Top 10 Real Life Wizards of the World

Magic is all around us! For this list, we’re looking at the most famous, intriguing, and influential purported magic users in history. Our countdown includes Dion Fortune, Éliphas Lévi, Aleister Crowley, and more! If we forgot someone important, please enchant us with your knowledge in the comments!
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[@WatchMojo]

If we forgot someone important, please enchant us with your knowledge in the comments!

[@Daniel-ii1ok]

hi

[@MrRonald327]

Wow.

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Interesting and incredible

[@Daniel-ii1ok]

@Red Spoon early access probably

[@TheRealMythril]

What about the Brahan Seer and Michael Scott?

[@ferociousgumby]

I am just impressed by how she is able to pronounce all these names!

[@nivensmctwisp7429]

She seems to be one of the only people on these channels to do so. In my experience, native English speakers are God awful at reading names and/or words from other languages.

[@ramaalemzer]

Its AI adapted voice that's why Its on point

[@suryasingh9738]

The world's a bigger place than people think sometimes.

[@persona8439]

Aye

[@ronelcarloenoc6531]

Indeed

[@randomdofando8458]

@god bless help me you look like you don't want to adventure and explore anything without involving technology you probably would think it's a wasted trip and wasted time I have found a lot of things that I didn't believe at first so many things that surprised me without technology. And yes I did all of the stuff necessary to find out if they were faking stuff or not I had a person heal me before and I wasn't even believing them so it was no placebo effect I don't understand it there's just more science that we don't understand a person healed me without me believing that it was working and they were just moving energy

[@randomdofando8458]

@god bless help me why did you even name yourself something Christian on the internet

[@randomdofando8458]

@god bless help me you are very judgmental you need to be slow in your judgment I never did say that I hate you for saying E I think that you have a lot of thinking to do and I think that I'm going to start deleting comments and if I can't delete them permanently I'll do something else that's why I'm careful what I say when I post on the internet

[@senorpickle6239]

My dad was a wizard, he one day made himself disappear and never reappeared

[@pjohako5771]

Real shitty wizard

[@ARealPerson21]

Lucky my dad just said he was going to Walmart to get me candy

[@Slntsir]

😂Underrated comment

[@sradhanjalidash8211]

That is kinda sad

[@robertdomergue1946]

Lol 😂

[@Lark88]

It's amazing how far self-confidence will get you.

[@jennyvinyl85]

The main purpose of self-confidence is to mask incompetence.

[@susahbacagkpakespace]

@@jennyvinyl85 but most of the time self confidence is gained from the competence u actually have

[@WatchMojo]

lol

[@growlimitless2195]

lol as you go deeper into physics, you’ll inevitably land on some perplexing paradoxes

[@benjaminlaureano9804]

Woah attempting to demonize Crowley? I think he did a good enough job on his own.

[@PutoMedicoBrujo]

this is a mood

[@brandoncornejo7880]

Still gotta respect his dedication to magic he went a long way

[@MrGLASSCANON]

The way she pronounced the names is lit!

[@盧璘壽로인수]

because not doing enough research is both racist & ignorant, especially without warning

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@盧璘壽로인수 and she had warning. I'm sure she had time to practice those names and do multiple takes if needed.

[@toasterman9362]

Let me give you a summary of Rasputin’s death He took a trip to his home town one day, and was stabbed in the chest very close to the heart. He lived, later the prince invited him to to castle for drinks. Instead of wine, the prince and some guards put pure syinide (sry for spelling). Very deadly poison. He said the drink was amazing, and had 3 big servings of it. The prince had enough, then shot him in the head and then left the palace. Later, a few guards came back to see Rasputin lying unconscious on the floor. And then Rasputin got up, and attacked the two guards. So far he has been stabbed in the chest, poisoned, and shot in the head. He walks out of the castle to go confront the prince. Who then the princes guards shoot in twice, in the head and in the chest. He should have been dead, but no he was well alive. The eventually tossed him off of a tall bridge. Which he survived and was last seen a day later well alive on a chunk of ice. He’s body was thrown off the bridge on December 30th, and he was said to have lasted until January 2nd, the body was found I think on January 3rd also, don’t remember.

[@legaultjam]

Cause of death : Hypothermia

[@AVagent007]

Gotchu, so he died of Covid?

