This article lists lone wolf terrorist attacks.

Africa, the Middle East and Asia On 15 November 1988, Barend Strydom, an Afrikaner, shot and killed seven people, and wounded 15 more, in and around Strijdom Square, Pretoria, South Africa. He declared that he was the leader of the White Wolves organisation, which proved to be a figment of his imagination. On 24 February 1994, Israeli Baruch Goldstein, a former member of the Jewish Defense League and follower of the Kahanist movement, opened fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 people and injuring at least 100. On 19 March 2005, Egyptian national Omar Ahmad Abdullah Ali detonated a car bomb outside a theatre filled with Westerners in Doha, Qatar, killing a British director and injuring 12 others. Police believe he was acting alone. On 4 August 2005, Israeli Eden Natan-Zada, an alleged Kahanist, killed four Israeli Arabs on a bus and wounded 12 before being killed by other passengers. Natan-Zada was a 19-year-old soldier who had deserted his unit after he refused to remove settlers from the Gaza Strip. Less than two weeks later, on 17 August 2005, Asher Weisgan, a 40-year-old Israeli bus-driver, shot and killed four Palestinians and injured two others in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh. He later committed suicide whilst in jail. On 4 September 2006, Nabil Ahmad Jaoura, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, opened fire on tourists at the Roman Amphitheatre in Amman, Jordan. One British tourist died and six others, including five tourists, were injured. Police said he was not connected with any organized group, but was angered by Western and Israeli actions in the Middle East. On 6 March 2008, Alaa Abu Dhein opened fire on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, killing eight and injuring 11 before he himself was shot dead. His family denied he was a member of any militant group, and described him as intensely religious. On 2 July 2008, Husam Taysir Dwayat attacked several cars with a front-end loader. He killed three Israelis and injured dozens more before being shot to death. He was not a member of any militant group. On 22 September 2008, a Palestinian man drove his BMW into a crowd of civilians and off-duty IGF soldiers, injuring 19 people. The perpetrator was later shot and killed by an off-duty soldier. On 19 August 2010, a Uyghur man was suspected in having planted a bicycle bomb in Aksu that killed at least 7 people and injured 14 others. In January 2011, Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan was assassinated by a lone wolf. 4 August 2014: A man in Jerusalem drove a tractor into a group of pedestrians, killing 1 person and injuring 5 others, before crashing the tractor into a city bus and repeatedly hitting it with the mechanical arm of the tractor. The perpetrator was shot and killed by a police officer. On 1 December 2014: Hungarian-American Ibolya Ryan was stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, by an attacker apparently targeting a random foreigner. The convicted Emirati killer was reported to have been executed in the UAE in 2015.Fenton, Siobhan. "Ibolya Ryan murder: UAE executes woman who murdered US teacher inside shopping mall". The Independent, 13 July 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2025. 3 October 2015: a series of knife stabbings around Israel occurred, including the Lions' Gate stabbings, this spate of attacks by lone-wolf Palestinians has sometimes been dubbed the "Knife Intifada."Eylon Aslan-Levy, "The media is twisting the knife into Israel over the 'lone wolf intifada'" Daily Telegraph 23 February 2016Peter Beaumont 'What’s driving the young lone wolves who are stalking the streets of Israel?,' The Guardian 18 October 2015 These occurred through the early months of 2016, then became sporadic. Social media incitement is considered as a possible cause for many of these attacks. 30 July 2020: in Sange, DRC, Sergeant Longo Dhendonga killed 14 and injured 10 people. He was a member of the military, police, or a comparable force at the time of the rampage. The killer was sentenced to death.

Europe During late 1991 and early 1992 in Sweden, John Ausonius, a far-right extremist, shot eleven people who he considered to be immigrants, killing one. In February 1992, RUC Constable Allen Moore shot three Catholic men dead with a shotgun in Sinn Féin head office on the Falls Road, West Belfast. Moore committed suicide shortly afterwards before he could be apprehended or arrested.McKittrick; David. "'Shooting 'followed frantic hunt for policeman': Inquest told how officer killed three men in Sinn Féin office. David McKittrick reports", The Independent, 11 May 1993. Between 1993 and 1997 in Austria, Franz Fuchs engaged in a campaign against foreigners, and organizations and individuals he believed to be friendly to foreigners. He killed four people and injured 15, some seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and five waves of 25 mail bombs in total. In April 1999 in London, David Copeland targeted black people, Asians and gay men with nail bombs, killing three and injuring 129. His aim was to start a race war. He was sentenced to at least 50 years and is now in a secure mental hospital.Buncombe, Andrew; Judd, Terri; and Bennett, Jason. "'Hate-filled' nailbomber is jailed for life" , The Independent, 30 June 2000. On 6 May 2002, in the Netherlands, nine days before elections, Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered by Volkert van der Graaf, who said that he killed the politician for his having exploited Muslims as "scapegoats."Fortuyn killed 'to protect Muslims', The Daily Telegraph, 28 March 2003:[van der Graaf] said his goal was to stop Mr Fortuyn exploiting Muslims as "scapegoats" and targeting "the weak parts of society to score points" to try to gain political power. On 11 May 2006, a Belgian student Hans Van Themsche shot and killed a Malian au pair and the 2-year-old child she was caring for, before being caught by police. He told police he targeted people of different skin color. Between 2009–2010, Peter Mangs targeted people in Malmö, Sweden who had dark skin, and who he deemed to be "non-Swedish". Altogether, the attacks killed 2 people and injured 13 others. On 22 July 2011, in Norway, Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in two consecutive attacks. First, he killed eight people with a heavy car-bomb placed in the heart of the Norwegian government headquarters in Oslo. An hour later, he appeared at the summer camp of the Worker's Youth League, the youth organization of the Labour Party, at the island of Utøya, 35 kilometers west of Oslo. He shot for approximately 90 minutes, killing 69 people. Anders Behring Breivik written a manifesto in preparation for the attacks titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, in which he blamed Islam and "Cultural Marxism" for what he described as the "cultural suicide" of Western Europe.

