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A sniper is a military or police member or civilian who shoot targets, humans or animals at long ranges using rifles equipped with telescopic sights.

Sniper or the sniper may also refer to:

People

• Adam Lindgren (born 1985), known as the Swedish Sniper, a Super Smash Bros. Melee player
• Luc Poirier (ring name "Sniper", born 1961), Canadian professional wrestler
• MC Sniper (born 1979), South Korean male rapper

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Sniper (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics character
• Sniper (NX Files), a fictional character in NX Files
• Sniper (Team Fortress 2), one of the nine playable classes in the video game

Films and television

Films

• Sniper (1931 film), a 1931 Soviet drama film
• The Deadly Tower, a 1975 film), starring Kurt Russell, also known as Sniper
• Sniper (film series), a series of action and war films
  • Sniper (1993 film), the first film in the series, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Zane
• The Sniper (1952 film), by Edward Dmytryk
• The Sniper (2009 film), a Hong Kong action thriller film
• Sniper Special Ops, a 2016 American war film
• Sniper (2022 film), a Chinese war film
• Sniper: The White Raven, a 2022 Ukrainian film

Television

• "The Sniper" (M*A*S*H), a 1973 episode
• Snipers: Love under the Crosshairs, a 2012 Russian miniseries
• "Sniper" (Year of the Rabbit), a 2019 British comedy episode

Games

• Sniper Studios, an American game studio
• Sniper (1997), original title of SubSpace
• Sniper! (board game), a 1973 board game designed by James Dunnigan for TSR
  • Sniper! (video game), a computer game adaptation of the board game
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior, a first-person shooter series developed by City Interactive
• Sniper Fury (2015) is an online single player video game developed and published by Gameloft

Literature

• The Sniper (novel), 1974 thriller by Nelson DeMille, re-published in 1989 with the Joe Ryker series, with the author as Jack Cannon
• "The Sniper" (poem) (1917), by W.D. Cocker
• "The Sniper" (story) (January 12, 1923), by Liam O'Flaherty

Music

Groups and labels

• Sniper (American band), an American glam punk band
• Sniper (group), a French musical act made up of Tunisiano, Aketo and Blacko

Songs

• "Sniper" (song), a 1972 song by Harry Chapin

Technology

• AT-11 Sniper or 9M119 Svir, a Soviet anti-tank missile
• Beretta Sniper, a bolt-action sporting rifle
• Lockheed Martin Sniper XR, targeting pod for fighter aircraft

Other

• Auction sniping, the act of placing a winning bid at the last possible moment

See also

• All pages with titles containing sniper
• All pages with titles beginning with Sniper
• Snipes (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages