List of snipers
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A sniper is a trained sharpshooter who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain close visual contact with a target and engage the targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the detection capabilities of enemy personnel.
Military snipers
Some notable military snipers include
Name | Lived | Active | Notes | Confirmed sniper kills | Nationality |
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Noah Adamia | 1919–1942 | 1938–1942 | A Soviet Georgian naval infantryman who is credited with over 200 kills and several tanks knocked out.[1] Trained another 80 snipers within a couple of months during the Second World War.[2] | 200+ | ![]() |
Hiram Berdan | 1824–1893 | 1861–1864 | The commander of the 1st and 2nd US Sharpshooters during the American Civil War.[3] | N/A | ![]() |
Herman Davis | 1888–1923 | 1918 | American sniper of the First World War, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre with palm, the Croix de Guerre with Gilt Star and the Médaille Militaire awards from the American and French governments.[4][5] | 60 | ![]() |
Fedir Dyachenko | 1917–1995 | 1932–1945 | Soviet Ukrainian sniper during World War II, credited with as many as 425 kills and awarded with the Hero of the Soviet Union. | 425 | ![]() |
Rob Furlong | 1976– | 1996–2003 | A Canadian Army sniper who held the record for the kill from the greatest distance during Operation Anaconda, War in Afghanistan.[6] | 1+ | ![]() |
Lucky Bisht | 1988– | 2003–2019 | An Indian Secret Service Sniper, Nickname Lima[7][8] who has a record that he shot the heads of two gangsters with a single bullet, killing both but till date no agency has been able to find out how he did this.[9] He is also alleged to be a contract killer.[10][11][12][13][14] A book has been written on Bisht life name is R.A.W. Hitman: The Real Story of Agent Lima according to the book. He has been a hitman of Research and Analysis Wing.[15][16] | 139 | ![]() |
Gary Gordon | 1960–1993 | 1978–1993 | A Delta Force sniper who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the injured crew of a downed helicopter during the Battle of Mogadishu.[17] | N/A | ![]() |
Craig Harrison | 1974- | 1990–2014 | A British Army sniper who achieved the fourth longest confirmed kill shot in history (2,475 m) using the Accuracy International L115A3 Long Range Rifle.[18] | N/A | ![]() |
Carlos Hathcock | 1942–1999 | 1959–1979 | A renowned United States Marine Corps sniper who is credited with 93 confirmed kills.[19][20] | 93 | ![]() |
Dejan Berić | 1974- | 2014–present | Simply known as Deki (Деки) is a Serbian volunteer in the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic with the rank of Major, who is fighting as a sniper in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. | N/A | ![]() |
Simo Häyhä | 1905–2002 | 1939–1940 | A Finnish sniper during the 1939–40 Winter War known as the "White Death" from his habit of lying in the snow wearing snow camouflage and a white face mask, waiting for a target to appear. Antti Rantamaa, who served as a field chaplain in Häyhä's regiment, credited him with 259 confirmed kills by sniper rifle and equal number of kills by light machine gun and submachine gun during the war.[21] All of Häyhä's kills were made over the course of fewer than 100 days, before he was seriously wounded—an average of just over 5 per day, with the highest daily count numbering 45 kills—at a time of year with few daylight hours.[22][23] | 542-> | ![]() |
Musa Herdem [ku; pt] | 1987–2015 | 2006–2015 | A YPG sniper known as 'Musa' with allegedly more than 120 confirmed kills, mainly during the fighting for Kobani during the Syrian Civil War.[24] | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
Matthäus Hetzenauer | 1924–2004 | 1943–1945 | An Austrian sniper on the Eastern Front during World War II who was credited with 345 kills between 1943 and 1945.[25] | 345 | ![]() |
Abukhadzhi Idrisov | 1918–1983 | 1939–1944 | A Soviet Chechen sniper credited with 349+ kills during World War II. He was reported to have killed 100 soldiers in only 10 days of fighting. Awarded multiple of the highest state orders of the Soviet Union.[26] | 349+ | ![]() |
Nikolai Ilyin | 1925–1943 | 1941–1943 | Soviet sniper with 494 kills, who fought in the 50th Guards Rifle Division during the Battle of Stalingrad, World War II.[27] | 494 | ![]() |
