List of occultists
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Notable people, whether contemporary, historical or legendary, who are or were involved in any of the following practices and traditions:
- occult science
- paranormal magic, "black" or "white"
- witchcraft
- sorcery
- wizardry
- astrology
- alchemy
- practical mysticism
- West African Vodun, Haitian Vodou, or Louisiana Voodoo
- divination and fortune-telling
- theurgy.
For a list of sleight of hand artists and practitioners of stage magic, see: List of magicians.
Contents
Classical mythology
- Cassandra, oracle[1]
- Circe, legendary sorceress[2]
- Hecate, goddess of witchcraft[3]
- Medea, often identified with Angitia, she had fled to Italy in her dragon chariot[4]
- Melampus, soothsayer and magician[5]
- Semiramis, semi-legendary queen and sorceress.[6]
- Vegoia, legendary inventor of Etruscan divination[7]
Ancient world
- Abaris the Hyperborean, a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo[8]
- Alexander of Abonoteichus, founder of Glycon-worship and oracle
- Apollonius of Tyana, wizard[9]
- Apuleius, author of a magical novel[10]
- Apsethus the Libyan, magician who attempted to prove he was divine[11]
- Atomus, Magus who worked for Antonius Felix at Caesarea
- Elymas, Jewish Magus who opposed Paul on Cyprus[12]
- Gyges of Lydia,[13] king said to possess magical artifacts
- Heraclitus, philosopher important in occultism[14]
- Hermes Trismegistus/Thoth[15]
- Iamblichus,[16] neo-platonist philosopher, espoused theurgy
- Iannes and Mambres, magicians at Pharaoh's court mentioned in the New Testament
- Julian, practiced occult theurgy
- Mary the Jewess, 4th century alchemist[17]
- Plato,[18] philosopher
- Plotinus, neo-platonist philosopher important in occultism[19]
- Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, numerologist, philosopher important in occultism[20]
- Ptolemy,[21] astrologer
- Simon Magus, magician mentioned in New Testament
- Virgil, subjected to magical legends
- Vyasa, author and character of Mahabharat
- The Witch of Endor, witch and spirit medium of King Saul in the Old Testament
- Zhang Jiao,[22] leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion
- Zhuge Liang, advisor to Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period
- Zoroaster, founder of the order of the Magi
- Zosimos of Panopolis,[23] Egyptian alchemist and gnostic mystic
Medieval Europe
- Abraham Abulafia, kabalist "messiah"
- Albertus Magnus, had many magical texts attributed to him
- Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond, associated with the goddess Áine
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, shapeshifter skilled in the black arts
- Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, alchemist thought to have magical powers
- Gilles de Rais, serial killer accused of sorcery
- Jābir ibn Hayyān, Persian alchemist that influenced all Medieval alchemy
- Joachim of Fiore, Christian esotericist who founder his own group called the Joachimites
- John of Nottingham and Robert Marshall, accused of attempting to kill Edward II with magic
- Merlin, Arthurian wizard
- Morgan le Fay, witch sister of King Arthur[24]
- Nicolas Flamel,[25] considered one of Europe's greatest alchemists[20]
- Pietro d'Abano astrologer and purported author of the Heptameron
- Ramon Llull, syncretic mystic
- Roger Bacon, philosopher accused of magic
- Michael Scot, Magician[26]
- Ímar Ua Donnubáin, Norse-Gaelic navigator and sorcerer
Renaissance
- Abramelin the Mage, Egyptian sage[27]
- Ali Puli, anonymous author of seventeenth-century alchemical and hermetic texts
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, occult philosopher, astrologer
- Roger Bolingbroke,[28] astrologer and alleged necromancer
- Olaus Borrichius, Danish alchemist
- Thomas Browne,[29] hermetic philosopher
- Giordano Bruno,[30] occult philosopher
- Benevenuto Cellini, sculptor whose diary relates experience summoning spirits
- Christina of Sweden, abdicated Queen who dabbled in alchemy
- Arthur Dee, hermetic author, and son of John Dee
- John Dee, occult philosopher, mathematician, alchemist, Queen Elizabeth's advisor[20]
- Gerhard Dorn, Belgian follower of Paracelsus
- Faust, made a pact with the Devil, also see Doctor Faustus
- Marsilio Ficino,[31] astrologer and translator of the "Corpus Hermeticum"
- Robert Fludd, occult philosopher and astrologer
- Edward Kelley, spirit medium and alchemist who worked with John Dee, founder of Enochian magic[20]
- Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit priest, wrote on magical subjects
- John Lambe, astrologer to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Nostradamus,[32] one of the world's most famous prophets[20]
- Paracelsus, medical pioneer and occult philosopher
- Henry Percy,[33] "Wizard Earl"
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, humanist and Neoplatonist
- Sir Walter Raleigh, practiced alchemy
- Johannes Reuchlin, German cabalist magician, summoned angels
- Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, patron of alchemists
- Ursula Southeil
- Johannes Trithemius,[34] cryptographer and magical writer
- Johann Weyer (aka Johannes Wierus), German physician, occultist and demonologist
Seventeenth century
- Isobel Gowdie, self-confessed witch
- Margaret Matson, New Sweden (colony) witch
- Françoise Athenaïs Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan, royal mistress
- Sir Isaac Newton, renowned physicist and alchemist
- "La Voisin", French sorceress
Enlightenment
- Ulrica Arfvidsson, politically influential Swedish fortune-teller.
