The Red is an epithet which may refer to:

• Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1945), known as Dany le rouge, meaning "Danny the Red", German politician
• Erik the Red (950–c. 1003), founder of the first Nordic settlement in Greenland
• Fulk I, Count of Anjou (c. 870–942), also Count of Tours and Count of Nantes
• Håkan the Red, a king of Sweden in the second half of the 11th century
• Hector Roy Mackenzie (died 1528), progenitor of the Mackenzies of Gairloch
• Hugh of Sully, 13th century general under the Sicilian King Charles of Anjou, nicknamed "le Rousseau" ("the Red")
• John Comyn III of Badenoch (c. 1274–1306), Scottish nobleman
• Konrad III Rudy (1447/48–1503), Polish prince and duke
• Odo I, Duke of Burgundy (1060–1102)
• Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, (955-983); ruled from 972-983
• Thorstein the Red, a Viking chieftain in late ninth-century Scotland

See also

• List of people known as the Black
• List of people known as the White