Prophets

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

thumb|Isaiah, an important Biblical prophet, in fresco on the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo]]

Michel de Nostredame (December 1503 – July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events.

Paracelsus (; ; 10 November 1493 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.

Samson (; ) was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" the twelve tribes of Israel before the institution of the monarchy. He is sometimes regarded as an Israelite version of the popular Near Eastern folk hero archetype also embodied by the Sumerian Gilgamesh and Enkidu, as well as the Greek Heracles. Samson was given superhuman powers by God in the form of extreme strength.

English occultist (1875–1947)

biblical figure, son of Noah

Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)

Prince of Rus de Kiev'

Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)

Tecumseh ( ; March 9, 1768October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity. Even though his efforts to unite Native Americans ended with his death in battle during the War of 1812, he became a folk hero in American, Indigenous, and Canadian popular history.

purported clairvoyant healer and psychic (1877–1945)

American religious leader (1897-1975)

American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)

Nigerian Christian leader and televangelist (1963–2021)

Indian spiritual leader and social reformer (1856–1928)

American Christian minister (1909–1965)

Elymas (; ; ), also known as Bar-Jesus (, , ), is a figure described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, where he is referred to as a mágos (μάγος), which the King James Bible translates as "sorcerer" and false prophet (ψευδοπροφήτης).

Swiss author and founder of FIGU Organization

English soothsayer

Tenskwatawa (; also called Tenskatawa, Tenskwatawah, Tensquatawa or Lalawethika) (January 1775 – November 1836) was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known as the Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was a younger brother of Tecumseh, a leader of the Shawnee. In his early years Tenskwatawa was given the name Lalawethika ("He Makes a Loud Noise" or "The Noise Maker"), but he changed it around 1805 and transformed himself from a hapless, alcoholic youth into a spiritual leader.

American Islamic minister

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.

Eunus (died 132 BC) was a Roman slave from Apamea in Syria who became the leader and king of the slave uprising during the First Servile War (135 BC–132 BC) in the Roman province of Sicily. According to the historian Florus, his name is remembered due to the severe defeats he inflicted on the Romans.

Greek mystic and oracle (c. 105 – c. 170)

Kalanos, also spelled Calanus () ( – 323 BCE), was an ancient Indian gymnosophist, a Brahmin sage , and philosopher from Taxila who accompanied Alexander the Great and was his teacher. He accompanied Alexander the Great to Persis and, after falling ill, immolated himself by entering a pyre in front of Alexander's army. Diodorus Siculus called him Caranus ().

Anabaptist prophet (1490-1543)

Malusha Malkovna () was allegedly an enslaved handmaiden (kholopka) for Olga of Kiev and a concubine of Sviatoslav I of Kiev. According to chronicles, she was the mother of Vladimir the Great and sister of Dobrynya. The Norse sagas describe Vladimir's mother as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future.

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Nongqawuse (; c. 1841 – 1898) was a Xhosa prophet. Her prophecies resulted in a millenarian belief that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing and famine of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Native American prophet who founded the Iroquois Confederacy

American preacher (1752–1819)

In modern English, the nouns vates () and ovate (, ) are used as technical terms for ancient Celtic bards, prophets and philosophers. The terms correspond to a Proto-Celtic word which can be reconstructed as . They are sometimes also used as English equivalents to later Celtic terms such as Irish "prophet, seer".

concept in the Bahá'í Faith that refers to what are commonly called prophets

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Vietnamese poet

legendary Northern British poet

Italian astronomer

13th-century Scottish laird and reputed prophet from Earlston

Filipino Christian pastor, 1886-1963

Japanese religious leader who founded the world religion "Happy Science" (1956-2023)

American outsider artist (1909–1964)

founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America (1886-1929)

German-American televangelist

Last person through whom God speaks

English religious leader (1750-1814)

South African prophet (1864–1926)

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Dutch humanist

founder of the Malaysian new religious movement Sky Kingdom (1941-2016)

Argentine artist (1898-1974)

Seneca religious leader

Dominican priest and ascetic

Swedish visionary

Estonian religious personnel, founder of Maltsvetian movement (1812–1885)

Swedish mystic and writer

Zambian Christian leader (1920–1978)

Fedelm (sometimes spelled Feidelm; modern Fidelma) is a female prophet and fili, or learned poet, in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. She appears in the great epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, in which she foretells the armies of Medb and Ailill mac Máta will face against the Ulaid and their greatest champion, Cú Chulainn. A prophetess of the same name appears in another tale, which associates her with Cú Chulainn.

Christian anchorite and abbot of Merosala, venerated as a prophet and teacher of Dorotheus of Gaza

Neolin (meaning the enlightened in Algonquian) was a prophet of the Lenni Lenape (also known as Delaware) from the village of Muskingum in Ohio. Neolin was active in the 1760s, but his exact dates of birth and death are unknown.