A Cathead is a beam on a ship for raising the anchor. Cathead, Catshead, or Cat head also may refer to:

• a windlass or capstan used in machinery such as a hoisting drawworks for a drilling rig
• A type of biscuit in the cuisine of the Southern United States
• The Cat Heads, San Francisco indie rock band
• Tim Phillips (musician), of the band Cathead
• Cat heads, an inexpensive copy of the Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars
• Cat-Head Comics, a defunct comic book publisher
• The head of a cat
• Catshead (architecture), a roof extension on mills or barns
• Catshead (apple), a cultivar of cooking apples
• Catshead, an alternate name for the Pseudagrion coeleste species of damselfly