title: Brute
text: # Brute
  
  Brute or The Brute may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Brute, a pseudonym of English commercial artist Aidan Hughes (born 1956)
  * "Brute", nickname of US Marine Corps Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak (1913–2008)
  * Brute Bernard, ring name of Canadian wrestler Jim Bernard (1921–1984)
  * Simon Bruté (1779–1839), missionary and first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana
  * Brutus, the cognomen of an Ancient Roman family whose vocative form is "Brute"
  * Bill "The Brute" Sanger, a member of the Cherry Hill Gang, a late nineteenth century New York City street gang
  * The Brute (wrestler), ring name of professional wrestler John Czawlytko in the early 1990s
  * "The Brute", nickname of American jazz tenor saxophonist Ben Webster (1909–1973)
  * Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, a Roman politician and one of Julius Caesar's assassins
  
  ## Arts, entertainment, and media
  
  * BRUTE!, a magazine published by English artist Aidan Hughes who also occasionally uses "Brute" as pseudonym
  * Et tu, Brute?, famous statement by Julius Caesar to Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
  * "The Brute", a short story by Joseph Conrad
  
  ### Fictional or mythological entities
  
  * Brute (comics), various characters
  * Brute or Brutus of Troy, a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, in mediæval British legend the founder and first king of Britain
  * Brutes (Halo), an alien race in the Halo video game franchise
  
  ### Films
  
  * The Brute (1914 film), a lost early silent feature film
  * The Brute (1920 film), an American film produced for African-American audiences by director Oscar Micheaux
  * The Brute (1927 film), a lost silent American Western film
  * La Brute (1921), a French film directed by Daniel Bompard
  * El Bruto (1953), a Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel
  * The Brute (1961 film), a Hungarian production directed by Zoltán Fábri
  * The Brute (1977), a British film directed by Gerry O'Hara
  
  ### Music
  
  * Brute (band), a side project band of guitarist Vic Chesnutt and members of blues-rock band Widespread Panic
  * Brute (album), a 2016 protest album by Kuwait musician Fatima Al Qadiri
  * "Brute" (song), a single from 1995 album, Nihil, by Hamburg-based, German industrial rock/metal group KMFDM
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * AEV Brute, a compact pickup truck in production since 2011
  * British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment (BRUTE), trolleys used from 1964 until 1999
  