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| x David Copperfield |
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David Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin; September 16, 1956) is an Emmy Award-winning American illusionist described by Forbes in 2006 as the most commercially successful magician in history. Best known for his combination of storytelling and...
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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.
He received the Magician of the Year Award in 1979 and 1985. He appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show, Donahue, The Today Show,...
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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 Boughton. He began his career as a magician in his teens and was popular through World War II as a...
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| x Alan Moore |
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Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He wrote the novel Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off...
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| x James Randi |
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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. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)....
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| x Martin Gardner |
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Martin Gardner (born October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, pseudoscience, literature (especially the...
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| x Orson Welles |
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George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician,...
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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 (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926, born Erik Weisz later spelled Ehrich Weiss) was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He also was a famous skeptic who set out to expose frauds...
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| x Tommy Cooper |
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Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a British prop comedian and magician.
While his stage persona required that his act (intentionally) went wrong for comic purposes, Cooper was a member of The Magic Circle, and...
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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 was a pseudonym of the author of The Expert at the Card Table, a book detailing sleight of hand and cheating techniques using playing cards, as well as legerdemain. Still considered essential reading for any card magician, the book,...
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| x Uri Geller |
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Uri Geller (born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli British entertainer well known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other physical effects. Geller has throughout the years claimed that he achieves these effects through...
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| x Derren Brown |
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Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English magician, illusionist, mentalist, painter and sceptic. He was born in Purley, South London, educated at Whitgift School, where his father coached swimming, and studied Law and German at the...
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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 |
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Douglas James Henning (May 3, 1947 – February 7, 2000) was a Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician. Henning died aged 52 in February 2000 in Los Angeles five months after being diagnosed with liver cancer.
Henning was born in...
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| x Ricky Jay |
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Richard Jay "Ricky" 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...
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| x Penn Jillette |
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Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, musician and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller, and advocacy of atheism, libertarian philosophy, free...
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| x Matthias Buchinger |
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Matthias Buchinger (June 3, 1674 - 1740), was a magician and illustrator.
He was born in Germany, without hands, feet or thighs. Buchinger was married four times and had at least fourteen children (by eight different women). He is also rumored to...
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| x Paul Daniels |
Paul Daniels (born Newton Edward Daniels in 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 Mandrake (1911–1993) was a Canadian-born magician.
He began his magic career in 1922 performing a magic act in vaudeville, in New Westminster, British Columbia. He later joined the Ralph Richards touring Magic show in 1927. In the late 1930s,...
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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, blindfold himself, swath his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to see....
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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 East 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 3, 1922) was an American magician who presented large stage shows during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Kellar was the predecessor of Harry Houdini and the successor of Robert Heller. He was often referred to as...
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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 |
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Lance Burton (born William Lance Burton on March 10, 1960 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a stage illusionist 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...
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| x P. T. Selbit |
P. T. 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 know for his inventiveness and entrepreneurial instinct and...
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| x Kreskin |
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The Amazing Kreskin (born January 12, 1935), George Joseph Kresge, who had his name legally changed to The Amazing Kreskin, is a mentalist who became popular on North American television in the 1970s. He was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee...
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| x Michael Ammar |
Michael Ammar (born 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...
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| x Jay Sankey |
Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and creator of magic effects who has been active since the mid-1980s. David Copperfield performed Sankey's trick "Airtight." Sankey also develops tricks for Criss Angel.
He is also known as a stand-up...
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| x Chung Ling Soo |
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Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of American stage magician William Ellsworth Robinson (1861–1918). He is famous for dying when his bullet catch trick went wrong.
During his early career, William Ellsworth Robinson called himself Robinson, the Man...
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| x Roy Walton |
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Roy Walton (born 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 effects,...
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| x Jerry Sadowitz |
Jerry Sadowitz (born 4 November 1961) is an American-born Scottish stand-up comic and card magician, known for his frequently controversial "sick humour". An accomplished practitioner of sleight of hand, he has written several books on magic and...
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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 (March 4, 1903 - July 7, 1985) was an American stage magician 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 cards, gambling, and related...
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| x Darwin Ortiz |
Darwin Ortiz (born 1948) 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 pursued card magic full...
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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 famous for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984-1992 television...
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| x Charles Joseph Carter |
Charles Joseph Carter (1874 – 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 in magic. Due to...
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| x P. C. Sorcar |
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P.C. Sorcar (Bengali: পি সি সরকার) (February 23, 1913 - January 6, 1971) 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...
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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 a memory-training specialist and magician who has been called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. He is well known for his mnemonic demonstrations and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. His...
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| x Simon Lovell |
Simon Lovell (born 1957 in Manchester) is an English comedy magician, card shark and actor. His trademark pieces are finding an audience member's card in his mouth and a humorous straitjacket escape. Lovell recently appeared on VH1's popular reality...
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| x Richard Pitchford |
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Richard Valentine Pitchford (November 24, 1895 – November 13, 1973) was a master magician under the name Cardini, whose career spanned almost half a century.
He was born on November 24, 1895 in the village of Mumbles, in south Wales. Some sources...
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| x Jeff McBride |
Jeff McBride (also known as Magnus) (born September 11, 1959) 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...
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| x Ching Ling Foo |
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Ching Ling Foo (1854 - 1922), born Chee Ling Qua (朱連魁), is credited with being the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame. His act was in some respects plundered by an American magician who went on to even greater fame - Chung Ling...
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| x Theodore Annemann |
Theodore 'Theo' Annemann (stage name Ted Anneman) born Theodore John Squires (1907 – January 12, 1942) was an American professional magician who specialized in the field of mentalism. Annemann is most famous for inventing and refining many of the...
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| x 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 also a philosopher, historian of religion. He has advanced degrees in Divinity (from Yale...
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| x Max Maven |
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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...
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| x Tony Andruzzi |
Tony Andruzzi (1925 – December 22, 1991), born Antonio C. Andruzzi in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was a professional magician. From the 1950s to the early 1970s his performances were comedy illusions. He adopted the name Tom Palmer and had his legal name...
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| x Charles Cameron |
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Charles Wesley Cameron (31 October 1927 – 1 January 2001) was a professional magician who specialized in a style known as bizarre magic. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, as the eldest of 2 brothers.
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. (It was pointed out by Éireann Leverett, even...
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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.
Thurston had the largest traveling Vaudeville magic show for the time, requiring more than eight entire train cars to transport his props across the country....
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| x Dai Vernon |
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Dai Vernon (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992), aka The Professor, was a Canadian magician. His expert sleight-of-hand technique and extensive knowledge garnered him universal respect among fellow magicians. His influence was considerable in the...
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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.
He began practicing magic in 1946, as a teenager. He studied physics and mathematics...
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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 |
This article is about a magician. For the blues musician, see Charley Jordan.
Charles Thorton Jordan (born on October 1, 1888 in Berkeley, California - 1944) was a magician. In 1919 he published a book on card magic entitled Thirty Card Mysteries....
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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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