Lists of murders

Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.

By location

 * List of assassinations, sorted by continent and country
 * List of assassinations in Africa
 * List of assassinations in Asia
 * List of assassinations in Europe
 * List of familicides in Europe
 * List of journalists killed in Europe
 * List of massacres in Afghanistan
 * List of massacres in Albania
 * List of massacres in Algeria
 * List of massacres in Argentina
 * List of massacres in Australia
 * List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
 * List of unsolved murders in Australia
 * List of massacres in Azerbaijan
 * List of massacres in Bangladesh
 * List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
 * List of massacres in Belarus
 * List of massacres in Belgium
 * List of massacres in Brazil
 * List of massacres in Bulgaria
 * List of massacres in Burundi
 * List of massacres in Canada
 * List of unsolved murders in Canada
 * List of massacres in Chile
 * List of massacres in China
 * List of massacres in Colombia
 * List of massacres in Cyprus
 * List of massacres in the Czech Republic
 * List of massacres in the Dominican Republic
 * List of massacres in East Timor
 * List of massacres in Egypt
 * List of massacres in El Salvador
 * List of massacres in Finland
 * List of massacres in France
 * List of massacres in Germany
 * List of massacres in Great Britain
 * List of massacres in Greece
 * List of massacres in Guatemala
 * Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala
 * List of journalists killed in Guatemala
 * List of massacres in Guyana
 * List of massacres in Haiti
 * List of journalists killed in Honduras
 * List of massacres in Hungary
 * List of massacres in India
 * List of journalists killed in India
 * List of journalists killed in Assam, a state in India
 * List of massacres in Indonesia
 * List of massacres in Iraq
 * List of massacres in Ireland
 * List of massacres in ancient Israel
 * List of massacres in Israel
 * List of massacres in Italy
 * List of massacres in Jamaica
 * List of massacres in Japan
 * List of massacres in Kenya
 * List of massacres in Latvia
 * List of massacres in Lebanon
 * List of massacres in Libya
 * List of massacres in Lithuania
 * List of massacres in Macedonia
 * List of massacres in Malaysia
 * List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine
 * List of massacres in Mexico
 * List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
 * List of massacres in Myanmar, aka Burma
 * List of massacres in Nepal
 * List of massacres in New Zealand
 * List of massacres in Nigeria
 * List of massacres in North Korea
 * List of massacres in Ottoman Syria and Lebanon
 * List of massacres in the Palestinian territories
 * List of massacres in Palestine
 * List of massacres in Peru
 * List of massacres in the Philippines
 * List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines
 * List of massacres in Poland
 * List of massacres in Romania
 * List of massacres in Russia
 * List of journalists killed in Russia
 * List of massacres in Rwanda
 * List of massacres in São Tomé and Príncipe
 * List of massacres in Serbia
 * List of massacres in Singapore
 * List of massacres in Slovakia
 * List of massacres in Slovenia
 * List of massacres in the Solomon Islands
 * List of massacres in South Africa
 * Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa
 * List of massacres in South Korea
 * List of massacres in the Soviet Union
 * List of massacres in Spain
 * List of massacres in Sri Lanka
 * List of massacres in Sudan
 * List of massacres in Syria
 * List of massacres in Taiwan
 * List of journalists killed in Tajikistan
 * List of massacres in Thailand
 * List of massacres in Turkey
 * List of journalists killed in Turkey
 * List of massacres in Ukraine
 * List of massacres in the United States
 * List of journalists killed in the United States
 * List of familicides in the United States
 * List of 2012 murders in the United States
 * List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
 * List of massacres in Venezuela
 * List of massacres in Vietnam
 * List of massacres in Yugoslavia

By nationality of victim

 * List of murdered American children
 * List of assassinated American politicians
 * List of assassinated Indian politicians
 * List of assassinated Lebanese politicians
 * List of assassinated people from Turkey
 * List of Australian Federal Police killed in the line of duty
 * List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland)
 * List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
 * List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

Political and state-sanctioned murders

 * List of assassinated American politicians
 * List of assassinated Indian politicians
 * List of Iranian assassinations
 * List of Israeli assassinations
 * List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Sri Lankan communist party
 * List of assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection (Sri Lanka), attributed to both the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and government forces
 * List of Soviet and Russian assassinations (disambiguation)
 * List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka)
 * List of people killed by Sri Lankan government forces
 * Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa
 * List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
 * List of assassinated human rights activists, including political dissidents

By war

 * List of massacres in the Bosnian War
 * List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence
 * List of assassinations of the Iraq War
 * List of Second Chechen War assassinations
 * List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War

By office

 * List of murdered popes
 * List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots, including the four successful assassinations
 * List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office
 * List of United States federal judges killed in office

By occupation

 * These lists may include accidental deaths.
 * Ordered by occupation.


 * List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
 * List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
 * List of journalists killed in Europe
 * List of journalists killed in Guatemala
 * List of journalists killed in Honduras
 * List of journalists killed in India
 * List of journalists killed in Assam, a state in India
 * List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
 * List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines
 * List of journalists killed in Russia
 * List of journalists killed in Tajikistan
 * List of journalists killed in Turkey
 * List of journalists killed in the United States
 * List of murdered hip hop musicians
 * List of Australian Federal Police killed in the line of duty
 * List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland)
 * List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty
 * List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
 * List of assassinated American politicians
 * List of assassinated Indian politicians
 * Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala

By type of victim

 * List of murdered American children
 * List of familicides, in which at least half of the victims were relatives of the perpetrator or the perpetrator's spouse. Cases with more than one offender are not included.
 * List of rampage killers (familicides in Europe)
 * List of regicides
 * List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
 * List of patricides
 * List of people killed for being transgender

By method

 * List of axe murders
 * List of lynching victims in the United States
 * List of mass car bombings, restricted to those which resulted in at least two deaths

Unsolved murders

 * List of unsolved murders (before the 20th century)
 * List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
 * List of unsolved murders (1980–2000)
 * List of unsolved murders (2000–present)
 * List of unsolved murders in Australia
 * List of unsolved murders in Canada
 * List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

Other

 * List of postal killings, murders which occurred on post office property or were post office-related