List of people known as the Black
The Black is an epithet for the following:People
- Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, Breton noble
- Benedict the Moor or the Black, Italian saint of the Catholic and Lutheran Churches
- Berthold Schwarz or the Black, 14th century Franciscan friar and alchemist who, according to legend, was the first European to discover gunpowder
- Cleitus the Black, one of Alexander the Great's officers
- Dub, King of Scotland, called Niger
- Enrique of Malacca, a slave of Ferdinand Magellan also known as Henry the Black, probably the first person to circumnavigate the world
- Ermoldus Nigellus or Niger, translated Ermold the Black, a poet at the court of Pippin of Aquitaine
- Ewald the Black, one of the Two Ewalds, Christian saint and martyr
- Halfdan the Black, King of Vestfold
- Halfdan Haraldsson the Black, a Norwegian petty king and grandson of the above
- Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
- Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria
- Hugh the Black, Duke of Burgundy
- Leszek the Black, a High Duke of the Kingdom of Poland
- Reginald II, Duke of Guelders
- Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Lithuanian nobleman
- Moses the Black, ascetic monk and priest in Egypt, saint in various Christian faiths
- Olaf the Black, King of Mann and the Isles
- Óttarr svarti or Óttarr the Black, 11th century Icelandic skald
- Theodore the Black, Russian Orthodox saint
- Zawisza Czarny, also known as Zawisza the Black of Garbów and the Black Knight, Polish nobleman, soldier and diplomat
Legendary and fictional characters
- Saint Sarah, patron saint of the Romani people
- The Black Stallion or the Black, title character of author Walter Farley's series
- Ancalagon the Black, the greatest Dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy universe
- Ulfang the Black, a chieftain of the Easterlings in Tolkien's universe
- Vykin the Black, the first black DC Comics superhero
- Goku Black, a Dragon Ball villain