The epithet "the Hermit" may be applied to:
Anthony the Hermit (c. 468–c. 520), Christian saint Bluebeard the Hermit (died 1450), a leader of the English uprising generally known as Jack Cade's Rebellion Elias the Hermit, 4th century ascetic saint and monk Eusebius the Hermit, 4th century Eastern Orthodox saint and monk Felix the Hermit, 9th century Roman Catholic saint, fisherman and hermit Saint Giles (c. 650–c. 710), Greek saint Gustav the Hermit (c. 810–890), Swedish Catholic saint Harry Hallowes (c. 1936–2016), Irishman famous for living on Hampstead Heath, London John of Egypt, 4th century hermit and Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic saint Juan de Ortega (hermit) (1080–1163), better known as John the Hermit, Spanish Roman Catholic priest hermit and saint John of Tufara (1084–1170), Italian hermit and saint Marcus Eremita, 5th century Christian theologian and ascetic writer Matthew the Hermit, 4th century Oriental Orthodox saint Palladius of Antioch (died 390), saint in the Roman Empire Paphnutius the Ascetic, 4th century saint and Egyptian anchorite Pardus the Hermit (died 6th century), Eastern Orthodox saint Peter the Hermit (died 1115), priest and key figure in the First Crusade Phosterius the Hermit, 7th century Byzantine saint Thomas the Hermit, early Egyptian Coptic Orthodox saint Venerius the Hermit (c. 560–630), monk, hermit and Catholic saint Zeno the Hermit, 5th century saint Zosimus the Hermit, 3rd century saint and ascetic
See also Paul of Thebes (died c. 341), saint regarded as the first Christian hermit Peter the Hermit of Galatia, 5th century saint Theodore of the Jordan, called the Hermit of the Jordan, 6th century hermit and Eastern Orthodox saint Christopher Thomas Knight, called the Hermit of the North Pond, 21st century hermit