In 2012, Islamist Mohammed Merah killed seven people in the city of Toulouse, France. He was eventually killed after a 32-hour siege at his flat in the city. On 26 May 2013, in La Défense, France, a man stabbed soldier Cédric Cordier in the throat. Cordier was hospitalized, but officials said his throat wound was not life-threatening. The man, named as Alexandre Dhaussy, was a convert to Islam. On 20 December 2014, in Joué-lès-Tours, France, a Burundi-born French national attacked the local police station with a knife while shouting 'Allahu Akbar'. He injured three police officers before he was shot dead. On 23 October 2015, Anton Lundin Pettersson attacked a school in Trollhättan, Sweden, which killed 3 and injured 1. Pettersson was shot and killed by police. On 16 June 2016, in Birstall, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Thomas Mair, a neo-Nazi and white nationalist apartheid supporter murdered Jo Cox, a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP). The attack occurred exactly one week before the UK's referendum on EU membership. On 14 July 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France killing 86 people. On 19 June 2017, Darren Osborne drove his van into Muslims at Finsbury Park Mosque in Finsbury Park, London, United Kingdom killing at least 1 person and injuring nine others. On 18 August 2017, Abderrahman Bouanane stabbed 10 people in the city of Turku, Finland, causing several critical injuries and killing 2 people. On 3 February 2018, Luca Traini, a neo-Nazi and former Lega Nord member, shot and injured six African migrants in Macerata, Italy. On 12 October 2020, Danijel Bezuk shot and injured a police officer in front of the office of the Prime Minister of Croatia in Zagreb, Croatia. On 12 August 2021, in Plymouth, United Kingdom, Jake Davison shot and killed his mother and other people, including a toddler and her father, in various streets, park, and their homes with a total of 6 fatalities, before killing himself on Henderson Place. On 15 October 2021, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom, Islamic State supporter Ali Harbi Ali stabbed to death David Amess, a Conservative Party MP.

United States 1990–2009 On 25 January 1993, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight, killing two and injuring three others. He reportedly got angry watching news reports of attacks on Muslims and stated his motive was that he was "angry with the policy of the U.S. government in the Middle East, particularly toward the Palestinian people". On 10 March 1993, American anti-abortion extremist Michael Frederick Griffin murdered Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida, shooting him three times in the back. Reportedly he yelled, "Don't kill any more babies", just before the shooting. On 6 August 1993, American Neo-Nazi Jonathan Preston Haynes shot and killed Wilmette, Illinois plastic surgeon Dr. Martin Sullivan, claiming that he wanted to warn the world about the coming extinction of Aryans. Haynes also confessed to the unsolved 1987 killing of San Francisco hairstylist Frank Ringi. On 1 March 1994, on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, Lebanese-born immigrant Rashid Baz shot at a van of 15 Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish students that was traveling on the bridge, killing one and injuring three others. On 29 July 1994, Dr. John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett were killed by American anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill with a shotgun blast to their heads. Mr. Barrett's wife, June Barrett, a retired nurse, was injured in the attack. Hill was sentenced to death by lethal injection and was executed on 3 September 2003. On 16 September 1994, white supremacist, anti-government extremist, and self-proclaimed assassin for the Citizens for the Kingdom of Christ Timothy Thomas Coombs shot Missouri Highway Patrol Corporal Bobbie J. Harper through the chest in the kitchen of his McDonald County, Missouri home. Colonel Fred Mills, chief of the Missouri Highway Patrol, later said he believed Harper was shot in retaliation for an incident three months earlier, when Harper and other officers arrested Robert N. Joos on charges of "simulating legal process" for serving "people's court" papers. Coombs was never caught. On 30 December 1994, anti-abortion extremist John C. Salvi III carried out fatal shootings at two Planned Parenthood reproductive health clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, killing two and wounding five. Timothy McVeigh is often given as a classic example of the "lone wolf". McVeigh was convicted and executed for the 19 April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds with a truck bomb. Though McVeigh conceived, planned and carried out the bombing, he did not act alone. Terry Nichols was convicted of conspiring with him, though his involvement was limited to helping construct the explosive device; Nichols was apparently unaware of what the bomb was for.