List of snipers
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A sniper is a sharpshooter.
Notable snipers have been:
- Christopher Curran, a Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who participated in the Ruby Ridge standoff
- Rob Furlong, a Canadian Army sniper who holds the record for the kill from the greatest distance
- Carlos Hathcock (1942 - 1999), renowned United States Marine Corps sniper
- Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002), a Finnish sniper who holds the world record for most confirmed enemy kills with 505
- Lon Horiuchi (born 1954), a Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who participated in the Ruby Ridge standoff
- Chuck Mawhinney (born 1945), a United States Marine Corps sniper who holds the record for most confirmed kills by a US Marine
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916 - 1974), a female Soviet sniper with 309 confirmed kills
- Graham Ragsdale, a Canadian Army sniper who fought in Afghanistan in 2003
- Adelbert Waldron (1933 - 1995), a United States Army sniper with the most confirmed kills by a US military sniper
- Charles Whitman (1941 - 1966), mass murderer who fired from a clock tower in 1966
- Vasily Zaytsev (1915 - 1991) , a Soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad
- Juba (sniper), a sniper of the Iraqi insurgency
