Sargon (

Akkadian Akkadian or Accadian may refer to: * Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire * Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language * Akkadian literature, literature in this language * Akkadian cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabi ...

: ''Šar-ru-gi'', later ''Šarru-kīn'', meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the name of three kings in ancient

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the F ...

, sometimes adopted in modern times as both a given name and a surname.

Mesopotamian kings

Sargon of Akkad Sargon of Akkad (; akk, ''Šarrugi''), 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 highl ...

( 2334–2279 BC), founder of the

Akkadian Empire The Akkadian Empire () was the first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer. It was centered in the city of Akkad (city), Akkad () and its surrounding region. The empire united Akkadian language, Akkadian and ...

Sargon I Sargon I (also transcribed as Šarru-kīn I and Sharru-ken I) was the king (Išši’ak Aššur, "Steward of Assur") during the Old Assyrian period from 1920 BC to 1881 BC. On the Assyrian King List, Sargon appears as the son and successor of Iku ...

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

Sargon II Sargon II (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , 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 general ...

( BC), king of the

Neo-Assyrian Empire The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history and the final and greatest phase of Assyria as an independent state. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew t ...

Modern people

Given name

* Sargon Boulus (1944–2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet * Sargon Dadesho (born 1948), Assyrian nationalist * Sargon Duran (born 1987), Assyrian Austrian football player *

Sargon Gabriel Sargon Gabriel (Syriac: ܣܪܓܘܢ ܓܒܪܐܝܠ) is an Assyrian musician born in Habbaniyah, Iraq, whose music style usually involves traditional Assyrian folk music with the instruments, '' zurna'' and '' dawoola''. The singer currently resides ...

(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 ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the Sou ...

(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 Sargon (6 April 1938 Bombay, India - 25 December 2022 Kensington, Maryland) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator of Israeli and Indian descent. He studied at Brandeis University and at the Juilliard School under Sergius Kag ...

(born 1938), Assyrian American composer and professor

Nickname

* Carl Benjamin, British political commentator and YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad

Characters

* Sargon the Sorcerer, 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" * Sargon, a character in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel '' Slaves of Spiegel'' * One of the Titans in the 2019 film '' King of the Monsters''

Other uses

* Dur-Sharrukin (meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the

(911-605 BC) * ''Sargon'' (chess), a 1978 computer game series * ''Sargon'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the tribe tropiphorini * Sargon Stele, 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 ult ...

, Assyrian royal dynasty {{disambiguation, given name, surname