21st-century apocalypticists

American actor (born 1992)

founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

Turkish cult leader (born 1956)

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

controversial leader of Nation of Islam

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

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)

Swiss author and founder of FIGU Organization

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 doomsday prophet (1921-2013)

controversial televangelist

American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)

British artist, author, esotericist (1922-2016)

American religious leader (1939–2009)

American evangelist and Christian writer

American author and artist (1939-2011)

American televangelist (born 1940)

American writer (1944-2019)

American pastor (1927-2013)

American writer

American writer

American pastor & writer

Christian apologist

Ugandan leader of a doomsday cult

Canadian Christian evangelist

Puerto Rican self-declared messiah (1946-2013)