Assassin (disambiguation)

An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.

Assassin may also refer to:

Origin of term

• Someone belonging to the medieval Persian Ismaili order of Assassins

Animals and insects

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

Literature

• The Assassin (play), a 1945 play by Irwin Shaw
• 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 Guy De Maupassant
• The Assassini, a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
• The Assassins by Elia Kazan
• The Assassins, a 2005 novel by Oliver North
• "The Assassins", a short story by Ernest 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 Assassins' Guild in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Comics and visual novels

• Assassin (Fate/stay night), a fictional character
• Assassin (Fate/Zero), a fictional character

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 (1967 film), a Hong Kong 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, 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's Creed, a game series by Ubisoft
• 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

• Assassin (character class), a character class common to many games
  • Assassin (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Assassin (game), a live-action role-playing game

Music

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

Stage

• Assassins (musical), a 1990 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

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

• 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