List of people who died by hanging
This is a list of people who died as a result of hanging, including suicides and judicial, extrajudicial, or summary executions. These deaths are notable due to history or due to media exposure.
List
Suicide
- Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, who betrayed him for 30 pieces of silver according to the New Testament
- Chongzhen Emperor, emperor of China's Ming dynasty
- Gérard de Nerval, French poet and essayist
- Philipp Mainländer, German philosopher
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, pioneer of statistical mechanics
- Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, ex-husband of Isadora Duncan
- Nishinoumi Kajirō II, 25th yokozuna
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer
- Hans Berger, German inventor of electroencephalography
- Marina Tsvetayeva, a Russian poet
- Eduard Wirths, Chief SS doctor
- Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa
- Wilfrid Garfield Case, former Canadian Member of Parliament and war veteran
- Frederick Fleet, lookout on the Titanic who first spotted the iceberg
- Pete Ham, guitarist and singer of rock band Badfinger
- Phil Ochs, political folksinger
- Ulrike Meinhof, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction,
- David Munrow, musician and early music historian
- Gudrun Ensslin, imprisoned member of the German Red Army Faction, circumstances questionable
- Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division
- Trent Lehman, former child actor of Nanny and the Professor
- Tom Evans, a member of the rock band Badfinger
- Richard Manuel, musician best known for his membership in The Band
- Rudolf Hess, Nazi politician and convicted criminal
- Michael Gothard, British actor
- Buster Edwards, British Great Train Robber
- Fred West, British serial killer
- Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon Brando
- Kim Kwang-Seok, South Korean folk rock singer
- Ray Combs, host of Family Feud from 1988 to 1994
- Terence Donovan, British fashion photographer
- Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS
- Rozz Williams, American musician, founder of Christian Death
- Justin Fashanu, British footballer
- hide, Japanese rock musician
- Sarah Kane, British playwright
- David Strickland, American actor, best known for his character Todd on Suddenly Susan
- Petr Lébl, Czech theatre director
- Stuart Adamson, British musician
- Jon Lee, drummer with Feeder
- Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old schoolboy
- Jonathan Brandis, American actor
- Harold Shipman, English doctor and serial killer, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
- Jason Raize, American actor and singer
- Nafisa Joseph, Indian model and video jockey
- Norman "Dinky" Diamond, drummer with Sparks in the 1970s
- Charlie Brandt, American murderer and suspected serial killer
- Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer
- Paul Hester, former drummer of Crowded House
- Kuljeet Randhawa, Indian model and actress
- Megan Meier, a 13-year-old schoolgirl
- Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress
- Mike Awesome, former professional wrestler, twice ECW Champion
- Kevin Whitrick, online suicide via webcam
- Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician
- Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
- Kunal Singh, Indian actor
- Mark Speight, British children's television presenter
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, operator of an escort agency in Washington, D.C.
- David Foster Wallace, the American author of Infinite Jest
- Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress
- Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress
- Lucy Gordon, English actress and model
- Daul Kim, South Korean-born model who modeled in France
- Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old schoolgirl
- Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer
- Ambrose Olsen, American male model
- Choi Jin-young, the brother of Choi Jin-sil
- Viveka Babajee, Indian model and actress
- Alex Whybrow, American professional wrestler better known as Larry Sweeney
- Miyu Uehara, Japanese glamour model
- Andrzej Lepper, former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland and former Minister of Agriculture of Poland
- Jamey Rodemeyer, 14-year-old student
- Gary Speed, Wales national football team manager and former football player
- Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old schoolgirl
- Cho Sung-min, the ex-husband of Choi Jin-sil
- Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old computer programmer and Internet activist
- Jiah Khan, Bollywood actress
- Gia Allemand
- Ariel Castro, convicted kidnapper and rapist
- Uday Kiran, South Indian actor
- Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-born Australian television personality
- L'Wren Scott, American fashion model, fashion designer, and costume designer
- Yoshiki Sasai, Japanese stem cell researcher
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedian
- Simone Battle, X-Factor contestant, singer and member of the band G.R.L
- Sean O'Haire, American professional wrestler
- Alok Nembang, Nepali film and music video director
- Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter, actor and television personality
- Joseph A. Bennett, English actor
- Kalief Browder, falsely imprisoned African American youth
- Julia Buencamino, Filipino teen actress
- Ranganath, South Indian actor
- Rohith Vemula, Indian PhD student
- Daryl Easton, American magician
- Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian television actress
- Aaron Hernandez, former NFL player
- František Rajtoral, Czech footballer
- Chris Cornell, musician, frontman of Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog
- Stevie Ryan, American YouTuber, actress and comedian
- Chester Bennington, musician and frontman of Linkin Park, singer and founder/frontman of Dead by Sunrise
- August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress
- Mark Salling, American actor
- Boaz Arad, Israeli artist
- Jo Min-ki, South Korean actor
- Kate Spade, American fashion designer
- Anthony Bourdain, American chef, author, and television personality
- Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian artist and activist, co-founder of Femen
- Brian Christopher, American professional wrestler, son of WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler
- Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor
- Keith Flint, English vocalist, dancer and motorcycle racer, frontman of The Prodigy
- Mike Thalassitis, English television personality and professional footballer
- Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model
- David Berman, American musician and poet, founder of the Silver Jews
- Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Indian politician
- Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter and actress, member of f
- Kushal Punjabi, Indian actor
- Stan Kirsch, American actor
- Caroline Flack, English television and radio presenter
- Flávio Migliaccio, Brazilian actor and film director
- Jas Waters, American screenwriter and journalist
- Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor
- Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer
Capital punishment
- Shoko Asahara, founder of Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo and mastermind behind the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995.
