This is a list of
magicians/illusionists,
prestidigitators,
mentalists
Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Mentalists perform a theatrical act that includes special effects that may appear to employ ps ...
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escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. For the list of supernatural magicians, see
List of occultists.
Magicians are listed by the most common name used in performance. Magicians' actual names, when applicable, follow in parentheses.
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Aalto, Simo
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Abbot, David
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Acer, David
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Adams, Curtis
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Aich, Jewel
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Alexander, C. A. (Claude Alexander Conlin)
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Alexander, Jason
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Alexander, Jay
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Amazing Johnathan (John Edward Szeles)
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Ammar, Michael
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Amodei, Ivan
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Anckorn, Fergus ("Wizardus")
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Anderson, Harry
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Anderson, John Henry
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Andrus, Jerry
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Andruzzi, Tony (Tom S. Palmer)
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Angel, Criss (Christopher Sarantakos)
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Annemann, Theodore (Theodore John Squires)
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Archer, John
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Aronson, Simon
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Arts, Alexis
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Atkins, Jeffery
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Baker, Al
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Balducci, Ed
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Baldwin, Samri
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Ballantine, Carl (Meyer Kessler)
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Bamberg II, David Tobias (Fu Manchu)
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Bamberg, Tobias
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Banachek
Banachek (born Steven Shaw; 30 November 1960) is an English Mentalism, mentalist, magician (illusionist), magician, and thought reader.
He first came to public attention as a teenager for his role in James Randi's Project Alpha (hoax), Project ...
(Steven Shaw)
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Barry and Stuart (Barry Jones & Stuart MacLeod)
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Barry, Keith
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Bartl, János
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Bavli, Guy
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Becker, Herbert L.
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Ben, David
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Berglas, David
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Bertram, Charles
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Frank K. Berry
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Biere, Arnold de
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Black, Ariann
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Blackstone, Gay
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Blackstone, Harry, Sr.
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Blackstone, Harry, Jr.
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Blaine, David
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Bobo, J.B.
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Bongo, Ali (William Oliver Wallace)
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Born, John
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Bradáč, Zdeněk
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Branson, L. H.
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Brodien, Marshall
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Dick Brooks (entertainer) also known as Dick Brookz, Bravo the Great or Grate, and Ray Carter (John Bravo)
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Brown, Derren
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Brown, James
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Brushwood, Brian
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Buchinger, Matthias
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Burger, Eugene
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Burton, Lance
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Burlingame, H. J.
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Bundy, John
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Bux, Kuda (Khuda Bakhsh)
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Cagliostro, Alessandro
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Calvert, John (Elbern Madren Calvert)
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Cameron, Charles
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Canuplin
Canuto Francia (January 28, 1904 – September 4, 1979), better known as Canuplin, was a Filipino stage performer and magician who gained fame for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin in Filipino movies and the local bodabil circuit.
Biography ...
(Canuto Francia)
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Caper, Charlie
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Carbonaro, Michael
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Cardini (Richard Valentine Pitchford)
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Carnegie, Dean
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Carney, John
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Carter, Charles Joseph
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Cassidy, John
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Caveney, Mike
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Chen, Juliana
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Shamsudheen Cherpulassery from Kerala, India
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Chien, Hanson
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Christopher, Milbourne
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Coby, Rudy
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Cohen, Al
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Cohen, Steve
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Colombini, Aldo
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Comte, Louis
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Comus
In Greek mythology, Comus (; , ''Kōmos'') is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. Cup-bearer of the god Dionysus, he was represented as a winged youth or a child-like satyr. His mythology occurs only in later antiquity. Duri ...
(Ledru, Nicolas-Philippe)
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Cook, Ali
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Cooper, Tommy
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Copperfield, David (David Seth Kotkin)
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Corinda, Tony (Thomas William Simpson)
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Cox, Chris
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Crowley, Aleister (Edward Alexander Crowley)
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Culpitt, Fred
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Cunningham, Doc
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Curry, Paul
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Daniels, Paul (Newton Edward Daniels)
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Dante the Magician (Harry August Jansen)
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Daryl
Darryl is a given name, a variant spelling of Darell. Variations of this name include: Daryl, Daryll, Darryll, and Darrel.
People Darryl
* Darryl Brown (West Indian cricketer) (born 1973)
* Darryl Brown (South African cricketer) (born 1983)
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(Daryl Easton, Daryl Martinez)
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Davenport, Lewis (George Ryan)
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Davenport, William Henry and Erastus, Ira
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Dedi
Djedi (also Dedi or Djedi of Djed-Sneferu) is the name of a fictional ancient Egyptian magician appearing in the fourth chapter of a story told in the legendary Westcar Papyrus. He is said to have worked wonders during the reign of king (phara ...
