Sargon

Sargon may refer to:

Mesopotamian kings

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

Modern people

Given name

• 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

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

Nickname

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

Characters

• 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 '
• The player character in the 2024 action-adventure video game '

Other uses

• 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)