Self-declared messiahs

Krishna (; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love; and is widely revered among Hindu divinities. Krishna's birthday is celebrated every year by Hindus on Krishna Janmashtami according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar, which falls in late August or early September of the Gregorian calendar.

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.

Indian spiritual guru (1926–2011)

Indian religious leader (1835–1908)

Turkish contract killer (born 1958)

American actor (born 1992)

American cult leader (1931–1978)

founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo

Korean religious leader (1920–2012)

English conspiracy theorist (born 1952)

Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion (1814–1864)

controversial leader of Nation of Islam

Musaylima (Full name: Muslima ibn Habib al-Hanafi) (), d.632, was a claimant of prophethood from the Banu Hanifa tribe. Based from Diriyah in present day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he claimed to be a prophet and was an enemy of Islam in 7th-century Arabia. He was a leader of the enemies of Islam during the Ridda wars. He is considered by Muslims to be a false prophet (). He is commonly called Musaylima al-Kadhāb () by Muslims. Musaylima was said to have composed in saj', a type of rhymed prose that was common in pre-Islamic artistic speech.

American punk rock musician (1956-1993)

Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author

Chinese new religious movement

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.

Swiss author and founder of FIGU Organization

Raël (born Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon, 30 September 1946) is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.

American cult leader (1931–1997)

American Islamic minister

Sajah bint Al-Harith ibn Suwayd al-Taghlibi (, fl. 598-675 CE) from the tribe of Banu Tamim, was an Arab Christian protected first by her tribe; then causing a split within the Arab tribes and finally defended by Banu Hanifa. Sajah was one of a series of people (including her future husband) who claimed to be a prophet in the 7th-century Arabia and was also the only known woman claiming prophethood during the Wars of Apostasy in the early Islamic Period. She later converted to Islam and died a Muslim.

king of the short-lived Hugoguryeo on the Korean peninsula

English Shaker leader (1736-1784)

7th-century Arab clan chief and military commander

Brazilian preacher (1830-1897)

Filipino pastor and religious leader

South Korean religious leader

Vietnamese spiritual teacher

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.

Japanese perennial candidate and Messiah claimant (1944-2018)

South Korean clergy (born 1945)

Claimant of prophethood

Filipino Christian pastor, 1886-1963

U.S. religious leader (1876–1965) who founded the International Peace Mission movement (1877–1965)

controversial South Korean religious group

American self-declared messiah

Founder of the Church of World Messianity (1882-1955)

South Korean religious leader (1918–1985)

Spiritual movement originated in the 1940s in Germany

American mass murderer (1950–2006)

Ukrainian journalist and former religious leader of the White Brotherhood movement

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Brazilian astrologer

American singer-songwriter

MI5 whistleblower

book by Abd-ru-shin

spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

Puerto Rican self-declared messiah (1946-2013)

Christian new religious movement founded in South Korea by Park Tae Son

American rapper and actor

American cult leader