51 Mentalists

Claude Alexander Conlin, also known as Alexander, C. Alexander, Alexander the Crystal Seer, and Alexander the Man Who Knows, was an American spiritual author, vaudeville magician who specialized in mentalism and psychic reading acts, dressed in Oriental style robes and a feathered turban, and often used a crystal ball as a prop. In addition to performing, he also worked privately for clients, giving readings. He was the author of several pitch books, New Thought pamphlets, and psychology books, as well as texts for stage performers. His stage name was "Alexander," and as an author he wrote under the name "C. Alexander."

Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, known by the stage name Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician. Angel began his career in New York City, before moving his base of operations to the Las Vegas Valley. He is known for starring in the television and stage show Criss Angel Mindfreak and his previous live performance illusion show Criss Angel Believe in collaboration with Cirque du Soleil at the Luxor casino in Las Vegas. The show generated $150 million in tourist revenue to Las Vegas in 2010, but has since been replaced by Mindfreak LIVE! on 11 May 2016. He also starred in the television series Criss Angel BeLIEve on Spike TV, the reality-competition television show Phenomenon on NBC, and the 2014 stage show Criss Angel Magicjam.

Theodore "Theo" Annemann, stage name Ted Anneman, was an American professional magician who specialized in the field of mentalism. Annemann is most famous for inventing and refining many of the standard mentalism routines that continue to be used by mentalists today.

Al Baker was a professional magician. Al Baker was an inventor of many tricks that he marketed including his Dictionary Test, Al Baker Slates and his version of the Rice bowls. Many of his silk magic effects were included in Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic. Al Baker opened a magic shop with Martin Sunshine in Times Square. Al Baker also regularly contributed to The Sphinx and other magic magazines.

Samuel Spencer Baldwin, or Samri Baldwin, most well known as "The White Mahatma" was an American magician.

Banachek is an English mentalist, magician, and "thought reader."

Keith Patrick Barry is an Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly.

Moein Al Bastaki is a magician, mentalist and illusionist from Dubai, UAE. Moein is best known for his street magic, large illusions, mentalism and performing close up magic for international and Arabic celebrities.

Guy Bavli is an Israeli mentalist, illusionist, and lecturer. He is known for being the first Israeli citizen to win an international magic competition in the United States. He owns the entertainment company "Master of the Mind", based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

David Berglas is a British magician and mentalist of German-Jewish descent. His secret technique of locating a particular card within a pack has been described as the Holy Grail of card magic. He was one of the first magicians to appear on UK television.

Washington Irving Bishop, also known as Wellington was an American stage mentalist. He started his career as an assistant under the muscle reader J. Randall Brown, but was most well known for his performance of the blindfold drive.

David Blaine is an American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance and has set and broken several world records.

Léo Brière is a French mentalist and illusionist, known to be winner at the French Magic Championship in 2019. In 2018 he appeared on France Got Talent where he goes to the semifinals.

Paul Brook is a professional British presenter, author, mentalist and online streamer. He has written over twenty books on the subject of mentalism and in particular psychological mind reading. Paul is a fully paid member of Equity. Brook is also a Vegan, Atheist and a Skeptic.

Derren Brown is an English mentalist, illusionist, painter, and author. Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, Brown has produced several other shows for the stage and television in both series and specials. His 2006 stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes and his 2012 show Svengali won him two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment. He made his Broadway debut with his 2019 stage show Secret. He has also written books for magicians as well as the general public.

John Randall Brown was an American mentalist of the Victorian era, and was one of the first nationally popular mentalists of his age. By some accounts, Brown was the first to publicly perform a mind-reading act in the United States, in 1873. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Christopher Cheong Kit Kei, better known by the stage name Chris Cheong is an international mentalist and illusionist. He was previously credited to be one of Malaysia's youngest professional mentalist and magician later public voted as one of Malaysia's top ten magicians.