Nicholas Irving | 1986– | 2004–2010 | A sniper nicknamed "The Reaper" with the 3rd Ranger Battalion deployed in Afghanistan in 2009, with 33 confirmed kills.[28] | 33 | ![]() |
Juba | N/A | 2005–2007 | Juba (Arabic: جوبا) (also called "Joba") is the pseudonym of an alleged sniper involved in the Iraq War's insurgency. He participated in Iraqi Civil War as well as the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.[citation needed] | 700+ (Allegedly) 63 (confirmed) | ![]() |
Tatang Koswara | 1947–2015 | 1975–1976 | A sniper credited with at least 41 confirmed kills in only a single mission during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in the 1970s. Other story said he killed 49 in a single mission, because he saved one bullet for himself out of 50 bullets he brought [29] | 41+ | ![]() |
Ivan Kulbertinov | 1917–1993 | 1941–1945 | A Russian Soviet sniper credited with 252, or alternatively 487 kills using a Mosin-Nagant 1891 rifle during the Second World War.[30][31] | 252 | ![]() |
Vasilij Kvachantiradze | 1907–1950 | 1941–1945 | A Soviet Georgian sniper who is credited with 534 kills during World War II, one of the highest Soviet kill counts.[32] Known for almost single-handedly thwarting a German assault on Shumilino in Belarus.[33] | 500+ | ![]() |
Chris Kyle | 1974–2013 | 1999–2009 | A US Navy SEAL credited with 160 confirmed kills by the Pentagon, but who allegedly killed 255.[34] | 160 | ![]() |
Marie Ljalková | 1920–2011 | 1942–1953 | A Czech sniper fighting in the Soviet Army during World War II who was credited with at least 30 confirmed kills.[35] | 30+ | ![]() |
Charles Marlowe | 1968– | 1987–1990 | A United States Marine Corps sniper who holds the record for most solo missions completed (27).[36] | 46 | ![]() |
Chuck Mawhinney | 1949–2024 | 1967–1970 | A United States Marine Corps sniper who holds the record for most confirmed kills by a US Marine (103),[37] with an additional 216 "probable kills". | 103 - 319 | ![]() |
Herbert W. McBride | 1873–1933 | 1914–1918 | A US citizen who serves as a captain in the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during World War One.[38] | 100+ | ![]() |
Philip McDonald | 1886–1916 | 1914–1916 | 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), CEF, 42 confirmed kills during the First World War. Killed in action 3 January 1916.[39] | 42 | ![]() |
Neville Methven | N/A | 1916–1918 | A big-game hunter and target shooter who served as an officer with Sir Abe Bailey's South African Sharpshooters on the Western Front during World War One.[citation needed] | 100 | ![]() |
Olga Minchakievich | 1898–1920 | 1917–1920 | World War One and Russian Civil War sniper. Regular member of The 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death. | 129 | ![]() |
Tatianna Minchakievich | 1900–1920 | 1918–1920 | World War One and Russian Civil War sniper. Regular member of The 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death. One of the highest confirmed number of kills of any female at 93 kills using only the iron sights of a 7.62×54mm Mosin-Nagant Model 1891. | 93 | ![]() |
Timothy Murphy | 1751–1818 | 1775–1780 | An American Revolutionary War sniper credited with killing British General Simon Fraser during the Battle of Saratoga.[40] | 1+ | ![]() |
Semyon Nomokonov | 1900–1973 | 1941–1945 | A Soviet Russian World War II sniper with 367 logged kills.[41] | 367 | ![]() |
Henry Norwest | 1884–1918 | 1915–1918 | A sniper in the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion during the First World War. He had 115 confirmed kills and was killed by a German sniper on 18 August 1918.[42] | 115 | ![]() |
Fyodor Okhlopkov | 1908–1968 | 1941–1945 | A Russian Soviet sniper credited with 423 confirmed kills during World War II.[43] | 423 | ![]() |
Johnson Paudash | 1875–1959 | 1914–1918 | A member of the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), CEF during World War One who made 88 confirmed kills.[44] | 88 | ![]() |
Lyudmila Pavlichenko | 1916–1974 | 1941–1953 | Soviet sniper. The most successful female sniper during World War II. She served in the Soviet army and had 309 confirmed kills. Pavlichenko was called "Lady Death" for her ability with a sniper rifle. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odesa and the siege of Sevastopol. She was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union[43] | 309 | ![]() |
