- Albertus Magnus, had many magical texts attributed to him
- Aleister Crowley, The founder/prophet of modern Thelema
- Circe, legendary sorceress
- Edward Kelley, medium who assisted John Dee
- Etteilla, fortune-teller
- Faust, made a pact with the Devil, also see Doctor Faustus
- Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, alchemist thought to have magical powers
- Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, shapeshifter skilled in the black arts
- Gilles de Rais, serial killer accused of sorcery
- Hecate, goddess of witchcraft
- Henri Gamache, authority on the Evil Eye
- Isobel Gowdie, self-confessed witch
- John Dee, Queen Elizabeth's court astrologist.
- Laurie Cabot, witch, high priestess, author
- Marie Laveau, American New Orleans Voodoo practitioner
- Maya Deren, filmmaker and Haitian Vodou priestess
- Merlin, Arthurian wizard
- Morgan le Fay, witch sister of King Arthur
- Nicolas Flamel, alchemist
- Nostradamus, soothsayer, seer, astrologer
- Paracelsus, medical pioneer and occult philosopher
- Ptolemy, astrologer
- Pythagoras, philosopher important in occultism
- Ramon Llull, syncretic mystic
- Timothy Leary, psychologist, member of the Illuminates of Thanateros
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