Plague or The Plague may refer to:
Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
- Plague (disease), (commonly referred to as bubonic plague or black death), caused by infectious bacteria Yersinia pestis
- An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
- A pandemic caused by such a disease
- A swarm of pest insects such as locusts
- A massive attack of other pests afflicting agriculture
- Overpopulation in wild animals afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
- Plague, collective noun for common grackles
Historical plagues
- List of epidemics
- Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 CE brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East
- Black Death, the Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century, also known as "The Plague"
- Great Northern War plague outbreak, a European outbreak in the early 18th century
- Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20% of London's population in 1665–1666
- Plague of Athens, a devastating epidemic which hit Athens in ancient Greece in 430 BCE
- Plague of Justinian, a pandemic in 541–542 CE in the Byzantine Empire
- Plague Riot, a riot in Moscow in 1771 caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague
Modern plagues
- Third plague pandemic or Third Plague, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855 until 1960
- Manchurian plague (1910–11): Part of the third plague pandemic
- HIV/AIDS, originally referred to as the "gay plague" when it was discovered in the 1980s (see History of HIV/AIDS)
- Vole plague in Castile and León (Spain), in 2007.
Art, media, and entertainment
Art
- Plague (painting), by Arnold Böcklin
Fictional entities
- Plague, Lisbeth Salander's hacker friend and colleague in the Hacker Republic, e.g., see The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest#Trial
- The Plague (G.I. Joe), a Cobra special forces team in the comic book G.I. Joe: America's Elite
- The Plague, a duo of demonic assassins in the movie Hobo with a Shotgun
Films and television
- Plague (1979 film), a science-fiction film
- The Plague (1992 film), a drama film
- The Plague (2006 film), a horror film
- Plague (2014 film), an Australian horror film
- La peste (TV series), Spanish historical drama series broadcast in the UK as The Plague
Games
- Corrupted Blood incident, a virtual plague that occurred in the video game World of Warcraft
- Plague Inc., a strategy game for smartphones and tablets by Ndemic Creations
- Plague!, a card game about the Black Plague in England
- Plague of Shadows (Plague Knight), a character and DLC gamemode for Shovel Knight
- The Plague, a playable killer character of Babylonian origin from the asymmetrical-survival horror Dead by Daylight
Literature
- Plague, a 2000 young adult novel by Malcolm Rose
- Plague, a 1977 thriller novel by Graham Masterton
- Plague 99, a novel by Jean Ure
- The Plague (novel), a novel by Albert Camus
- "The Plague" (Dragon Prince), an epidemic which affects both humans and dragons in Melanie Rawn's novel
- The Plague (magazine), New York University's comedy magazine
Music
Artists
- The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
- The Plague (British band), a punk rock band
- The Plague (New Zealand band), a theatrical punk/art rock band
Albums
- Plague (Klinik album)
- Plagues (album), by The Devil Wears Prada
- The Plague, by Demon
- The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album)
EPs
Songs
- "Plague", by Crystal Castles from the 2012 album III
- "The Plague", by Demon from the 1983 album by the same name
- "The Plague," an unreleased song by The Mountain Goats that appears on the 2020 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions
Musicals
- Plague! The Musical, by David Massingham and Matthew Townend
Television
- "Plague" (2003 Dead Zone episode)
- "Plague" (2004 Deadwood episode)
- "The Plague" (1994 Diagnosis: Murder episode)
- "The Plague", second episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
- "The Plague" (1996 Father Ted episode)
- The Plague, English title of 2018 Spanish TV series La peste
Religion
- Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus
- The seven plagues poured out from seven bowls in Revelation 15:5-16:21
Technology
- Capacitor plague, a condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail