Editing Sniper (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Simo hayha honorary rifle.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Simo Häyhä]], known among enemies by the nickname "White Death", is generally recognized as the world's deadliest [[List of snipers#Military snipers|military sniper]] of all time.<ref name="white death">{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/this-sniper-known-as-the-white-death-is-credited-with-over-500-kills-2015-9|title=This sniper, known as 'The White Death,' is credited with more than 500 kills|first=Orvelin|last=Valle|website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref name="hayha1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.foreigner.fi/articulo/lifestyle/how-finnish-farmer-became-the-world-s-deadliest-sniper/20200110184041003947.html|title=How a Finnish farmer became the world's deadliest sniper|website=Foreigner.fi|date=10 January 2020 }}</ref><ref name="hayha2">{{Cite web|url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/simo-hayha|title=How "White Death" Simo Häyhä Became The Deadliest Sniper In History|first=Katie|last=Serena|date=27 March 2018|website=All That's Interesting}}</ref>]]
[[File:Carlos Hathcock DM-SD-98-02324.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Carlos Hathcock]], nicknamed "White Feather" by the [[North Vietnamese Army]] (NVA), was a [[United States Marine Corps]] sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills.]]
* [[Billy Sing]] ([[World War I]]) – An [[Australian Army|Australian]] sniper with at least 150 confirmed kills during the [[Gallipoli Campaign]]; he may have had close to 300 kills in total at Gallipoli,<ref name="Hamilton2008">Hamilton, J. C. M. (2008): ''Gallipoli Sniper: The life of Billy Sing''. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia. ({{ISBN|978-1-4050-3865-2}})</ref> and went on to fight at the Western Front.
* [[Francis Pegahmagabow]] (World War I) – [[Native Canadian]] sniper credited with 378 kills, and an unknown number of unconfirmed kills. He only took credit for kills when they were verified by an officer.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brownlie|first=Robin | title = A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918–1939|year=2003| publisher = [[University of Toronto Press]]| isbn= 978-0-19-541784-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sF5Cey6p-bcC&q=A%20Fatherly%20Eye%3A%20Indian%20Agents%2C%20Government%20Power%2C%20and%20Aboriginal%20Resistance%20in%20Ontario%2C&pg=PP1 |page=63}}</ref>
* Finnish Lance Corporal [[Simo Häyhä]], nicknamed "White Death",<ref name="white death"/> was a sniper during the [[Winter War]] and is regarded by many as the most effective sniper in the history of warfare, being credited with killing up to 705 Soviet soldiers (505 sniper kills, and estimated 200 sub-machine gun kills) in fewer than 100 days.<ref name="white death"/><ref name="hayha1"/><ref name="hayha2"/> Häyhä used a [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guard]] M/28 "Pystykorva" or "Spitz", variant of the Russian [[Mosin–Nagant]] rifle.<ref name="white death"/>
* [[Mikhail Ilyich Surkov]] has been said to have killed 702 enemy troops, Vladimir Gavrilovich Salbiev had 601 confirmed kills, [[Vasilij Kvachantiradze]] had 534, [[Akhat Akhmetyanov]] and [[Ivan Sidorenko]] had around 500.<ref name=ussr_snip>{{cite web|url=http://wio.ru/galgrnd/sniper/sniper.htm|title=top WWII snipers|access-date=13 October 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160101134714/http://wio.ru/galgrnd/sniper/sniper.htm|archive-date=1 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Lieutenant [[Lyudmila Pavlichenko]] (World War II) was a female Soviet sniper with 309 confirmed kills, making her the most successful female sniper in history.<ref name="Sakaida-Hook pp. 31-32">{{harvnb|Sakaida|Hook|2003| pp=31–32}}</ref>
* Junior Lieutenant [[Vasily Zaitsev (sniper)|Vasily Zaytsev]] ([[World War II]]) was credited with killing about 200 German soldiers during the [[Battle of Stalingrad]];<ref name=bioru>{{in lang|ru}}[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=481 Biography] at the website on Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia</ref> he is portrayed in the film ''[[Enemy at the Gates]]'' and in the book ''[[War of the Rats]]''. Both are fictionalized accounts.
* Semyon Nomokonov killed 367 persons, including a general.<ref name=ussr_snip />
* Gefreiter (Private) [[Matthäus Hetzenauer]] was an Austrian sniper in World War II who was credited with 345 confirmed kills<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/matthaus-hetzenauer-1944/|title=Matthäus Hetzenauer, Austrian sniper with 345 confirmed kills, 1944|website=rarehistoricalphotos.com|date=26 December 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref> on the Eastern Front, the most successful in the [[Wehrmacht]].
