Sargon
Sargon (Akkadian: Šar-ru-gi, later Šarru-kīn, meaning "the faithful king" or "the legitimate king") was the name of three kings in ancient Mesopotamia, sometimes adopted in modern times as both a given name and a surname.
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Mesopotamian kings
- 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
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 (born 1938), 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
Other uses
- Dur-Sharrukin (meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-605 BC)
- 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
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