- Yakub Memon, Indian citizen convicted of involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings.
- Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, charged with rape and mass murder
- Afzal Guru, an Indian convicted for the 2001 Indian Parliament attack
- Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani militant and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, convicted for the 2008 Mumbai attacks
- Zahra Bahrami, Dutch-Iranian dual citizen, for narcotics trafficking
- Ali Hassan al-Majid, chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, military commander, cousin of Saddam Hussein, and war criminal
- Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, half brother of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Mukhabarat, decapitated due to the wrong measurements of the rope
- Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal
- Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug trafficker
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, Indian convicted of rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl
- Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer
- Kiyotaka Katsuta, Japanese serial killer
- Norio Nagayama, Japanese serial killer
- Auto Shankar, Indian serial killer
- Flor Contemplacion, Filipino domestic worker convicted of murder in Singapore
- Charles Rodman Campbell, convicted murderer
- Westley Allan Dodd, American serial killer and child molester
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician
- Kiyoshi Ōkubo, Japanese serial killer
- Michael X, black revolutionary, for murder
- Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist-Leninist revolutionary and political activist
- Akira Nishiguchi, Japanese serial killer
- Ronald Ryan, the last person executed in Australia
- Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family
- Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada
- Adolf Eichmann, major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal
- Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister between 1950–1960
- Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer
- Derek Bentley, English man hanged for aiding the murder of a police officer during an attempted robbery
- Marguerite "Madame le Corbeau" Pitre, conspirator in the bombing of Canadian Pacific Flight 108, last woman executed in Canada
- Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
- Narayan Apte, executed for his role in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- Yoshio Kodaira, Japanese serial killer
- Hideki Tōjō, Prime Minister of Japan and war criminal
- Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of occupied Poland and war criminal
- Wilhelm Frick, Nazi Minister of the Interior 1933-1943 and war criminal
- Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, highest surviving SS leader and war criminal
- Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal
- Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
- Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi theorist and propagandist and war criminal
- Amon Göth, commandant of the Nazi concentration camp in Płaszów and war criminal
- Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general and war criminal
- William Joyce, Nazi propagandist
- Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian
- Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary
- Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in U.S., for rape and murder
- Tarakeswar Dastidar, Indian revolutionary
- Surya Sen, Indian revolutionary
- Dinesh Gupta, Indian revolutionary
- Harikishan Talwar, Indian revolutionary
- Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary
- Sukhdev, Indian revolutionary
- Shivaram Rajguru, Indian revolutionary
- Rajendra Lahiri, Indian revolutionary
- Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian revolutionary
- Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian revolutionary
- Roshan Singh, Indian revolutionary
- Pramod Ranjan Choudhury, Indian revolutionary
- Gopinath Saha, Indian revolutionary
- Kevin Barry, Irish nationalist militant
- Roger Casement, Irish nationalist
- Manoranjan Sengupta, Indian revolutionary
- Niren Dasgupta, Indian revolutionary
- Basanta Kumar Biswas, Indian revolutionary
- Hawley Harvey Crippen, convicted wife murderer
- Satyendranath Basu, Indian revolutionary
- Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary
- Tom Horn, American frontier scout, lawman, private detective, and hired killer
- Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, American old west outlaw
- William Henry Bury, murderer and Jack the Ripper suspect
- Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary and brother of Vladimir Lenin, for plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III
- Louis Riel, Canadian political activist, for high treason
- Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield
- Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger,
- Kate Webster, murderer of Julia Martha Thomas
- Tom Dula, inspiration for the song "Tom Dooley", for murder
- Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp
- George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- David Herold, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Lewis Powell, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Mary Surratt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Boone Helm, American frontier outlaw and serial killer known as "The Kentucky Cannibal"
- John Brown, militant U.S. anti-slavery activist
- Jemadar Iswari Prasad, part of Indian Sepoy Mutiny
- Mangal Pandey, leader of Indian Sepoy Mutiny
- John André, British officer, for espionage
- Nathan Hale, American patriot
- Maharaja Nandakumar, Indian tax collector on false allegations which led to the impeachment of Warren Hastings
- Dulla Bhatti, a Punjabi who led a revolt against Mughal rule during the rule of the emperor Akbar