A criminal is a person who commits a crime.

Criminal or The Criminal may also refer to:

• The Criminal (1916 film), an American film of 1916
• The Criminal (1926 film), a French silent film
• The Criminal (1960 film), a British film
• Criminal, a 1994 British television film in the Screen Two anthology series
• Criminal (1994 film), a Telugu and Hindi film starring Nagarjuna, directed by Mahesh Bhatt
• The Criminal (1999 film), a British film
• Criminal (2004 film), an American film starring John C. Reilly based upon the Argentine film Nine Queens
• Criminal (2005 film), a 2005 Bengali film
• Criminal (2016 film), an American film starring Kevin Costner
• Criminal (franchise), a 2019 pan-European crime anthology series, consisting of separate sub-series
  • Criminal: UK
  • Criminal: France
  • Criminal: Spain
  • Criminal: Germany
• Criminal (TV series)

• Criminal (band), a Chilean-English thrash/death metal group
• Criminal (album), a 2018 album by the Soft Moon

• "Criminal" (Britney Spears song), 2011
• "Criminal" (Fiona Apple song), 1997
• "Criminal" (Lindsay Ell song), 2017
• "Criminal" (Natti Natasha and Ozuna song), 2017
• "Criminal" (Taemin song), 2020
• "Criminal", by Disturbed from Indestructible
• "Criminal", by Eminem from The Marshall Mathers LP
• "Criminal", by Gwen Stefani, an unreleased song
• "Criminal", by Lower Than Atlantis from Changing Tune
• "Criminal", by Manafest from The Moment
• "Criminal", by Miguel from War & Leisure
• "Criminal", by State Champs from Living Proof
• "Criminal", from the Ra.One film soundtrack
• "Criminal", by ZZ Ward from Til the Casket Drops

• Criminal (comics), a crime comic book by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips
• Kriminal, an Italian comics character
• Criminal (podcast), a podcast on true crime hosted by Phoebe Judge
• The Criminal (novel), a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson
• The Criminal (Havelock Ellis), a 1890 book by Havelock Ellis

• Convict
• Parolee
• Prisoner
• Ex-convict
• Criminal law, the body of statutory and common law that deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offences
• Criminals (disambiguation)
• Crime (disambiguation)
• Criminal Mind (disambiguation)
• Convict (disambiguation)
• Prisoner (disambiguation)