List of occultists
This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices. People who were or are merely believers of occult practices should not be included unless they played a leading or otherwise significant part in the practice of occultism.
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Antiquity
People professionally or notably involved in occultism prior to the Middle ages
- Abaris the Hyperborean, a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo[1]
- Alexander of Abonoteichus, founder of glycon-worship and oracle
- Apollonius of Tyana, philosopher.
- Apuleius, author of a magical novel and a defense against charges of magic[2]
- Apsethus the Libyan, magician who attempted to prove he was divine[3]
- Atomus, magus who worked for Antonius Felix at Caesarea
- Chu Fu (d. 130), Chinese professional witch
- Elymas, Jewish magus who opposed Paul on Cyprus[4]
- Empedocles philosopher
- Gyges of Lydia,[5] king said to possess magical artifacts
- Hermes Trismegistus/Thoth,[6] legendary magician and a god
- Iamblichus,[7] neo-platonist philosopher, espoused theurgy
- Iannes and Mambres, magicians at Pharaoh's court mentioned in the New Testament
- Julian, theurgist
- Mary the Jewess, 4th century alchemist[8]
- Parmenides philosopher
- Plato,[9] philosopher
- Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, numerologist, philosopher important in occultism[10]
- Ptolemy,[11] astrologer
- Queen of Sheba, Ethiopian witch
- Simon Magus, magician mentioned in New Testament of the Christian Bible.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
- Solomon, reputed creator of the Seal of Solomon and supposed author of the Testament of Solomon, Key of Solomon, Magical Treatise of Solomon and the Lesser Key of Solomon
- St Cyprian of Antioch, 4th century sorcerer[19]
- Virgil, subjected to magical legends
- Vyasa, author and character of Mahabharat[20][21]
- The Witch of Endor, witch and spirit medium of King Saul in the Old Testament
- Zhang Jiao,[22] leader of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, founder of a Taoist sect of faith healers
- 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
Middle Ages
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the Middle ages (circa 500–1500)
- Abe no Seimei (921–1005), Japanese painter and alleged mage.
- Abraham Abulafia (1240–1291), kabbalist "messiah"
- Abramelin the Mage (c. 1362–1458), Egyptian sage[24]
- Roger Bolingbroke (d. 1441),[25] astrologer and alleged necromancer
- Albertus Magnus (1200–1280), had many magical texts attributed to him
- Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499),[26] astrologer and translator of the "Corpus Hermeticum"
- Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525–1585), rumored to be an alchemist with magical powers
- Gilles de Rais (1405-1440), serial killer accused of sorcery
- Jābir ibn Hayyān (9th-century), Persian-Arab alchemist that influenced all Medieval alchemy
- Joachim of Fiore (1135–1202), Christian esotericist who founded his own group called the Joachimites
- John of Nottingham (14th-century) and Robert Marshall (14th-century), accused of attempting to kill Edward II with magic
- Nicolas Flamel (1330–1418),[27] considered one of Europe's greatest alchemists,[10] rumored to have learned the secrets of the philosopher's stone and an elixir of life, which granted him wealth and immortality.[28]
- Pietro d'Abano (1257–1316) astrologer and purported author of the Heptameron, a grimoire
- Ramon Llull (1232–1316), syncretic mystic
- Roger Bacon (1220–1292), philosopher accused of magic
- Michael Scot (c. 1172–1220), magician[29]
- Ímar Ua Donnubáin (13th-century), Norse-Gaelic navigator and sorcerer
16th century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 16th-century
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), occult philosopher, astrologer
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600),[30] occult philosopher
- Benevenuto Cellini (1500–1571), sculptor whose diary relates experience summoning spirits
- Cosimo Ruggeri (fl. 1571–1615), Italian astrologer and occultist
- John Dee (1527–1608), occult philosopher, mathematician, alchemist, queen Elizabeth's advisor[10]
- Edward Kelley (1555–1597), spirit medium and alchemist who worked with John Dee, founder of Enochian magic[10]
