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 Wilis
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", a 2008 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 7)
"Assassin", a 1981 episode of Blake's 7
"Assassins", a 2011 episode of Desperate Housewives (season 7)
"The Assassin" (The Borgias), a 2011 episode
"The Assassin", an episode of MacGyver (1985 TV series)

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

See also
All pages with titles beginning with Assassin
All pages with titles containing Assassin
Assassination (disambiguation)
List of assassinations
Assassin bugs, a genus in the family Reduviidae
Assassin spiders, a genus in the family Archaeidae
All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)