This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes.
The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target. A hitman, on the other hand, is a term that is often synonymous with contract killer although it can also be used to denote a criminal who frequently carries out a targeted killing (referred to as a "hit") on behalf of an organized crime syndicate with which they are affiliated. Furthermore, the title of enforcer can also be interchangeable with the latter of the two as it is generally associated with gangsters even though not all gang enforcers necessarily resort to homicide on a regular basis or even at all.
Persons who have only carried out an assassination-style murder at the behest of their own motivation, without having either a criminal background, or links to the criminal underworld or other such groups, do not qualify as hitmen. They are not to be included in this list, nor are assassins who perform killings under the discretion of an official government unless they are purposely done in extrajudicial manner.
Australia Rodney Charles Collins Christopher Dale Flannery Keith Faure Evangelos Goussis Lindsey Robert Rose Andrew Benji Veniamin
Brazil Maia "Mainha" Cunha Julio Santana
Canada Richard Blass Howard Doyle Berry Bal Buttar Salvatore Calautti David Carroll Paul "Fon Fon" Fontaine Gerald Gallant Dean Daniel Kelsie Cecil Kirby Donald Lavoie Jackie McLaughlin Kenneth Murdock Dwight Mushey Serge Quesnel Armand Sanguigni Aimé Simard Réal Simard Yves Trudeau Dean Michael Wiwchar
Chile José Ruz Rodríguez
China Xi Guangan Ling Xiansi
Colombia Andrés Leonardo Achipiz Jorge Ayala Héctor Orlando Bastidas Diego Murillo Bejarano Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera Jhon Jairo Velásquez
Croatia Sretko Kalinić Robert Matanić
Czech Republic Jiří Kájínek
Denmark Jim-Bo Poulsen
Estonia Imre Arakas
Finland Janne Raninen
India Noor "Noora" Baksh
Yash Pratap Singh(Pratap) Shri Prakash Shukla
Germany Werner Pinzner ″St.-Pauli-Killer″
Ireland Liam Brannigan Robbie Lawlor James Quinn
Israel Otto Skorzeny
Italy Maurizio Avola Pasquale Barra Giovanni Brusca Amerigo Dumini Giuseppe Greco Giuseppe Lucchese Mario Prestifilippo Giulia Tofana
Japan Toshio Maruyama Tetsuya Shiroo
Jamaica Christopher Anthony Lee
Mexico Melissa Calderón David Barrón Corona Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa José Manuel Martínez Ramón Torres Méndez Joselyn Alejandra Niño Héctor Luis Palma Salazar Marciano Millán Vasquez
Netherlands Edwin Martínez Ridouan Taghi Shardyone Semerel
New Zealand Jeremy Powell
Philippines Edgar Matobato
Poland
Russia Igor the Assassin Arsen Bayrambekov Maxim Lazovsky
Oleg Smorodinov Alexander Solonik Andrey Vershinin Alexei Sherstobitov
Serbia Sretko Kalinić
Singapore Anthony Ler Muhammad Nasir Abdul Aziz
Slovakia Jozef Roháč
Spain Idoia López Riaño
Sweden Nenad Mišović
Turkey Abdullah Çatlı Mahmut Yıldırım
United Kingdom England John Childs Mark Fellows Paul Glen Jimmy Moody
Scotland Billy 'Buff' Paterson
United States
Joe Adonis Felix Alderisio John Alite William Aloisio Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri Albert Anastasia Joseph Barboza Harry Aleman Gakirah Barnes Robert Biehler Bobby Boriello Fiore Buccieri Lepke Buchalter Fred Burke Anthony Capo Frank M. Canton Charles Carneglia Charles Carrollo Robert Carey Jackie Cerone Pasquale Conte Nate "Boone" Craft
Roy DeMeo Sam DeStefano Richard DiNome Glennon Engleman Ray Ferritto Stephen Flemmi Vincent Flemmi Jimmy Fratianno Carmine Galante Vito Genovese Jason Getsy Sam Giancana Fred Goetz Martin Goldstein Sammy Gravano Frank Gusenberg Charles Harrelson Tom Horn Cornelius Hughes Stevie Hughes John Kelley Richard Kuklinski Mad Dog Coll Maurice Lerner Samuel "Red" Levine José Manuel Martínez Johnny Martorano Robert Mormando Donald Nash Charles Nicoletti Wayne "Silk" Perry Ross Prio David "Chippy" Robinson Frank Salemme James "Fur" Sammons Anthony Senter John Scalise Gregory Scarpa Frank Schweihs Frank Sheeran Shotgun Man Bugsy Siegel Thomas Sinito Vincent Smothers Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan Albert Tannenbaum Joseph Testa Salvatore Testa Stephen Wayne Anderson (disputed) Umberto Valenti Abraham Weinberg Jack Whalen Gus Winkler
See also List of assassinations in Europe
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