- John Lambe (1545–1628), astrologer to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Nostradamus (1503–1566),[31] one of the world's most famous prophets[10]
- Paracelsus (1493–1541), medical pioneer and occult philosopher
- Henry Percy (1563-1632),[32] "Wizard Earl"
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), humanist and neoplatonist
- Johannes Reuchlin (1545–1622), German cabalist magician, summoned angels
- Ursula Southeil (1488–1561), English soothsayer and prophet
- Soulmother of Küssnacht (d. 1577), Swiss medium
- Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516),[33] cryptographer and magical writer
- Johann Weyer (aka Johannes Wierus) (1515–1588), German physician, occultist and demonologist
17th century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 17th-century
- Gironima Spana (1615–1659), Italian astrologer
- Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), the first known speculative Freemason
- Olaus Borrichius (1626–1690), Danish alchemist
- Thomas Browne (1605–1682),[34] hermetic philosopher
- Arthur Dee (1575–1661), hermetic author, son of John Dee
- Robert Fludd (1574–1637), occult philosopher and astrologer
- Isobel Gowdie (d. 1662), self-confessed professional sorcerer
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726), renowned physicist and alchemist[35]
- Ali Puli (17th-century), anonymous author of seventeenth-century alchemical and hermetic texts
- La Voisin (1640–1680), French professional magician
- Jacob Bruce (1669–1735), Russian general, statesman, diplomat, scientist and alchemist and magician of Scottish descent Clan Bruce, one of the chief associates of Peter the Great.
18th century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the Age of Enlightenment (18th-century)
- Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801), politically influential Swedish fortune-teller
- Gustaf Björnram (1746–1804), Swedish spiritual medium
- Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795),[36] Italian occultist
- Clotilde-Suzanne Courcelles de Labrousse (1747–1821), French prophet medium
- Antoine Court de Gebelin (1725–1784), connected tarot and esotericism
- Etteilla (1738–1791), fortune-teller
- Marie Kingué (fl. 1785) African kaperlata occultist and faith healer
- Marie-Anne de La Ville (1680–1725) French occultist
- Henrietta Lullier (1716–1782), French fortune teller
- Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), writer and libertine
- Count of St. Germain (dl. 1784), alchemist and occultist[10]
- Höffern (fl. 1722), German-Swedish fortune teller
- Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) German magnetist
- August Nordenskiold (1754–1792), alchemist and Swedenborgian
- Charlotta Roos (1771–1809), Swedish spiritual medium
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743–1803), founder of Martinism, writer known as the Unknown Philosopher
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772),[37] alchemist, founder of Swedenborgianism
- Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou (1756–1819), Swedish spiritual medium
19th century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 19th-century
- Albert Pike (1809–1891), author and 33rd degree Freemason[38]
- Evangeline Adams (1868–1932), astrologer to the famous
- Francis Barrett (c. 1770 – fl. 1802), wrote The Magus, a book about magic
- Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym (1765-1851), French demonologist
- Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), founder of Theosophy
- Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Бу́тлеров; 1828-1886), Russian occultist
- Ida C. Craddock (1857-1902), occultist, writer, member of Theosophical Society
- Mary Emily Bates Coues (1835-1906), secretary, Woman's National Liberal Union
- Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), American occultist
- Robert Felkin (1853–1926), medical missionary and explorer, member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Stella Matutina, author on Africa and medicine
- William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) served as the 10th prime minister of Canada and was secretly into the occult
- A. Frank Glahn (1865–1941), German mystic
- Stanislas de Guaita (1861–1899), occult author
- Arnold Krumm-Heller (1876–1949), Rosicrucian founder of FRA
