List of assassins
The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous.
See also:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anonymous Assassins
- Laetus, Marcia, and one athlete – assassin of Roman emperor Commodus (Planner: Laetus, Assassins: Marcia and an unnamed athlete who strangled the emperor in his bath when Marcia's poison worked too slowly)
- (name?) - assassin of Alejandro Gonzalez Malave
- (name?) - assassin of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal
- (Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted) Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted)) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
- ("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader sheik Abeid Karume
- (a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem
- (Name?) - assassin of Polish ruler Waclaw III
- (Name?) - assassin of Vlad Tepes
- (Name?) - assassin of the father of Vlad Tepes
- A Christian slave - assassin of Zengi
- Anonymous Hashshashin - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat
A
- Mehmet Ali Agca - failed assassin of Pope John Paul II
- Frank Abbandando - Mafia hitman
- Saad Akbar, assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan
- Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden
- Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton
- Yigal Amir - assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
B
- Byron De La Beckwith - assassin of US civil rights figure Medgar Evers
- John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1811)
- John Wilkes Booth - assassin of the American President Abraham Lincoln
- Arthur Herman Bremer – would-be assassin of George Wallace, governor of Alabama
- Brutus, Cassius, and associates - assassins of Julius Caesar
C
- Carlos the Jackal – terrorist, would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff
- Sante Jeronimo Caserio - assassin of the French President Marie François Sadi Carnot
- Cassius Chaerea, and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula
- Mark David Chapman - assassin of John Lennon
- Jacques Clément - assassin of King Henri III of France
- Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean-Paul Marat
- Leon Czolgosz - assassin of the American President William McKinley
D
E
- Lydia Echevarria- alleged intellectual assassin of Luis Vigoreaux
F
- John Felton – assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham
- Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme – apparent would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
G
- Balthazar Gérards – assassin of William I of Orange
- Naturam Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
- Volkert van der Graaf, convicted assassin of Pim Fortuyn
- Charles J. Guiteau - assassin of the American President James Garfield
H
- Hashshashin - the original Afghan assassins.
- John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan.
J
- Jing Ke - failed assassin of the first Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di
L
- Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria
M
- Ramon Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky
- Sarah Jane Moore – would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
N
- Phuong Ngo, and associates - assassins of John Newman
- Ninja – assassins of medieval Japan
O
- Lee Harvey Oswald - assumed assassin of the American President John F. Kennedy
P
- Christer Pettersson - acquitted on the murder of the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
- Otto Planetta and others - assassin of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
- Lewis Powell or Lewis Paine – would-be assassin of United States Secretary of State William Seward in 1865
- Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I
R
- Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
- Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France
- James Earl Ray - confessed to the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr
- Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925)
- Jack Ruby - assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
S
- Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla
- Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
- Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
- Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell.
- Beant Singh and Sukhwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
- Sivarasan - Tamil Tigers member and mastermind of assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
- Sirhan B. Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
- Harry Strauss - Mafia hitman
T
- Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha
- Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (succesfully) on Hendrik Verwoerds life
V
- Raoul Villain - assassin of Jean Jaurès
W
- Carl Weiss – assassin of Huey Long
- Dan White – assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978
Y
- Yakov Yurovsky, chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia
- Felix Yussupov, hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin
Z
- Giuseppe Zangara, assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago and would-be assassin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.