- Igor The Assassin
Igor the Assassin is the code-name for an ex-KGB officer believed to have been the murderer of Alexander Litvinenko. He reportedly works for Russian espionage agency SVR. He is said to be a former Spetznaz officer born in 1960 who is a Judo master and walks with a slight limp. He speaks perfect English and Portuguese. He may be the same person who served Litvinenko tea in a London hotel room prior to his death.
- Stealth Assassin
Stealth Assassin is a midwest smooth blues rapper known informally as Lucky. Stealth Assassin's first true single, Case Closed, premiers on the solo album released in April of 2007, "Flame On".
- Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders.
- Assassin
Assassin (born December 22, 1982 as Jeffrey Campbell in Papine, Jamaica) is a Dancehall Deejay. He was discovered by Spragga Benz, who also helped him to a contract with Penthouse Records. Through Donovan Germain he got to VP Records.
- John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head - the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member of the prominent Booth family of actors.
- Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died.
- James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 - April 23, 1998) was convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which occurred on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray also has the distinction of having been twice placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
- Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is the convicted assassin of United States Senator Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in Corcoran, California.
- Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964 in South Bend, Indiana) is a film and television actress. After graduating from Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences, Fox moved to California to become an actress, first on soap operas such as "Generations", "Days of Our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless". One of her earliest roles saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, …
- Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin.
- Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk, an American politician and gay rights activist, was the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated in 1978. His assassin, Dan White, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Outrage over the verdict led to widespread rioting in San Francisco by enraged homosexuals and others. Milk is seen by some to be a martyr to the LGBT community.
- John Hinckley Jr.
John Warnock Hinckley, Jr. (born May 29, 1955) attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.
- Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is the American man who shot and killed musician John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He remained at the scene until arrested and claimed the book "The Catcher in the Rye" would explain his perspective and motivation. Chapman was allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder before his trial began and, despite being assessed as delusional and possibly psychotic, was sentenced to 20 years to life.
- Sara Jane Moore
Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had attempted to assassinate Ford.
- Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday, more fully Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, was the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.
- Ted Bell
Ted Bell is a "New York Times" bestselling author of books such as "Hawke" and "Assassin". He is best known for his series of thriller novels featuring the character Alex Hawke. Before becoming a novelist he was Vice-Chairman of the Board and World-Wide Creative Director for the Young & Rubicam advertising agency.
- Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip was an ethnic Serb, but later proclaimed to be a Yugoslav Nationalist, with links to a group known as the Black Hand (Црна Рука or "Crna Ruka") and Mlada Bosna, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The event was the catalyst for the Austria-Hungarian action against the Kingdom of Serbia that led to World War I. Princip is commonly known, rightly or wrongly, …
- Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Vinayak Godse was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
- Dan White
Daniel James "Dan" White was a former San Francisco City Supervisor who assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978 at City Hall. In a controversial verdict, which led to the coining of the legal slang "the Twinkie defense," White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder.
- Victor Garber
Victor Joseph Garber (born on March 16, 1949 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a six-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber began acting at the age of nine, joining the University of Toronto's Hart House at age 15. In 1967 he formed a folk band called The Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood and Lee Harris.
- Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, originally calling it "the Palestinian Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood". In addition to being nearly blind, he was a paraplegic and had to use a wheelchair after a playground accident in his youth. He was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter gunship.
- Mary Surratt
Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (May/June 1823 in Waterloo, Maryland, USA - July 7, 1865 in Washington, D.C), was a member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and the first woman executed by the United States federal government, for her role in the conspiracy. She was executed by hanging. She was the mother of John Surratt, also alleged to be involved in the conspiracy.
- Roger Williams
Roger Williams (1539/40 - 1595) was a Welsh soldier of fortune. Williams was in the Netherlands fighting on behalf of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, when the latter was assassinated, and helped capture the assassin, Balthazar Gerards. Knighted after the Battle of Zutphen in 1586 by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, he accompanied Sir Francis Drake to Portugal, and later fought on behalf of the French Huguenots.
- Jim Miller
James B. "Killer" Miller, (1866-April 19, 1909) was also known as Deacon Jim because of his habit of preaching when drunk, was an outlaw and assassin of the American Old West who was lynched by a mob of angry citizens over his assassination of a former sheriff.
