Talk:List of assassins

What is Aaron Burr doing on this list? A duel is not an assassination.

I removed Mark Chapman as he murdered John Lennon and did not assassinate him.

I removed all the fictional assassins. those clearly do not help the list as a historical compilation Vroman 14:34, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Roger Nicholas Angleton - murderer of Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton I removed the above person from the list. domestic violence is not assassination. Vroman 11:06, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

I thought Petterson had been cleared of the murder of Olof Palme--should he be listed here, given that? Vicki Rosenzweig


 * Yeap, the point here is Petterson was famous because of the Palme's murder, not because he did kill Palme. We can always put a line like "acquitted on the murder of Olof Palme" for clarification. User:kt2

Should we really mention terrorist organisations in this list (Tamil Tigers); the list should include persons only IMO. And what about Gert Bastian? He is in the list, but as far as I know he did commit suicide together with Petra Kelly. He was the one to shoot, but he is not a typical assassin. Cordyph


 * I'm open on including (or not) Tamil Tigers, or would we restrict this list to persons only. If you would like to take it off, please go ahead. Bastian's case looks more like a murder and suicide than a assasination. We definitely need a definition on idetifying an assasin. Or the one given on assassin is good enough? User:kt2


 * I will now remove Bastian from the list. My opinion is restricting the list to persons, but before deleting Tamil Tigers I would like to hear the opinion of someone else. Cordyph


 * We still need some researches on Tamil Tigers and their role in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. We will find someone who actually did the shooting, as the Singh's for Indira Gandhi, but whoever is respnsible is only working under the order of Tamil Tigers, I think.


 * We could limit this list to only persons and List of terrorist groups can store the groups with linking to one another. But we still need some brief info on who killed whom. IMO we can analyze the killing incidents depending on number of people on the "who" and "whom".


 * 1. One person kills another (the conventional definition of assassination)


 * 2. One person kills a group of people (genocide, mass murder, massacre etc.)


 * 3. a group of people kill a person (the Tamil Tiger case falls into this category, or Brutus and associates on Julius Caesar)


 * 4. a group of people kill another group (genocide, mass murder, massacre, terrorism etc., examples: Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 terrorism etc.)


 * Seems like the definition on assassination depends more on number of people being killed. The target must also be a prominent figure. If an ordinary husband killed his whole family, burnt his house down and finally killed himself, we usually don't count it as an assassination of a wife by her husband.


 * IMO Assassination is a single incident of murdering a prominent person. Terrorism is continuous effort of murdering lots of people. By defining this way, Tamil Tigers will go to the terrorist groups and Brutus stay on this page.


 * As always I'm open and would like to listen to more opionions before we settled down on a format.User:kt2


 * I agree, that Rajiv Gandhi was killed by an assassin, but we don't know the name (or do we?). Also, there has been a series of political murders in Germany, executed by the leftist Red Army Faction. A lot of prominent persons were assassinated, but we do not know the names of the assassins (although we know many names of R.A.F. members). My proposal: let us make a section (not a new article, just a paragraph in the existing page) with persons being assassinated by unknown murderers. In that section we can state the name of the terrorist group. Cordyph


 * Cordyph, I have found the name of the person who assassinated Rajiv Gandhi. Her name was Thenmuli Rajaratnam (Tamil Tiger operative name "Dhanu"). Added 30/08/2003.

Lennon assassinated?
I take issue with John Lennon's murder being called an assassination. If that's the case, than every murder committed would have to be listed here, and there are certainly plenty of murders of public figures. Was Latin singer Selena assassinated? How about the heavy metal guitarist shot on stage last week? Or SNL actor Phil Hartman? IMO the term assassination should only be applied to the killing of political, spiritual, and economic leaders (and/or news-making public figures, such as Lee Harvey Oswald). Lennon was a well-known personality but he doesn't really fall under these categories. Thoughts? 23skidoo 05:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Is it really a problem to have too much information on a page? Let readers decided for themselves if they consider it an assassination.

Assassin Names
I know there has been talk through the years about the tendency of the media to use the middle name of assissins. Mark David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Boothe, etc. Is anyone aware of some sort of written/unwritten naming convention for the media? Common murders and even serial murders are almost always referred to by first and last name. At least in the American press, spree/mass murders and assassins are referred to by all three names. Any comments?--crshinola 02:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I know im responding to an old comment, but i believe that to avoid any hint of bias in the media, people charged or convicted of capital crimes are often referred to by their full name, with no "nicknames" or other alterations. if james earl ray was called "jimmy ray" by his friends, and then called that in the news, it would be seen as highly biased. best way to avoid that is to use their full legal name: cant argue with that. this is all educated guesswork, though.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:52, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Is this a joke or what?
"Felix Yusupov" is described on this page as the "hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin." Hard working? Is that a joke that should be removed?


