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| x David Copperfield |
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David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin; September 16, 1956) is an American illusionist, and has been described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.
Copperfield's television specials have won 21 Emmy Awards of a total...
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| x Harry Blackstone, Jr. |
Harry Blackstone, Jr. (June 30, 1934 – May 14, 1997) was an American stage magician, author, and television performer.
Blackstone was born Harry Bouton in Three Rivers, Michigan, the son of noted stage magician Harry Blackstone, Sr. (also known as ...
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| x Harry Blackstone, Sr. |
Harry Blackstone (September 27, 1885 – November 16, 1965) was a famed stage magician and illusionist of the 20th century. Blackstone was born Harry Bouton in Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a magician in his teens and was popular through...
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| x Alan Moore |
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Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell....
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| x James Randi |
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James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational...
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| x Martin Gardner |
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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis...
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| x Orson Welles |
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George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked extensively in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937)...
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| x David Blaine |
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David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has set and broken...
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| x Harry Houdini |
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Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice as Handcuff Harry, on a tour of...
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| x Tommy Cooper |
Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a popular Welsh prop comedian and magician from Caerphilly, South Wales.
Cooper was a member of The Magic Circle, and respected by traditional magicians. Famed for his red fez, his...
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| x Persi Diaconis |
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Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical...
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| x Paul Zenon |
Paul Zenon (born 29 June 1964 in Skipton, Yorkshire) is an English magician and comedian, known for television shows across many genres; in particular his 'Street Magic' specials featuring him performing stunts and tricks in pubs and on the streets....
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| x S. W. Erdnase |
S. W. Erdnase is a pseudonym used by the author of The Expert at the Card Table, a book detailing sleight of hand, cheating and legerdemain using playing cards. Still considered essential reading for any card magician, the book, known also as either...
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| x Uri Geller |
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Uri Geller (Hebrew: אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is a self-proclaimed psychic known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects. Throughout the years, Geller has been accused of using simple...
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| x Derren Brown |
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Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic. He is known for his appearances in television specials, stage productions, photographic memory, and British television series such as...
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| x Jasper Maskelyne |
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Jasper Maskelyne (1902–1973) was a British stage magician in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He could also trace his ancestry to the...
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| x Doug Henning |
Douglas James Henning (May 3, 1947 – February 7, 2000) was a famous magician from Canada, illusionist, escape artist and a politician.
Henning was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, began practicing magic at Oakenwald School in Fort Garry, and later moved...
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| x Ricky Jay |
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Richard Jay Potash (born 1948), better known by the stage name Ricky Jay, is an American stage magician, actor, and writer. He is a sleight-of-hand expert and is notable for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter.
Jay was...
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| x Penn Jillette |
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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American illusionist, comedian, musician, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism,...
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| x Matthias Buchinger |
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Matthias Buchinger (June 3, 1674 – 1740), sometimes called Matthew Buckinger in English, was a German artist, magician and illustrator, born without hands or legs.
He was born in Ansbach, Germany, without hands or lower legs. An artist and performer...
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| x Paul Daniels |
Paul Daniels, born Newton Edward Daniels on 6 April 1938, is a British magician and television performer. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994.
Daniels was...
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| x Leon Mandrake |
Leon Giglio (April 11, 1911 – January 27, 1993), better known by his stage name Leon Mandrake, was an Italian-American magician, mentalist, illusionist, escapologist, ventriloquist and stunt performer known worldwide as Mandrake the Magician.
Born...
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| x Gustavus Katterfelto |
Gustavus Katterfelto (or Katerfelto)(c1743-1799) was a Prussian conjurer, scientific lecturer, and quack.
Christian William Anthony Katterfelto (known as Gustavus) arrived at Hull in September 1776 and traveled around Britain until his death in 1799...
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| x Scott Interrante |
Scott Interrante (born August 4, 1961) is an American magician who specializes in escape-artist feats and grand illusions.
He is a third-generation magician. At 17, Scott answered an audition posting for the movie Ragtime and got the job to re...
