the UK

  • Green Man, Ashbourne
  • Green Man, Blackheath
  • The Green Man, Hatfield
  • Green Man, Leytonstone
  • The Green Man, Potters Bar
  • Green Man, Putney
  • Green Man, Soho
  • Green Man, Trumpington
  • Green Man, Whetstone
  • Greene Man, formerly the Green Man, in Marylebone
  • The Green Man and Still
  • The Green Man at Inglewhite

Other uses

  • Green Man (PGI), a figure associated with the Pyrotechnics Guild International, whose members may refer to each other as "green men"
  • Green Man Brewery, a New Zealand brewery
  • Al-Khidr, the Green Man, a Qur'anic figure prominent for his initiation of Moses
  • Green man (symbol), an illuminated figure on traffic lights that indicates to pedestrians that they may cross the road
  • Green Man (folklore), a term with a variety of connotations in folklore

See also

  • Green Knight, a figure in Arthurian legend
  • Little Green Men (disambiguation), the stereotypical portrayal of extraterrestrials as small humanoid creatures with green skin
  • The Green Men, supporters of the Vancouver Canucks