List of assassins

The following is a list of assassins with short comments on the assassination(s) that made them famous.

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Laetus, Marcia, and one athlete – assassin of Roman emperor Commodus (Planner: Laetus, Assassins: Marcia and an unnamed athlete who strangled the emperor in his bath when Marcia's poison worked too slowly)
(name?) - assassin of Alejandro Gonzalez Malave
(name?) - assassin of Carthaginian general Hasdrubal
(Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted) Norman 3X Butler & Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted)) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
("three black Africans and an Arab") – assassins of Zanzibar's leader sheik Abeid Karume
(a tank corps major) - assassin of Ngo Dinh Diem
(Name?) - assassin of Waclaw III king of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary.
(Name?) - assassin of Vlad Tepes
(Name?) - assassin of the father of Vlad Tepes
A Christian slave - assassin of Zengi
Anonymous Hashshashin - assassin of Conrad of Montferrat

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 on January 6, 1995

Christer Pettersson - acquitted on the murder of the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
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 Seward in 1865
Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and hence triggered World War I

Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla
Eugen Schauman - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
Miles Sindercombe - leader of would-be assassins of Oliver Cromwell.
Beant Singh and Sukhwant Singh - assassins of the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi
Sivarasan - Tamil Tigers member and mastermind of assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
Sirhan B. Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Harry Strauss - Mafia hitman

Dimitri Tsafendas - second assassin to make an attempt (succesfully) on Hendrik Verwoerds life

Patrick J. Whelan – convicted assassin of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Carl Weiss – assassin of Huey Long
Dan White – assassin of mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and councilman Harvey Milk in 1978

Ramzi Yousef,
- masterminded a failed attempt to kill then-president of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
- conspired in the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on the Pope's Philippines visit, as part of Manila-based Al-Qaida plot Operation Bojinka. Two weeks before the assassination and the first part of the Project was to go off, Manila police would discover and foil his plot on January 6, 1995, including the assassination attempt
- considered assassinating United States President Bill Clinton, but decided against it
Yakov Yurovsky, chief assassin of Nicholas II of Russia
Felix Yussupov, hard working assassin of Grigori Rasputin