- Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. - Pol Pot
Saloth Sar, was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially renamed the Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979, having been "de facto" leader since mid-1975. Having been directly and indirectly responsible for the physical elimination of about one-third of the Cambodian population during his stay in power, Pol Pot is today regarded as one of the five worst mass-murderers of modern history. - Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. - Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (March 5 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, … - Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes. - Richard Speck
Richard Franklin Speck (December 6, 1941-December 5, 1991) was a mass murderer who systematically killed eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital, Chicago, Illinois on July 14, 1966. - Mohamed Atta
Mohamed Atta ("') (September 1, 1968 - September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the head suicide pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Atta is suspected of using numerous aliases during his lifetime, including Mehan Atta, Mohammed Atta, Mohammad El Amir, Mohamed El Sayed, … - Baruch Goldstein
Baruch Kappel Goldstein (December 9 or December 12, 1956-February 25, 1994,) was an American-Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Arab attendants of the Ibrahimi Mosque (within the Cave of the Patriarchs) and wounding another 150 in a shooting attack. - Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people (including those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries) and wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University's Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police. - Martin Bryant
Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) murdered 35 people and injured 37 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a killing spree in Tasmania in 1996. He is currently serving 35 life sentences in Hobart's Risdon Prison. - Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim and also known by dozens of aliases, is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was arrested at an al-Qaeda safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995 and was extradited to the United States. - Howard Unruh
Howard Unruh (also spelled Unrah) (born January 21 1921, Camden, New Jersey) is regarded as one of the first of the 'lone gunmen' to go on an indiscriminate shooting spree. On September 6 1949, twenty-eight year old Unruh left his house for a twelve minute walk around his Camden, New Jersey neighborhood, shooting people at random and killing 13. Always a reserved man, he had turned into a recluse in the three months before his spree. - Colin Ferguson
Colin Ferguson (born January 14, 1958, Kingston, Jamaica) was convicted of murdering six people and injuring nineteen others on the Long Island Rail Road in Garden City, New York on December 7, 1993. As the train pulled into the Merillon Avenue Station, Ferguson pulled out his gun and started firing at passengers. He killed six and wounded nineteen before being stopped by three of the passengers: Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee, and Mike O'Connor. - Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English mass murderer, most notably involved in the "Moors murders". - Thomas Hamilton
Thomas Watt Hamilton was a Scottish mass murderer, who committed the Dunblane massacre, in which he killed sixteen small children and a teacher in a primary school, and then subsequently committed suicide. - Imad Mugniyah
Imad Fayez Mugniyah (born December 7, 1962) is a senior member of the Hezbollah organization. He is alternatively described as the head of its security section, a senior intelligence official and as a founder of the organization. Limited information is known about him. He uses the alias of Hajj. Mugniyah is included in the European Union's list of wanted terrorists. According to his Lebanese passport application, Mughniyah was born in Tayr Dibba, … - John List
John Emil List (born September 17, 1925 in Bay City, Michigan) is a convicted mass murderer who, on November 9, 1971, murdered his mother, his wife and three children in their sparsely furnished 18-room mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned everything so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone noticed that anything was amiss. A fugitive from justice for nearly eighteen years, … - Andrew Kehoe
Andrew Kehoe was an American mass murderer who perpertrated the Bath School Disaster in 1927. Kehoe was born in Tecumseh, Michigan into a family of thirteen children. His mother died when he was young, and his father remarried; reportedly, Kehoe often fought with his stepmother. When Kehoe was fourteen, the family's stove exploded as she was attempting to light it. The oil fueling the stove soaked her, and the flames set her on fire. - Julian Knight
Julian Knight (born March 4, 1968) is the mass murderer who on August 9 1987, shot dead 7 people and injured 17 during a shooting spree in Clifton Hill, Victoria, in what became known in Australian history as the Hoddle Street Massacre. He is currently serving a life sentence, with a minimum 27 year sentence before parole. Knight currently resides in the maximum security HM Prison Barwon near Geelong and is eligible for parole in 2014. - Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine, born Gamil Gharbi, was a 25-year-old man from the Province of Quebec, Canada. He killed fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in "the Montreal Massacre", also known as "the École Polytechnique Massacre". - Dalal Mughrabi
Dalal Mughrabi (ca. 1959 - March 11, 1978) was a female Palestinian terrorist who participated in the Coastal Road Massacre. On the morning of March 11, 1978, Mughrabi and her Fedayeen unit of eleven members, including one other woman, landed on an Israeli beach, killed an American photographer named Gail Rubin and hijacked a bus along the coastal highway. The Israeli army pursued the bus until it was finally stopped. - Jack Levin
