List of assassins

The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous. It also contains some individuals who were famously suspected, but then acquitted, of particular assassinations.

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 Waclaw III king of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary.
(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

D

Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus.

E

Lydia Echevarria- alleged intellectual assassin of Luis Vigoreaux

F

John Felton – assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckhingham
Giuseppe Fieschi, would be assassin of King Louis Philippe in July 1835
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

K

Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to kill Pope John Paul II as part of the Operation Bojinka terrorist attack plot. The plot was discovered after an apartment fire in Manila, Philippines on January 6, 1995

L

Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria

M

Ramon Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky
Mijailo Mijailovic - assassin of Anna Lindh
Sarah Jane Moore – would-be assassin of Gerald Ford

N

Phuong Ngo, and associates - assassins of John Newman
Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Isreali ambassador to Britain.
Ninja – assassins of medieval Japan
El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Meir Kahane

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 - killer 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
Per-Olof Svensson - cleared of the murder of Anna Lindh

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 Jaurčs

W

Patrick J. Whelan – convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Carl Weiss – assassin of Huey Long
Dan White – assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978

Y

Ramzi Yousef,
- masterminded a failed attempt to kill then-president of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
- conspired in the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on the Pope's Philippines visit, as part of Manila-based Al-Qaida plot Operation Bojinka. Two weeks before the assassination and the first part of the Project was to go off, Manila police would discover and foil his plot on January 6, 1995, including the assassination attempt
- considered assassinating United States President Bill Clinton, but decided against it
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.