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de Vère, Clémentine
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De Kolta, Buatier
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Devant, David (David Wellington or David Wighton)
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Diaconis, Persi
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Dietrich, Dorothy
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Dill, Dean
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Dingle, Derek
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Dinardi
Alfred Körber (18 June 1911 – 3 October 1996), known by his stage name Rolf Dinardi (or simply Dinardi) was a German magician best known for his performances with feather flowers.
Biography
Körber was apprenticed as a baker and confectio ...
(Alfred Körber)
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Dorenbos, Jon
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Downs, Thomas Nelson
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Drake, Simon (Simon Alexander)
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Draper, Paul W.
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Dunninger, Joseph
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Durham, Geoffrey
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Dynamo
"Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, )
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos employed electromagnets for self-starting by using residual magnetic field left in the iron cores ...
(Steven Frayne)
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Eason, Doc
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Eliason, Frank Eugene
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Eliason, Oscar
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Ellis, Tim
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Elmsley, Alex
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Erdnase, S. W.
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Erkin, Sermet
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Evans, Henry R.
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Evans, Sophie
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Evanswood, Terry
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Fakir of Ava (Isaiah Harris Hughes)
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Farla, Christian
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Farquhar, Shawn
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Ferguson, Rich (Richard Jeffrey Evans)
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Ferré, Norbert
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Finney, Michael
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Finch, Jon
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Firman, Pete
* Fischbacher, Siegfried, see
Siegfried & Roy
Siegfried Fischbacher (born Siegfried Tyron Fischbacher; June 13, 1939 – January 13, 2021) and Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn; October 3, 1944 – May 8, 2020) were German-American entertainers who performed an animal-based magic show together ...
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Fitzkee, Dariel (Dariel Fitzroy)
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Flom, Justin
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Flosso, Al (Albert Levinson)
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Foo, Ching Ling (Chee Ling Qua)
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Fox, Imro (Isidore Fuchs)
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Franco, Mat (Mat Franco)
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Freedman, James
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Freer, Winston
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Frewin, Greg
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Frischman, Dan
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Guimaraes, Helder
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Ganson, Lewis
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Garcia, Frank
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Gardner, Martin
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Gazzo (Gary Osbourne)
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Germain, Karl
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Gertner, Paul
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Gibson, Walter B.
Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow, and as a ghost-writer for many of his friend Harry Houdini's book ...
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Giobbi, Roberto
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Gladwin, Andi
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Green, Lennart
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Goldenberg, Haim
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Goldin, Horace
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Goldston, Will
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Gopinath Muthukad
Gopinath Muthukad (born 10 April 1964) is an Indian Magician (illusion), magician and motivational speaker from Kerala. He employs magic as a medium to convey his messages to public. Muthukad founded the world's first magic academy, The Academ ...
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Gore, Steve
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Gunawan, Hendra
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Hamman, Br. John
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Hammer, Virginia Edmunda
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Harary, Franz
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Harbin, Robert (born Edward Williams)
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Hardeen (Ferencz Dezso Weisz)
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Harris, Neil Patrick
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Harris, Paul
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Hart, Ben
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Hatfield, Murray and Teresa
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Haydn, Whit "Pop"
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Heath, Royal Vale
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Henning, Doug
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Herrmann, Alexander
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Hilliard, John Northern
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Houdini, Harry
Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionally as Harry Houdini ( ), was a Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts.
Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in the ...
(Erik Weiss)
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Hugard, Jean
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Han Ping Chien
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Hyde, Timothy
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Interrante, Scott
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Işınbark, Ertuğrul
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James, Kevin
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James, P. (V. Kennedy)
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Jarrow, Emil
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Jay, Joshua
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Jay, Ricky (Ricky Potash)
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Jay & Joss (Jamie Docherty and Lewis Joss)
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Jennings, Larry
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Jermay, Luke
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John George
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Jillette, Penn, see also
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette and Teller, are American magicians, entertainers, and scientific skeptics who have performed together since 1975. They are noted for their ongoing act that combines elements of comedy with magic.
The duo has bee ...
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Johnson, Kristen
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Jonathan, The Amazing (John Edward Szeles)
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Jones, Barry
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Jones, Richard
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Jordan, Charles
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Kane, Peter
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Kaps, Fred (Abraham Pieter Adrianus Bongers)
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Katterfelto, Gustavus
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Kaufman, Richard J.
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Kellar, Harry (Heinrich Keller)
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Kent, Michael
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Ketchedjian, Daniel
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Kieve, Paul
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King, Mac
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Kio, Emil (Emil Teodorovich Girshfeld-Renard)
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Kio, Igor (Igor Emilievich Renard Kio)
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Klok, Hans
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Knauss, Eric (The Great Zucchini)
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Kole, André (Robert Gurtler, Jr.)
