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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)
• "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
• 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 Catholicism
• 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