Ivan the Terrible (1530–1584), or Ivan IV Vasilyevich, was a ruler of Russia.

Ivan the Terrible may also refer to:

People with the nickname

  • Pampero Firpo (Juan Kachmanian, 1930–2020), Argentine wrestler
  • Iván Zamorano (born 1967), Chilean footballer
  • Ivan Basso (born 1977), Italian cyclist
  • Ivan Boesky (born 1937), American insider trader
  • Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard), a notorious guard at the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp
  • Iván Marino Ospina (1940–1985), Colombian guerilla
  • Ivan Serov (1905–1990), Soviet intelligence officer and first chairman of the KGB

Arts and entertainment

  • Ivan the Terrible (ballet), choreographed by Yury Grigorovich, 1975
  • The Wings of a Serf, also known as Ivan the Terrible, a 1926 Soviet silent historical drama film
  • Ivan the Terrible (1917 film), an Italian historical film
  • Ivan the Terrible (1945 film), a Soviet epic historical drama
  • Ivan the Terrible (Prokofiev), musical score for the 1945 film
  • Ivan the Terrible (TV series), 1976 comedy
  • Ivan the Terrible (novel), 2007 children's novel by Anne Fine

Other uses

  • Ivan the Terrible (polar bear), a polar bear that killed three other polar bears while living in the Griffith Park Zoo
  • Ivan IV (disambiguation)
  • List of storms named Ivan