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An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.

Assassin may also refer to:

Animals and insects

  • Assassin bugs, a genus in the family Reduviidae
  • Assassin spiders, a genus in the family Archaeidae

Books

  • Assassin (Cain novel), a 2008 thriller novel by Tom Cain, the third Samuel Carver book
  • Assassin (Myers novel), a 2006 historical fiction novel by the children's author Anna Myers
  • Assassins (LaHaye novel), a 1999 novel in the Left Behind series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye
  • Krondor: The Assassins, a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist
  • "The Assassin", a character in the 2006 Noble Warriors book trilogy
  • The Assassin, novel by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Assassin", story by Maupassant
  • The Assassini, a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
  • The Assassins (Kazan novel) by Elia Kazan
  • The Assassins, a 2005 novel by Oliver North
  • The Assassins, story by Hemingway
  • The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, a 1967 non-fiction book by Bernard Lewis
  • The Hassassin in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, 2000
  • The Assassin's Build in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Comics and visual novels

Film and TV

Films

  • An Assassin, a 2011 Japanese film
  • Assassin (1969 film), a South Korean thriller film
  • Assassin (1973 film), a British thriller film starring Ian Hendry
  • Assassin (1986 TV film), a television science fiction film starring Robert Conrad
  • Assassin (2015 film), a British thriller film by J. K. Amalou starring Danny Dyer
  • Assassin's Creed (2016 film), an American US film directed by Justin Kurzel
  • Assassins (1995 film), an American film starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas
  • Assassins (2020 film), an American documentary film
  • Assassin(s), a 1997 French film
  • Margaret Cho: Assassin, a 2005 film by Margaret Cho
  • The Assassin (1961 film), an Italian film
  • The Assassin (2015 film), a Taiwanese-Hong Kong-Chinese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  • The Assassin a 1993 film also known as Point of No Return
  • The Assassin, also known as Yakuza Deka, a 1970 Japanese film starring Sonny Chiba
  • The Assassin, the UK title for Gunfighters (film), a 1947 American film directed by George Waggner
  • The Assassins (film), a 2012 Chinese film
  • Venetian Bird a 1952 British film starring Richard Todd known as The Assassin in the USA

Television

  • "Assassin" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • "Assassin", a 1981 episode of the BBC series Blake's 7
  • "Assassins" (Desperate Housewives), a 2011 episode of the seventh season of the series
  • "The Assassin" (The Borgias), a 2011 episode of the Showtime-Bravo! series The Borgias
  • "The Assassin", an episode from the first season of MacGyver

Games

Video gaming

  • Assassin (video game), a 1992 video game
  • Assassin, a secret unlockable character in the Soulcalibur series, debuting in Soulcalibur II
  • The Assassin (cancelled video game), an unreleased game from OMC Games

Role playing

Music

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

Stage

Albums

  • Assassin (album), a 1984 album by Assassin
  • Assassins (album), by Into a Circle
  • Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1, a 2008 album by Nachtmystium
  • I, Assassin, a 1982 album by Gary Numan
  • The Assassin (album), by Big Ed

Songs

  • "Assassin" (Muse song), 2006
  • "Assassin" (The Orb song), 1992
  • "Assassin", a song by John Mayer on the album Battle Studies
  • "Assassin", a song by Morbid Saint on the album Spectrum of Death
  • "Assassin", a song by Motörhead on the album Snake Bite Love
  • "Assassing", a song by Marillion on the album Fugazi
  • "Assassins", a song by noise rock duo Lightning Bolt from the album Wonderful Rainbow
  • "Assassins", a song by The Insane Clown Posse on the album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
  • "The Assassin", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying

Sports

  • 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 street basketball player Brandon Durham
  • The Assassin, a ring name of professional wrestler Jody Hamilton
  • The Assassins (professional wrestling), a wrestling tag team

Other uses

  • Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins
  • All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)

See also

  • List of assassins
  • Assassination (disambiguation)
  • Assassin's Creed, an action-adventure stealth video game franchise published by Ubisoft
  • League of Assassins, a group of fictional villains appearing in comic books published by DC Comics
  • All pages with titles beginning with Assassin
  • All pages with titles containing Assassin
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