Assassin (disambiguation)
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Assassin originally referred to members of the medieval Ismaili order of Assassins.
Assassin may also refer to:
- Assassin, one who commits a targeted murder or assassination
Stage
- Assassins (musical), a 1990 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Films
- The Assassin, the UK title for Gunfighters, a 1947 American film directed by George Waggner
- The Assassin, a 1961 Italian film
- Assassin, a 1969 South Korean thriller film
- The Assassin, also known as Yakuza Deka, a 1970 Japanese film starring Sonny Chiba
- Assassin, a 1973 British thriller film starring Ian Hendry
- The Assassins, also known as Point of No Return, a 1993 film
- Assassins, a 1995 American-French film starring Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas
- Assassin(s), a 1997 French film
- Margaret Cho: Assassin, a 2005 film by Margaret Cho
- The Assassins, a 2012 Chinese film
- Assassin, a 2015 British thriller film by J.K. Amalou starring Danny Dyer
- The Assassin, a 2015 Taiwanese-Hong Kong-Chinese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Music
- Assassin (band), an American heavy metal band
- Assassin (album), a 1984 album by Assassin
- Assassin (rap crew), a French hardcore rap group
- Assassin (deejay) (born 1982), Jamaican dancehall deejay
- Assassins (album), by Into a Circle
- Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1, a 2008 album by Nachtmystium
- I, Assassin, a 1982 album by Gary Numan
- The Assassin (album), by Big Ed
- "Assassin" (The Orb song), 1992
- "Assassin" (Muse song), 2006
- "Assassin", a song by John Mayer on the album Battle Studies
- "Assassin", a song by Motörhead on the album Snake Bite Love
- "Assassin", a song by Morbid Saint on the album Spectrum of Death
- "Assassins", a song by The Insane Clown Posse on the album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
- "Assassins", a song by noise rock duo Lightning Bolt from the album Wonderful Rainbow
- "The Assassin", a song by Iron Maiden from the 1990 album No Prayer for the Dying
- "Assassing", a song by Marillion on the album Fugazi
Television
- "Assassins" (Desperate Housewives), a 2011 episode of the seventh season of the series
- "Assassin" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- "The Assassin" (The Borgias), a 2011 episode of the Showtime-Bravo! series The Borgias
- "Assassin", a 1981 episode of the BBC series Blake's 7
Video Gaming
- Assassin (video game), a 1992 video game
- Assassin's Creed, a series of historical stealth action-adventure video games
- A secret unlockable character in the Soulcalibur series, debuting in Soulcalibur II
Role Playing
- Assassin (character class), a character class common to many games
- Assassin (game), a live-action role-playing game
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 (Myers 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 (professional wrestling), a wrestling tag team
- Assassin (horse) (1779–c. 1794), Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1782 Epsom Derby
- The Assassin, a nickname for street basketball player Brandon Durham
- The Assassin, a nickname for former American football defensive back Jack Tatum
- All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)
See also
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