# Lists of murders

Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.

## By location

* List of assassinations, sorted by continent and country
* List of assassinations in Africa
* List of assassinations in Asia
* List of assassinations in Europe
* List of familicides in Europe
* List of journalists killed in Europe
* List of massacres in Afghanistan
* List of massacres in Albania
* List of massacres in Algeria
* List of massacres in Argentina
* List of massacres in Australia
** List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
* List of unsolved murders in Australia
* List of massacres in Azerbaijan
* List of massacres in Bangladesh
* List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
* List of massacres in Belarus
* List of massacres in Belgium
* List of massacres in Brazil
* List of massacres in Bulgaria
* List of massacres in Burundi
* List of massacres in Canada
* List of unsolved murders in Canada
* List of massacres in Chile
* List of massacres in China
* List of massacres in Colombia
* List of massacres in Cyprus
* List of massacres in the Czech Republic
* List of massacres in the Dominican Republic
* List of massacres in East Timor
* List of massacres in Egypt
* List of massacres in El Salvador
* List of massacres in Finland
* List of massacres in France
* List of massacres in Germany
* List of massacres in Great Britain
* List of massacres in Greece
* List of massacres in Guatemala
* Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala
* List of journalists killed in Guatemala
* List of massacres in Guyana
* List of massacres in Haiti
* List of journalists killed in Honduras
* List of massacres in Hungary
* List of massacres in India
* List of journalists killed in India
** List of journalists killed in Assam, a state in India
* List of massacres in Indonesia
* List of massacres in Iraq
* List of massacres in Ireland
* List of massacres in ancient Israel
* List of massacres in Israel
* List of massacres in Italy
* List of massacres in Jamaica
* List of massacres in Japan
* List of massacres in Kenya
* List of massacres in Latvia
* List of massacres in Lebanon
* List of massacres in Libya
* List of massacres in Lithuania
* List of massacres in Macedonia
* List of massacres in Malaysia
* List of killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine
* List of massacres in Mexico
* List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
* List of massacres in Myanmar, aka Burma
* List of massacres in Nepal
* List of massacres in New Zealand
* List of massacres in Nigeria
* List of massacres in North Korea
* List of massacres in Ottoman Syria and Lebanon
* List of massacres in the Palestinian territories
* List of massacres in Palestine
* List of massacres in Peru
* List of massacres in the Philippines
* List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines
* List of massacres in Poland
* List of massacres in Romania
* List of massacres in Russia
* List of journalists killed in Russia
* List of massacres in Rwanda
* List of massacres in São Tomé and Príncipe
* List of massacres in Serbia
* List of massacres in Singapore
* List of massacres in Slovakia
* List of massacres in Slovenia
* List of massacres in the Solomon Islands
* List of massacres in South Africa
* Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa
* List of massacres in South Korea
* List of massacres in the Soviet Union
* List of massacres in Spain
* List of massacres in Sri Lanka
* List of massacres in Sudan
* List of massacres in Syria
* List of massacres in Taiwan
* List of journalists killed in Tajikistan
* List of massacres in Thailand
* List of massacres in Turkey
* List of journalists killed in Turkey
* List of massacres in Ukraine
* List of massacres in the United States
* List of journalists killed in the United States
* List of 2012 murders in the United States
* List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
* List of massacres in Venezuela
* List of massacres in Vietnam
* List of massacres in Yugoslavia

## By nationality of victim

* List of murdered American children
* List of assassinated American politicians
* List of assassinated Indian politicians
* List of assassinated Lebanese politicians
* List of assassinated people from Turkey
* List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland)
* List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
* List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

## Political and state-sanctioned murders

* List of assassinated American politicians
* List of assassinated Indian politicians
* List of Iranian assassinations
* List of Israeli assassinations
* List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Sri Lankan communist party
* List of assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection (Sri Lanka), attributed to both the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and government forces
* List of Soviet and Russian assassinations (disambiguation)
* List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka)
* List of people killed by Sri Lankan government forces
* Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa
* List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
* List of assassinated human rights activists, including political dissidents

## By war

* List of massacres in the Bosnian War
* List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence
* List of assassinations of the Iraq War
* List of Second Chechen War assassinations
* List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War

## By office

* List of murdered popes
* List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots, including the four successful assassinations
* List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office
* List of United States federal judges killed in office

## By occupation

    These lists may include accidental deaths.
    Ordered by occupation.
* List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
* List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
* List of journalists killed in Europe
* List of journalists killed in Guatemala
* List of journalists killed in Honduras
* List of journalists killed in India
** List of journalists killed in Assam, a state in India
* List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
* List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines
* List of journalists killed in Russia
* List of journalists killed in Tajikistan
* List of journalists killed in Turkey
* List of journalists killed in the United States
* List of murdered hip hop musicians
* List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland)
* List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty
* List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States
* List of assassinated American politicians
* List of assassinated Indian politicians
* Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala

## By type of victim

* List of murdered American children
* List of familicides, in which at least half of the victims were relatives of the perpetrator or the perpetrator's spouse. Cases with more than one offender are not included.
* List of rampage killers (familicides in Europe)
* List of regicides
* List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
* List of patricides
* List of people killed for being transgender

## By method

* List of axe murders
* List of lynching victims in the United States
* List of mass car bombings, restricted to those which resulted in at least two deaths

## Unsolved murders

* List of unsolved murders (before the 20th century)
* List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
* List of unsolved murders (1980–2000)
* List of unsolved murders (2000–present)
* List of unsolved murders in Australia
* List of unsolved murders in Canada
* List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

## Other

* List of postal killings, murders which occurred on post office property or were post office-related