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Hex editors used primarily to edit binary data. The data being edited is normally displayed Hexadecimal, but may be in Octal, Binary, or other representations.

Hex Editor Family Editors:

010 Editor - Professional Hex Editor with Binary Templates
0xED - Native OS X hex editor based on the Cocoa framework.
1fh - Freeware binary/hex editor for Windows
ASCEDIT - Hexadecimal file editor for the BBC (20k limit)
AviHex - Hex-Editor for files larger than 2 GB
AXE - A hex editor/analysis tool
AXRScan - Freeware hex editor for Windows
B2hedit - Tiny hex editor from the author of TheGun, TopGun, and QuickEditor
Be.HexEditor - Hex editor that opens every file
BE - a binary editor
bed - Variable data format binary editor
biew - Binary view project
Binaryeditor - Open source editor for text, hex, and binary files
Bless - Open source hex editor in Mono/Gtk?# for Gnome/Linux?
bsed - binary sed
bvi - binary ViFamily editor
Cygnus Hex Editor - Shareware hex editor for Windows
Data Workshop - Multi-platform binary editor written in Java
DHEX - Hex editor with a diff mode
fb - Open source, cross platform Binary File Viewer, Editor, and Manipulator
febooti - Freeware hex editor for Windows
FlexEdit - Freeware Text/Hex?? Editor for Windows.
FlexHex - Full-featured shareware hex editor
Frhed - Free, open source hex editor for Windows
FS Hex Editor - Modified version of Frhed to work with HexView?
GHex - Hex editor for GNOME
Groovy - Shareware hex editor for Windows
Hack - An open source hex editor with REXX scripting
Hackman Suite - A shareware tool package including a hex editor, disassembler, and other functions
HEdit Yuri Software - Shareware hexadecimal editor for binary files
Heme - Fast and portable console hex editor for unix systems
Heraia - Hexadecimal file editor based on the GtkHex? Widget from Ghex project
Hex Fiend - A fast and open source hex editor for Mac OS X
HexCmp2 - Shareware Windows hex editor and binary file comparator
HexCurse - A versatile ncurses-based hex editor
HexDataEdit - Shareware binary data editor for Windows
Hexditor.jar - Free and powerful hexadecimal editor written in java, for casual usage (no installation)
HexEd - A small, portable hex editor for multipe platforms
HexEdit Mac - A hexadecimal file editor for the Macintosh
HexEdit (GP) - Free hex editor for Windows
HexEdit (ECS) - Shareware Hex Editor for Windows
HEXEDIT - View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII on Linux
HexEdit - Windows Hex Editor from James Brown
HexEditorVB - Open source hex editor in Visual Basic
hexel - An advanced Linux hex editor for character-based terminals
HexIt - A hex editor for DOS and Windows
Hexprobe Hex Editor - Hex Editor and Hex-Byte Viewer
HexSource - A Hex editor shipped with SourceEdit
HexStar - a freeware hex editor for Windows
HexTool - A binary file editor with tools
HexWorkshop - Shareware Hex Development tools for Windows
HhdHexEditor - a Hex editor for Windows
hiew - Hex viewer from Russia (see also biew)
HT Editor - A file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables
hview - A Linux curses based hex editor designed to work with large (600+MB) files
HxD - Freeware Windows hex editor handling any size file
i.Hex - Small and free graphical Hex Editor for Windows.
iBored - Hex editor for disk sectors and files (formerly released under the name rohPod)
javahexeditor - Open source Hex editor in JAva
KHexEdit - Hex editor for the Linux KDE desktop environment
lfhex - Linux hex editor for large files
MadEdit - Cross-platform text and hex editor with syntax highlighting and RegEx?? support
MadEdit-Mod - Cross-platform text and hex editor based on MadEdit with enhancements
Mickey - Open source hex editor using FLTK
Ncurses Hexedit - curses based hex editor
Okteta - Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files - KDE
S hex - Open source file viewer and hex editor for MS-DOS and Windows console
shed - Hex editor for unix/linux using ncurses and pico interface
Synalyze It - Reverse Engineering and Binary File Analysis
T.I.A.H. - "Tiah Is A Hex editor" open source hex editor for Linux
Tiny hexer - Free hex editor for binary files
TinyHexEditor - Freeware hex editor for Windows
TotalEdit - Windows based commercial editor with code folding, hex editor, unicode support
TurboHex - Commercial hex editor for Windows
tweak - Open source UNIX hex editor using ncurses
UltraEdit - Powerful commercial programmer's editor for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms
VCHE - Open source hex editor for Linux and Windows
WinHex - Shareware Hex Editor & Disk Editor for Windows
wxHexEditor - A free hex editor / disk editor for Linux, Windows and MacOSX?
xvi32 - Open source hex editor with scripting
zap for UNIX - Simple open source hex editor for UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS

Sometimes, ordinary text editors offer a hex editing mode. In fact, there's a utility from FourmiLab?.ch called XD that you can use to augment any text editor.

Here's a review of 26 hex editors available for Linux: http://sourcepole.com/sources/reviews/hexeds.xml