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List of messiah claimants

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
• Jiddu 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)

See also: Messiah, Jesus and Sun Myung Moon, Maitreya, list of people, list of people by belief

External links

• King Messiah.
• Psak Din.

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