List of snipers - wikipedia List of snipers Look up sniper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sniper is a trained marksman who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain close visual contact with a target and engage the targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the detection capabilities of enemy personnel. Contents 1 Military snipers 2 Non-military snipers 3 See also 4 References Military snipers Some notable military snipers include : Name Birth Active Confirmed Country Comments Hiram Berdan 1824 -- 1893 1861 -- 1864 0 ! N / A United States Commanded 1st and 2nd US Sharpshooters during the American Civil War. Noah Adamia 1919 -- 1942 1938 -- 1942 200 ! 200 + Soviet Union A Soviet Georgian naval infantryman who is credited with over 200 kills and several tanks knocked out within a couple months during WWII. Vasilij Kvachantiradze 1907 -- 1950 1941 -- 1945 534 ! 534 Soviet Union A Soviet Georgian sniper who is credited with 534 kills during WWII, one of if not possibly the highest Soviet kill counts. Known for almost single - handedly thwarting a German assault on Shumilino in Belarus. Mikhail Budenkov 1919 -- 1941 -- 1945 437 ! 437 Soviet Union Herman Davis 1888 -- 1923 1918 060 ! 60 United States Fedir Dyachenko 1917 -- 1995 1932 -- 1945 425 ! 425 Soviet Union Rob Furlong 1976 -- 1996 -- 2003 01 ! 1 + Canada A Canadian Army sniper who held the record for the kill from the greatest distance. Leysters Greener d. 1917 1914 -- 1917 054 ! 54 United Kingdom Vasilij Golosov 1911 -- 1943 1941 -- 1943 422 ! 422 Soviet Union Gary Gordon 1960 -- 1993 1978 -- 1993 0 ! N / A United States Delta Force sniper who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the injured crew of a downed helicopter during the Battle of Mogadishu. Mark Osmond ( pseudonym ) 1986 - 2007 - 2011 44 ! 44 United Kingdom British sniper with 4 Rifles credited with 44 confirmed kills in Afghanistan including two Taliban insurgents dispatched with a single bullet. Craig Harrison 1974 -- 1990 -- 2014 01 ! 1 + United Kingdom British Army sniper who achieved the longest confirmed kill shot in history ( 2,475 m ) using the Accuracy International L115A3 Long Range Rifle. Unnamed Royal Marine corporal 173 ! 173 United Kingdom Reputedly the deadliest sniper alive as of 2015 with 173 confirmed kills, mostly with the L115A3 on one tour of Afghanistan in 2006 -- 2007, including over 90 Taliban in one day. Carlos Hathcock 1942 -- 1999 1959 -- 1979 093 ! 93 United States Renowned United States Marine Corps sniper with 93 confirmed kills. Simo Häyhä 1905 -- 2002 1925 -- 1940 542 ! 542 Finland A Finnish sniper known as `` The White Death, '' who holds the record for highest number of confirmed sniper kills. Häyhä was credited with 542 confirmed sniper kills of Soviet soldiers accomplished in fewer than 100 days during the Winter War. Matthäus Hetzenauer 1924 -- 2004 1943 -- 1945 345 ! 345 Nazi Germany Infamous German sniper on the Eastern Front during World War II who was credited with 345 kills between 1943 and 1945. Abukhadzhi Idrisov 1918 -- 1983 1939 -- 1944 349 ! 349 + Soviet Union A Soviet Chechen sniper with an alleged 349 plus kills during World War II. Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin 1925 -- 1943 1941 -- 1943 469 ! 469 Soviet Union Nicholas Irving 2004 -- 2010 033 ! 33 United States A sniper with the 3rd Ranger Battalion deployed in Afghanistan in 2009 with 33 confirmed kills. Tatang Koswara 1947 -- 2015 1975 -- 1976 041 ! 41 Indonesia A sniper credited with at least 41 confirmed kills during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in the 1970s. Ivan Kulbertinov 1941 -- 1945 489 ! 489 Soviet Union Chris Kyle 1974 -- 2013 1999 -- 2009 160 ! 160 United States A US Navy SEAL credited with 160 confirmed kills. Musa Herdem 1987 - 2015 2006 -- 2015 080 ! 80 Rojava PJAK PKK A YPG sniper known as ' Musa ' with allegedly more than 80 confirmed kills, mainly during the fighting for Kobani. Marie Ljalková 1920 -- 2011 1942 -- 1953 030 ! 30 Czechoslovakia A Czech sniper fighting within the Soviet Army during the second world war with at least 30 confirmed kills. Ranjith Premasiri Madalana 1969 -- 2009 2000 - 2009 180 ! 180 Sri Lanka Sniper in the Sri Lanka Army during the country 's civil war, who is alleged to have killed over 180 Tamil Tigers. Chuck Mawhinney 1949 -- 1967 -- 1970 103 ! 103 United States A United States Marine Corps sniper who holds the record for most confirmed kills by a US Marine ( 103 ). Herbert W. McBride 1873 -- 1933 1914 -- 1918 100 ! 