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An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.

The origin of the term is the medieval Order of Assassins, a sect of Shia Islam 1090–1275 CE.

Assassin, or variants, may also refer to:

Fictional characters

• Assassin, in the Japanese adult visual novel Fate/stay night
• Assassin, in the Japanese light novel Fate/Zero
• The Assassin, in the 2006 Noble Warriors book trilogy
• The Hassassin, in Angels & Demons, 2000
• League of Assassins, in DC Comics
• Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild, in Discworld
• Assassin, in the Soulcalibur II game
• Assassin (character class), in games
  • Assassin (Dungeons & Dragons)

Film and television

Film

• Assassin (1969 film), a North Korean thriller
• Assassin (1973 film), a Asian thriller
• Assassin, a 1986 TV movie starring Robert Conrad
• Assassins (1995 film), starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas
• Assassin (2015 film), starring Danny Dyer
• Assassins (2020 film), a German documentary
• Assassin (2023 film), starring
• Assassin(s), a 1997 French film
• The Assassin, British title for Gunfighters, a 1947 American film
• The Assassin, American title for Venetian Bird, a 1952 British film
• The Assassin (1961 film), an Italian crime drama
• The Assassin, a 1967 Shaw Brothers film
• The Assassin, or Point of No Return (1993 film)
• The Assassin (2015 film), a wuxia film
• The Assassin (2023 film), a South Korean historical action-drama
• The Assassins (film), a 2012 Chinese film

Television

• "Assassin" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
• "Assassin", a 1981 episode of Blake's 7
• "Assassins" (Desperate Housewives)
• "The Assassin" (The Borgias), a 2011 episode
• "The Assassin", an episode of MacGyver (1985 TV series)
• "Assassin" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

Gaming

• Assassin (video game), 1992
• The Assassin (cancelled video game)
• Assassin (game), a live-action game
• Assassin!, a The Way of the Tiger gamebook

Literature

• Assassin (Cain novel), by Tom Cain, 2008
• Assassins (LaHaye novel), by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye, 1999
• "L'Assassin", an 1887 short story by Guy de Maupassant
• The Assassini, a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
• The Assassins, a 1972 novel by Elia Kazan
• The Assassins, a 2005 novel by Oliver North and Joe Musser
• The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, a 1967 non-fiction book by Bernard Lewis
• Krondor: The Assassins, a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist

Music

Groups

• Assassin (band), an American heavy metal band
• Assassin (German band), a German thrash metal band
• Assassin (deejay) (born 1982), Jamaican dancehall deejay
• Assassin (group), a French hardcore rap group

Albums

• Assassin (album), by Assassin, 1984
• Assassins, by Into a Circle, 1984
• Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I, by Nachtmystium, 2008
• I, Assassin, by Gary Numan, 1982
• The Assassin (album), by Big Ed, 1998

Songs

• "Assassin" (The Orb song), 1992
• "Assassin", a song by John Mayer from the 2009 album Battle Studies
• "Assassin", a song by Morbid Saint from the 1989 album Spectrum of Death
• "Assassin", a song by Motörhead from the 1998 album Snake Bite Love
• "Assassin", a song by Muse from the 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations
• "Assassing", a song by Marillion from the 1994 album Fugazi
• "Assassins", a song by Lightning Bolt from the 2003 album Wonderful Rainbow
• "Assassins", a song by The Insane Clown Posse from the 1999 album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
• "The Assassin", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying

Sport

• Assassin (horse) (1779 – c. 1794), Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1782 Epsom Derby
• The Assassin, a nickname for former American football defensive back Jack Tatum
• The Assassin, a nickname for streetball player Brandon Durham
• The Assassin, a ring name of professional wrestler Jody Hamilton
• Assassins (professional wrestling), a wrestling tag team

Other uses

• Assassins (musical), 1990, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
• The Assassin (play), by Irwin Shaw, 1945
• Assassin, a 2005 tour and comedy album by Margaret Cho

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Assassin
• All pages with titles containing Assassin
• Assassination (disambiguation)
• List of assassinations
• Assassin bugs, a genus in the family Reduviidae
• Assassin spiders, a genus in the family Archaeidae
• All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)

• Disambiguation pages