Assassin (disambiguation)

Assassin and similar may refer to:

• A person who commits assassination, the targeted murder of a public figure
• Originally a member of the medieval occult shia order of the Assassins

Stage

• Assassins (musical), a 1990 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Films

• The Assassin, the UK title for Gunfighters (film), a 1947 American film directed by George Waggner
• The Assassin (1952 film), starring Richard Todd
• The Assassin (1961 film), a 1961 Italian film
• The Assassin (1967 film), directed by Chang Cheh
• Yakuza deka, a 1970 film starring Sonny Chiba also known as The Assassin
• Assassin (1973 film), a British thriller film starring Ian Hendry
• Assassin (1976 film), the English title of the Chinese movie Ci Ke starring Hsu Feng
• The Assassin (1989 film), starring Elpidia Carrillo
• The Assassin (1993 film), a 1993 film directed by Billy Chung
• Point of No Return (film), a 1993 film also known as The Assassin
• Assassins (1995 film), a 1995 American-French film starring Sylvester Stallone
• Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, a 1985 short film by Todd Haynes
• Assassin(s), a 1997 French film
• Margaret Cho: Assassin, a 2005 film by Margaret Cho

Music

• Assassin (band)
  • Assassin (album), a 1984 album by Assassin
• Assassins (album), by Into a Circle
• Assassin (rap crew)
• "Assassin" (song), by The Orb
• Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1, a 2008 album by Nachtmystium
• "Assassins", a song by noise rock duo Lightning Bolt from the album Wonderful Rainbow
• "Assassin" (Muse song), a song by Muse on the album Black Holes & Revelations
• "Assassing", a song by Marillion on the album Fugazi
• "Assassin", a song by Motörhead on the album Snake Bite Love
• "Assassin", a song by Morbid Saint on the album Spectrum of Death
• I, Assassin, by Gary Numan
• "Assassin", a song by John Mayer on the album Battle Studies
• The Assassin (album), by Big Ed
• "The Assassin", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying
• "Assassins", a song by The Insane Clown Posse on the album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers

Television

• "Assassins" (Desperate Housewives), a 2011 episode of the seventh season of the series
• "Assassin" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Gaming

• Assassin (video game), a 1992 video game
• Assassin (game), a live-action role-playing game
• Assassin's Creed, a series of historical action-adventure video games
• Assassin (character class), a character class common to many games
  • Assassin (Dungeons & Dragons)
  • A secret unlockable character in the Soulcalibur series, debuting in Soulcalibur II

Books

• The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, a 1967 non-fiction book by Bernard Lewis
• "The Assassins" (The Hardy Boys), a fictional group in the 1987 Hardy Boys "Casefiles" books
• The Assassini, a 1990 novel by Thomas Gifford
• Assassins (LaHaye novel), a 1999 novel in the Left Behind series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye
• Krondor: The Assassins, a 1999 novel by Raymond E. Feist
• The Hassassin in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, 2000
• The Assassins, a 2005 novel by Oliver North
• "The Assassin", a character in the 2006 Noble Warriors book trilogy
• Assassin (novel), a 2006 historical fiction novel by the children's author Anna Myers
• Assassin (Cain novel), a 2008 thriller novel by Tom Cain, the third Samuel Carver book

Visual novels

• Assassin (Fate/stay night), a fictional character
• Assassin (Fate/Zero), a fictional character

Animals and insects

• Assassin bugs, a genus in the family Reduviidae
• Assassin spiders, a genus in the family Archaeidae

Other meanings

• The Assassins (wrestling), a wrestling tag team
• The Assassin, a nickname for street basketball player Brandon Durham
• Nickname for former American Football defensive back Jack Tatum

See also

• List of assassins
• Assassination (disambiguation)