The Man in Black may refer to:

People

  • Johnny Cash (1932–2003), American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author
  • Dale Earnhardt (1951-2001), American professional stock car driver and team owner
  • Valentine Dyall (1908–1985), British actor, the original presenter of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear
  • Peter Moore (serial killer) (born 1946), British serial killer
  • Pietro Tacchi Venturi (1861–1956), papal liaison to Mussolini
  • An association football referee, referring to the traditional match official's kit
  • Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist

Entertainment

Music

  • Man in Black (album), a 1971 album by Johnny Cash
  • "Man in Black" (song), on the album
  • "The Man in Black", a 1974 instrumental by Cozy Powell

Other media

  • The narrator of the BBC Radio series Appointment with Fear
  • The Man in Black (film), a 1949 British thriller film
  • Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words, Johnny Cash's autobiography
  • The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne, an 1860 novel by G. P. R. James
  • The Man in Black, an 1894 novel by Stanley J. Weyman
  • The Man in Black, a 1965 Western novel by Marvin Albert
  • The Man in Black, a ballet by James Kudelka
  • The Man in Black, a strip in the British comics anthology Spike (DC Thomson)

Fictional characters

  • Chaucer's Man in Black, from The Book of the Duchess
  • Man in Black (Lost)
  • Man in Black (Westworld)
  • Randall Flagg, featured in several of Stephen King's novels
  • Dr. Terence Wynn, in the Halloween film series
  • Colonel Douglas Mortimer, in the western For a Few Dollars More, played by Lee Van Cleef

See also

  • List of people known as the Black
  • The Traveller in Black, a collection of stories by John Brunner
  • Men in Black (disambiguation)
  • MIB (disambiguation)