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| x Kuda Bux |
Kuda Bux (1906 - February 5, 1981) was an Indian mystic and magician. One of his most famous tricks was one in which he would cover his eyes with soft dough balls, blindfold himself, swath his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to...
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| x Geoffrey Durham |
Geoffrey Durham (born 22 July 1949) is a British comedy magician and actor who was known for many years as 'The Great Soprendo'.
Durham was born in West Molesey, Surrey, England. At the age of ten he developed an interest in magic and performed...
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| x Harry Kellar |
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Harry Kellar (July 11, 1849 – March 10, 1922) was an American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kellar was a predecessor of Harry Houdini and a successor of Robert Heller. He was often referred...
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| x Ali Bongo |
Ali Bongo (8 December 1929 – 8 March 2009) was a British comedy magician, and president of The Magic Circle who performed an act in which he was known as the "Shriek of Araby".
Born as William Oliver Wallace in Bangalore, India, where his father ...
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| x Lance Burton |
Lance Burton (born William Lance Burton on March 10, 1960 in Columbia, Kentucky) is an American stage magician. He has appeared on numerous television programs, and also performed for Queen Elizabeth and President Ronald Reagan. He was a headline...
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| x P. T. Selbit |
P. T. (Percy) Selbit (1881–1938) was an English magician, inventor and writer who is credited with being the first person to perform the illusion of sawing a woman in half. Among magicians he was known for his inventiveness and entrepreneurial...
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| x Kreskin |
The Amazing Kreskin (born January 12, 1935), born George Joseph Kresge, is a mentalist who became popular on North American television in the 1970s. He was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee Falk's famous comic strip Mandrake the Magician, which...
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| x Michael Ammar |
Michael Ammar is one of America's best-known close-up magicians, and is famous within the worldwide magical community.
Michael has been a guest on the David Letterman Show, The Tonight Show, CNN, Travel Channel, NBC's "Worlds Greatest Magic" and...
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| x Jay Sankey |
Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and creator of magic effects. He has been an active stage performer since the mid-1980s. David Copperfield performed Sankey's card in balloon effect
He is also known as a stand-up comedian and authored a...
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| x Chung Ling Soo |
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Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of the American magician William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861– March 24, 1918) who is mostly remembered today for his tragic death after a bullet catch trick went wrong.
During his early career, William...
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| x Roy Walton |
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Roy Walton (born April 1932 in London) is a card magic expert from England who currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. First interested in magic at the age of eight, Roy Walton is a world-recognized card magician creating hundreds of card...
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| x Jerry Sadowitz |
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Jerry Sadowitz (born 4 November 1961) is an American-born Scottish stand-up comic and card magician, known for his frequently controversial "sick humour". He is also an accomplished practitioner of sleight of hand, he has written several books on...
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| x Walter B. Gibson |
Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American author and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote "more than 300 novel...
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| x John Scarne |
John Scarne ( /ˈskɑrni/; March 4, 1903 – July 7, 1985) was an American magician and book author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation. He became known as an expert on cards and other games, and authored a number of popular books on...
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| x Darwin Ortiz |
Darwin Ortiz (born 1948) is a magician, who is an authority on gambling and card manipulation.
Ortiz was born and raised in New York City where he had a keen interest in card tricks since childhood. In 1974, he dropped out of NYU Law School and...
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| x Harry Anderson |
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Harry Laverne 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 best known for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984-1992 television...
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| x Charles Joseph Carter |
Charles Joseph Carter (June 14, 1874 – February 13, 1936) was an American stage magician, also known as Carter the Great. A native of San Francisco, California, Carter began his career as a journalist and lawyer. As time passed, he grew an interest...
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| x P. C. Sorcar |
P.C. Sorcar (Bengali: পি সি সরকার) (23 February 1913 - 6 January 1971) was the stage name of Protul Chandra Sorcar (Bengali: প্রতুলচন্দ্র সরকার), a famous Indian magician. He was an internationally active magician throughout the 1950s and 1960s,...
