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