- David Blaine
David Blaine (born David Blaine White on April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American illusionist and stunt performer. He made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. His father was Spanish-Puerto Rican and his mother, Patrice White, was of Jewish and Russian origin. - Criss Angel
Criss Angel (born Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos on December 19 1967) is a Greek-American magician, musician, mentalist, hypnotist, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor. He is best known for starring in his own television show, "Criss Angel Mindfreak". - David Copperfield
David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin) is a multi Emmy Award winning, American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of illusions and storytelling. His most famous illusions include making the Statue of Liberty "disappear"; "flying"; "levitating" over the Grand Canyon; and "walking through" the Great Wall of China. - Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 - October 311926), whose real name was Ehrich Weiss (which was changed from Erich Weisz when he emigrated to America), was a Hungary-born American magician, escapologist (widely regarded as one of the greatest ever), stunt performer, as well as an investigator of spiritualists, film producer, actor, and an amateur aviator. - Lance Burton
Lance Burton (born William Lance Burton on March 10, 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American stage magician who performs nightly in his own show at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has appeared on numerous television programs, and also performed for Queen Elizabeth and President Ronald Reagan. He has also appeared on the 2006 Labor Day Weekend Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. - Paul Daniels
Paul Daniels (born 6 April 1938 in South Bank, Middlesbrough) is an English magician and television performer. - James Randi
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). - James Brown
James Brown is a professional magician from Bournemouth, UK. He was awarded The Magic Circle close-up magician of the year in 2006. His style of magic is a cross between close-up magic and pickpocketing, all presented in a humorous manner. - Dai Vernon
Dai Vernon (born David Frederick Wingfield Verner 11th June 1894 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died 1992 in Hollywood, California) was a Canadian magician. Though a popular misconception is that he began to use the first name "Dai" after a newspaper mistyped "David", the paper actually was using the Welsh nickname for David (he was happy for it to be pronounced Day or Die). When Verner first moved to the United States, … - Derren Brown
Derren Victor Brown (born February 27 1971) is an English psychological illusionist and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. He was born in Croydon, South London, where he attended Whitgift School, where his father was the swimming teacher. While studying Law and German at the University of Bristol he attended a show by the hypnotist Martin S. Taylor, which inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis as a career. - Jay Sankey
Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and creator of magic effects active since the mid-1980s. David Copperfield performed Sankey's trick "Airtight." Sankey also develops tricks for Criss Angel. Many of Jay Sankeys effects are currently being sold at many magic retailers such as Penguin Magic. He is also known as a stand-up comedian and has authored a book about the art of stand-up. - P. C. Sorcar
P.C. Sorcar was the stage name of Protul Chandra Sorcar, a famous Indian magician. He was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his "Indrajal" show before live audiences and on television. Sorcar died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Ashaikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. He is the father of animator, director, and laserist Manick Sorcar and magicians P.C. Sorcar, Jr. and P.C. Sorcar, … - Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955 in Greenfield, Massachusetts) is an American illusionist, juggler and comedian known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team known as Penn & Teller. - Jeff McBride
Jeff McBride (also known as Magnus) is an American magician. He is known for his sleight of hand skills and specializes in the manipulation of playing cards, coins, and other small objects. His stage performances blend elements of kabuki, a Japanese theater form, with traditional conjuring. In addition, he is noted for his contributions to Bizarre magic. McBride is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for his claimed psychic powers. Geller rose to fame after performing a series of televised performances which he said were paranormal demonstrations of psychokinesis, dowsing and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches appear to stop or run faster. Geller says he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. - Max Maven
Max Maven (born Philip Goldstein in 1950) is an American magician and mentalist. He often appears on television magic shows to perform "interactive" mind reading tricks that work for the television audience. While his public persona and performances fall squarely within the genre of mentalism, Maven's contributions to the magic community span far wider. He is respected within the industry for being a prolific author, … - Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell". He has also written a novel, "Voice of the Fire", and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. As a comics writer, … - Tommy Wonder
Tommy Wonder (November 29, 1953 - June 26, 2006) was the stage name of Jacobus Maria Bemelman, a Dutch magician who performed both close-up and stage magic. Wonder performed in Las Vegas, Monte Carlo and on Fox television. Wonder developed an interest in conjuring at an early age. - Andrew Mayne
Andrew Mayne is a magician, illusion designer and filmmaker. He has written and produced over thirty books, DVDs and manuscripts on magic. - Paul Harris
Paul Harris is an inventor, magician, and writer. Described by the magic magazine Genii (December 1996) as "the most innovative magic mind of our day" and is listed in Magic magazine (August 1999) as one of "the 100 [magicians] who shaped the art [of magic] in America". He has invented many original tricks including: "Linking playing cards", "a solid deck", a torn and restored card effect, coins materializing from mirrors, … - Michael Ammar