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Didn't they wrap him up in a rug before they threw him into the freezing cold water? And after he was finally dead they cut off his penis, embalmed it, and it's on display in a museum...in a box behind a curtain. Apparently they were amazed by it's size.

[@tweakfreq1982]

He was also hung

[@stephandesade]

I would include Jack Parsons and Carlos Castaneda too

[@henrycbrennan]

Most definitely Carlos Castaneda.

[@SI-ln6tc]

Castanada was mostly likely a fake. A good trance writer though.

[@dallinthomas746]

I feel that Oberon Zell Ravenheart should have been given an honourable mention if not an actual ranking on this list. The man has spent the majority of his life refering to himself as a wizard in the traditional sense; plus he is the headmaster of a state recognised school of wizardry.

[@ivorypoacherplays]

Someone said “f u Harry Potter” to me the other day...very upsetting

[@AceUzumazi]

Obviously a Death Eater who was still mad that Voldermort got his ass kicked! XD

[@unknownguy334]

I'd be offended because that community is cancer

[@davidsherrington532]

Aleister Crowley was definitely the most influential and interesting man on this list and that’s saying something ☯️🕉☸️

[@dinahwhite3929]

NIKOLA TESLA IS THE GREATEST AND THE MOST POWERFUL WIZARD OF ELECTRICITY AHEAD OF HIS TIME EVER!

[@DancehallXpose]

@@dinahwhite3929 no Jesus is haile Selassie 1

[@stevenmoirey2j367]

EVERY MAN CLAIMS HE HAS POWER,BUT FORGETS HE CAN NEVER LIVE FOREVER

[@PutoMedicoBrujo]

Gilgamesh ghost-wrote this

[@YoungEli9]

Your power is not in how long you live, it’s what you do while you live

[@thisgame2]

Wrong

[@ProverbsofPsalms]

You'd be surprised so don't be so sure. Some people literally never die.

[@mihai.e.g.]

Why isn't Hermes Trismegistus on this list?

[@pedrosalvino3433]

because anyone know if he really existed

[@terrificlife1576]

From what I know the biggest magician of all time is Solomon , there are so many stories ,legends, artifacts who speak about his magic. Strange was not mentioned in the video.

[@californiacajun4535]

Solomon from the Bible?

[@terrificlife1576]

@@californiacajun4535 yes

[@californiacajun4535]

What kind of magic? Do you know if

[@chuckfriebe843]

@urbangunn of course, a Muslim and their undying persistence in “educating” the folks on KZbin. 🙄

[@user-jg3jp7rn3o]

@Redskull and he is muslim and one of Prophets of allah

[@fernandomirandilla9088]

🎵RA-RA-RASPUTIN, LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN🎵

[@kalebdickerson268]

The guy in the the thumbnail is doing the hand sign that Junpei did in Jujutsu kaisen.

[@GoldenPhoenixGaming]

Well, he also popular for "Ra-ra-rasputin lover of the Russian queen".

[@dripkidd8572]

He was a young man, in Russia long ago

[@sui7584]

There Was A Cat That Really Was Gone

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

*sifts through list to find Alan Moore*

[@allenmurallo3730]

He's not in here, Chief.

[@lndnnwtn7288]

Feels cool to finally see something about hemophilia, had it 20 years now and very rarely find videos talking about it or find anyone who actually knows what it is

[@apocrypha1286]

I was surprised not to see you Nicholas Flamel

[@ophiel]

I would add Wolf Messing

[@Zee-bu2rw]

Something about the pics of Rasputin are haunting.

[@rubidium3718]

"Influencial french occultist, sage, SOCIALIST" Socialist magic!

[@сесилияалександрова]

The Bulgarian baba Vanga wasn't a magician, but she was a prominent seeress of the 20th century

[@kingofjokers1]

There's a man known as Michael Scot who acted as a translator, mathematician, and astrologer in medieval Sicily to King Frederick II. He essentially acted as his Court Magician/Scientist and has several legends attributed to him.

[@middleeasternforhire8985]

Like the office guy or are you talking about saint Germain

[@trexadvent4726]

Can you do comic book origin of Marvel's Doctor Voodoo, Nightmare and Clea?

[@Ivan--Drago]

I have a distant relative who lived in Alabama who was a wizard, I don't know why in his photo's he dressed as a ghost but I heard he was a grand wizard!

