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List of current and former contract killers in different countries From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes.
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The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals.[1] 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 to which they are affiliated with.[2][3] 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.[4][5]
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.
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Australia
- Rodney Charles Collins[6][7][8]
- Christopher Dale Flannery
- Keith Faure
- Evangelos Goussis
- Lindsey Robert Rose
- Andrew Benji Veniamin
Brazil
- Maia "Mainha" Cunha[9][10]
- Julio Santana[11][12]
Canada
- Richard Blass
- Howard Doyle Berry
- Bal Buttar[13]
- Salvatore Calautti
- David Carroll[14]
- Paul "Fon Fon" Fontaine[15]
- Gerald Gallant
- Dean Daniel Kelsie[16]
- Cecil Kirby
- Donald Lavoie
- Jackie McLaughlin[17]
- Kenneth Murdock
- Dwight Mushey[18]
- Serge Quesnel[19]
- Armand Sanguigni
- Aimé Simard
- Réal Simard
- Yves Trudeau
- Dean Michael Wiwchar
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
- Sretko Kalinić
- Robert Matanić[22]
Czechia
Denmark
- Jim-Bo Poulsen[24]
Estonia
Finland
- Janne Raninen[25]
India
- Noor "Noora" Baksh[26]
- Jaggu Pehelwan[27][28]
- Shri Prakash Shukla
Germany
- Werner Pinzner ″St.-Pauli-Killer″
Ireland
- Liam Brannigan[29]
- Robbie Lawlor
- Ger Hayes
- James Quinn[30]
Israel
Italy
Japan
- Toshio Maruyama[37]
- Tetsuya Shiroo
Jamaica
- Christopher Anthony Lee[38]
Mexico
Netherlands
- Edwin Martínez[42][43]
- Ridouan Taghi
- Shardyone Semerel[44][43]
New Zealand
- Jeremy Powell[45]
Philippines
Poland
- Ryszard Bogucki
- Ryszard Niemczyk
- Jerzy Vaulin
- Artur Zirajewski
Russia
- Igor the Assassin
- Arsen Bayrambekov[46]
- Maxim Lazovsky[47]
- Alexander Pustovalov[48]
- Oleg Smorodinov[49][50]
- Alexander Solonik
- Andrey Vershinin[51]
- Alexei Sherstobitov[52]
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
England
- John Childs
- Mark Fellows
- Paul Glen[54]
- Jimmy Moody
Scotland
- Billy 'Buff' Paterson[55]
United States
- Joe Adonis
- Felix Alderisio
- Israel Alderman
- 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[56][57]
- 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[58]
- Stevie Hughes[59]
- John Kelley
- Richard Kuklinski
- Mad Dog Coll
- Maurice Lerner
- Samuel "Red" Levine
- José Manuel Martínez
- Johnny Martorano
- Robert Mormando
- Donald Nash
- Charles Nicoletti
- Andy Macintosh
- Wayne "Silk" Perry[60][61][62]
- Ross Prio
- David "Chippy" Robinson
- Frank Salemme
- James "Fur" Sammons[63]
- Anthony Senter
- John Scalise
- Gregory Scarpa
- Frank Schweihs
- Frank Sheeran
- Shotgun Man
- Bugsy Siegel
- Thomas Sinito
- Vincent Smothers[64][65][66][67]
- Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan[68]
- Albert Tannenbaum
- Joseph Testa
- Salvatore Testa
- Stephen Wayne Anderson (disputed)[69]
- Umberto Valenti
- Abraham Weinberg
- Jack Whalen
- Gus Winkler
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