 * What's spongebob squarepants doing in the list? --201.145.25.45 (talk) 19:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Standards for Assassination?
Using the (admittedly unclear) Wikipedia definition of assassination, as a guide, I am not convinced that all of the cited killings in this list rise to the level of assassination. I see at least one crime of passion, as well as references to a common criminal and a professional hitman. The ideological element of assassination would appear to be absent in these cases. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.239.152.153 (talk) 05:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Luigi?!
There is luigi and light in killers list xD. is this officialy aproved ;D?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.198.239.190 (talk) 14:02, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

ehud barak???
why isnt he listed? In 1972, during peacetime between Israel and Lebanon, he led an Israeli commando death squad into Beirut, Lebanon where he personally murdered Palestinian writer Kamal Edwan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak

Statesboropow (talk) 04:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

why was it taken out? can anyone say "bias"? Statesboropow (talk) 19:31, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

WP:BLP
Preferentially, every article in this list should be well referenced on this page. Lacking that, all entries about living people should be reliably sourced on this page, or removed, per WP:BLP. I already have removed some entries about fairly recent assassinations without linked articles, and a few redlinks. Fram (talk) 09:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

A

 * Mario Aburto Martínez - convicted for killing Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio (1994)
 * Saad Akbar - assassin of Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan (1951)
 * Yigal Amir - assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
 * Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores, a Bolivian Surrealist painter, would-be assassin of Pope Paul VI during the latter's visit to the Manila International Airport in the Philippines (1970)
 * An Jung-geun, assassin of Itō Hirobumi, resident-general of Korea and Prime Minister of Japan (1909)
 * Jacob Johan Anckarström - assassin of King Gustav III of Sweden (1792)
 * Michele Angiolillo - assassin of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain (1897)
 * Avelino Arredondo - assassin of Juan Idiarte Borda, President of Uruguay (August 25, 1897)
 * Ay - minister and thought to have been the assassin of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, who is now believed to have died from a compound fracture.

B

 * Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - would-be assassin of President of France Charles de Gaulle (1962)
 * Byron De La Beckwith - convicted assassin of US civil rights figure Medgar Evers (1963)
 * John Bellingham - assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (May 11, 1812)
 * John Wilkes Booth - assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
 * Gustave Bouvet - attempted assassin of President of France Alexandre Millerand (1922)
 * Joe Brady - assassin of Permanent Under Secretary Thomas Henry Burke, sent by the Irish National Invincibles (1882)
 * William Bradley - Possible assassin (with shotgun) of Malcolm X — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.60.33 (talk) 02:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin of George Wallace, presidential candidate and governor of Alabama (1972)
 * Gaetano Bresci - assassin of Italian King Humbert I
 * Maxime Brunerie - would-be assassin of Jacques Chirac, President of France
 * Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and their associates - assassins of Julius Caesar (44BC)


 * Samuel Byck - attempted assassination of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Planned to high-jack jetliner and to crash into the White House in hopes of killing the President. (1974)

C

 * Carlos the Jackal - would-be assassin of Joseph Sieff
 * Sante Geronimo Caserio - assassin of the French president Marie François Sadi Carnot (1894)
 * Cassius Chaerea and associates - assassins of the Roman emperor Caligula
 * Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola - would-be assassins of American president Harry S Truman (1950)
 * Mark David Chapman - assassin of English musician John Lennon (1980)
 * Charlotte Corday - assassin of Jean-Paul Marat (1793)
 * Izola Curry - stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1958)
 * Leon Czolgosz - convicted assassin of the American president William McKinley (1901)

D

 * Namba Daisuke - attempted assassin of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (December 27, 1923)
 * André Dallaire - attempted assassin of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (November 5, 1995)
 * Robert Damiens - attempted assassin of Louis XV of France (1757)
 * Dingaan and Mhlangana - assassins of Shaka, the king of Zulus (circa 1828)
 * Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan - IRA assassins of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, British field marshal (1922)