[@iamthemessiah]

Wow. I'm from Alabama and I'm a grand wizard too.. a black one 🤫

[@LuvnIndoGiniq]

Did you uncle only disappear black people?

[@Supernimo735]

LMAO

[@mikehawk9773]

THERE ONCE WAS A MAN, IN RUSSIA LONG AGO

[@Qu0thTheRaven]

famous wizards in no particular order: Nicolas Flamel Apollonius of Tyana Plato Socrates Roger Bacon Manly Palmer Hall Robert Fludd Nostradamus Arthur Edward Waite Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers Iamblichus Sir Isaac Newton Myrddin Emrys Count Saint Germain William Blake Hermes Trismegistus Plotinus Pythagoras St Cyprian Albertus Magnus Albert Richard Riedel (Frater Albertus) Christian Rosenkreutz Alex Sanders (Orrell Alexander Bibby) Franz Bardon Raymond Buckland Scott Cunningham Christopher Penczak Konstantinos Fulcanelli John Michael Greer Donald Tyson Rudolf Steiner Alan Moore and Carl Gustav Jung ...just to name a few.

[@wkgames7516]

Yeahhhh! Good to see someone who knows their stuff!

[@tweakfreq1982]

I'm pleased to see my brethren are remembered. If you have a need for esoteric supplies I can create something unique and personal.

[@suwaidameen5363]

Wow most of them are well educated people

[@Qu0thTheRaven]

@@suwaidameen5363 Wizardry is an honorable respectable tradition, yes.

[@suwaidameen5363]

@@Qu0thTheRaven how?

[@nunogfds]

Not sure, if he deserves being called a wizzard but I was really waiting for Nostradamus

[@Jason_Belmont]

You said "sex magic"? Where do you suppose I could pick up a copy of that book? Amazon maybe? I'll try Amazon. Yeah, Amazon. Edit: Yeah no it's not on Amazon.

[@arccz8540]

Underrated comment

[@Arnie97]

funny how most of them are related to Kabala (Jewish black magic)

[@lactate]

ikr lol

[@ruffiovega6999]

Wait thats a thing ??

[@soulsemblance3163]

Wow that is interesting indeed

[@Arnie97]

You guys should do some research, all of these "secret" societies: illuminati, freemasonry,skull n bones, they all use kabala magic they are all related under different names, the more research you do the more you want to stay away from them because you see how evil they are, it's like they find every possible way to do the things that God forbid

[@SirNxgroUnChained]

Yeah all these guys are definitely Kabbalist... and they don’t really hide it so much anymore,, weird that they’re trying to make this occult practicing shit cool now (mainly through all forms of media)

[@grapefruitsimmons]

Got this video idea from Mad Lads didnt you? Count Dankulas influence is spreading

[@apetrila1]

Who the hell taught Mojo to pronounce these name?

[@tweakfreq1982]

Where on your list is Meriden/Merlin. He was an actual person, though which timeline he presents himself in is difficult to put down. He was Welsh(ish).

[@gamerstheater1187]

Here's an idea, top ten most expanded video game lore stories I have a few ideas - fornite (metaverse) - Minecraft (Storymode and Dungeons) - FNAF

[@Blattella]

TOP TEN fortnite (metaverse) wizards in real life (metaverse)

[@gamingvitamin8948]

even if The Mad Monk Rasputin is not n1 he is still n1 for me just for appearing in many mangas and anime !

[@bradwhite5884]

And has a song about him too

[@vermillion6159]

He still doesn't top Crowley for me, but he's one of the more believable cases, especially considering the circumstances of his death.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

He definitely had something magical about him.

[@citrusorange794]

He is going to be Featured in Record of Ragnarok in the Manga and later the anime version

[@tweakfreq1982]

A personal icon for me to be sure, but I am unsure that he should be considered a wizard, sorcerer most definitely, but those are different things

[@robertmckay7268]

Can you do top 20 best moments of Peggy Mitchell of EastEnders

[@Cyberlisk]

Aleister Crowley - you know you're badass when not one, but two demons in the Supernatural TV show are named after you. ;)

[@jadiellima8922]

Forgot a guy named Harry, which according to Hagrid, was a wizard

[@paulharris4456]

I'm surprised, McGregor Mathers wasn't mentioned,

[@KaponoMonster]

Thanks to oversimplified I know that man in the thumbnail

[@antitiktokunion3894]

Same

[@liamcooper337]

Doctor Strange is real... in my heart

[@Blattella]

doctor pepper is real in my moujtmh

[@FMeister94]

Why not magician or sorcerer or idk something else

[@denispranatajakercarlowayp3257]

Yes, we also have our Chi/Qi from our own life energies and magic from mana to trained and achieving knowledges.

