Brutus is a given name that can refer to:
- Brutus Malfoy, the editor of anti-Muggle periodical Warlock at War in the 1670s
- Brutus Scrimgeour, author of The Beaters' Bible
- St Brutus's Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys, a Muggle institution for "mentally subnormal" and violent adolescent males
- Saint Brutus, the patron saint of St Brutus's Secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys