List of messiah claimants Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
People said by themselves or by their followers to be the
Messiah. This list is ordered by year of birth.
- Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BC - c. 30)
- Theudas
- Menahem ben Judah
- Simon bar Kokhba (died c. 135) - defeated in the Second Jewish War
- Moses of Crete (5th century)
- Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan
- Yudghan
- Serene (Sherini, Sheria, Serenus, Zonoria, Saüra) (c. 720)
- David Alroy or Alrui (c. 1160)
- Abraham Abulafia (b. 1240)
- Nissim ben Abraham
- David Reuveni
- Shlomo Molkho (or, Solomon Molko)
- Isaac Luria (or, Yitzhak Luria)
- Hayim Vital
- Moses Botarel of Cisneros
- Asher Lemmlein
- Sabbatai Zevi (Alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai; Tvi, Tzvi)
- Jacob Querido
- Barukhia Russo (Osman Baba)
- Miguel (Abraham) Cardoso (b. 1630)
- Mordecai Mokiaḥ ("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt
- Löbele Prossnitz
- Jacob Joseph Frank (1726 - 1791) - Founder of the Frankist movement
- R. Nachman of Bratslav
- J. Krishnamurti (1895 - 1986)
- Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902 - 1994)
- Georges-Emest Roux (1903 - 1981), the Christ de Montfavet, founder of the Eglise Chrétienne Universelle
- Sun Myung Moon (born 1920) - Founder of the Unification Church
- Sathya Sai Baba (born 1926 or 1929)
- David Icke (born 1952), the British former footballer and football commentator who became famous in the early 1990s for claiming to be the Son of God.
- David Koresh (1959-1993)
- Maria Devi Christos (born 1960) - Founder of the "Great White Brotherhood"
See also:
Messiah,
Jesus and Sun Myung Moon,
Maitreya,
list of people,
list of people by belief
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