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
- 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
- Odo I, Duke of Burgundy (1060–1102)
- Thorstein the Red, a Viking chieftain in late ninth-century Scotland