 * Francisco Martin Duran - fired rifle shots at the White House, for which he was convicted of the attempted assassination of American president Bill Clinton (1994)

E

 * Ehud - Israelite judge, who assassinated the Moabite king Eglon (Judges 3:12-30.)
 * Theodor Eicke - arrested and killed co-founder of the SA Ernst Röhm on orders from Adolf Hitler (1934)
 * Georg Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler via a time bomb at Bürgerbräukeller Hall (November 8, 1939)

F

 * John Felton - assassin of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 * Giuseppe Fieschi - would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe (July 1835)
 * Robert Ford (outlaw) - assassin of Jesse James
 * Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme - would-be assassin of American President Gerald Ford

G

 * James J. Gallagher - would-be assassin of New York City Mayor William Gaynor (1910)
 * Rolando Galman - supposed assassin of Benigno Aquino, Jr.
 * Balthazar Gérards - assassin of William I of Orange
 * Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
 * Nawaf Ghazaleh - assassin of Adib Shishakli
 * Volkert van der Graaf - assassin of Pim Fortuyn
 * Charles J. Guiteau - convicted assassin of the American president James Garfield
 * Khioniya Kozmishna Guseva - attempted to assassinate Grigori Rasputin (1914)
 * Violet Gibson - would-be assassin of Benito Mussolini (1926)
 * Thenmozhi Rajaratnam- assassin of Rajiv Gandhi (1991)

H

 * James Hadfield - would-be assassin of King George III (1800)
 * Charles Harrelson - convicted assassin of Judge John H. Wood, Jr.
 * Hashshashin - the original Iranian assassins
 * Hattori Hanzo - ninja assassin for Tokugawa Iyeasu during the Sengoku Jidai and Edo periods
 * Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted), Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
 * John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of American president Ronald Reagan
 * Chris James Hines - would-be assassin of Robert Serber (1947)
 * Hitokiri - Japanese assassins during the Bakumatsu
 * Tom Horn - Old West lawman, gunman and killer for hire
 * Ryan Hoyt - hired assassin to teen Nicholas Markowitz.
 * Ignacy Hryniewiecki - Belarusian assassin of the Russian Emperor Alexander II

I

 * Khalid Islambouli - chief assassin of Anwar Al Sadat.

J

 * Jing Ke - failed assassin of a Qin king, later Qin Shi Huang, the first Chinese emperor
 * John Parricida of Habsburg -- Killed his uncle King Albert I of Germany (1308)
 * Zvezdan Jovanović - killed Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić (March 12, 2003)
 * Loyd Jowers - Possible assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.60.33 (talk) 02:26, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

K

 * Fanya Kaplan - attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin
 * Tim Kelly - assassin of Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish, sent by the Irish National Invincibles (1882)
 * 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 (January 6, 1995)
 * Jan Kubiš - assassin of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague (1942). See Operation Anthropoid
 * "Hitokiri" Kawakami Gensai - Japanese assassin during the Bakumatsu.
 * Jakub Kaszuba - assassin of Przemysl II, king of Poland
 * Richard Kuklinski - A hitman who worked for several crime families, killing over 200 men from 1948 to 1985.

L

 * Richard Lawrence - would-be assassin of American president Andrew Jackson
 * José de León Toral - assassin of Mexican general and president-elect Álvaro Obregón
 * Luigi Lucheni - assassin of Elisabeth of Austria
 * Byron Looper - assassin of political opponent Tommy Burks

M

 * Marcia (a concubine) and Narcissus (an athlete) - assassins of Roman emperor Commodus. Narcissus strangled the emperor in his bath after Marcia's poison failed to work. The chief architect of the conspiracy was Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus (192AD)
 * Roderick McLean - would-be assassin of Queen Victoria (1882)
 * Jack McCall - assassinated James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1876)
 * Thomas McMahon - assassin of Louis Mountbatten
 * Daniel M'Naghten- would-be assassin of British prime minister Robert Peel (1843)
 * Ramon Mercader - assassin of Leon Trotsky
 * Mijailo Mijailović - assassin of Anna Lindh
 * Jim Miller - Old West outlaw and "killer for hire"
 * Mobutu Sese Seko and Moise Tshombe - organized kidnapping and assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba, Minister Maurice Mpolo, and Senate Vice-President Joseph Okito
 * Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin of American president Gerald Ford