[@dustinmurphy82able]

Aleister Crowleys last words before death..”Oh no what have I done”

[@yourmomsboobies9928]

Wasn’t that Anton Lavey last words?

[@middleeasternforhire8985]

What?

[@ShogunateDaimyo]

Thought it was "I am perplexed."

[@Darkbirdy]

I think that this is the only time in 40 years that I've heard someone pronounce Crowley's name correctly.

[@not_real7901]

how a wizard was made: Harry, your a wizard

[@PhantomMagician1846]

I should be on the list !! But then again I make Zombie Survival vids

[@omaryusef8269]

Great video

[@trexadvent4726]

Can you do top 10 actors who could play Dr Fate in the DCEU?

[@Detman101]

OMG...how could you forget.... MADAM CLEO!!!

[@WatchMojo]

uhhhhh....serious?

[@Sonal_M_Suvarna]

Hong Xiuquan was a Hakka Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self-proclaimed younger brother of Jesus Christ.

[@LaurelleBanks]

Where are the black ones? Lol voodoo possible

[@IGdeEl]

How about Nicholas Flamel

[@alexthebeast5014]

Awesome clip. I wouldve included Jack Parsons and His bff Frater H aka.. L Ron

[@lexieve1916]

As a present day Thelema Magi, I am pleased and agree that Aleister Crowley is number 1 here.

[@jongreen6422]

Absolutely agree just started reading The book of the law Alister Crowley was totally miss understood,

[@gbalo241]

we worlocks and wizards are still around but we hide due to modern society we blend in

[@DancehallXpose]

Absolutely

[@MainaGakere]

Kinjikitile Ngwale during the Maji Maji Rebellion from Tanzania was a spiritual medium.

[@commonsense5199]

Alan Moore is a real Wizard

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

I cold have sworn Merlin was a real human in history

[@t.o.morrow8944]

I wonder if Theophastus von Hohenheim was the inspiration of Hohenheim of light in full metal alchemist

[@kekhusetozao7641]

My frns have magical abilities, they diassapear after taking credit from me

[@KeeKage37]

Of corse Alister Crowley is number 1. He’s the inspiration or one of Ozzy Osborns famous songs.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Of course. People who know nothing else of magic or pagan religions still know Crowley.

[@ethanmerando7321]

I only clicked on this because I saw Rasputin

[@zkaluf]

yeah me 2 mkay

[@noryk6237]

7:20 have seen hands like these individually in outer space but I thought it was just a dream. Also, this is a very strange hand position similar to consulting a Ouija board. 10:24 I've seen in simple dreams banishing/summoning spirits and astral projections without doing anything special or magical.

[@andrewrotondo8930]

Anton Szandor LaVey should be in this top 10 as well! Cool video.

[@tweakfreq1982]

I don't believe that lavey would have been or should be considered a Wizard. He was a spiritualist and definitely didn't walk the world of the mundane, but not a wizard.

[@bootybandito4854]

They for got about Pascal Beverley Randolph.

[@anhurtorrez]

wow only the top 2 I recognized the rest I never even heard of besides a few of the honorable mentions.

[@humphreybrighton5713]

The great Lwanda magere 🙌🏾

[@MainaGakere]

haha..definitely

[@GingerNinja-os7lj]

Where was merlin

[@simonfisher181]

As soon as I saw rasputin I knew I had to watch

[@greygremlin1248]

Sex magic? Mr. Crowley. What went on in your head

[@wkgames7516]

As someone who practices magick, that baffled me too.

[@josephmueller]

Helena herself became 1 of the ascended master in her days.

[@wkgames7516]

I practice magick, so I'm not a die hard skeptic of the occult, but wasn't Blavatsky exposed as a fraud?

[@josephmueller]

@@wkgames7516 not really, you must be thinking of a different person.

[@josephmueller]

@@wkgames7516 I’d deleted the 1 comment I’d made, sorry for something that I made. I was having a stressful week.

