Billy Budd is the name of several dramatic and literary works, mainly based on a novel by Herman Melville.

• Billy Budd, a short novel by Herman Melville finished around 1891
• Billy Budd, an opera by Benjamin Britten based on Melville's novel, first performed in 1951
• Billy Budd, a film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov, based on Melville's novel, released in 1962
• Billy Budd, (originally titled Uniform of Flesh ) a 1949 play by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman which was based on Melville's novel
• "Billy Budd ", a song by Steven Morrissey, on the album Vauxhall and I, as a disguised jab against his former friend and Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr.