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).
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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)
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
Muslim messiah claimants
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!"
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.
See also
- Jewish Messiah
- Jewish Messiah claimants
- List of people considered to be avatars
- List of charismatic leaders
- List of people considered to be deities
- Messiah
Bibliography
- Hogue, John Messiahs: The Visions and Prophecies for the Second Coming (1999) Elements Books ISBN 1862045496