100 + United States US citizen and captain in the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. Philip McDonald 1886 -- 1916 1914 -- 1916 070 ! 70 Canada 8th Battalion ( 90th Winnipeg Rifles ), CEF, 70 confirmed kills during the First World War. Killed in action 3 January 1916. Neville Methven 1916 -- 1918 100 ! 100 South Africa Big game hunter and target shooter who served as an officer with Sir Abe Bailey 's South African Sharpshooters on the Western Front. Timothy Murphy 1751 -- 1818 1775 -- 1780 01 ! 1 + United States An American Revolutionary War sniper who killed British General Simon Fraser during the Battle of Saratoga. Semyon Nomokonov 1900 -- 1973 1941 -- 1945 367 ! 367 Soviet Union A Soviet World War II sniper with 367 logged kills. Henry Norwest 1884 -- 1918 1915 -- 1918 115 ! 115 Canada A sniper in the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion during the First World War. He had 115 confirmed kills and was killed by a German sniper on August 18, 1918. Fyodor Okhlopkov 1908 -- 1968 1941 -- 1945 423 ! 423 Soviet Union One of the most effective Soviet snipers, credited with 423 confirmed kills during World War II. Johnson Paudash 1875 -- 1959 1914 -- 1918 088 ! 88 Canada 21st Battalion ( Eastern Ontario ), CEF during World War One. 88 confirmed kills. Lyudmila Pavlichenko 1916 -- 1974 1941 -- 1953 309 ! 309 Soviet Union Was the most successful female sniper during World War II. She served the Soviet army and has 309 confirmed kills. Vladimir Pchelintsev 1920 -- 1941 -- 1945 456 ! 456 Soviet Union Stepan Petrenko 1922 -- 1984 1941 -- 1945 422 ! 422 Soviet Union Francis Pegahmagabow 1891 -- 1952 1914 -- 1919 378 ! 378 Canada An Indigenous North American sniper in World War I who is credited with 378 kills, and an unknown number of unconfirmed kills. Friedrich Pein 1915 -- 1975 1943 -- 1945 200 ! 200 + Austria Austrian fighting in the German Army credited with over 200 kills on the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945 during the Second World War. Arron Perry 1972 -- 1999 -- 2005 01 ! 1 + Canada A Canadian Army sniper who briefly held the record for the longest - ever recorded and confirmed sniper kill in 2002. Graham Ragsdale 1969 -- 0 ! N / A Canada A former Canadian Army sniper who fought in Afghanistan in 2003. Patrick Riel 1876 -- 1916 1914 -- 1916 030 ! 30 Canada Métis Canadian attached to the 8th Battalion ( 90th Winnipeg Rifles ), CEF during the First World War with 30 confirmed kills. KIA January 14, 1916 by shell fire. Ben Roberts - Smith 1978 -- 1996 -- 0 ! N / A Australia Served as a sniper with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment. He was awarded the Medal of Gallantry for his actions in 2006 during Operation Perth in the Chora Valley of Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Ian Robertson 1927 -- 2014 1945 -- 1953 030 ! 30 + Australia Served as a sniper with Australia 's 3RAR post World War 2. He became one of the most effective snipers during the Korean War. In one morning he killed 30 enemy soldiers. Roza Shanina 1924 -- 1945 1943 -- 1945 059 ! 59 Soviet Union A Soviet sniper during the Second World War, credited with 59 confirmed kills, including 12 soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. Randy Shughart 1958 -- 1993 1976 -- 1993 0 ! N / A United States Delta Force sniper who posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the injured crew of a downed helicopter during the Battle of Mogadishu. Ivan Sidorenko 1919 -- 1994 1939 -- 1945 500 ! 500 + Soviet Union A Soviet sniper credited with over 500 kills during the Second World War. Billy Sing 1886 -- 1943 1914 -- 1918 150 ! 150 + Australia An Australian soldier in WW1 was credited with over 150 confirmed kills. Bruno Sutkus 1924 -- 2003 1944 -- 1945 209 ! 209 Lithuania Lithuanian fighting in the German Army. Credited with 209 kills on the Eastern Front between 1944 and 1945 during the Second World War. Zhang Taofang 1931 -- 2007 1951 -- 1953 214 ! 214 China A Chinese sniper who fought in the Korean War with 214 confirmed kills in 32 days. Adelbert Waldron 1933 -- 1995 1968 -- 1970 109 ! 109 United States A United States Army sniper who formerly held the record for the most confirmed kills by a US military sniper ( 109 ). Alvin C. York 1887 -- 1964 1917 -- 1918 028 ! 28 United States 82nd Infantry Division, an expert sharpshooter using an M1917 Enfield rifle during the Meuse - Argonne offensive near Chatel - Chéhéry, France, 1918 in World War I. Medal of Honor recipient. Vasily Zaytsev 1915 -- 1991 1937 -- 1945 242 ! 