Michael Ammar (b. June 25, 1956) is one of America's best-known close-up magicians, and is famous within the worldwide magical community. Ammar was born in Logan, West Virginia, and is the youngest of four children. His interest in magic began when he read a comic book and noticed an advertisement which read "500 tricks for 25 cents!". Ammar sent his quarter and received a catalog. He began ordering tricks and practicing. Before long, he had a full magic show, … - Ricky Jay
Ricky Jay (b. 1948) is an American professional sleight-of-hand artist, actor, and author. He is considered an expert on the history of magic and oddball, unusual entertainment. - Doug Henning
Doug James Henning (born May 3, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died February 7, 2000 of liver disease) was a Canadian magician, illusionist, and escape artist. He is credited with reviving the magic show as a form of mass entertainment in North America, beginning in the 1970s. Henning changed the image of the stage magician when he rejected such stereotypical costume accessories as the tuxedo, top hat, thin moustache, goatee, jazz hands and short hair. - Mac King
Mac King is a comedy magician who has performed on television specials, often as a co-host. He has his own family-friendly show, "The Mac King Comedy Magic Show," at the Harrah's Las Vegas in the Clint Holmes Theater. The comedy used in his shows tend to be absurd or otherwise more wild than witty. NBC began its The World's Greatest Magic specials and Mac King taught the audience a minor effect before and after each commercial, referred to as the Mac King School of Magic. - Kevin James
Kevin James (b. April 28 1962) is an award-winning American magician, known for creating several unique magical effects, such as the "Floating Rose" which is performed by David Copperfield. He has also had notable longrunning performance runs at major venues such as Crazy Horse (Paris) and Caesar's Palace. - Hans Klok
Hans Klok (born February 22, 1969) is a Dutch illusionist and actor. In June 2007 he performed in the show "The Beauty of Magic" in Las Vegas, with Pamela Anderson as one of his assistants. - Mark Wilson
James "Mark" Wilson (b. 1929) is an American magician and author. He is widely credited as becoming the first major "television magician" and in the process establishing the viability of illusion shows as a television format. - Daniel Garcia
Daniel Garcia is a close-up magician working restaurants and other venues, a traveling lecturer, and a rising star in the magic instructional-DVD market. Garcia is known for his originality and innovative style in the creation and revision of card and coin magic tricks. - Eugene Burger
Eugene Burger is an American magician based in Chicago Illinois and reputed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and Bizarre Magic. He is the author of books on the presentation of close up magic and is featured on several instructional DVDs and videos for magicians. The books include: Intimate Power, The Performance of Closeup Magic, The Experience of Magic, Strange Ceremonies, Spirit Theater, and Mastering the Art of Magic. - Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson (born October 14, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Anderson was a street magician before becoming an actor. He is famous for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984-1992 television series "Night Court". In addition to eight appearances on "Saturday Night Live" between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man "Harry the Hat" on "Cheers", toured extensively as a magician, … - Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby was a popular three-time Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades, appearing on stage, in motion pictures and starring in five TV series. His lead television roles were as Ray Walston's young reporter, Tim O'Hara, … - David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known as one half of the comedic duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the pair are most famous for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show" in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. - Joshua Jay
Joshua Jay, born October 30, 1981, in Canton, Ohio, is a world-renowned close up magician. He has won several major awards as well as lecturing at many conventions worldwide. He pens a monthly column in "Magic" magazine. His success is mainly due to his unique style of close up magic and nonverbal communication, specializing in sleight of hand using ordinary props such as cards, rope, a pocketful of coins, or even a remote control. - Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant was a French occult author and magician. "Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew. - Ursula Martinez
Ursula Martinez is an Anglo-Spanish performance artist noted for her use of nudity and non-actors. Her father is English and her mother Spanish. She has worked with experimental theater groups Forced Entertainment, Insomniac Productions, The Glee Club, and Duckie. In the 1990s she began to combine this with her experience in cabaret, establishing a reputation in the queer arts community. With collaborator Mark Whitelaw, she created "A Family Outing", … - David Roth
David Roth (b.1952, New York) is an American magician. David Roth is widely regarded as the world's greatest living coin magician. He revitalized the art of coin magic and is known for his jumbo coin productions. He has worked with Michael Maxwell from A-1 production to release the instructional video series "Expert Coin Magic Made Easy" as well being an important contributor to the influential text "Expert Coin Magic" written by Richard Kauffman. - Dean Dill
Dean Dill is a magician and magic innovator living and working in Glendale, California. He was Johnny Carson's magic teacher during the late 1980s and appeared on "The Tonight Show" in November 1990. His performance focuses mostly on closeup effects, and he has a particular passion for and expertise in coin magic. He has created and marketed a number of effects, including "Dean's Box," Blizzard, and A New World (created with magic innovator Michael Weber). - Luke Jermay
- Gregory Wilson
Gregory Wilson is an American magician and a two time FISM Winner, who specializes in close-up magic, and is the subject of a chapter in magician Paul Harris's book, "Art of Astonishment", Vol. 1. - Lennart Green
Lennart Green (born December 25, 1941) is a world champion close-up/card magician, a title which he won in 1991 at the FISM convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is known for seemingly chaotic routines which are highly original and display great skill. Green has appeared on the "World's Greatest Magic" television special. He is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and lectures internationally.
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