# Assassin (disambiguation)

An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.
The origin of the term is the medieval Order of Assassins, a sect of Shia Islam 1090–1275 CE.
Assassin, or variants, may also refer to:

## Fictional characters

* Assassin, in the Japanese adult visual novel Fate/stay night
* Assassin, in the Japanese light novel Fate/Zero
* The Assassin, in the 2006 Noble Warriors book trilogy
* The Hassassin, in Angels & Demons, 2000
* League of Assassins, in DC Comics
* Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild, in Discworld
* Assassin, in the Soulcalibur II game
* Assassin (character class), in games
** Assassin (Dungeons & Dragons)

## Film and television
### Film

* Assassin (1969 film), a South Korean thriller
* Assassin (1973 film), a British thriller
* Assassin, a 1986 TV movie starring Robert Conrad
* Assassins (1995 film), starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas
* Assassin (2015 film), starring Danny Dyer
* Assassins (2020 film), an American documentary
* Assassin (2023 film), starring Bruce Willis
* Assassin(s), a 1997 French film
* The Assassin, British title for Gunfighters, a 1947 American film
* The Assassin, American title for Venetian Bird, a 1952 British film
* The Assassin (1961 film), an Italian crime drama
* The Assassin, a 1967 Shaw Brothers film
* The Assassin, or Point of No Return (1993 film)
* The Assassin (2015 film), a wuxia film
* The Assassin (2023 film), a South Korean historical action-drama
* The Assassins (film), a 2012 Chinese film

### Television

* "Assassin" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
* "Assassin", a 1981 episode of Blake's 7
* "Assassins" (Desperate Housewives)
* "The Assassin" (The Borgias), a 2011 episode
* "The Assassin", an episode of MacGyver (1985 TV series)
* "Assassin" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

## Gaming

* Assassin (video game), 1992
* The Assassin (cancelled video game)
* Assassin (game), a live-action game
* Assassin!, a The Way of the Tiger gamebook

## Literature

* Assassin (Cain novel), by Tom Cain, 2008
* Assassins (LaHaye novel), by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye, 1999
* "L'Assassin", an 1887 short story by Guy de Maupassant
* The Assassini, a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
* The Assassins, a 1972 novel by Elia Kazan
* The Assassins, a 2005 novel by Oliver North and Joe Musser
* The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, a 1967 non-fiction book by Bernard Lewis
* Krondor: The Assassins, a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist

## Music
### Groups

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

### Albums

* Assassin (album), by Assassin, 1984
* Assassins, by Into a Circle, 1984
* Assassins: Black Meddle, Part I, by Nachtmystium, 2008
* I, Assassin, by Gary Numan, 1982
* The Assassin (album), by Big Ed, 1998

### Songs

* "Assassin" (The Orb song), 1992
* "Assassin", a song by John Mayer from the 2009 album Battle Studies
* "Assassin", a song by Morbid Saint from the 1989 album Spectrum of Death
* "Assassin", a song by Motörhead from the 1998 album Snake Bite Love
* "Assassin", a song by Muse from the 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations
* "Assassing", a song by Marillion from the 1994 album Fugazi
* "Assassins", a song by Lightning Bolt from the 2003 album Wonderful Rainbow
* "Assassins", a song by The Insane Clown Posse from the 1999 album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
* "The Assassin", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying

## Sport

* 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 streetball player Brandon Durham
* The Assassin, a ring name of professional wrestler Jody Hamilton
* Assassins (professional wrestling), a wrestling tag team

## Other uses

* Assassins (musical), 1990, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
* The Assassin (play), by Irwin Shaw, 1945
* Assassin, a 2005 tour and comedy album by Margaret Cho