Sargon may refer to:

Mesopotamian kings

Sargon of Akkad Sargon of Akkad (; ; died 2279 BC), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.The date of the reign of Sargon is highly unc ...

( 2334–2279 BC), founder of the Akkadian Empire *

Sargon I Sargon I was the king (Išši’ak Aššur, "Steward of Assur") during the Old Assyrian period from 1920 BC to 1881 BC. Reign On the Assyrian King List, Sargon appears as the son and successor of Ikunum, and the father and predecessor of P ...

( 1920–1881 BC), king of the Old Assyrian city-state *

Sargon II Sargon II (, meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 BC to his death in battle in 705. Probably the son of Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727), Sargon is generally believed to have be ...

( BC), king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Modern people

Given name

Sargon Boulus Sargon Boulus (; ) was an Iraqi poet, journalist and writer. Born in 1944, he died on 22 October 2007. Biography Boulus was born on 10 March, 1944 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, to Assyrian parents. He studied journalism at Baghdad University and la ...

(1944–2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet *

Sargon Dadesho Sargon Dadesho (, ; born September 18, 1948, in Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American author, broadcaster, activist, and nationalist leader of Assyrian ethnicity. Based in Ceres, California, Dadesho has had an extensive career in Assyrian po ...

(born 1948), Assyrian nationalist * Sargon Duran (born 1987), Assyrian Austrian football player * Sargon Gabriel (born 1947), Assyrian folk music singer

Surname

Brett Sargon Brett Sargon (born 3 December 1991 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—an ...

(born 1991), New Zealand curler *

Cindy Sargon Cindy Sargon is an Australian chef, entrepreneur, television presenter and voice over artist. Career Television Sargon was a co-presenter on the third and fourth seasons of '' Surprise Chef'', and has hosted '' Melbourne Woman'',

, Assyrian Australian TV chef *

Simon Sargon Simon Arthur Sargon (April 6, 1938 – December 25, 2022) was a composer, pianist, conductor, music educator, and major creative figure in contemporary American Jewish music. His compositions include liturgical and secular pieces; opera and musical ...

(1938–2022), Assyrian American composer and professor

Nickname

Carl Benjamin Carl Charles Benjamin (born September 1979), also known by his online pseudonym Sargon of Akkad, is a British right-wing YouTuber and political commentator. A former member of the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP), he was one of its uns ...

, British political commentator and YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad

Characters

Sargon the Sorcerer Sargon the Sorcerer is the name of several fictional characters appearing in DC Comics. The first version of the character appeared in 1941, during the period known to fans as the Golden Age. The original incarnation of the character is John Sarge ...

, a comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941 * Sargon, a disembodied alien leader in the 1968 ''Star Trek'' episode "

Return to Tomorrow "Return to Tomorrow" is the twentieth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek''. Written by John T. Dugan (under the pen-name "John Kingsbridge") and directed by Ralph Senensky, it was first ...

" * Sargon, a character in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel '' Slaves of Spiegel'' * One of the Titans in the 2019 film '' Godzilla: King of the Monsters'' * The player character in the 2024 action-adventure video game '' Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown''

Other uses

* ''Sargon'' (chess), a 1978 computer game series * ''Sargon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the tribe tropiphorini *

Sargon Stele The Sargon Stele (German: Kition-Stele) was found in the autumn of 1845 in Cyprus on the site of the former city-kingdom of Kition, in present-day Larnaca to the west of the old harbour of Kition on the archaeological site of Bamboula. The languag ...

, Assyrian royal stele found on Cyprus in 1845 *

Sargonid dynasty The Sargonid dynasty was the final ruling dynasty of Assyria, ruling as kings of Assyria during the Neo-Assyrian Empire for just over a century from the ascent of Sargon II in 722 BC to the fall of Assyria in 609 BC. Although Assyria would ul ...

, Assyrian royal dynasty *

Dur-Sharrukin Dur-Sharrukin (, "Fortress of Sargon"; , Syriac Language, Syriac: ܕܘܪ ܫܪܘ ܘܟܢ), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. ...

(meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-605 BC) {{disambiguation, given name, surname