Sargon

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Sargon may refer to:

Mesopotamian kings

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Sargon of Akkad (r. c. 2334–2279 BC), founder of the Akkadian Empire
Sargon I (r. c. 1920–1881 BC), king of the Old Assyrian city-state
Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC), king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Modern people

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Given name

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Sargon Boulus (1944–2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet
Sargon Dadesho (born 1948), Assyrian nationalist
Sargon Duran (born 1987), Assyrian Austrian football player
Sargon Gabriel (born 1947), Assyrian folk music singer

Surname

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Brett Sargon (born 1991), New Zealand curler
Cindy Sargon, Assyrian Australian TV chef
Simon Sargon (1938–2022), Assyrian American composer and professor

Nickname

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Carl Benjamin, British political commentator and YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad

Characters

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Sargon the Sorcerer, a comic superhero character from DC Comics, first appeared in 1941
Sargon, a disembodied alien leader in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Return to Tomorrow"
Sargon, a character in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel Slaves of Spiegel
One of the Titans in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The player character in the 2024 action-adventure video game Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Other uses

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Sargon (chess), a 1978 computer game series
Sargon (beetle), a genus of beetles in the tribe tropiphorini
Sargon Stele, Assyrian royal stele found on Cyprus in 1845
Sargonid dynasty, Assyrian royal dynasty
Dur-Sharrukin (meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-605 BC)

Topics referred to by the same term

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