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| x Ed Balducci |
Ed Balducci (1906 – 1988) is often named as the creator of the "Balducci levitation", which has been popularized by magician David Blaine. Ed also is credited with the best Card to Wallet.
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| x Harry Lorayne |
Harry Lorayne (born 1926) is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. He is well known for his mnemonic demonstrations and has appeared on numerous television...
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| x Simon Lovell |
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This article does not meet basic standards of objectivity and reads, from the very first graf, like a hagiography at best, self-promotion at worst. Consider that a supposed prime reference is a review of one his books by the L.A. Times -- the...
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| x Richard Pitchford |
Richard Valentine Pitchford (24 November 1895 – 13 November 1973) was a master magician under the name Cardini, whose career spanned almost half a century.
He was born on 24 November 1895 in the village of Mumbles, in south Wales. Some sources use...
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| x Jeff McBride |
Jeff McBride (also known as Magnus; born September 11, 1959) is an American magician from Monticello, New York. He is known for his sleight of hand skills and specializes in the manipulation of playing cards, coins, and other small objects. His...
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| x Ching Ling Foo |
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Ching Ling Foo (Chinese: 金陵福, 1854–1922), born Chee Ling Qua (Chinese: 朱連魁), is credited with being the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame.
Born in Beijing, Foo studied traditional Chinese magic and was a well-respected performer...
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| x Theodore Annemann |
Theodore 'Theo' Annemann (stage name Ted Anneman) born Theodore John Squires (February 22, 1907 – January 12, 1942) was an American professional magician who specialized in the field of mentalism. Annemann is most famous for inventing and refining...
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| x Eugene Burger |
Eugene Burger is an American magician. He was born in 1939 and is based in Chicago Illinois. He is reputed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and bizarre magic.
He is also a philosopher and a historian of religion. He has advanced...
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| x Max Maven |
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Max Maven (born Philip Goldstein 1950 in Ithaca, New York) 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...
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| x Tony Andruzzi |
Tony Andruzzi was the name adopted by professional magician Tom S. Palmer from the age of 45 to the end of his life (born May 22, 1925 in Cheyenne, Wyoming — died December 22, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois).
Born to Fay and Tom McGuire, the child was...
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| x Charles Cameron |
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Charles Wesley Cameron (31 October 1927 – 7 January 2001) was a professional magician who specialized in a style known as bizarre magic. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has a younger brother.
He was a magician, and commonly dubbed as the...
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| x Fred Kaps |
Fred Kaps (official name Abraham Pieter Adrianus Bongers), (June 8, 1926 – July 22, 1980) was a Dutch magician, famous for being the only magician to become FISM Grand Prix world champion three times. He was the creator of numerous original effects...
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| x Howard Thurston |
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Howard Thurston (July 20, 1869 – April 13, 1936) was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio. His childhood was unhappy and he ran away to join the circus, where is future partner Harry Kellar also performed. Thurston was deeply impressed after he...
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| x Dai Vernon |
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Dai Vernon (pronounced alternatively as DIE or as DAY as in David) (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992), aka The Professor, was a Canadian magician. His expert sleight-of-hand technique and extensive knowledge garnered him respect among fellow...
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| x Alex Elmsley |
Alex Elmsley (2 March 1929 – 8 January 2006) was a British Magician and Computer programmer. He was notable for his invention of the Ghost Count or Elmsley Count, creating mathematical card tricks, and for publishing the mathematics of playing card...
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| x Curtis Adams |
Alan Curtis Adams (born October 12, 1984) is an American magician who, when 16 years old, appeared on The Young Magicians Showcase produced by magician Lance Burton and Fox Television.
Adams was born in Long Beach, California. In his teens he began...
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| x Charles Jordan |
Charles Thorton Jordan (1 October 1888 - 24 April 1944) was an American magician.
Charles Jordan was born in Berkeley, California to Charles Renalt Jordan, a wholesale supply manager and chicken farmer, and Mary Louise (Thornton) Jordan; he had a...
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| x Lennart Green |
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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...
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