Editing Lists of poisonings (section)

==Poisoners==
 
*[[Locusta]], professional poisoner hired by Roman emperor [[Nero]] and his mother [[Agrippina the Younger]] for several murders
*[[Lucrezia Borgia]] (d. 1519), alleged by rivals of the Borgia family to be a poisoner, using a hollow ring to poison drinks with white arsenic
*[[Edward Squire]] (d. 1598), English scrivener and sailor executed for conspiring to poison Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] and [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]]
*[[George Chapman (murderer)|George Chapman]], hanged after murdering three common-law wives
*[[Mary Ann Cotton]], 19th-century woman who poisoned family members for financial gain
*[[Maria Swanenburg]], Dutch serial killer who murdered at least 27 and was suspected of killing more than 90 people
*[[Thomas Neill Cream]] (d. 1892), British serial killer
*[[Vera Renczi]], Romanian serial killer who used arsenic to kill two husbands, a son, and 32 suitors
*[[Nannie Doss]], an American serial killer known as the "Black Widow" responsible for the deaths of 11 people
*[[Anna Marie Hahn]] (d. 1938), American serial killer
*Dr. [[John Bodkin Adams]], British doctor acquitted in 1957 but suspected of killing 163 patients via [[morphia]] and [[barbiturates]].<ref>Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr. John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, {{ISBN|1-904027-19-9}}</ref>
*[[Anjette Lyles]], American [[restaurateur]] responsible for the [[poisoning]] deaths of four relatives between 1952–1958 in [[Macon, Georgia|Macon]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], apprehended on May 6, 1958, and sentenced to death, yet later was [[Involuntary commitment|involuntary commitmented]] due to her diagnosis of [[Paranoid schizophrenia|paranoid schizophrenic]], died aged 52 on December 4, 1977 at the [[Central State Hospital (Milledgeville, Georgia)|Central State Hospital]], [[Milledgeville, Georgia|Milledgeville]] in Georgia.<ref>[https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/history/anjette-lyles-macon-serial-killer-crime-investigation/93-74f2513c-852e-46e9-808b-74cde8316336 Criminal History: Anjette Lyles poisoned 4 family members for money]. Beimfohr, Chelsea. WMAZ-TV. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2022.</ref><ref name="Flagpole">"Georgia's most notorious murderess". Wilkes, Donald E. ''Flagpole'' magazine. 22 December 1999.</ref>
*[[Genene Jones]], homicidal nurse
*[[Grigory Mairanovsky]], received Soviet PhD degree for testing poisons on [[political prisoner]]s
*[[Stella Nickell]], used cyanide-laced Excedrin to kill her husband and another woman in suburban Seattle in 1986
*[[Charles Sobhraj]], serial killer who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s
*[[Jim Jones]], cult leader responsible for the mass murder–suicide of 918 of his followers in 1978, using cyanide-laced [[Flavor-Aid]] at [[Jonestown]], [[Guyana]] 
*[[Michael Swango]], American physician and surgeon who fatally poisoned at least thirty of his patients and colleagues
*[[Graham Frederick Young]] (d. 1990), British serial killer
*Members of the [[Aum Shinrikyo]] religious group in Japan in the 1990s often used poisons for murder, including chemical weapons such as [[VX (nerve agent)|VX]] and [[Sarin]]
*[[Daisuke Mori]], Japanese nurse convicted of one murder and four attempted murders by [[muscle relaxant]]
*[[Harold Shipman]] (d. 2004), English general practitioner and one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history
*[[Richard Kuklinski]] (d. 2006), American [[contract killer]] who was associated with the [[Gambino crime family]]
*[[Andrey Lugovoy]] (b. 1966), Russian deputy of the [[State Duma]] found by [[European Court of Human Rights]] [[beyond reasonable doubt]] to have killed [[Alexander Litvinenko]]
*[[Dmitry Kovtun]] (b. 1965), Russian [[KGB]] agent who with Andrey Lugovoy killed [[Alexander Litvinenko]]
*[[Anatoly Chepiga]] (b. 1979), Russian [[GRU (Russian Federation)|GRU officer]] identified by journalists as one of the attackers of Sergei and Yulia Skripal<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/26/salisbury-poisoning-suspect-is-russian-colonel-reports|title=Salisbury poisoning suspect identified as Russian colonel|first1=Andrew|last1=Roth|first2=Vikram|last2=Dodd|date=26 September 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=26 September 2018}}</ref>
*[[Alexander Mishkin]] (b.1979), Russian [[GRU (Russian Federation)|GRU officer]] identified by journalists as one of the attackers of Sergei and Yulia Skripal<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/08/second-skripal-poisoning-suspect-identified-as-dr-alexander-mishkin/|title=Second Skripal Poisoning Suspect Identified as Dr. Alexander Mishkin|date=8 October 2018|accessdate=10 October 2018|publisher=Bellingcat}}</ref>
*[[Sinasa massacre]]  Mangayanon Butaog, a religious leader who poisoned 69 members causing 64 to die 
*[[Graham Young]] (b. 1947) English serial killer who murderered his victims by poisoning them. He killed 3 people from 1961-1971 
*[[2016 Punjab sweet poisoning]] Khalid Mahmood, a sweet shop owner admitted to being the perpetrator behind the 2016 Punjab sweet poisoning that killed at least 33 people including 5 children
*María Riffo Sandoval - María Riffo Sandoval, a elementary school employee poured rat poison into milk and cereal intended for the school cafeteria which caused 43 people to be poisoned killing 3 children[https://www.reddit.com/r/masskillers/s/kUlmnJJ7hc]. María was sentenced to 17 years in prison
* Lidia Viktorovna Shiryaeva - Lidia Viktorovna Shiryaeva, a grandma admitted to fatally poisoning her 3 grandchildren and her disabled daughter with poisoned noodles