An assassin is a person who commits targeted murder.

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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:

• 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)

• Assassin (video game), 1992
• The Assassin (cancelled video game)
• Assassin (game), a live-action game
• Assassin!, a The Way of the Tiger gamebook

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

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