Stuart Cumberland (1857–1922) was an English mentalist known for his demonstrations of "thought reading".

David Devant was an English magician, shadowgraphist and film exhibitor. He was born David Wighton in Holloway, London. He is regarded by magicians as a consummate exponent of suave and witty presentation of stage illusion. According to magic historian Jim Steinmeyer, Devant was “England’s greatest magician — arguably the greatest magician of the 20th Century”.

Dorothy Dietrich is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope. She was the first woman to gain prominence as an escape artist since the days of Houdini, breaking the glass ceiling for women in the field of escapes and magic.

Paul Draper is an anthropologist, academic, and an award winning mentalist, magician, and film maker. As an anthropologist and communications expert specializing in the cognitive science of religious beliefs, he has lectured at fortune 500 companies and universities. As the creator of the show Mental Mysteries, Draper blends his academic background as an anthropologist and communications expert with the arts of mentalism and magic. A decade into his magic career, he received the Merlin Award for his work as a corporate entertainer. Draper has been described as a pioneer in the field of live online magic shows, regularly performing live streaming shows during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic with viewing audiences of thousands of people.

Joseph Dunninger, known as "The Amazing Dunninger", was one of the most famous and proficient mentalists of all time. He was one of the pioneer performers of magic on radio and television. A debunker of fraudulent mediums, Dunninger claimed to replicate through trickery all spiritualist phenomena.

Mark Edward is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He has written several books on mentalism, séance theory and production and appeared on television as both primary consultant and on-air performer in such diverse programming as A & E's Biography: "Houdini, the Great Escape," NBC's "The Other Side" and "Psychic Secrets Revealed," The Sci-Fi Channel's "Mysteries, Magic and Miracles," The Discovery Channel's "Forces Beyond," and on two episodes of The Learning Channel's "Exploring the Unknown." His featured segment as a spirit medium on the pilot episode of Showtime's "Penn & Teller's Bullshit!" series entitled "Speaking with the Dead" helped secure an Emmy Award nomination for that episode in 2002. Mark Edward is not related to John Edward.

Anna Eva Fay Pingree was a famous medium and stage mentalist of the twentieth century.

Rich Ferguson, aka "The Ice Breaker", is an American magician. He is the producer and host of the Official Poker Chip Tricks and Card Handling DVD Series. Ferguson went to college for engineering and worked for United Parcel Service prior to becoming a full-time entertainer and creative consultant in 1997. Ferguson married Traci Adams August 8, 2008. Ferguson also has a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers.

Maurice Fogel was a British magician and mentalist. He described himself as "the world's greatest mind-reader".

Michael Gutenplan on Long Island, New York is a professional magician & mentalist. He has created and produced programs for television and written various articles about travel and Broadway for MSNBC.COM. He is a member of the Academy of Magical Arts at the Magic Castle.

Robert Heller, also Joseph Heller, was an English magician, mentalist, and musician. The year of his birth is the subject of some speculation; some sources list it as 1829 while others claim 1830.

Wayne Hoffman is an American mentalist and illusionist. He appeared on several national and international television shows and tours the country with his show "Mind Candy" He appeared on America's Got Talent, season 10 (2015) and also appeared in their TV commercial. He appeared on NBC's television show Phenomenon on October 31, 2007. He was a co-host of The A-List on Discovery's Animal Planet. He was also a guest on CNN's television talk show Glenn Beck on March 25, 2008. He appeared as a guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show on April 13, 2009. On May 4, 2012, he appeared in a short movie entitled "Epic School Battle" with Steven Tyler and KISS He also appeared on CBS's Excused on October 30, 2012. He also appeared on Beverly Hills Pawn on June 12, 2013. Wayne Hoffman was also an expert guest on The Numbers Game on The National geographic Channel on March 31, 2014 Wayne successfully fooled Penn & Teller on their show Fool Us on the CW network on August 31, 2016. He subsequently performed onstage with Penn & Teller at the Rio Hotel and casino on September 25, 2016. Wayne also appeared on the show HARRY, hosted by Harry Connick Jr., on October 13, 2017.

