Category:Fictional assassins

This page lists characters in fiction who are explicitly identified in the story as being a assassin, defined as a professional person who murders (a usually prominent person) by deliberately sudden and/or secret attack, often for financial compensation or political motivation.

For articles about fictional characters who have murdered multiple people in a single incident, see Category:Fictional mass murderers; for fictional characters who have committed multiple separate murders over a period of time, see Category:Fictional serial killers.