20th-century apocalypticists

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

French astronomer and author (1842–1925)

American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)

American cult leader (1931–1978)

founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo

Founder of the Bible Student movement (1852–1916)

purported clairvoyant healer and psychic (1877–1945)

Turkish cult leader (born 1956)

American religious sect leader of Branch Davidians (1959-1993)

American lawyer, Watch Tower Society president (1869–1942)

controversial leader of Nation of Islam

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

Japanese film director (1901-1970)

Greek Eastern Orthodox monk and Saint (1924-1994)

American Christian minister (1909–1965)

Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop (; born 14 January 1961), known as Vissarion (, "He who gives new life" or "life-giving"), is a Russian spiritual teacher, self proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus, and founder of the non-profit religious organization , described by many organizations as a cult.

American pentecostal evangelist (1931–2011)

American cult leader (1931–1997)

Warren Steed Jeffs is an American cult leader and convicted child sex offender. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona and is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault after two convictions in 2011. The FLDS Church was founded in the early 20th century when its founders deemed the renunciation of polygamy by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be apostasy. The LDS Church disavows any connection between it and the FLDS Church, although there are significant historical ties.

American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

American doomsday prophet (1921-2013)

Wovoka ( – September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.

American Islamic minister

American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)

controversial televangelist

American astrologer and psychic

British artist, author, esotericist (1922-2016)

Leader of the Naqshbandi-A'liyah Sufi Order

American leader of Children of God (1920–1994)

Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, also known as Abd-ru-shin or Abdruschin (18 April 1875 – 6 December 1941) was a German religious leader, best known as the author of The Grail Message and as prophet and leader of the Grail Movement, a millenarian new religious movement. Beginning in the 1920s, Abd-ru-shin proclaimed that the Millennial kingdom of God would begin on Earth during the mid 1930s, drawing from Christian legend, as well as Theosophy and other Western Esotericism.

American actress and occultist (1922-1995)

American psychic (1907-1982)

American religious leader (1939–2009)

American evangelist and Christian writer

Greek monk

American author and artist (1939-2011)

American televangelist (born 1940)

Alleged extraterrestrial being

American outsider artist (1909–1964)

American writer (1944-2019)

American pastor (1927-2013)

American writer

American Christian preacher and pedestrian circumnavigator

South Korean religious leader (1918–1985)

American writer

American preacher and publisher (1906–1973)

French Catholic mystic

Ugandan leader of a doomsday cult

Christian apologist

American religious leader (1900-1993)

American evangelist (1892-1986)

Self-declared Messiah

Swedish writer (1868-1943)

polish-Belarusian cult leader

Ugandan religious leader (1932–2000)

American evangelist (1870-1942)

Japanese production designer (1908-1999)

American minister (1913–1996)

American author, inventor, ufologist (1910-1978)