# Sargon

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'''Sargon''' may refer to:
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==Mesopotamian kings==
* [Sargon of Akkad](/source/Sargon_of_Akkad) ({{Reign}}{{Circa}} 2334–2279 BC), founder of the Akkadian Empire
* [Sargon I](/source/Sargon_I) ({{Reign}}{{Circa}} 1920–1881 BC), king of the Old Assyrian city-state
* [Sargon II](/source/Sargon_II) ({{Reign|722|705}} BC), king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

== Modern people ==

===Given name===
* [Sargon Boulus](/source/Sargon_Boulus) (1944–2007), Assyrian-Iraqi poet
* [Sargon Dadesho](/source/Sargon_Dadesho) (born 1948), Assyrian nationalist
* [Sargon Duran](/source/Sargon_Duran) (born 1987), Assyrian Austrian football player
* [Sargon Gabriel](/source/Sargon_Gabriel) (born 1947), Assyrian folk music singer

===Surname===
* [Brett Sargon](/source/Brett_Sargon) (born 1991), New Zealand curler
* [Cindy Sargon](/source/Cindy_Sargon), Assyrian Australian TV chef
* [Simon Sargon](/source/Simon_Sargon) (1938–2022), Assyrian American composer and professor

===Nickname===
* [Carl Benjamin](/source/Carl_Benjamin), British political commentator and YouTuber known as Sargon of Akkad

==Characters==
* [Sargon the Sorcerer](/source/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](/source/Return_to_Tomorrow)"
* Sargon, a character in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel ''[Slaves of Spiegel](/source/Slaves_of_Spiegel)''
* One of the Titans in the 2019 film ''[Godzilla: King of the Monsters](/source/Godzilla%3A_King_of_the_Monsters_(2019_film))''
* The player character in the 2024 action-adventure video game ''[Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown](/source/Prince_of_Persia%3A_The_Lost_Crown)''

==Other uses==
* [''Sargon'' (chess)](/source/Sargon_(chess)), a 1978 computer game series
* [''Sargon'' (beetle)](/source/Sargon_(beetle)), a genus of beetles in the tribe tropiphorini
* [Sargon Stele](/source/Sargon_Stele), Assyrian royal stele found on Cyprus in 1845
* [Sargonid dynasty](/source/Sargonid_dynasty), Assyrian royal dynasty
* [Dur-Sharrukin](/source/Dur-Sharrukin) (meaning 'city of Sargon), Assyrian city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-605 BC)

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