List of occultists

Occultism is one form of mysticism. This list comprises and encompasses people, both contemporary and historical, who are or were professionally or otherwise notably involved in occult practices, including alchemists, astrologers, some Kabbalists, magicians, psychics, sorcerers, and practitioners some forms of divination, especially Tarot. People who were or are merely believers of occult practices should not be included unless they played a leading or otherwise significant part in the practice of occultism.

Antiquity

People professionally or notably involved in occultism prior to the Middle Ages

Agathodaemon – Egyptian alchemist

Apsethus the Libyan – Ancient Libyan occultist

Atomus – Cypriot magician (1st century)

Chu Fu – Chinese Han dynasty occultist (d. 130 BC)

Chymes – Greco-Roman alchemist

Cleopatra the Alchemist – Greek alchemist and writer

Saint Cyprian the Magician — 4th-century sorcerer from Antioch

Elymas – Jewish magus depicted in the Acts of the Apostles

Epigenes of Byzantium – 3rd-century BC Greek astrologer

Fang – Earliest recorded woman alchemist in China

Gan De – 4th-century BC Chinese astronomer and astrologer

Hermes Trismegistus – Legendary author of the Hermetica

Iamblichus – Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic (c. 245 – c. 325)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Jannes and Jambres – Magicians mentioned in the Book of Exodus

Jesus – Jesus as a historical person

Julian – Roman emperor from 361 to 363, Neoplatonic philosopher

Mary the Jewess – First Western alchemist (1st century)

Menander – First century Samaritan Gnostic

Moses – Prophet in Abrahamic religions

Moses of Alexandria – Early alchemist

Nigidius Figulus – Roman philosopher and writer

Ostanes – Pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works of alchemy

Paphnutia the Virgin – Egyptian alchemist

Pseudo-Aristotle – Cognomen for authors of works falsely attributed to Aristotle

Pseudo-Democritus – Anonymous author(s) of works falsely attributed to Democritus

Ptolemy – Greco-Roman astronomer and geographer (c. 100–170)

Pythagoras – Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)

Shi Shen – Chinese astronomer and astrologer

Sima Qian – Chinese historian (c.