Lists of murders explained

Following are lists of murders organized in various ways. Entries may appear in more than one section.

By location

By nationality of victim

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

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.

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