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An iconoclast is one who professes iconoclasm (the belief in the importance of the destroying physical religious images); one who objects to the use of sacred images in religion, or who opposes orthodoxy and religion. Less formally, it can refer to a maverick who attacks traditional beliefs in any sphere.

Iconoclast(s) may also refer to:

Film and television

• Iconoclasts (TV series), a 2005 Sundance Channel show
• Iconoclast, a 2011 documentary film about Boyd Rice
• Iconoclast (2026 film), a psychological thriller

Music

• Iconoclast (band), since 1987, an American jazz duo

Albums

• Iconoclasts (album), 2025 studio album by Swedish musician Anna von Hausswolff
• Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance), 2008 studio album by Heaven Shall Burn, a German extreme metal band
  • Iconoclast trilogy, a series of three albums by Heaven Shall Burn
• Iconoclast (Dope Knife album), 2014 album by Rap artist Dope Knife
• Iconoclast (Nazxul album), 2009 studio album by Nazxul, an Australian black metal band
• Iconoclast (Symphony X album), 2011 album by American progressive metal band Symphony X
• Iconoclast (EP), 2014 EP by Clinton Sparks

Songs

• "Iconoclast", a song on Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 1971 album Tarkus

Other uses

• Iconoclasm, a pro wrestling move
• Iconoclast, c. 1853, a pen-name of the political activist and atheist Charles Bradlaugh
• Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently, a book by Gregory Berns, published in 2008
• Iconoclasts (video game), 2018 platform game

See also

• Ao-Iconoclast / Pigeon-The Green-ey'd Monster, 2009 maxi single by J-pop singer Kotoko
• Eikonoklastes, 1649 book by Milton