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Black widow may refer to:
Spiders
- Black widow spider, a common name for some species of spiders in the genus Latrodectus
- Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, the Mediterranean black widow or European black widow
North American species
- Latrodectus hesperus, the western black widow
- Latrodectus mactans, the southern black widow
- Latrodectus variolus, the northern black widow
People
- Black Widow (Chechnya), also known as Shahidka, female suicide bombers from Chechnya or Dagestan
Murderers
- Black Widows of Liverpool, two women hanged for murder in 1884
- Vera Renczi (born 1903), 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 as the "Black Widow" due to her ordering or committing the murders of three ex-husbands
- Stacey Castor (born 1967), 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, extradited back to Puerto Rico in 2015 and convicted in 2018.
Sports people
- Jeanette Lee (pool player) (born 1971), so-called because of her fondness for wearing black
- Sonya Thomas (born 1967), top-ranked competitive eater
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Black Widow (Marvel Comics), the name of several distinct characters
- The Black Widow, a Batman villain played by Tallulah Bankhead
- Natasha Kerensky, a BattleTech character also known as the "Black Widow"
- Black Widow, a character from the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of games by Capcom
Film and television
- The Black Widow (serial), a 1947 movie serial starring Bruce Edwards
- The Black Widow (1951 film), a British film starring Christine Norden
- Black Widow (1954 film), starring Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney
- Black Widow (1987 film), featuring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
- Black Widow (2003 film), a film directed by Brad Turner
- The Black Widow (2005 film), DVD release title of film by Giada Colagrande, produced as Before It Had a Name
- Black Widow (2005 film), a Canadian film starring Sarah Slean
- "The Black Widow", an episode of Boston Legal
- Black Widow (2007 film), with Elizabeth Berkley and Alicia Coppola
- Black Widow (2010 film), starring Jack Scalia and Jennifer O'Dell
- Black Widows (TV series), 2016 Scandinavian TV serial
- Black Widow, an upcoming Marvel Studios film
Literature
- The Black Widow (Daniel Silva novel), 2016
- Black Widow: A Novel, a 1981 novel by Christina Crawford
Gaming
- Black Widow (video game), a 1982 Atari arcade game
- Black Widow Games, a computer games developer
Music
- Black Widow (opera), by Thomas Pasatieri
- Black Widow Records, an Italian label
- Black Widow (band), a British rock band
- Black Widow (Black Widow album), 1971
- Black Widow (Lalo Schifrin album), 1976
- Black Widow (In This Moment album), 2014
Songs
- "Black Widow" (Iggy Azalea song), by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, featuring Rita Ora
- "Black Widow" (Pristin song), by South Korean girl group Pristin
- "Black Widow" (Black Tide song), by American metal band Black Tide on the album Light from Above
- "Black Widow" (Mötley Crüe song), by American metal band Mötley Crüe on the compilation Red, White & Crüe
- "Black Widow" (Children of Bodom song), by Finnish metal band Children of Bodom on the album Hatebreeder
- "Black Widow" (U.D.O. song), on Animal House (U.D.O. album)
- "Black Widow" (Dolores O'Riordan song), on Are You Listening?
- "Black Widow" (Donovan Leitch song), on the album Slow Down World
- "Black Widow" (In This Moment song), as the title track on the album Black Widow
- "Black Widow" (Lita Ford song), by Lita Ford on the album Dangerous Curves
- "Black Widow" (Michelle Shocked song), by Michelle Shocked on the album Short Sharp Shocked
- "Black Widow" (Alice Cooper song), by Alice Cooper on the album Welcome to My Nightmare
- "Black Widow" (Jefferson Starship song), on Winds of Change
- "Black Widow" (Booty Luv song), by Booty Luv
- "Black Widow" (Link Wray song), by Link Wray and His Ray Men, B-side to "Jack the Ripper"
- "Black Widow" (Cage the Elephant song), by Cage the Elephant on the album Melophobia
- "Black Widow" (Susanne Sundfør song), by Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfør on the album The Brothel
- "Black Widows" (Grave Digger song), on the album The Last Supper
- "Black Widow of La Porte", by John 5 featuring Jim Root on the album The Devil Knows My Name
Rides
- Black Widow (ride), an amusement ride at Kennywood
- Black Widow, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England
Military
- Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a World War II night fighter
- Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II, a prototype fighter aircraft
- Soviet submarine B-39, nicknamed Black Widow after having been sold off as a museum ship
Other plants and animals
- Black tetra, also known as "black widow tetra", a freshwater fish
- Stygnobrotula latebricola, an ocean fish
- Geranium phaeum, a herbaceous plant species
Other uses
- Black Widow Pulsar, a star
- Black Widow (paint mix), paint mix for projection screen
- Dima Halim Daoga, a militant Dimasa organization in Assam, India
See also
- Almana Shchora (Hebrew for "black widow"), an Israeli band
- Florentine Rost van Tonningen (1914–2007), Dutch neo-Nazi nicknamed Zwarte weduwe (Black Widow)
- Black Widower (disambiguation)
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