Jack Levin, Ph.D. is the Irving and Betty Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he teaches courses in prejudice and violence. He specializes in Criminology, Prejudice, Social Psychology, and Aging/Social Gerontology and is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on serial killers, mass murderers, and hate crimes. - John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is an American serial killer. With his younger partner Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. This was an apparent attempt to extort $10 million. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. His trial for one of the murders (the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, … - Jeff Weise
Jeffrey James Weise (August 8, 1988 - March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the shooting deaths of his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend and the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before committing suicide. He left many postings across the Internet on websites such as nazi.org, … - Charles Carl Roberts
Charles Carl Roberts IV was an American milk truck driver who killed five Amish girls and himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2 2006. - Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber (born in England in 1961) was convicted in 1986 of murdering several members of his family in a highly-publicized case. He has always denied carrying out the killings and his conviction remains controversial. - George Hennard
George Hennard (October 15, 1956-October 16, 1991) was a mass murderer who claimed twenty-four victims at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, USA, in an event that has come to be known as the Luby's massacre. After graduating from high school, he joined the US Navy, then later transferred to the Merchant Navy, from which he was discharged in 1989 for possessing marijuana as well as for making racist remarks. - Ali Hassan Al-Majid
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born 1941) is a former Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister and military commander. A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns of deportations and mass killings against its Kurdish and Shi'ite populations. He was captured following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was charged with war crimes. - Shoko Asahara
Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃 "Asahara Shōkō") (born Chizuo Matsumoto on March 2, 1955) is the founder of Japan's controversial Buddhist religious group Aum Shinrikyo (now known as Aleph). Asahara has been convicted of masterminding the 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and several other crimes, and has been sentenced to death. His legal team appealed the sentence, but the appeal has been declined, and he is currently awaiting execution. - Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is an American serial killer. He, along with John Allen Muhammed, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks. A jury in Virginia convicted Malvo of capital murder on December 18, 2003, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on March 10, 2004. He has since pleaded guilty to six additional murders in Maryland, … - Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons (25 June 1990) was a retired United States Air Force sergeant who killed sixteen people, 14 of whom were members of his family, and wounded three others. - John D. Lee
John Doyle Lee (September 12, 1812 - March 23, 1877) was a prominent early Latter-day Saint (LDS or Mormon) who was executed for his role in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. - Marcus Wesson
Marcus Wesson (b. 1946) is an American man convicted of nine counts of first-degree murder and 14 rape crimes, including the rape and molestation of his underage daughters. All of his victims were his own children, fathered by incestuous relationships with his daughters and nieces, as well as the children by his wife. It is to date Fresno, California's worst mass murder. After a March 12, 2004 standoff with police over a child custody issue, … - John Chivington
John Milton Chivington (January 27, 1821 - October 4, 1892) was a 19th century United States Army officer noted for his role in the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War and in the Colorado War. He was celebrated as the hero of the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass, and later became infamous for his role in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. - Wayne Lo
Wayne Lo (born November 14, 1974) is an American school shooter. He was one of the first school shooters of the 1990s. - Jack Gilbert Graham
John "Jack" Gilbert Graham (January 23, 1932 - January 11, 1957) was a mass murderer who killed 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629. Flight 629 was utilizing a Douglas DC-6B airliner that took off from Denver, Colorado's Stapleton Airport, bound for Portland, Oregon, on the evening of November 1, 1955. Its pilot was Lee Hall, a World War II veteran. - Denis Lortie
Denis Lortie is a former Canadian army corporal. In 1984, he stormed into the National Assembly of Quebec building and killed three Quebec government employees. A corporal with the Royal 22<sup>e</sup> Régiment of the Canadian Forces, Lortie was disgruntled with a number of policies of the Quebec and federal governments. He planned a killing spree as a means of broadcasting his discontent. - James J. Bulger
James J. "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. (born on September 3, 1929) is a wanted fugitive and alleged leader, along with fellow mobster Stephen Flemmi, of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family operating in the region of Boston, Massachusetts. He is the brother of William Michael Bulger who rose to become President of the Massachusetts State Senate and president of the University of Massachusetts. - Albert Guay
Joseph-Albert Guay (most commonly known as Albert Guay was a resident of Quebec City who was responsible for the in-flight bombing of a passenger airplane on September 9 1949, killing all on board including his wife Rita (née Morel). The incident and subsequent trials of Guay and his accomplices were notorious in Quebec and received very wide newspaper coverage.
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