Vladimir Pchelintsev | 1919–2001 | 1941–1945 | Credited with 152 kills using a Mosin-Nagant 1891 rifle during the Second World War.[45] | 152 | ![]() |
Francis Pegahmagabow | 1891–1952 | 1914–1919 | An Ojibwe sniper in World War I who is credited with 378 kills, and an unknown number of unconfirmed kills.[46] | 378 | ![]() |
Friedrich Pein | 1915–1975 | 1943–1945 | An Austrian fighting in the German Army credited with over 200 kills on the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945 during the Second World War.[citation needed] | 200+ | ![]() |
Arron Perry | 1972– | 1999–2005 | A Canadian Army sniper who briefly held the record for the longest-ever recorded and confirmed sniper kill in 2002.[6] | 1+ | ![]() |
Stepan Petrenko | 1922–1984 | 1941–1945 | Soviet sniper during the Second World War with 422 confirmed kills, awarded the HSU (Hero of the Soviet Union).[27] | 422 | ![]() |
Ranjith Premasiri Madalana (Nero) | 1969–2009 | 2000–2009 | A sniper in the Sri Lanka Army during the country's civil war alias "Nero" who is recorded as having made 217 confirmed kills of Tamil Tigers.[47] | 217 | ![]() |
Graham Ragsdale | 1969– | 1988–2003 | A former Canadian Army sniper who fought in Afghanistan in 2002[6] and 2005–2014 as a designated defensive marksman with private military companies. | 56 | ![]() |
Patrick Riel | 1876–1916 | 1914–1916 | A Métis Canadian attached to the 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), CEF during the First World War with 30 confirmed kills. Killed in action by shell fire on 14 January 1916.[48] | 30 | ![]() |
Ben Roberts-Smith | 1978– | 1996–2015 | A sniper with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment who was awarded the Medal of Gallantry for his actions in 2006 during Operation Perth in the Chora Valley of Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan.[49] Subsequently, awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2011. | N/A | ![]() |
Ian Robertson | 1927–2014 | 1945–1953 | A sniper with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment after the Second World War, becoming one of the most effective snipers of the Korean War. In a single morning, Robertson killed 30 enemy soldiers.[50] | 30+ | ![]() |
Roza Shanina | 1924–1945 | 1943–1945 | A Russian Soviet sniper during the Second World War, credited with 60 kills, including 12 soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius in 1944.[51] | 60 | ![]() |
Justin Dygert | 1986- | 2005–2011 | JSOC A Scout Sniper who was awarded for protecting the injured crew of a downed helicopter during a firefight in Somalia.[17] | 41 | ![]() |
Ivan Sidorenko | 1919–1994 | 1939–1945 | A Soviet sniper credited with over 500 kills during the Second World War.[citation needed] | 500+ | ![]() |
Billy Sing | 1886–1943 | 1914–1918 | An Australian First World War sniper credited with over 150 confirmed kills. Contemporary evidence puts his tally at close to 300 kills.[52] | 150+ | ![]() |
Mikhail Surkov | 1921–1953 | 1941–1945 | Soviet sniper in World War II. Official documents indicate a tally around 236 kills, although newspapers inflated his tally to over 700 kills.[53][54] | 236 | ![]() |
Bruno Sutkus | 1924–2003 | 1944–1945 | A Lithuanian sniper fighting in the German Army during the Second World War. He was credited with 209 kills on the Eastern Front between 1944 and 1945.[citation needed] | 209 | ![]() |
Abu Tahsin al-Salhi | 1953–2017 | 1973–2017 | A sniper who fought in the Yom Kippur War, Iran–Iraq War, invasion of Kuwait, Gulf War, as well as the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.[55][56][57] However, his kills in other wars other than against ISIS are unaccounted for and unknown. | 341+ (against ISIS only) (Alleged) | ![]() |
Adelbert Waldron | 1933–1995 | 1968–1970 | A United States Army sniper who formerly held the record for the most confirmed kills by a US military sniper (109).[58] | 109 | ![]() |
Alvin York | 1887–1964 | 1917–1918 | An expert sharpshooter with the 82nd Infantry Division who used an M1917 Enfield rifle during the Meuse–Argonne offensive near Chatel-Chéhéry, France, 1918 in World War I. Medal of Honor recipient for leading an assault on machine gun positions.[citation needed] | 28[citation needed] | ![]() |
Vasily Zaytsev | 1915–1991 | 1937–1945 | A Soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad. Zaytsev is credited with 242 kills (including 11 snipers).[43] | 242 | ![]() |