[@wkgames7516]

@@josephmueller Oh ok. I didn't see it. 👍👌

[@wkgames7516]

@@josephmueller And I thought that Helena Blavatsky was caught cheating in seances by parapsychologists.

[@jking2975]

Make a watchmojo video about humans rivalling animals

[@donnalichvarcik5588]

A very famous wizard in the Harry Potter franchise was the real Nicholas flamel

[@Sistik123]

Mr. Crowley did you talk to the dead ♫

[@rev.lorenzocromwell9805]

You missed Michael Scot 1175 -1232. From Scotland. Astrologer to the Emperor Frederick II. Powerful wizard!

[@jeffreysommer3292]

Rasputin gets a bum rap. He advised the Tsar unsuccessfully to stay out of World War One, and was faithfully devoted to the Romanovs. He was a good man.

[@jadeguy99]

I dare you to do a piece entirely on Aleister Crowley

[@jetcitysinatra7300]

Cust curious if you know the story behind the song Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin? You mentioned Aleister Crowley in the number 1 spot. Jimmy Page bought the house that Aleister Crowley had built. There was a small wood shed in the back court yard that was used to punish people that didn't seem worthy of "The Way" Jimmy Page owned the Boleskine House at the time he and Robert Plant were writing the music that would become Stairway but couldn't get anything going. So Plant said he looked out at the little woodshed that was in the courtyard and like a ruch of wind the melo9dy and lyrics for Stairway To Heaven just came to him and Page. Of course Robert Plant will deny that story now but It was in Rolling Stone magazine a long time back. . .

[@stormwatcher1299]

I'm a wizardess. I have made a concoction of glue & contact solution & created slime.

[@LadyYautjaSpacePirate]

Rasputin reminds me of Vigo the Carpathian! Lol

[@BeegYoshi24]

You forgot my favorite modern wizard, Charlie Manson! 🧙‍♂️

[@salazarslytherin6575]

I don’t know if this would’ve made the top 10 or not but this person definitely should’ve had an honourable mention The Rebbe Menachmendal Schneerson Excuse my spelling if I spelt it wrong

[@kishla2827]

I don't know anything about wizards but I know more about witches

[@chiefhungtoolow1775]

Very few people are naturally powerful, hit or miss most will never even know or realize because theyre too busy living life

[@graysonhuitt348]

Yes I do think Wovoka should have been mentioned, most Indians say he was the most powerful medicine man ever, he died Jan 1st 1889, during a solar eclipse and traveling the universe, they say his body was already stiff as a board going through rigimortis, met with god, came back to life, and spend the new religion of the Ghost Dance, his teaching spend like wild fire across the united states', he was on the front page of every newspaper in America, doing mericals 8n public, like making a glacier fall from the sky on July 4th, and he become bullet proof ECT, the government even killed many people over this trying to outlaw it, he even dressed like a wizad

[@graysonhuitt348]

In fact alot people even seriously considered Wovoka the new Messiah

[@shadow.X.official]

My girlfriend is a magician she vanished herself whenever I need her

[@fayebathauer6950]

I need a wizard right now

[@siantopablo9149]

Careful what you wish for

[@LadyYautjaSpacePirate]

Nikola Tesla called himself a wizard. 🤔

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Wow those wizards there like the wizards in the movies of Harry Potter,the hobbit and lord of the rings very cool and interesting

[@AwoIfakayode]

Top 10 Occult movies

[@user-jg3jp7rn3o]

Top 10 ur mother

[@Ozzywozzy]

Whoa whoa whoa, you shall not pass.

[@graysonhuitt348]

What about Wovoka? You should look into that

[@senpai4454]

How was that comment there 3 days ago?

[@WatchMojo]

Not sure why folks ask about this. We can pin a comment before we schedule or publish videos.

[@njm9707]

Where’s David Blaine at tho

[@the_glitter_is]

I can see you're on a skateboard, David.

[@Someone-wl3fq]

8:28 his right brain is dominant over the other half, I can tell because of his physical symmetry and mental preferences, this will make sense if you know the scientific side of it, many myths that twist its logic

[@Kaisforeignadventures]

You forgot Franz Bardon.

[@aaronjamesmoore757]

the best advice is not to even get involved in the first place, theres no getting out