List of snipers

List of snipers

A sniper is a sharpshooter.

Notable snipers have been:
* Christopher Curran, a Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who participated in the Ruby Ridge standoff
* Rob Furlong, a Canadian Army sniper who holds the record for the kill from the greatest distance
* Carlos Hathcock (1942 - 1999), renowned United States Marine Corps sniper
* Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002), a Finnish sniper who holds the world record for most confirmed enemy kills with 505
* Lon Horiuchi (born 1954), a Federal Bureau of Investigation sniper who participated in the Ruby Ridge standoff
* Chuck Mawhinney (born 1945), a United States Marine Corps sniper who holds the record for most confirmed kills by a US Marine
* Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916 - 1974), a female Soviet sniper with 309 confirmed kills
* Graham Ragsdale, a Canadian Army sniper who fought in Afghanistan in 2003
* Adelbert Waldron (1933 - 1995), a United States Army sniper with the most confirmed kills by a US military sniper
* Zhang Taofang (1931 - 2007), a Chinese sniper who fought at the Korean War with 214 confirmed kills in 32 days
* Charles Whitman (1941 - 1966), mass murderer who fired from a clock tower in 1966
* Vasily Zaytsev (1915 - 1991), a Soviet sniper who fought at the Battle of Stalingrad

ee also

*Sniper (disambiguation)
*List of sniper rifles
*Counter-sniper tactics
*Snipers of the Soviet Union


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