Chris Hughes is a British born TV hypnotist, hypnotherapist, speaker, and entertainer. He is known for attempting to set a world record for the biggest online hypnosis event. The Socialtrance live event was exclusively for users of Facebook and Twitter and attracted over 1,000,000 listeners from over 130 countries.

Burling Hull was an inventive magician, self-styled "the Edison of magic," specializing in mentalism and sleight of hand effects. During the greater part of his life he lived in DeLand, Florida. His aliases and stage names included: "Volta the Great", "The Man with the Radar Mind", "The White Wizard," and "Gideon ('Gid') Dayn."

Luke Jermay is an English magician, mentalist, and writer.

John George Fancher, known professionally as John George, is an American magician. Working professionally since 1995, John George has performed at magic venues throughout the country and abroad while winning awards in a wide variety of magic competitions.

Leona LaMar, billed as "The Girl with 1,000 Eyes", was an American stage mentalist and vaudeville headliner in the 1910s and 1920s.

Neel Madhav is an Indian television personality, actor, author, mentalist and illusionist. He hosts the travel and magic TV show You Got Magic with Neel Madhav. He was included in 2019 Forbes Asia Sports and Entertainment 30 under 30, judged by Kei Nishikori and Dick Lee. His work frequently features contemporary magic with mentalism, neuro-linguistic programming, and criminology.

Frederick Marion was the stage name of Josef Kraus a mentalist and performer who claimed powers of clairvoyance and telepathy. He was investigated by psychical researchers who attributed his abilities to detecting subtle visual clues from his audience.

"Matt the Knife" was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Boston, but now resides in Rhode Island. He is a magician and mentalist and has broken a number of Guinness World Records, but began his career as a professional con man.

Max Maven is an American magician and mentalist whose performances are considered erudite and intelligent. He is ranked as one of the most influential mentalists of all time, and one of the 100 "Most Influential Magicians of the 20th Century" by Magic Magazine.

Drew McAdam is a Scottish mentalist and mindreader, also known as The Human Lie Detector, speaker and performer of mindplay psychological illusion. He was "The Interrogator" on Channel 5 television show Trisha Goddard and a regular guest on the Scottish Television evening magazine programme The Hour. He was also the subject and part-presenter of the 4-part BBC series School for Genius, and subject of the BBC Brainsmart project for schools.

Charles Morritt was an English magician, hypnotist, mentalist and inventor.

Oz Pearlman is an Emmy-Award-winning Israeli mentalist, speaker, magician, and athlete who won third-place on America's Got Talent, Season 10 (2015). On January 13, 2020, he reemerged on America's Got Talent as a contestant in America's Got Talent: The Champions. NBC TV (national) aired a travel show called Oz Knows in 2018. The show was about Pearlman traveling to various tourist attractions and performing mentalism. Oz Knows won an Emmy Award in 2019. Oz was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on April 15, 2010. He also made guest appearances on NBC Today Show on August 23, 2015, and three times in 2016. On January 26, 2017 he appeared on NBC Today Show again and appeared to predict the American Super Bowl result. He performed for Megyn Kelly on the Megyn Kelly TODAY Show. Oz aired on The Meredith Vieira Show on December 1, 2015 and February 8, 2016. He aired on the Rachael Ray Show on October 26, 2016. He made another guest appearance on the Rachael Ray Show on April 11, 2018. Pearlman appeared on Fox Business talk show Varney & Co. multiple times in 2018. Oz was a guest on CNBC Squawk Box on December 23, 2015 and again on December 26, 2018. He returned to Squawk Box and aired again on December 27, 2019. Pearlman appeared on The Dr. Oz Show on December 20, 2016. Oz was aired on Episode 7 of the Bravo TV series Million Dollar Listing on September 12, 2019. Oz was aired on the CNBC show Power Lunch in 2018 and twice in 2019. He appeared on ABC World News Tonight on July 24, 2009. Oz made a guest appearance on CBS’s Early Show on May 30, 2009. Pearlman appeared on ESPN in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He appeared as a guest at Wall Street Journal's studio on April 7, 2016. InStyle released a video of Oz performing as a guest in 2017. Pearlman was featured on a commercial for Mohegan Sun in China. Pearlman was a guest on the national radio show Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. As an athlete, he won the Chicago Ultra Marathon when he completed the 50-mile marathon in 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 26 seconds.