- John George Hohman (fl. 1802–1846), American wizard
- Allan Kardec (1804–1869), founder of Spiritism
- Giuliano Kremmerz (1861–1930) alchemist and occult author
- Marie Laveau (1801–1881), American New Orleans Voodoo practitioner
- Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French fortune-teller favoured by Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Eliphas Lévi (1810–1875), French occult author and ceremonial magician[10]
- Guido von List (1848–1919), Austrian writer and mystic
- Arthur Machen (1863–1947), member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Moina Mathers (1865–1928), 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 (1854–1918), founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Papus, pseudonym for Gérard Encausse (1865–1916), occult author
- Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793–1871), French occultist, demonologist and writer
- Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875), African American physician and sex magician
- Anna Rasmussen (1898–1983), Danish medium, psychic
- Grigori Rasputin (1869–1916), Russian mystic and healer
- Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869), German Occultist
- Theodor Reuss (1855–1923), German mason
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), visionary poet, adventurer
- August Strindberg (1849–1912), dramatist, alchemist
- Max Théon (1848-1927), occultist, Kabbalist, founder of the Cosmic Movement
- Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1941), occult author and member of Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- William Wynn Westcott (1848–1925), cofounder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946), Austrian occultist
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1934), poet, astrologer, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934), occult books author and influential member of the Theosophical Society Adyar[39]
- Annie Besant (1847–1933), British writer, socialist and occultist[40][41]
- Pierre Bernard (yogi) (1875–1955), American occultist, businessman and yogi popularly known as "Oom The Omnipotent"
- Damodar K. Mavalankar (1857–1885), Indian Theosophist
- Wolf Messing (1899-1964), Polish Russian occultists, stage mentalist
- Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945), member of A.E. Waite's the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, 1929 to 1939.
- Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), occultist, writer, particular Christian mysticism. Member of GD.
20th century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 20th century
- Mirra Alfassa (1878—1971), Indian poet and mystic
- Robert Ambelain (1907—1997), French author of Masonic and astrological works
- Kenneth Anger (1927—2023), filmmaker, author, and disciple of Crowley
- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (born 1929), occultist, occult author, teacher
- Alice Bailey (1880—1949), English writer, mystic and Theosophist[42]
- Franz Bardon (1909—1958), occult author, magician
- Christian Bernard (born 1951), former grandmaster and imperator of the mystical organization called Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC)
- Michael Bertiaux (born 1935), author of the Voudon Gnostic Workbook, occult artist
- William Breeze (born 1955), author, musician, patriarch of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and caliph of Ordo Templi Orientis. Also known as Hymenaeus Beta.
- Kerry Bolton (born 1956), New Zealand neo-Nazi activist and writer
- David Bowie (1947—2016),[43] musician and actor
- Ray Buckland (1934—2017), author, teacher
- William S. Burroughs (1914—1997), author, Beat writer
- W. E. Butler (1898—1978), esoteric author
- Laurie Cabot (born 1933), witch, high priestess, author
- D. J. Conway (1939—2019), occult author
- Marjorie Cameron (1922—1995), scarlet woman of Jack Parsons' rituals, artist, actress
- Peter J. Carroll (born 1953), occultist, author, founder of Chaos magic
- Carlos Castaneda (unknown—1998), sorcerer, writer, anthropologist
- Jean Chevalier (1906—1993), occult author, philosopher, theologian
- Constant Chevillon (1880—1944), head of FUDOFSI
- Robert Collier (1885—1950), occult author.[44]