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De Kolta, Buatier (Joseph Bautier)
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Koran, Al (Edward Doe)
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Milton Kort
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Kredible, Justin (Justin Willman)
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The Amazing Kreskin
The Amazing Kreskin (born George Joseph Kresge Jr., January 12, 1935 – December 10, 2024), also known as Kreskin, was an American mentalist who became popular on television in the 1970s. He was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee Falk's comi ...
(George Joseph Kresge, Jr.)
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Kwong, David
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Labero, Joe (Lars Bengt Roland Johansson)
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Laflin, Duane
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Lancaster, Lou (Louis Lancaster McClung)
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Latimer, Jason
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Lavand, René
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Lee, Misty
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Leifer, Debbie
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Lenert, Tina
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Lenier, Minnette Gersh
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Le Roy, Servais
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Levi, Eliphas (Alphonse Louis Constant)
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Levinger, Shlomo
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Levit, Jonathan
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Lim, Shin
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Lorayne, Harry
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Lovell, Curtis II
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Lovell, Simon
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Lovick, John
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London, Tom
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Lal, K (Kantilal Girdharilal Vora)
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Lu, Chen
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MacGregor, John
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Macleod, Stuart
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Magic Babe Ning (Ning Cai)
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Mahdi Moudini
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Magic Christian (Christian Stelzel)
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Majax, Gérard (Gérard Fater)
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Malini, Max (Max Katz Breit)
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Malone, Bill
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Mandrake, Leon (Leon Giglio)
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Marcy, Matt
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Marlo, Ed (Edward Malkowski)
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Marshall, Jay (James Ward Marshall)
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Marvey, Peter
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Maskelyne, Jasper
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Maskelyne, John Nevil
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Maskelyne, Nevil
* Masklyn ye Mage: see
Tony Andruzzi
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de Matos, Luis
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Matt the Knife
Matt the Knife (also called MTK) is a magician and mentalist. He has broken a number of Guinness World Records. He began his career as a professional con man.
Career
Sometime around 2000 he began to perform magic. Since then, he has performed i ...
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Maven, Max (Phil Goldstein)
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Mayne, Andrew (Andrew Harter)
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McBride, Jeff
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McComb, Billy
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McKenzie, Doug
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Méliès, Georges (Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès)
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Menna, Lisa
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Milner, John
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Minkin, David
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Money-Coutts, Drummond
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Morgan The Escapist
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Mulhern, Stephen
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Mulholland, John
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Mullica, Tom
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Munoz, Oscar
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Muthukad, Gopinath
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Namboothiri, Vazhakkunnam
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Neutert, Natias
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Nicholson, Chris
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Nixon, David
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Nova, Aldo
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Nu, Alain
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Nyman, Andy
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Ogawa, Shoot
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Okito
Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg (1875–1963) was a professional magician. Born in the Netherlands, Bamberg performed under the name ''Okito'' which is an anagram of Tokio (Tokyo). His father had been court magician to King William III of the Ne ...
(
Tobias Bamberg
Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg (1875–1963) was a professional magic (illusion), magician. Born in the Netherlands, Bamberg performed under the name ''Okito'' which is an anagram of Tokio (Tokyo). His father had been court magician to King Willi ...
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Orleans, Danny
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Ortiz, Darwin
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Osterlind, Richard
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Ovette, Great (Joseph Ovette)
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Özdemir, İlkay
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O.P. Sharma
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Page, Pat
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Palladino, Eusapia (Minerverno Murge)
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Palmer, Johnny "Ace"
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Paterson, Alex
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Pearlman, Oz
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Pendragons
Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon were a husband-and-wife duo of American illusionists who called their work "physical grand illusion". They are widely known due to numerous national and international television appearances . They began performin ...
(Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon)
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Penn, David
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Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette and Teller, are American magicians, entertainers, and scientific skeptics who have performed together since 1975. They are noted for their ongoing act that combines elements of comedy with magic.
The duo has bee ...
(see also
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American Magic (illusion), magician, actor, comedian, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller (magician), Teller as half of the t ...
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Teller)
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Penrose, Scott
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Philadelphia, Jacob (Jacob Meyer)
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Piff the Magic Dragon
John van der Put (born 9 June 1980) is an English magician and comedian, who performs under the stage name Piff the Magic Dragon. A winner of multiple awards from British magic societies, he toured as a supporting act for Mumford and Sons an ...
(John van der Put)
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Pinetti, Joseph (Joseph Pinetti Willedall de Merci)
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Polgar, Franz
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Pollock, Channing
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Potter, Richard
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Presto, Fay (Letitia Winter, Oliver Winter)
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P. C. Sorcar Sr. (Indian magician, 1950s)
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P. C. Sorcar Jr. and
P. C. Sorcar, Young
P. C. Sorcar, Young (formal name Provas Chandra Sorcar; born 1950) is an Indian magician based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the third son of Indian magician P. C. Sorcar. He is the winner of the Samurai Crown for the Best Magic Show ...
