Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.
By location
By nationality of victim
- List of murdered American children
- List of assassinated American politicians
- List of assassinated Indian politicians
- List of assassinated Lebanese politicians
- List of assassinated people from Turkey
- List of Australian Federal Police killed in the line of duty
- List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- These lists may include accidental deaths.
- Ordered by occupation.
- List of Turkish diplomats assassinated by Armenian militant organisations
- List of journalists killed in Bangladesh
- List of journalists killed in Europe
- List of journalists killed in Guatemala
- List of journalists killed in Honduras
- List of journalists killed in India
- List of journalists killed in Assam, a state in India
- List of journalists and media workers killed in Mexico
- List of journalists killed under the Arroyo administration in the Philippines
- List of journalists killed in Russia
- 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
- List of Australian Federal Police killed in the line of duty
- List of British police officers killed in the line of duty
- 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
- 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
- List of assassinated American politicians
- List of assassinated Indian politicians
- Assassinated Catholic priests in Guatemala
By type of victim
- List of murdered American children
- 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 massacres of Indigenous Australians
- 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)
- List of unsolved murders in Australia
- List of unsolved murders in Canada
- List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom
Other
- List of postal killings, murders which occurred on post office property or were post office-related
See also
- Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war
- Lists of murderers
- List of unsolved deaths
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