Sargon
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Sargon is an Assyrian name, originally Šarru-kin (Akkadian: "the true King" or "the legitimate King"), which may refer to:
[edit] People
- Sargon of Akkad (2334 BC – 2279 BC), also known as Sargon the Great or Sargon I, Mesopotamian king
- Sargon I (r. 1920 BC – 1881 BC), Assyrian king
- Sargon II (r. 722 BC – 705 BC), Assyrian king
- Simon Sargon (b. 1938), American composer and professor.
- Sargon Boulus (1944 – 2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet.
- Sargon Dadesho (b. 1948), Assyrian nationalist
- Sargon Gabriel (b. 1951), Assyrian folk music singer.
- Cindy Sargon, Assyrian Australian TV chef.
- Sargon Simonsson (b. 1982), Assyrian Swedish footballer.
- Sargon Duran (b. 1987), Assyrian Austrian footballer.
- Sargon Cicek (b. 1988), Assyrian Swedish footballer.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Sargon the Sorcerer, comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941
- Sargon, disembodied leader of a race of powerful aliens in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Return to Tomorrow"
- Sargon, ruler of the Nine Worlds interplanetary empire in Robert Heinlein's 1957 science fiction novel Citizen of the Galaxy
- Sargon, left-handed guitarist of the fictional band The Mesopotamians from the They Might Be Giants song on their 2007 album The Else
- Sargon, leader of the fat men in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel Slaves of Spiegel
[edit] Other uses
- Sargon (chess), series of chess-playing software programs for personal computers
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