N

 * Måns Bengtsson - assassin of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1436)
 * Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens of PLO officers (1982)
 * Eligiusz Niewiadomski - assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland
 * El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Rabbi Meir Kahane

O

 * Alexis Orloff - assassin of Czar Peter III (1762)
 * Felice Orsini - Italian nationalist who failed in his attempt to assassinate Napoleon III (January 14, 1858)
 * Lee Harvey Oswald - Accused assassin of American President John F. Kennedy. Was assassinated himself soon afterwards by Jack Ruby
 * Edward Oxford - would-be assassin of Queen Victoria (1840)

P

 * Pausanias of Orestis - assassin of Philip II of Macedon
 * Richard Paul Pavlick - attempted assassin of John F. Kennedy
 * Christer Pettersson - acquitted of the murder of the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
 * Pirouz Nahavandi - assassin of Umar ibn al-Khattab, a close companion of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad and the Second Caliph of Islam
 * 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 H. Seward (1865)
 * Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast - assassinated Carter Henry Harrison, Sr., mayor of Chicago (October 28, 1893)

R

 * Puniša Račić - assassin of Stjepan Radić
 * Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
 * François Ravaillac - assassin of Henry IV of France
 * James Earl Ray - convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (pled guilty but later asserted his innocence)
 * Faustino Rayo - with three followers, assassin of President of Ecuador Gabriel Garcia Moreno, known for his support of the Catholic Church (1875)
 * Otto Rothstock - assassin of Hugo Bettauer (1925)
 * Gennaro Rubino - would-be assassin of King Léopold II of Belgium (1902)
 * Jack Ruby - convicted assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
 * Juan Roa Sierra - assassin of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, leader of Colombia's Liberal Party (1948), triggering one of South America's most violent episodes
 * Old Man of the Mountain (assassin) - Rashid ad-Din Sinan, was the leader of the assassin group of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the Crusades.

S

 * Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
 * Alexandros Schinas - assassin of King George I of Greece
 * John Schrank - would-be assassin of Theodore Roosevelt
 * Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
 * Sholom Schwartzbard - Jewish anarchist and political assassin of Symon Petliura, the head of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Paris
 * Miles Sindercombe - leader of the would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell
 * Beant Singh and Satwant Singh - assassins of the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
 * Udham Singh - assassin of Michael O'Dwyer
 * Sirhan Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
 * Valerie Solanas - failed assassin of Andy Warhol
 * Talduwe Somarama - assassin of Ceylonese prime minister Solomon Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike
 * Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortive July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at Wolfsschanze and led an insurrection in Berlin and Paris

T

 * Ernst Tandefelt - assassin of Heikki Ritavuori
 * Henning von Tresckow - key conspirator in the German anti-Nazi Resistance who initiated several assassination attempts on Hitler (all unsuccessful), the most well-known of which was the plan to destroy Hitler's plane at Smolensk (1943)
 * Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (successfully) on Hendrik Verwoerd's life

V

 * Vittorio Vidali (aka "Comandante Contreras") - communist assassin in Civil War Spain and Mexico, became Senator in Italy
 * Raoul Villain - assassin of Jean Jaurès

W

 * Janusz Walus - convicted assassin of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani just before the first democratic elections in South Africa
 * Patrick J. Whelan - convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
 * Carl Weiss - accused assassin of United States Senator from Louisiana and Former Governor Huey P. Long
 * Dan White - convicted assassin of Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk (1978)
 * Craig Williamson - assassin by letterbomb of Ruth First (1982); assassin by letterbomb of Jeanette and Katrina Schoon (1984); alleged mastermind of the Olof Palme (1986) and Dulcie September (1988) assassinations

Y

 * Yarankash - assassin of Zengi
 * Felix Yusupov - assassin of Grigori Rasputin

Z

 * Giuseppe Zangara - assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and would-be assassin of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Benazir Bhutto
Perhaps addition of the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would be beneficial. According to the references on her page (specifically the assassination subsection), Mustafa Abu al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the attack and the Pakistani government stated that it had proof that Baitullah Mehsud was the mastermind. However, according to the disclaimer at the beginning of the List of assassins, the list of assassins are those that have been prosecuted for said assassination or whom are believed, by historians, to be the culprits. Any ideas? Bullmoosebell (talk) 20:42, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

List order
The list does not appear at present to have any order. It is not alphabetical, it is chronological, there appears to be no structure. 68.122.10.227 (talk) 07:52, 27 June 2012 (UTC)