List of occultists

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.

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

Enlightenment

• Ulrica Arfvidsson, politically influential Swedish fortune-teller.
• Alessandro Cagliostro,^[35] Italian occultist
• Antoine Court de Gebelin, connected tarot and esotericism
• Etteilla, fortune-teller
• 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
• 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
• "La Voisin", French sorceress

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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