- Mohammed Bouyeri
Mohammed Bouyeri (born March 8 1978 in Amsterdam), is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. He holds both Dutch and Moroccan citizenship.
- Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau (September 8, 1841 - June 30, 1882) was an American lawyer who assassinated President James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881. He was sentenced to death by hanging in 1882.
- Philippe Djian
Philippe Djian is a popular French author of Armenian descent. Djian is graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs he published first a volume of short stories, "50 contre 1" (1981), then novels "Bleu comme l'enfer" (1982), and "Zone érogène" (1984), before becoming famous with "37°2 le matin" (1985) which was filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1986; English title "Betty Blue"), "Maudit Manège" (1986), …
- Boston Corbett
Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett (1832 - presumed dead 1894) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He disappeared after 1888 and is believed to have died in Minnesota in 1894, but this is unproven.
- Marwan Barghouti
Marwan Bin Khatib Barghouti is a Palestinian leader from the West Bank and a leader of the Fatah movement. He is considered to be the leader of Fatah's 'young guard', and is renowned for his unparalleled grassroots popularity and pragmaticism with regards to making peace with the state of Israel. He is currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail for murder and attempted murder. During prisoner negotiations at the end of 2006, Hamas demanded his release, …
- Marcia
Marcia Aurelia Ceionia Demetrias, better known as Marcia, was the mistress and one of the assassins of 2nd century AD Roman Emperor Commodus. Though her birthdate is unknown, Marcia was the daughter of Marcia Aurelius Sabinianus, a freedwoman of the co-emperor Lucius Verus.
- Giuseppe Zangara
Giuseppe Zangara (September 7, 1900 - March 20, 1933) attempted to kill United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Zangara was born in Ferruzzano, Italy. After serving in the Tyrolian Alps in World War I, Zangara did a variety of menial jobs in his home town before emigrating with his uncle in Paterson, New Jersey, to the United States in 1923. On September 11, 1929, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Muse Watson
Muse Watson (born July 20, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American actor. Watson attended Louisiana Tech on a music stipend for two years before transferring to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he performed for the first time on stage as Petruchio in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. During and after his years at Berea, he worked in outdoor dramas, dinner theaters, and small repertory groups.
- Lewis Powell
Lewis Thornton Powell (April 22, 1844 - July 7, 1865), also known as Lewis Paine or Payne, attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, and was one of four people hanged for the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
- Wadih El-Hage
Wadih el-Hage alias Abd'al Sabur alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
- Tom Horn
Tom Horn (November 21, 1860 - November 20, 1903) was an American Old West lawman, scout, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw and assassin during his lifetime. On the day before his 43rd birthday, he was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming for a murder he probably did not commit. Although Horn's exploits as an assassin far overshadowed any other accomplishments he made during his lifetime, …
- Mark Shreeve
Mark Shreeve is one of the most influential electronic music composers working today.
- El Sayyid Nosair
El Sayyid Nosair (born November 16, 1955) is an Egyptian-born American citizen and terrorist involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. El Sayyid Nosair was convicted of nine counts, including seditious conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, attempted murder of a postal police officer, use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, use of a firearm during an attempted murder, and possession of a firearm.
- Nicolas Boukhrief
Nicolas Boukhrief (born June 4, 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. Boukhrief began his career as journalist. In 1990, he created "the Newspaper of the cinema" on Canal+ and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he became adviser with the programming cinema on the same network. Since January 1997, he is a programmer and presenter of "My film club" on Canal+.
- George Atzerodt
George Andreas Atzerodt (June 12, 1835 - July 7, 1865)<sup>;</sup> was a conspirator with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Atzerodt immigrated from Germany in 1843 when he was 8 years old. He opened his own carriage repair business in Port Tobacco, Maryland. He was chosen by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, but lost his nerve and failed to make the attempt.
- Volkert van der Graaf
Volkert van der Graaf (born July 9, 1969) is the confessed murderer of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. Although Van der Graaf is often described as supporter of animal rights, he confessed in court to murdering Fortuyn to stop him from targeting "the weak parts of society to score points" in seeking political power. Van der Graaf was born in Middelburg and by the time he attended university in Wageningen, he was vegan and an idealistic supporter of animal welfare.