Sydney Piddington and Lesley Piddington were an Australian husband and wife mentalism team who performed as The Piddingtons and gave one of the most famous stage and radio telepathy acts of modern times. The Piddingtons never revealed their methods but did not claim to possess paranormal powers. There has been speculation from magicians about how they may have utilized codes, confederates or mechanical aids.

Eran Raven is a mentalist and security expert.

Bert Reese (1851–1926) was an American-Polish medium and mentalist, most well known for his billet reading demonstrations.

Regina de Jesús Betancourt Ramírez is a Colombian self-described mentalist, psychic, mystic, and faith healer who is better known to her followers as Regina 11. A now retired politician, she founded and led the Metapolitical Unitarian Movement, a political party that carried her to be Councilwoman for the City Councils of Bogotá, Medellín, San Rafael, Une, Vetas, and California, as well as Deputy to the Departamental Assembly of Cundinamarca, and finally Senator of Colombia. In addition she ran as a candidate for President of Colombia in the Colombian presidential elections of 1986, 1990, and 1994.

Ruslan Sabirly is the first Azerbaijani mentalist,, and an actor, producer, songwriter, founder and director of Booktrailer Festival. He is the first to introduce the terms and concepts - “Book Trailer” and “Mentalism” in Azerbaijan. He is the first celebrity in Azerbaijan, who have got Facebook and Odnoklassniki profiles verified.

Ben Seidman is an American sleight-of-hand performer, actor, comedian, and creative consultant who has won the entertainer of the year award for Princess Cruises and guest starred on Netflix's "Brainchild". He is the only person to have served as the Resident Magician at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. In 2013, Seidman co-starred in Magic Outlaws on Travel Channel. Following the debut of his TV specials, Ben taught Johnny Knoxville magic tricks for his film Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. Seidman’s performances are notable for featuring original magic effects. His inventions are employed in A&E’s program Mindfreak, starring Criss Angel, where Seidman served as writer and adviser for three seasons. Seidman tours globally, bringing his live show—a combination of sleight-of-hand, pickpocketing, and comedy—to colleges, parties and events.

Lior Suchard is an Israeli mentalist and self-described "mystifier" who performs "supernatural entertainment".

Joe M. Turner is an American corporate magician, mentalist, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and other meetings. Based in Atlanta, he is widely respected in the field of corporate magic as well as customizing magic performances, keynotes, and seminars for trade shows, product launches, and other marketing efforts, conferences, or corporate events. He frequently incorporates sleight-of-hand, escape magic and mentalism into keynote addresses as a motivational speaker for corporate and private groups, speaking on topics of customer experience, brand engagement, memory training, change management, and creativity. He was one of only six performers selected to represent various aspects of the magic industry on the CNN Headline News feature "A Day of Magic," and also appeared on network television programs in Europe and South America.

Richard Webster is an award winning multi-million selling author, ghostwriter, mentalist, hypnotist and magician.

Julius and Agnes Zancig were stage magicians and authors on occultism who performed a spectacularly successful two-person mentalism act during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Julius Zancig (1857–1929) – born Julius Jörgensen in Copenhagen, Denmark – and his wife Agnes Claussen Jörgensen – also born in Copenhagen, and known as Agnes Zancig – were the originators of the routine.