List of messiah claimants

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This is a list of people who have been said to be a messiah either by themselves, or by their followers. The list is divided into categories, which are sorted according to date of birth (where known).

1 Jewish messiah claimants
2 Christian messiah claimants
3 Muslim messiah claimants
4 Other messiah claimants
5 See also
6 Bibliography
7 References

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Jewish messiah claimants

Template:Main This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers, to be the Jewish Messiah.

Judas son of Hezekiah (Ezekias)(c. 4 BCE)
Simon (c. 4 BCE)
Athronges (c. 4-2? BCE)
Jesus of Nazareth (c. 26 CE)
Theudas (44-46) in the Roman province of Judea
Menahem ben Judah partook in a revolt against Agrippa II in Judea
Simon bar Kokhba (died c. 135), defeated in the Second Jewish-Roman War
Moses of Crete (5th century)
Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan lived in Persia during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (684-705).
Yudghan, lived and taught in Persia in the early eighth century disciple of Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani of Ispahan
Serene (Sherini, Sheria, Serenus, Zonoria, Saüra) (c. 720)
David Alroy or Alrui (c. 1160)
Abraham Abulafia (b. 1240)
Nissim ben Abraham (c. 1295) active in vila.
Moses Botarel of Cisneros (c. 1413)
Asher Lemmlein (1502) a German near Venice.
David Reuveni and Solomon Molko early sixteenth century.
Isaac Luria (or, Yitzhak Luria) (1534-1572), noted Kabbalist
Hayim Vital (1542-1620)
Sabbatai Zevi (alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai; Tvi, Tzvi) (1626-1676)
Barukhia Russo (Osman Baba), succesor of Sabbatai Zevi.
Miguel (Abraham) Cardoso (b. 1630)
Mordecai Mokiaḥ ("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt (active 1678-1683)
Jacob Querido (d. 1690), said to be the reincarnation of Shabbetai Zevi.
Israel ben Eliezer (1698-1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov and founder of the Hasidism movement.
Löbele Prossnitz (Joseph ben Jacob), early eighteenth century
Jacob Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement.
R. Nachman of Bratslav early (1772-1811)
Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994)

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Christian messiah claimants

This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers to be Jesus Christ, or a Messiah under the umbrella of Christianity.

Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BCE–c. 30CE)
Aldebert (eighth century)
Tanchelm of Antwerp (c. 1110)
Ann Lee (1736-1784) central figure to the Shakers.
John Nichols Thom (1799-1838), Cornish tax rebel
Hong Xiuquan, China (1812-1864), claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus.
Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), claimed to be the promised one of all religions, and founded the Bahá'í Faith.
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975), Messiah of the Rastafari movement.
Georges-Emest Roux (1903-1981), the Christ de Montfavet, founder of the Eglise Chrétienne Universelle
Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920), founder of the Unification Church
Abbott "Vaughn" Meader (1936-2004), grammy-winning comedian and impersonator.
Vince Taylor (1939-1991), rock and roller who ended his career by claiming to be Jesus.
Michael Travesser, born Wayne Bent (b. 1941). Claims to be the beginning of the Second Coming of Jesus.
Inri Cristo (b. 1948) a claimant to be the second Jesus in Curitiba, Brazil
David Koresh (1959-1993)
Maria Devi Christos (born 1960), founder of the Great White Brotherhood
Sergei Torop (b. 1961) who started to call himself "Vissarion," founder of the Church of the Last Testament

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Muslim messiah claimants

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Islamic tradition has a prophecy of the Mahdi, who will come alongside the return of Jesus. The following people claimed to be the Mahdi.

Syed Mohammad Jaunpuri (1443 - 1505) of Northeastern India.
The Báb in 1844 declared to be the promised Mahdi in Shiraz, Iran.
Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892): Here as well as he'd been born Shiite and relates to both Islam as well as Christianity.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908) of Qadian, 'the Promised Messiah' return of Jesus, founder of the Ahmadiyya religious movement in Islam.
Muhammad Ahmad in the late 19th century founded a short-lived empire in Sudan.
Mohammed bin Abdullah of Somaliland engaged in military conflicts from 1900 to 1920.
Juhayman al-Otaibi seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November of 1979.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran (1900-1989) was believed by a number of followers to be the Mahdi. Upon his return to Iran from exile in 1979, the headline on Tehran's largest-circulation newspaper read, "The Mahdi Returns!"

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Other messiah claimants

This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers to be some form of a messiah outside of the sphere of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Aradia de Toscano (b. 1313) active in Italy, said to be the human incarnation of the Roman demigoddess Aradia.
Jacob Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement.
André Matsoua (1899-1942), Congolese founder of Amicale, proponents of which subsequently adopted him as Messiah.
Maitreya (unknown), A messianic figure promoted by Benjamin Creme through his organization, Share International.