Black widow may refer to:

Spiders

  • Black widow spider, a common name for some species of spiders in the genus Latrodectus

American species

Eurasian species

Oceanian species

People

Murderers

  • Black Widows of Liverpool, two women hanged for murder in 1884
  • Belle Gunness, 25–40 victims spanning from 1884 to 1908
  • Vera Renczi (1903–1960), murdered 35 men, including her husband and her son
  • Betty Neumar (1931–2011), dubbed "Black Widow" or "Black Widow Granny", accused of murdering one of her husbands
  • Blanche Taylor Moore (born 1933), convicted murderer
  • Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), Colombian drug trafficker, known for ordering or committing the murders of three ex-husbands
  • Catherine Nevin (1950–2018), responsible for the 1996 murder of her husband in the pub they owned
  • Stacey Castor (1967–2016), convicted murderer
  • Lynn Turner (murderer) (1968–2010), convicted murderer
  • Black Widow Murders, murders committed in 1999 / 2005 by two elderly women in Los Angeles
  • Áurea Vázquez-Rijos who hired a hitman for the murder of Adam Anhang in 2005 and was convicted in 2018
  • Melissa Ann Shepard (born 1935), Canadian murderer
  • Patrizia Reggiani (born 1948), ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, convicted of arranging his murder
  • Chisako Kakehi (born 1946), Japanese serial killer; as of August 2023, awaiting execution for three murders
  • Lyda Southard (1892–1958), American serial killer of husbands and other family members using arsenic from flypaper

Athletes

  • Jeanette Lee (pool player) (born 1971), so-called because of her fondness for wearing black
  • Sonya Thomas (born 1967), top-ranked competitive eater

Other

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Film and television

Literature

Gaming

Music

Songs

Rides

Military

Other plants and animals

Other uses

See also

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