Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.

By location

List of assassinations This is a list of successful assassinations, sorted by location. For failed assassination attempts, see List of people who survived assassination attempts. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premedit ...

, sorted by continent and country * List of assassinations in Africa * List of assassinations in Asia * List of assassinations in Europe * List of familicides in Europe * List of journalists killed in Europe *

List of massacres in Afghanistan The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Afghanistan (numbers may be approximate). The list does not include collateral damage, especially from raids and airstrikes, which were due to mistaken identity or unfortunately getti ...

* List of massacres in Albania * List of massacres in Algeria * List of massacres in Argentina * List of massacres in Australia **

List of massacres of Indigenous Australians Colonial settlers frequently clashed with Indigenous people (on continental Australia) during and after the History of Australia (1788–1850), wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and la ...

* List of unsolved murders in Australia * List of massacres in Azerbaijan * List of massacres in Bangladesh * List of journalists killed in Bangladesh * List of massacres in Belarus * List of massacres in Belgium * List of massacres in Brazil * List of massacres in Bulgaria * List of massacres in Burundi * List of massacres in Canada * List of unsolved murders in Canada * List of massacres in Chile *

List of massacres in China The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in China. The massacres are grouped for different time periods. This includes British Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as well as Portuguese Macau and the Macau Spe ...

* List of massacres in Colombia * List of massacres in Cyprus * List of massacres in the Czech Republic * List of massacres in the Dominican Republic * List of massacres in East Timor * List of massacres in Egypt * List of massacres in El Salvador * List of massacres in Finland * List of massacres in France * List of massacres in Germany *

List of massacres in Great Britain Inclusion criteria This is a list of massacres that have occurred in the purely geographical definition of the island of Great Britain and minor outlying islands and ''excludes'' Northern Ireland and List of massacres in Ireland, massacres in ...

* List of massacres in Greece * List of massacres in Guatemala * Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala * List of journalists killed in Guatemala * List of massacres in Guyana * List of massacres in Haiti * List of journalists killed in Honduras * List of massacres in Hungary *

List of massacres in India A massacre is the deliberate slaughter of members of one group by one or more members of another more powerful group. A massacre may be indiscriminate or highly methodical in application. A massacre is a single event, though it may occur durin ...

List of massacres in the Philippines This is a list of massacres that have taken place in the Philippines. Before 1900 1900-1930 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References

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* List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines * List of massacres in Poland * List of massacres in Romania *

List of massacres in Russia The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Russia (numbers may be approximate). For massacres that occurred in the Soviet Union, see List of massacres in the Soviet Union: Pre-Soviet and Soviet Russia Post-Soviet Russia See ...

List of journalists killed in Russia The Media freedom in Russia#Assaults on journalists, dangers to journalists in Russia have been known since the early 1990s but concern over the number of unsolved killings soared after Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, Anna Politkovskaya's mu ...

* List of massacres in Rwanda * List of massacres in São Tomé and Príncipe * List of massacres in Serbia * List of massacres in Singapore * List of massacres in Slovakia * List of massacres in Slovenia * List of massacres in the Solomon Islands * List of massacres in South Africa * Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa * List of massacres in South Korea *

List of massacres in the Soviet Union The following is a list of massacres that took place in the Soviet Union. For massacres that took place in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, see the list of massacres in that country. See also * List of massacres in Russia * ...

* List of massacres in Spain * List of massacres in Sri Lanka * List of massacres in Sudan * List of massacres in Syria * List of massacres in Taiwan * List of journalists killed in Tajikistan * List of massacres in Thailand * List of massacres in Turkey * List of journalists killed in Turkey * List of massacres in Ukraine *

List of massacres in the United States This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate. :*For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List of rampage killers in the United States, Mass shootings in the United States, :Spree shootin ...

* List of journalists killed in the United States * List of 2012 murders in the United States *

List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom This is an incomplete list of unsolved known and presumed murders in the United Kingdom. It does not include any of the 3,000 or so unsolved murders that took place in Northern Ireland because of the Troubles or any Irish Republican Army, IRA a ...

* List of massacres in Venezuela * List of massacres in Vietnam * List of massacres in Yugoslavia

By nationality of victim

List of murdered American children This is a list of murdered American children that details notable murders among thousands of cases of subjects who were or are believed to have been under the age of 18 upon their deaths. Cases listed are stated to be unsolved, solved or pending ...

* List of assassinated American politicians * List of assassinated Indian politicians * List of assassinated Lebanese politicians *

List of assassinated people from Turkey The following is an incomplete, chronological list of people from Turkey murdered by assassins mainly on political and religious grounds. Many were critical public servants and intellectuals assassinated by far-right proponents of an army-control ...

List of British police officers killed in the line of duty This article includes only those serving police officers who were killed as a direct result of a crime or while attempting to respond, prevent, stop or solve a specific criminal act. The list omits war-time deaths by enemy fire, such as the many ...

* List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland) * List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty *

List of New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty This is a list of New Zealand Police officers and non-sworn staff killed in the line of duty. As of 2025, 34 police officers have been killed by criminal act, and about 17 have died from accidental causes, during the execution of duty. There has ...

* List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty *

List of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

* List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations

Political and state-sanctioned murders

* List of assassinated American politicians * List of assassinated Indian politicians * List of Iranian assassinations * List of Israeli assassinations * List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Sri Lankan communist party * List of assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection (Sri Lanka), attributed to both the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and government forces * List of Soviet and Russian assassinations (disambiguation) * List of people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka) * List of people killed by Sri Lankan government forces * Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa * List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations * List of assassinated human rights activists, including political dissidents

By war

* List of massacres in the Bosnian War * List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence * List of assassinations of the Iraq War * List of Second Chechen War assassinations * List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War

By office

* List of murdered popes *

List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots Assassination attempts and plots on the president of the United States have been numerous, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. This article lists assassinations and assassination attempts on incumbent and former presidents and ...

, including the four successful assassinations * List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office * List of United States federal judges killed in office

By occupation

* List of journalists killed in Tajikistan * List of journalists killed in Turkey * List of journalists killed in the United States *

List of murdered hip hop musicians This is a list of notable rappers and Hip hop music, hip hop musicians murdered since 1987. Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths. The average age of death is between 25–30 years of ...

* List of Gardaí killed in the line of duty (Republic of Ireland) * List of Malaysian police officers killed in the line of duty *

* List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty *

* List of assassinated American politicians * List of assassinated Indian politicians * Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala

By type of victim

* List of familicides, in which at least half of the victims were relatives of the perpetrator or the perpetrator's spouse. Cases with more than one offender are not included. * List of rampage killers (familicides in Europe) * List of regicides *

* List of patricides * List of people killed for being transgender

By method

* List of axe murders * List of lynching victims in the United States * List of mass car bombings, restricted to those which resulted in at least two deaths

Unsolved murders

* List of unsolved murders (before the 20th century) * List of unsolved murders (1900–1979) * List of unsolved murders (1980–2000) *

List of unsolved murders (2000–present) A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...

* List of unsolved murders in Australia * List of unsolved murders in Canada *

Other

* List of postal killings, murders which occurred on post office property or were post office-related