Zhang Taofang | 1931–2007 | 1953–1985 | A Chinese sniper who fought in the Korean War with 214 confirmed kills over 32 days.[59] | 214 | ![]() |
Abdorrasul Zarrin | 1941–1984 | 1979–1984 | An Iranian sniper in the Iran–Iraq War. He had 700 kills during the war. According to Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi, his friend and Intelligence Commander of the Younis Diver Battalion of Imam Hussein army asked Zarrin how many kills did he had, and he said more than 3,000 kills. The Jamejam newspaper agreed on this number. | 700+ | ![]() |
James George Smith Neill | N/A | 1857 | An unknown Indian sniper, who fought for the Oudh state during the Siege of Lucknow in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, nicknamed "Jim the nailer" by defending British soldiers.[60] | N/A | ![]() |
Zhou Xixiang | 1931– | 1950–??? | A Chinese sniper who fought in the Korean War with 203 confirmed kills with 206 bullets.[61] | 203 | ![]() |
N/A | A soldier who is reputedly the deadliest sniper alive as of 2009 with 173 confirmed kills, mostly with the L115A3 on a single tour with British Army in Afghanistan in 2006–2007, including over 90 Taliban members in one day.[62] | 173 | ![]() |
Non-military snipers
Not all snipers are highly trained professional soldiers. The term is sometimes ambiguously used to describe criminals firing from cover at long range with a rifle, as well as police sharpshooters. Some non-military snipers include:
Name | Lived | Notes | Nationality |
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Frank Carter | 1881–1927 | A notorious murderer in Omaha, Nebraska, who claimed to have murdered 43 victims.[63] | ![]() |
Michael Andrew Clark | 1949–1965 | A teenage sniper who killed three and wounded six in Highway 101 shooting spree on 25 April 1965.[64] | ![]() |
Byron De La Beckwith | 1920–2001 | An ex-US Marine and white supremacist, assassinated NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers after the civil rights activist arrived home in Jackson, Mississippi on 12 June 1963.[citation needed] | ![]() |
William "Billy" Dixon | 1850–1913 | Defended the Adobe Walls settlement against Native American attack with his legendary buffalo rifle, and was one of eight civilians in United States history to receive the Medal of Honor.[citation needed] | ![]() |
Tha'ir Kayid Hamad | 1980- | A Palestinian sniper who killed 7 Israeli soldiers and 3 Israeli civilian settlers with a WWII-era Mauser rifle during the Second Intifada in 2002. He would be arrested two years later and sentenced to life imprisonment.[65] | ![]() |
Jack Hinson | 1807–1874 | A farmer who engaged Union troops at long range during the American Civil War and recorded 36 officer "kills" on his custom-made .50 caliber Kentucky long rifle with iron sights.[66] | ![]() |
Lon Horiuchi | 1954– | A Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who shot Randy Weaver and shot and killed Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge.[67] | ![]() |
Thomas "Tom" Horn Jr. | 1860–1903 | An American Old West lawman, scout, and hired gunman, known for shooting cattle rustlers and sheepherders at long range with a Sharps rifle.[68] | ![]() |
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo | 1960–2009 1985– | Perpetrators of the Beltway sniper attacks, a series of coordinated shootings that took place over three weeks in October 2002 in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Ten people were killed and three other victims were critically injured in several locations throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia.[citation needed] | ![]() |
Lee Harvey Oswald | 1939–1963 | A former US Marine who assassinated President John F. Kennedy and shot Governor John Connally in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963, and shot at General Edwin Walker on 10 April 1963.[69] | ![]() |
Stephen Paddock | 1953–2017 | Perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting using multiple high-powered modified rifles from the 32nd floor of a high-rise hotel, killing 60 people and wounding over 800 others on 1 October 2017.[citation needed] | ![]() |
Charles Whitman | 1941–1966 | A college student and former US Marine who fired from a clock tower on the University of Texas Austin campus, killing 14 and wounding 32 on 1 August 1966.[70] | ![]() |
See also
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