# List of contract killers and hitmen

This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes.
The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target. A hitman, on the other hand, is a term that is often synonymous with contract killer although it can also be used to denote a criminal who frequently carries out a targeted killing (referred to as a "hit") on behalf of an organized crime syndicate to which they are affiliated with. Furthermore, the title of enforcer can also be interchangeable with the latter of the two as it is generally associated with gangsters even though not all gang enforcers necessarily resort to homicide on a regular basis or even at all.
Persons who have only carried out an assassination-style murder at the behest of their own motivation, without having either a criminal background, or links to the criminal underworld or other such groups, do not qualify as hitmen. They are not to be included in this list, nor are assassins who perform killings under the discretion of an official government unless they are purposely done in extrajudicial manner.

## Australia

* Rodney Charles Collins
* Christopher Dale Flannery
* Keith Faure
* Evangelos Goussis
* Lindsey Robert Rose
* Andrew Benji Veniamin

## Brazil

* Maia "Mainha" Cunha
* Julio Santana

## Canada

* Richard Blass
* Howard Doyle Berry
* Bal Buttar
* Salvatore Calautti
* David Carroll
* Paul "Fon Fon" Fontaine
* Gerald Gallant
* Dean Daniel Kelsie
* Cecil Kirby
* Donald Lavoie
* Jackie McLaughlin
* Kenneth Murdock
* Dwight Mushey
* Serge Quesnel
* Armand Sanguigni
* Aimé Simard
* Réal Simard
* Yves Trudeau
* Dean Michael Wiwchar

## Chile

* José Ruz Rodríguez

## China

* Xi Guangan
* Ling Xiansi

## Colombia

* Andrés Leonardo Achipiz
* Jorge Ayala
* Héctor Orlando Bastidas
* Diego Murillo Bejarano
* Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera
* Jhon Jairo Velásquez

## Croatia

* Sretko Kalinić
* Robert Matanić

## Czechia

* Jiří Kájínek

## Denmark

* Jim-Bo Poulsen

## Estonia

* Imre Arakas

## Finland

* Janne Raninen

## India

* Noor "Noora" Baksh
* Jaggu Pehelwan
* Shri Prakash Shukla

## Germany

* Werner Pinzner ″St.-Pauli-Killer″

## Ireland

* Liam Brannigan
* Robbie Lawlor
* James Quinn

## Israel

* Otto Skorzeny

## Italy

* Maurizio Avola
* Pasquale Barra
* Giovanni Brusca
* Amerigo Dumini
* Giuseppe Greco
* Giuseppe Lucchese
* Mario Prestifilippo
* Giulia Tofana

## Japan

* Toshio Maruyama
* Tetsuya Shiroo

## Jamaica

* Christopher Anthony Lee

## Mexico

* Melissa Calderon
* David Barron Corona
* Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa
* José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa
* José Manuel Martínez
* Ramon Torres Mendez
* Joselyn Alejandra Niño
* Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
* Marciano Millan Vasquez

## Netherlands

* Edwin Martínez
* Ridouan Taghi
* Shardyone Semerel

## New Zealand

* Diego Carbone
* Jeremy Powell

## Philippines

* Edgar Matobato

## Poland

* Ryszard Bogucki [pl]
* Ryszard Niemczyk [pl]
* Jerzy Vaulin [pl]
* Artur Zirajewski [pl]

## Russia

* Igor the Assassin
* Arsen Bayrambekov
* Maxim Lazovsky
* Alexander Pustovalov [ru]
* Oleg Smorodinov
* Alexander Solonik
* Andrey Vershinin
* Alexei Sherstobitov

## Serbia

* Sretko Kalinić

## Singapore

* Anthony Ler
* Muhammad Nasir Abdul Aziz

## Slovakia

* Jozef Roháč

## Spain

* Idoia López Riaño

## Sweden

* Nenad Mišović

## Turkey

* Abdullah Çatlı
* Mahmut Yıldırım

## United Kingdom
### England

* John Childs
* Mark Fellows
* Paul Glen
* Jimmy Moody

### Scotland

* Billy 'Buff' Paterson

## United States

* Joe Adonis
* Felix Alderisio
* Israel Alderman
* John Alite
* William Aloisio
* Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri
* Albert Anastasia
* Joseph Barboza
* Harry Aleman
* Gakirah Barnes
* Robert Biehler
* Bobby Boriello
* Fiore Buccieri
* Lepke Buchalter
* Fred Burke
* Anthony Capo
* Frank M. Canton
* Charles Carneglia
* Charles Carrollo
* Robert Carey
* Jackie Cerone
* Pasquale Conte
* Nate "Boone" Craft
* Roy DeMeo
* Sam DeStefano
* Richard DiNome
* Glennon Engleman
* Ray Ferritto
* Stephen Flemmi
* Vincent Flemmi
* Jimmy Fratianno
* Carmine Galante
* Vito Genovese
* Jason Getsy
* Sam Giancana
* Fred Goetz
* Martin Goldstein
* Sammy Gravano
* Frank Gusenberg
* Charles Harrelson
* Tom Horn
* Cornelius Hughes
* Stevie Hughes
* John Kelley
* Richard Kuklinski
* Mad Dog Coll
* Maurice Lerner
* Samuel "Red" Levine
* José Manuel Martínez
* Johnny Martorano
* Robert Mormando
* Donald Nash
* Charles Nicoletti
* Andy Macintosh
* Wayne "Silk" Perry
* Ross Prio
* David "Chippy" Robinson
* Frank Salemme
* James "Fur" Sammons
* Anthony Senter
* John Scalise
* Gregory Scarpa
* Frank Schweihs
* Frank Sheeran
* Shotgun Man
* Bugsy Siegel
* Thomas Sinito
* Vincent Smothers
* Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan
* Albert Tannenbaum
* Joseph Testa
* Salvatore Testa
* Stephen Wayne Anderson (disputed)
* Umberto Valenti
* Abraham Weinberg
* Jack Whalen
* Gus Winkler