Assassination

Assassination targets were individuals that the Assassin Order – and in select instances, the Templar Order – deemed necessary of elimination.

Middle Ages

Around the time of the Third Crusade, the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated certain figures during his quest to find The Chalice:

• Tamir
• Alaat
• Roland Napule
• The Master's Student
• Master of the Tower
• Harash
• Lord Basilisk

Altaïr later assassinated nine tyrannical public figures in an effort to restore his lost rank and regain honor within the Assassin Order:

• Tamir
• Garnier de Naplouse
• Talal
• Abu'l Nuqoud
• William of Montferrat
• Majd Addin
• Sibrand
• Jubair al Hakim
• Maria Thorpe (spared)
• Robert de Sable

Altaïr also had other targets:

• Haras
• Rashid ad-Din Sinan
• Frederick the Red
• Moloch
• Dark Oracle
• Shalim
• Shahar
• Pirate Captain
• Armand Bouchart
• Swami
• Abbas Sofian

These targets, apart from Haras, the green-cloaked man, Al Mualim, Swami, and Abbas, were necessary to aid the Cypriot Resistance in the liberation of Cyprus.

Renaissance

During the Renaissance, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinated several noblemen in order to avenge the deaths of his family members, free the Spanish Assassins, complete his father's life's work, save the Italian cities of Florence, Venice and Rome from corruption, and to fulfill his destiny as an Assassin.

• Uberto Alberti
• Vieri de' Pazzi
• Francesco de' Pazzi
• Antonio Maffei
• Francesco Salviati
• Bernardo Baroncelli
• Stefano da Bagnone
• Jacopo de' Pazzi
• Emilio Barbarigo
• Carlo Grimaldi
• Marco Barbarigo
• Silvio Barbarigo
• Dante Moro
• Checco Orsi
• Ludovico Orsi
• Gaspar Martínez
• Pedro Llorente
• Juan de Marillo
• Tomás de Torquemada (escaped)
• Girolamo Savonarola
  • The Painter
  • The Doctor
  • The Preacher
  • The Farmer
  • The Condottiero
  • The Merchant
  • The Nobleman
  • The Priest
  • The Captain Guard
• Rodrigo Borgia (spared)
• Master of the Sacred Palace
• Juan Borgia the Elder
• Octavian de Valois
• Micheletto Corella (spared)
• Ercole Massimo
• Cesare Borgia

Ezio also completed several Templar agent assassination assignments while liberating the city of Rome.

• Il Carnefice
• Malfatto, via an apprentice
• Silvestro Sabbatini, via an apprentice
• Lanz
• Gaspar de la Croix
• Lia de Russo
• Donato Mancini
• Auguste Oberlin
• Brother Ristoro

Ezio assassinated several Templars and some noblemen in the cities of Masyaf, Constantinople, and Derinkuyu.

• Leandros
• Halim
• Tarik Barleti
• Shahkulu
• Manuel Palaiologos

Ezio, with the aid of his apprentices, also assassinated Templar agents in the city of Constantinople.

• Vali cel Tradat via an apprentice
• Cyril of Rhodes
• Georgios Kostas via an apprentice
• Odai Dunqas via an apprentice
• Damat Ali Pasha via an apprentice
• Mirela Djuric
• Lysistrata

Colonial America

Haytham Kenway was responsible for the assassination of two English military operatives, as well as three men that opposed the Templars during the Seven Years' War.

• Miko
• Louis Mills
• Cutter
• Silas Thatcher
• Edward Braddock

Aveline de Grandpré had seven targets between the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.

• Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie
• Baptiste
• Antonio de Ulloa (spared)
• Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer
• Vásquez
• George Davidson
• Madeleine de l'Isle

Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolution, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated several men in order to protect his tribe and further the pursuit of freedom for the citizens of the thirteen British colonies of America.

• William Johnson
• John Pitcairn
• Thomas Hickey
• Man-Of-War Captain
• Nicholas Biddle
• Benjamin Church
• Kanen'tó:kon
• Haytham Kenway
• Charles Lee

Alternate Timeline

• Benedict Arnold
• Benjamin Franklin (Spared)
• Isriel Putnam

Modern times

The Assassin Desmond Miles infiltrated the Templar company headquarters of Abstergo Industries in Rome, and assassinated two members of their order. Before this, he also killed an Assassin that had defected to the Templars, following the acquisition of the Apple of Eden in the Colosseum Vault.

• Lucy Stillman
• Daniel Cross
• Warren Vidic