* [[Helmut Wirnsberger]] – Austrian sniper, who has served in 3. Gebirgsjaegerdivision during WW II and credited 64 confirmed kills.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Storr|first1=Jim|title=The human face of war|date=2009|publisher=Continuum|location=New York|isbn=9781847065230|page=159}}</ref>
* Chinese Sergeant Tung Chih Yeh claimed to have shot and killed over 100 Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers using a [[Chiang Kai-Shek rifle]] around [[Yangtze]] during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.militaryfocus.com/osprey/men-at-arms/424.htm |title=Osprey Men-at-Arms 424: The Chinese Army 1937–1949 : World War II and Civil War |publisher=Militaryfocus.com |access-date=1 April 2013}}</ref>
* [[Zhang Taofang]] (Chinese: 张桃芳; Traditional Chinese: 張桃芳; Wade–Giles: Zhang Tao-fang) was a Chinese soldier during the [[Korean War]]. He is credited with 214 confirmed kills in 32 days without using a [[telescopic sight|sniper magnifying scope]].{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* [[Clive Hulme]] was a New Zealand recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is credited with stalking and killing 33 German snipers in the [[Battle of Crete]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h41/hulme-alfred-clive|title=Hulme, Alfred Clive|first=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|last=Taonga|website=teara.govt.nz}}</ref>
* Ian Robertson served as a sniper with Australia's [[3RAR]] after World War II. He became one of the most effective snipers during the Korean War, during which in one instance he killed 30 soldiers in a single morning.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/26/1082831474340.html | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | title=A sniper's tale | date=26 April 2004}}</ref>
* [[Roza Shanina]]  was a Soviet sniper during World War II credited with 59 confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://nord.pomorsu.ru/knigi/eovsankin.htm | script-title = ru:Когда Родина в опасности | trans-title = When the Motherland is in danger | year = 2010 | publisher = Nord.pomorsu.ru | author = Евгений Овсянкин | language = ru | access-date = 25 March 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130417193028/http://nord.pomorsu.ru/knigi/eovsankin.htm | archive-date = 17 April 2013}}</ref>
* [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Carlos Hathcock]] achieved 93 confirmed kills during the Vietnam War but believed to have over 200 unconfirmed kills. With a telescopic-scoped .50 caliber [[M2 Browning machine gun|M2 Browning]] [[heavy machine gun]], he set a world record for the longest recorded sniper kill at {{convert|2286|m|yd|abbr=on}} which stood for 35 years until 2002.<ref name="Hathcockshot">{{cite web|quote=...famous Hathcock shot that killed an enemy from more than {{convert|2500|yd|m}} away... |publisher=Marine Corps News |access-date=24 March 2008 |date=29 March 2007 |title=Range complex named after famous Vietnam sniper |url=http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2007329115513 |author=Lance Cpl. George J. Papastrat}}{{dead link|date=June 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref name="Hathcockshotb">{{cite web |quote=Viet Cong shot dead by a round fired from a scope-mounted Browning M-2 .50 caliber machine gun at the unbelievable range of {{convert|2500|yd|m}}. |title=Marine Corps Sniper Carlos N. Hathcock II |author=Sgt. Grit |year=2006 |access-date=24 March 2008 |url=http://www.grunt.com/corps/scuttlebutt/marine-corps-stories/marine-corps-sniper-carlos-hathcock/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904022421/http://www.grunt.com/corps/scuttlebutt/marine-corps-stories/marine-corps-sniper-carlos-hathcock/ |archive-date=4 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Chuck Mawhinney]] (Vietnam War) – 103 confirmed and 216 probable kills.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chuckmawhinney.com/|title=Chuck Mawhinney|website=www.chuckmawhinney.com|access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Adelbert Waldron]] (Vietnam War) – achieved 109 confirmed kills.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.snipercentral.com/adelbert-f-waldron-iii/|title=Adelbert F. Waldron III – Sniper Central|date=10 October 2014|work=Sniper Central|access-date=28 March 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Master Sgt. [[Gary Gordon]] and Sgt. First Class [[Randy Shughart]] ([[United Nations Operation in Somalia II|Somalia]]: ''[[Operation Gothic Serpent]]'') – were [[Delta Force]] snipers who were awarded the [[Medal of Honor]] for their attempt to protect the injured crew of a downed helicopter during the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]].<ref>{{Cite web | url= http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/Somalia.html | title= Medal of Honor recipients: Somalia Campaign | publisher= [[United States Army Center of Military History]] | date= 3 August 2009 | access-date= 29 October 2018 | archive-date= 22 December 2012 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121222074108/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/somalia.html | url-status= dead }}</ref> This action was later dramatized in the film ''[[Black Hawk Down (film)|Black Hawk Down]]''.