- Alessandro Cagliostro,[35] Italian occultist
- Antoine Court de Gebelin, connected tarot and esotericism
- Etteilla, fortune-teller
- Jacques Collin de Plancy, French occultist, demonologist and writer
- Count of St. Germain, alchemist and occultist[20]
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, founder of Martinism, writer known as the Unknown Philosopher
- Emanuel Swedenborg,[36] alchemist, founder of Swedenborgianism
Nineteenth century
- Evangeline Adams, astrologer to the famous
- Francis Barrett, wrote a book on magic
- Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym, French demonologist
- Algernon Blackwood, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, author of several occult novels
- Constant Chevillon, the head of FUDOFSI
- Aleister Crowley, English occultist and ceremonial magician, founder of Thelema[20]
- Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes
- Robert Felkin, medical missionary and explorer, member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina, author on Africa and medicine
- Henri Gamache, authority on the Evil Eye
- A. Frank Glahn
- Rudolf John Gorsleben[37]
- Stanislas de Guaita, occult author
- John George Hohman, American wizard
- Allan Kardec, founder of Spiritism
- Giuliano Kremmerz alchemist and occult author
- William Lyon MacKenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
- Siegfried Adolf Kummer
- Marie Laveau, American New Orleans Voodoo practitioner
- Marie Anne Lenormand, fortune-teller favoured by Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Eliphas Lévi, French occult author and ceremonial magician[20]
- Harvey Spencer Lewis, founder of AMORC
- Ralph Maxwell Lewis, Imperator of AMORC
- Guido von List
- Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Austrian occultist and pioneer of Ariosophy
- Arthur Machen, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Friedrich Bernhard Marby
- Moina Mathers, first initiate in Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, wife of S.L. MacGregor Mathers, and Imperatrix of the Alpha et Omega
- Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers, founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Evan Morgan, poet and aristocrat Lord Tredegar
- Papus, pseudonym for Gérard Encausse, occult author
- Paul Foster Case, Founder of BOTA, Adept of the Western Mystery Tradition, Teacher, Occult author,
- Paschal Beverly Randolph, American physician and sex magician
- Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic and healer
- Carl Reichenbach
- Theodor Reuss
- Arthur Rimbaud, visionary poet, adventurer
- Pamela Colman Smith, Golden Dawn member, artist, designed the Waite-Smith tarot deck
- Austin Osman Spare, author, painter, magician
- Miguel Serrano, Chilean diplomat, author of books on Esoteric Nazism
- Ludwig Straniak
- August Strindberg, dramatist, alchemist
- Arthur Edward Waite, occult author and member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- William Wynn Westcott, cofounder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Karl Maria Wiligut, Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer
- Hellmut Wolff
- William Butler Yeats, poet, Golden Dawn member, astrologer
Twentieth century
- Margot Adler,[38] witch and NPR reporter
- Antero Alli, author, artist, teacher
- Kenneth Anger, disciple of Crowley.
- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, occultist, occult author, teacher
- Franz Bardon, occult author, magician
- Michael Bertiaux, author of the Voudon Gnostic Workbook, occult artist
- David Bowie, musician and actor
- Ray Buckland, author, teacher
- William S. Burroughs, author, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
- W. E. Butler, esoteric author
- Laurie Cabot, witch, high priestess, author
- Christopher Penczak, author
- D. J. Conway, author
- Marjorie Cameron, Scarlet Woman of Jack Parsons' rituals, artist, actress
- Peter J. Carroll, occultist, author, founder of Chaos magic
- Carlos Castaneda, sorcerer, writer, anthropologist
- Jean Chevalier, occult author, philosopher, theologian
- Jinx Dawson, ceremonial magician, artist, recording artist
- Samson De Brier
- Maya Deren,[39] filmmaker and Haitian Vodou priestess
- Ramsey Dukes, occult author
- Gerina Dunwich, witch and occult author
- Lon Milo DuQuette
- Julius Evola
- Dion Fortune, considered one of Great Britain's most famous occultists[20]
- Fulcanelli, French alchemist and esoteric author[20]
- Gerald Gardner, author and founder of the religion of Wicca
- H. R. Giger, artist, designer
- Kenneth Grant, occultist, author, pupil of Crowley
- Eugen Grosche (known as Gregor A. Gregorius), German occultist, author, founder of the lodge Fraternitas Saturni
- Manly Palmer Hall, occult author, teacher
- Frieda Harris, occultist, artist
- Max Heindel, author
- Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Reichsführer SS
- Phil Hine, occult author
- Murry Hope, occult author
- Christopher Hyatt, author, teacher, publisher
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, filmmaker, comic book writer
- Gareth Knight, occult author
- Kurt E. Koch
- Dora van Gelder Kunz, occult author
- Roger de Lafforest, occult author
- Anton LaVey, occult author, founder of the Church of Satan
- Timothy Leary, psychologist, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
- Sybil Leek, witch and occult author
- Martinus, Danish occultist
- Alan Moore, magician and comic creator
- Grant Morrison, comic writer and magician
- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff, occultist, science fiction writer
- Tommaso Palamidessi, Christian Occultist, founder of the Archeosophical Society
- Jack Parsons, occultist, author, and rocket scientist
- Genesis P-Orridge, of Psychic TV video group and TOPY chaos magician
- Israel Regardie, occult author, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley[40]
- Jane Roberts, author[41]
- Robin Skelton, British-Canadian witch, poet[42]
- Stephen Skinner, Australian author
- Starhawk, witch and occult author[43]
- Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy[44]
- Gerald Suster, occult author[45]
- Ralph Tegtmeier aka Frater U∴D∴, occultist, author, founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic and Ice Magic
- Mellie Uyldert, occult author[46]
- Doreen Valiente, priestess and author[47]
- Hannes Vanaküla, mage[48]
- Leila Waddell, mystic and muse
- Robert Anton Wilson, author[49]
- Catherine Yronwode, occult author[50]
- Rosaleen Norton, self-proclaimed Australian witch
See also
- List of astrologers
- List of alchemists
- List of occult writers
- List of spirituality-related topics
- List of magicians in fantasy
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