- Pamela Colman Smith (1878—1951), artist, painted the Rider–Waite tarot deck, member of the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn
- Aleister Crowley (1875—1947), English occultist and ceremonial magician, founder of Thelema religion[45][10]
- Jinx Dawson (born 1950), ceremonial magician, artist, founder of rock band Coven (band), recording artist
- Samson De Brier (1899—1995), actor and occultist
- Maya Deren (1917—1961),[46] filmmaker and Haitian Vodou priestess
- Savitri Devi (1905—1982), Greco-French Hindu writer, Nazi spy and leading figure of Esoteric Nazism
- Hilda Doolittle (1886—1961), American modernist poet, known under the pseudonym H.D.[47]
- Aleksandr Dugin (born 1962), Russian philosopher, geopolitical analyst and political strategist, commonly referred to as "Putin's brain"
- Gerina Dunwich (born 1959), witch and occult author
- Lon Milo DuQuette (born 1948) musician, lecturer, and occultist
- Julius Evola (1898—1974), Italian philosopher
- Paul Foster Case (1884—1954), founder of BOTA, adept of the Western mystery tradition, teacher, occult author
- Dion Fortune (1890—1946), considered one of Great Britain's most famous occultists,[10] founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light
- Fulcanelli, French alchemist and esoteric author[10]
- Henri Gamache (fl. 1940s), authority on the Evil Eye
- Mort Garson (1924—2008), esoteric electronic music composer
- H. R. Giger (1940—2014), artist, designer, member of the Ordo Templi Orientis
- Sallie Ann Glassman (born 1954), practitioner of Haitian Vodou
- Rudolf John Gorsleben (1883—1930)[48]
- Kenneth Grant (1924—2011), occultist, author, pupil of Aleister Crowley
- John Michael Greer (born 1962), occult author, fantasist, blogger
- Eugen Grosche (1888—1964), known as Gregor A. Gregorius, German occultist, author, founder of the lodge Fraternitas Saturni
- Manly Palmer Hall (1901—1990), occult author, teacher
- Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (1889-1933)
- Frieda Harris (1877—1962), occultist, artist, painted the Thoth tarot deck
- Max Heindel (1865—1919), author
- Rudolf Hess (1894—1987), nazi interested in magic and the occult[49]
- Heinrich Himmler (1900—1945), nazi Reichsführer SS, also interested in magic
- Phil Hine (fl. 1980s), occult author
- Murry Hope (1929—2012), occult author
- Christopher Hyatt (1943—2008), author, teacher, publisher
- Bola Ige (1930—2001), Nigerian lawyer and former minister of power who was a Rosicrucian.[50]
- Guru Maharaj ji, Nigerian grand master occultist, self proclaimed living perfect master and god[51]
- Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929), filmmaker, comic book writer, author and teacher on 'Psychemagia'
- Karl Ernst Krafft (1900-1945), occultist
- Siegfried Adolf Kummer (1899—1977), German occultist
- Kurt E. Koch (1913—1987), Christian missionary pastor, demonologist
- Konstantinos (born 1972), American occultist and writer[52]
- Nina Kulagina (1926—1990), Russian psychic; academic studies of her psychokinesis were widely disputed[53][54]
- Dora van Gelder Kunz (1904—1999), occult author
- Roger de Lafforest (1905—1998), occult author
- Anton LaVey (1930—1997), occult author, founder of the Church of Satan
- Sybil Leek (1917—1982), witch and occult author
- Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883—1939), founder of AMORC
- Ralph Maxwell Lewis (1904—1987), former imperator of AMORC[55]
- Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874—1954), Austrian occultist and pioneer of Ariosophy
- James H. Madole (1927—1979), American neo-Nazi, founder of the National Renaissance Party and personal friend of Anton LaVey
- Friedrich Bernhard Marby (1882—1966), German rune occultist
- Martinus Thomsen (1890—1981), Danish occultist
- Alan Moore (born 1953), British writer and occultist[56]
- Evan Morgan (1893—1949), poet and aristocrat Lord Tredegar
- Grant Morrison (born 1960), comic writer and magician
- Jim Morrison (1943—1971), musician, occultist,[57] member of rock band The Doors
- David Myatt (born 1950), allegedly the leader of the Order of Nine Angles[58]
- Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff (born 1949), occultist, science fiction writer
- Eddie Nawgu (1957—2000), Nigerian sorcerer and self-proclaimed prophet of the Biblical God[59][60]
- Victor Benjamin Neuburg (1883—1940), poet and member of the A∴A∴