(Indian Magicians)
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Qualter, Noel
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Randi, James (Randall James Hamilton Zwinge)
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Reveen, Peter
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Reynolds, Charles
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Robert, Étienne-Gaspard
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Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène
* Robinson, William Ellsworth: see
Chung Ling Soo
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo (). He is mostly remembered today for his extensive use of yellowface in his act to falsely represent himself to be ...
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Role, Brian
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Romany, the Diva of Magic
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Roth, David
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Rovi
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(Ivor Parry)
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Rowland, Ian
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Sadowitz, Jerry
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Salwak, Dale
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Sam, Long Tack (Lung Te Shan)
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Sankey, Jay
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Saville, Ian
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Saxe, Melinda
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SawChuck, Murray
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Scarne, John (Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia)
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Schindler, George
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Schmidt, Pauline
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Schwarzman, Howie
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Scott & Muriel (Scott Nelson and Muriel Brugman)
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Seeman, Baron Hartwig
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Selbit, P. T. (Percy Thomas Tibbles)
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Setteducati, Mark
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Shaxon, Alan (Alan Arthur Howson)
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Sheridan, Jeff
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Shokyokusai, Tenkatsu (Madame Tenkatsu)
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Siegfried & Roy
Siegfried Fischbacher (born Siegfried Tyron Fischbacher; June 13, 1939 – January 13, 2021) and Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn; October 3, 1944 – May 8, 2020) were German-American entertainers who performed an animal-based magic show together ...
(Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn)
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Silano, Rocco
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Silvan (Aldo Savoldello)
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Aaron Smith
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Slydini, Tony (Quintino Marucci)
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Snipes, Felix
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Solomon, Thomas
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Soo, Chung Ling (William Ellsworth Robinson)
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Sorcar, P. C. (Protul Chandra Sarcar)
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Sorcar, P. C. Jr. (Prodip Chandra Sarcar)
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Steinmeyer, Jim
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Stone, David
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Stone, Tom (Thomas Bengtsson)
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Strebler, Morgan (Matthew Glenn Milligan)
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Sum, J C (Sum Jan-chung)
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Suhani Shah
Suhani Shah (born 29 January 1990) is an Indian mentalist, mind reader, magician, and YouTuber.
Early life
Suhani Shah was born on 29 January 1990 in Udaipur, Rajasthan in a Marwadi family. She left her school in class 2 to pursue her passio ...
(India)
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Sungur, Zati
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Swiss, Jamy Ian
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Sylvester the Jester (Daniel Sylvester Battagline)
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Takayama, Cyril
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Talma, Mercedes (Mary Ann Ford)
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Tamariz, Juan (Tamariz-Martel Negrón)
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Tarbell, Harlan
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Tavella, Dustin
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Thompson, Johnny (The Great Tomsoni)
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Teller (Raymond Joseph Teller): see also
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette and Teller, are American magicians, entertainers, and scientific skeptics who have performed together since 1975. They are noted for their ongoing act that combines elements of comedy with magic.
The duo has bee ...
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Tempest, Marco
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Tenko, Princess (Mariko Itakura)
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Thurston, Howard
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Tobin, Neil
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Topas
The OT-62 TOPAS is a series of amphibious tracked armoured personnel carriers developed jointly by the Polish People's Republic and Czechoslovakia (ČSSR). OT-62 stands for ''Obrněný Transportér vzor 62'' – "armoured personnel carrier model ...
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Turner, Richard
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Valentino, Val (The Masked Magician)
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Andrew Van Buren
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Vernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner)
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Vincent, Michael (Michael Vincent Louis)
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Walker, Val
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Walton, Roy
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Watson, Alan
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Wayne, Matt (Matthew Wayne Tomasko)
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Webster, Sue-Anne
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Welles, Orson
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Willard, Frances
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Williams, Dick
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Wilson, Gregory
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Wilson, Mark
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Wind, Tommy
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Witt, Wittus
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Wonder, Tommy (Jacobus Maria Bemelman)
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Wood, Dominic
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Wood, Greg
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Wyrick, Steve
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Zabrecky, Rob
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Zamloch, Anton
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The Zancigs
Julius and Agnes Zancig were American stage magicians and writers on occultism who performed a spectacularly successful two-person mentalism act during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Julius Zancig (1857–1929) – born Julius Jörgensen ...
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Zarrow, Herb
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Zenon, Paul
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Zimmer, Florian
See also
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List of magicians in film
References
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Magicians
Magician or The Magician may refer to:
Performers
* A practitioner of magic (supernatural)
* A practitioner of magic (illusion)
* Magician (fantasy), a character in a fictional fantasy context
Entertainment
Books
* ''The Magician'', an 18th-ce ...