Pest may refer to:
- Pest (organism), an animal or plant detrimental to humans or human concerns
- Pest, an archaic term for pestilence, originally the Black Death
- Pest (hockey), an ice hockey player specialising in aggravating opponents
- Pest (music), a British music group
- Pest (musician), a Norwegian black metal vocalist
- PEST (unit), a Slovenian Military Police special forces unit
- The Pest (1917 film), a 1917 film starring Oliver Hardy
- The Pest (1997 film), a 1997 film starring John Leguizamo
- The Pest (2008 film), a 2008 film starring Harry Shearear
- PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social and Technological), a framework for analysis of macroenvironmental factors
- An annoyance
Places:
- Pest, Hungary
- Pest County
Famous quotes containing the word pest:
“The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. ‘Tis a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)