- Rosaleen Norton (1917—1979), self-proclaimed Australian witch
- Pericoma Okoye (born 1948), Nigerian spiritualist and musician[61]
- Olumba Olumba, Nigerian self proclaimed God in human form who has been described as an occult grandmaster[62]
- Jesu Oyingbo (—1988), Nigerian traditionalist & spiritualist who proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ[63]
- Tommaso Palamidessi (1915—1983), Christian occultist, founder of the Archeosophical Society
- Jimmy Page (born 1944), musician, occultist, member of rock band Led Zeppelin
- Jack Parsons (1914—1952), occultist, author, and rocket scientist
- Genesis P-Orridge (1950—2020), of Psychic TV video group and TOPY, chaos magician
- Mark L. Prophet (1918—1973), founder of the Summit Lighthouse and proponet of the "I AM" movement who supposedly achieved unification with God and became an 'Ascended Master'[64]
- Israel Regardie (1907—1985), occult author, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley[65]
- Jane Roberts (1929—1984), author[66]
- Alex Sanders (1926—1988), founder of Alexandrian Wicca
- Miguel Serrano (1917—2009), Chilean diplomat, author of books on Esoteric Nazism
- Karl Spiesberger (1904-1992), German occultist
- Pekka Siitoin (1944—2003), Finnish occultist and neo-Nazi
- Harry Everett Smith (1923—1991), visual artist, experimental filmmaker, record collector, bohemian, mystic, largely self-taught student of anthropology, and Neo-Gnostic bishop
- Lionel Snell, occult author, known as Ramsey Dukes
- Austin Osman Spare (1886—1956), author, painter, magician
- Ludwig Straniak (1879—1951)
- Stephen Skinner (born 1948), Australian author
- Rudolf Steiner (1861—1925), founder of anthroposophy[67]
- Gerald Suster (1951—2001), occult author[68]
- Ralph Tegtmeier (born 1952), known as Frater U∴D∴, occultist, author, founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic and Ice Magic
- Paul Twitchell (1908 or 1909—1971), founder of the Eckankar religion and student of oriental occultism[69][70][71]
- Mellie Uyldert (1908—2009), occult author[72]
- Doreen Valiente (1922—1999), priestess and author[73]
- Hannes Vanaküla (born 1966), mage[74]
- Leila Waddell (1880—1932), mystic and muse
- Sam Webster, American writer, publisher, co-founder of the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema[75] and Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn[76]
- Don Webb (born 1960), author of occult books and former high priest of Temple of Set[77][78]
- Samael Aun Weor (1917—1977), theurgist and founder of a 'Gnostic movement'.[79][80]
- Robert Anton Wilson (1932—2007), author[81]
- Catherine Yronwode (born 1947), occult author[82]
- Iyke Nathan Uzorma, Nigeria's first documented and self-proclaimed occult grand master[83][84]
- Swami Vivekananda (1863—1902), Indian mystic who supposedly possessed all occult powers known and also was a chief disciple of Ramakrishna.[85]
- Nirmala Srivastava (1923—2011), Indian mystic and occultist[86][87]
- Louis de Wohl (1903-1961), occultist
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), occultist and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- Francis Parker Yockey (1917—1960), American neo-fascist lawyer and author
21st century
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 21st century;
- Blanche Barton (born 1961), American religious leader who holds the title 'Magistra Templi Rex' within the Church of Satan
- Jean-Louis de Biasi (born 1959), author, lecturer, and spiritual teacher
- Damien Echols (born 1974), American occultist and author
- Lucien Greaves (born ca. 1976) co-founder (alongside Malcolm Jarry) of The Satanic Temple.
- Augustus Sol Invictus (born 1983), American far-right attorney, expelled Ordo Templi Orientis member and former U.S. Senate candidate from Florida
- Thomas Karlsson (born 1972), Swedish occultist and esoteric author
- Konstantinos (born 1972), practicing occultist and neo-pagan
- Jon Nödtveidt (1975—2006), Swedish musician, member of Temple of the Black Light, committed suicide
- Stephen Skinner (born 1948), Australian author, editor, publisher and lecturer
- Julie Scott (born 1958), AMORC grandmaster.
- Catherine Yronwode (born 1947), American writer, graphic designer, and practitioner of folk magic
See also
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