242 Soviet Union A Soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaytsev is credited with 242 kills ( including 11 snipers ). Non-military snipers Not all snipers are highly trained professional soldiers. The term is sometimes used to describe criminals firing from cover at long range with a rifle and police sharpshooters. Some notable non-military snipers include : William `` Billy '' Dixon ( 1850 -- 1913 ), defended the Adobe Walls settlement against Indian attack with his legendary buffalo rifle, and was one of eight civilians in United States history to receive the Medal of Honor. Frank Carter ( 1881 -- 1927 ) was a notorious murderer in Omaha, Nebraska, who claimed to have murdered 43 victims. Michael Andrew Clark ( 1949 -- 1965 ), teenage sniper who killed three and wounded six in Highway 101 shooting spree on April 25, 1965. Jack Hinson ( 1807 -- 1874 ) was a farmer who engaged Union troops at long range during the American Civil War and recorded 36 officer `` kills '' on his custom - made. 50 caliber Kentucky long rifle with iron sights. Lon Horiuchi ( born 1954 ), a Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who shot Randy Weaver and shot and killed Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Thomas `` Tom '' Horn, Jr. ( 1860 -- 1903 ) an American Old West lawman, scout, and hired gunman, known for shooting cattle rustlers and sheepherders at long range with a Sharps rifle. John Allen Muhammad ( 1960 -- 2009 ) and Lee Boyd Malvo ( born 1975 ), perpetrators of the Beltway sniper attacks, a series of coordinated shootings that took place over three weeks in October 2002 in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Ten people were killed and three other victims were critically injured in several locations throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia. Byron De La Beckwith ( 1920 - 2001 ), ex-US Marine and white supremacist, assassinated NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers after the civil rights activist arrived home in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald ( 1939 -- 1963 ), ex -- US Marine, assassinated President John F. Kennedy and shot Governor John Connally in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and shot at General Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963. Charles Whitman ( 1941 -- 1966 ), college student and ex -- US Marine who fired from a clock tower on the University of Texas Austin campus, killing 14 and wounding 32 on August 1, 1966. See also List of books, articles and documentaries about snipers Sniper ( disambiguation ) List of sniper rifles Counter-sniper tactics Snipers of the Soviet Union Longest recorded sniper kills References ^ Jump up to : Senich, Peter R. ( 1988 ). The Complete Book of U.S. Sniping. Boulder : Paladin Press. pp. 50 -- 57. ISBN 978 - 0 - 87364 - 460 - 0. ^ Jump up to : Friscolanti,, Michael ( 15 May 2006 ), We were abandoned, Rogers Publishing, pp. 18 -- 25 ^ Jump up to : Durant, Michael J. ; Hartov, Steve ( 2003 ). In The Company of Heroes : A True Story. Putnam Publishing Group. ISBN 0 - 399 - 15060 - 9. Jump up ^ `` Dead Men Risen : The snipers ' story ''. Daily Telegraph. London. 13 March 2011. Jump up ^ `` British sniper Craig Harrison ( The Silent Assassin ) breaks record, kills target from 1.5 miles away ''. Daily News. New York. 3 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Jump up ^ `` British Royal Marine is world 's deadliest sniper ''. The Daily Telegraph. London. 2 February 2015. Jump up ^ Sasser, Charles ; Roberts, Craig ( 1990 ). One Shot, One Kill ( 1990 ed. ). Pocket Books. ISBN 978 - 0 - 671 - 68219 - 4. Jump up ^ Kennedy, Harold ( March 2003 ). `` Marine Corps Sets Sights on More Precise Shooting ''. National Defense Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 January 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2007. Founded in 1977, the school 's first staff NCOIC was the famed sniper, Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock II, who was credited with 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam. Jump up ^ Stirling, Robert ( 20 December 2012 ). Special Forces Sniper Skills. Osprey Publishing. pp. 79 -- 80. ISBN 978 - 1 - 78096 - 003 - 6. Jump up ^ http://controversialtimes.com/military/10-deadliest-snipers-in-history-1-is-absolutely-crazy/ Jump up ^ Scherzer, Veit ( 2007 ). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939 -- 1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen - SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives ( The Knight 's Cross Bearers 1939 -- 1945 The Holders of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen - SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives ) ( in German ). Jena, Germany : Scherzers Miltaer - Verlag. ISBN 978 - 3 - 938845 - 17 - 2. Jump up ^ Connelly, Sherryl ( 24 January 2015 ). `` ' The Reaper ' is gripping autobiography of sniper who killed record 33 Taliban in Afghanistan deployment ''. Daily News. Retrieved 8 February 2015. Jump up ^ `` '' Indonesian Sniper '' Tatang Koswara passes away at 68 ``. Coconuts Media. Retrieved 4 March 2015. Jump up ^ Buiso, Gary ( 1 January 2012 ). `` Meet the big shot ''. Retrieved 2 February 2015. Jump up ^ Buiso, Gary ( 1 January 2015 ). `` Gritty Kurdish fighter gloats over recapture of Kobane ''. Retrieved 2 February 2015. Jump up ^ Infolanka. How the LTTE was ' military ' defeated : A Soldier 's view - Part Seven. infolanka.asia. Infolanka. Retrieved 28 March 2015. It is ' Juba ' the sniper who causes havoc in Iraq and it was Corporal W.I. Ranjith Premasiri alias ' Nero ' of SLA who was responsible for the deaths of more than 180 Tiger cadres, before his demise on 28 April 2009. Jump up ^ Perry, Tony ( 22 January 2000 ). `` A Sniper at Peace With His Duties ''. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 April 2011. Jump up ^ `` Herbert W. McBride ( 1873 -- 1933 ) ''. TeeJawa. Retrieved 20 May 2015. Jump up ^ Номоконов - вновь на коне ( in Russian ). Zabmedia. 13 January 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2014. Jump up ^ `` Sharpshooter : Henry Louis Norwest ''. Government of Canada. Retrieved 21 January 2015. ^ Jump up to : Haskew, Michael ( 1 November 2005 ). The Sniper at War : From the American Revolutionary War to the Present Day. St. Martin 's Press. pp. 65, 73 -- 74. ISBN 978 - 0 - 312 - 33651 - 6. Jump up ^ `` Johnson Paudash MM ''. http://21stbattalion.ca/. Retrieved 29 January 2015. External link in publisher = ( help ) Jump up ^ Brownlie, Robin ( 2003 ). A Fatherly Eye : Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918 -- 1939. University of Toronto Press. p. 63. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 541784 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Private Patrick Riel ''. Canadian Great War Project. Retrieved 23 November 2015. Jump up ^ Nicholson, Brendan ( 23 April 2011 ). `` You think I 'm brave ? Meet my mates : Ben Roberts - Smith ''. theaustralian.com.au. The Australian. Retrieved 11 February 2012. Jump up ^ `` A sniper 's tale ''. The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 April 2004. Jump up ^ Hamilton, J.C.M. ( 2008 ). Gallipoli Sniper : The life of Billy Sing. Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia. p. 6. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4050 - 3865 - 2. Jump up ^ Stronge, Charles ( 25 January 2011 ). Kill Shot : The 15 Deadliest Snipers of All Time. Ulysses Press. p. 91. ISBN 978 - 1 - 56975 - 862 - 5. Jump up ^ Kirchner, Paul ( 2009 ). More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived. Boulder : Paladin Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 58160 - 690 - 4. Jump up ^ `` Sniper Shoots Council Bluffs Detective ; Terror of People Hits Omaha 's Business ''. The New York Times. 20 February 1926. Jump up ^ Demaris, Ovid ( 1971 ). America the Violent. Penguin Books. p. 344. Jump up ^ McKenney, Tom ( 23 September 2010 ). Jack Hinson 's One - man War : A Civil War Sniper. Pelican Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4556 - 0646 - 7. Jump up ^ Witkin, Gordon ( 11 September 1995 ). `` The nightmare of Idaho 's Ruby Ridge ''. US News & World Report. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Anderson, Dan & Laurence J. Yadon ( 2007 ), 100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters, and Lawmen : 1839 -- 1939, Pelican Publishing Company, p. 231, ISBN 978 - 1 - 58980 - 384 - 8 Jump up ^ Bugliosi, Vincent ( 2007 ). Reclaiming History : The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Norton. ISBN 0 - 393 - 04525 - 0. Jump up ^ Cawthorne, Nigel ( 2007 ). Serial Killers And Mass Murderers : Profiles of the World 's Most Barbaric Criminals. Ulysses Press. ISBN 1 - 569 - 75578 - 7. 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Question: who holds the record for most confirmed sniper kills in history
Answer: Simo Häyhä