
Photo: Official ID photo released during manhunt / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
I will not pretend there is anything to celebrate here. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on this site as a record, not a tribute. What stays with me is how ordinary his life looked, a university student in Massachusetts, right up until he and his brother bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and wounding hundreds. The lesson I draw is uncomfortable: radicalization rarely announces itself; it grows quietly out of resentment and rootlessness. My sympathy belongs entirely to the victims and their families. If documenting a name like this serves any purpose, it is keeping the memory of that day sharp enough that we stay vigilant.
Overview
Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev (born July 22, 1993) is an American domestic terrorist and mass murderer of Chechen and Avar descent. Along with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョハール・ツァルナエフ
- Reading
- じょはーる・つぁるなえふ
- Born
- July 22, 1993 (age 32)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Rooster
- Origin
- Tokmok, Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- terrorist / murderer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar%20Tsarnaev
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.