Assassin (disambiguation)
An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.
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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 (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
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