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
This list features people who are said, either by themselves or their followers, to be the Jewish Messiah.
- Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BCE–c. 30CE)
- 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 Avila.
- 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 (http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Vital.asp) (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.
- 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.
- Hong Xiuquan, China (1812-1864), claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus.
- 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
- 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 Icke (b. 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"
- Sergei Anatolevich Torop (b. 1961) who started to call himself Vissarion, founder of the Church of the last testament
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Muslim messiah claimants
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835 - 1908) of Qadian, 'the Promised Messiah' return of Jesus, founder of the Ahmadiyya religious movement in Islam.
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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 and Christianity.
- Jah Asikari (1BC-21 CE) central figure of Jahasikarianism Black-Latin who taught in Ethiopia and Israel.
- Aradia de Toscano (b. 1313) active in Italy, said to be the human incarnation of the Roman demigodess Aradia (goddess).
- Jacob Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement.
- André Matsoua (1899-1942), Congolese founder of Amicale, proponets of which subsequently adopted him as Messiah.
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See also
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References
Shabbetai Zevi (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/asym/zevi.html)
