# Angel of Death

Angel of Death may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional characters

* Adam or Andrew, in Touched by an Angel
* Azrael, in Lucifer
* Loki, in the film Dogma

### Gaming

* Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, a 2007 computer game
* Angels of Death (video game), a Japanese horror computer game, 2015

### Literature

* Angel of Death (novel), by Jack Higgins, 1995
* Angel of Death, a novel by Alane Ferguson

### Music

* "Angel of Death" (Hank Williams song), 1954
* "Angel of Death" (Slayer song), 1986
* "Angel of Death" (Thin Lizzy song), 1982
* "Angel of Death", a song by Angel Witch on Angel Witch (album), 1980
* "Angel of Death", a song by Helstar on the album Remnants of War, 1986
* Angel of Death, a symphonic poem by George Whitefield Chadwick, 1918
* "Angel of Death", a song by Manchester Orchestra on The Million Masks of God, 2021
* "Angel of Death", track 15 in M3GAN (soundtrack) composed by Anthony Willis, 2022

### Television

* "Angel of Death" (NCIS), a 2007 TV episode
* "The Angel of Death", a 2007 episode of Robin Hood
* "The Angel of Death", a season 6 episode of Dexter, 2011
* Angel of Death (web series), 2009
* Angel of Death, a 2005 BBC dramatization of the life of Beverley Allitt
* Angel of Death (Polish TV series), a 2020 television series

## People

* Angel of Death (wrestler) (David Sheldon, 1953–2007), American wrestler
* Common media nickname for health care professionals convicted of murdering patients, including
** Beverley Allitt (born 1968), English nurse who murdered four children in 1991
** Kristen Gilbert (born 1967), American nurse who murdered four patients in Massachusetts, U.S.
** Donald Harvey (1952–2017), American orderly and convicted serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people
** Orville Lynn Majors (1961–2017), American nurse who murdered at least 6, possibly 130, elderly patients
** Josef Mengele (1911–1979), German SS officer and Nazi concentration camp doctor
** Colin Norris (born 1976), Scottish nurse and serial killer
** Harold Shipman (1946–2004), English doctor who murdered up to 250 elderly patients
* Allison Black, American military officer who fought in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom
* August Miete (1908–1987), German SS officer and Nazi extermination camp officer
* Robledo Puch (born 1952), Argentine serial killer
* Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794), French revolutionary organizer of the Reign of Terror
* Charles Heatherly (born 1942), American bureaucrat who fired six regional administrators who opposed plans for elimination of the agency

## Religion

* Azrael, or Malak al-Maut, in Islam
* Destroying angel (Bible) in the Hebrew Bible
* Dumah (angel), in Rabbinical and Islamic literature
* Michael (archangel), in some religions
* Mot (god), an angel of death from the Hebraic Book of Habakkuk
* Nasirdîn and Sejadin, in Yazidism
* Samael, in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore
* Saureil, in Mandaeism

## Other uses

* Angel of death (criminology), a type of serial killer
* Amanita ocreata or angel of death, a species of poisonous mushroom
* "Angel of Death", AC130 gunship's nickname
* "Angel of Death", putative vector of the 1995 Dungarvan AIDS panic