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Dai Vernon

Dai Vernon was a prominent Canadian magician renowned for his innovative card techniques and elegant close-up performanc...

Card Canadian Historical Close Up

10.0 Brilliant

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Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini was an American magician renowned for his daring escapology performances during the late 19th and early 20...

Stage American Historical Escapologist

9.9 Brilliant

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Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1857-1910) was a prominent French stage magician who significantly shaped modern illusionism....

Stage French Traditional Historical

9.9 Brilliant

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David Berglas

David Berglas was a British stage magician and mentalist renowned for his innovative techniques and close-up work. He de...

Stage Historical British Mentalist

9.8 Brilliant

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Derren Brown

Derren Brown is a prominent British magician and mentalist known for his innovative performances that explore psychologi...

Television Stage Psychological British

9.7 Brilliant

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Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson was an American magician who pioneered magic on television with his 1960s series The Magic Land of Allakazam...

Television Stage American Historical

8.7 Great

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Jonathan Pendragon

Jonathan Pendragon is an American illusionist who, alongside his former wife Charlotte, formed the world-renowned magic...

Stage American Historical Illusionist

8.7 Great

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Lu Chen

Lu Chen is an acclaimed Taiwanese magician recognized for popularizing close-up magic across Asia, notably winning the M...

Television Stage Illusionist Taiwanese

8.7 Great

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Siegfried & Roy

Siegfried & Roy were a German-American duo who combined magic with exotic animals, becoming among the most famous headli...

German Stage Historical Illusionist

8.6 Great

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P.T. Selbit

P.T. Selbit was a British magician credited with inventing the iconic sawing a woman in half illusion, which he first pe...

Stage Historical British Illusionist

8.6 Great

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Paul Daniels

Paul Daniels was a British television magician who hosted the hugely popular "The Paul Daniels Magic Show" on the BBC fr...

Television Stage Historical British

8.5 Great

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Criss Angel

Criss Angel is an American magician and illusionist who starred in the television series Criss Angel Mindfreak, known fo...

Television Stage American Illusionist

8.4 Great

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Servais Le Roy

Servais Le Roy was a Belgian illusionist prominent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for his Asrah l...

Stage Historical Belgian Illusionist

8.4 Great

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Jack Gwynne

Jack Gwynne was a prominent American stage illusionist in the mid-20th century who popularized the Gwynne Box and his di...

Stage American Historical Illusionist

8.4 Great

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Greg Frewin

Greg Frewin is a Canadian illusionist who won FISM awards in the 1990s and operates his own long-running theatrical magi...

Stage Contemporary Canadian Illusionist

8.2 Great

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Fu Yandong

Fu Yandong is an award-winning Chinese illusionist who gained widespread fame for performing a controversial goldfish tr...

Television Stage Chinese Illusionist

7.9 Good

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Ben Hart

Ben Hart is a British magician who reached the finals of "Britain's Got Talent" in 2019, noted for his original, storyte...

Television Stage Contemporary British

7.6 Good

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Mike Super

Mike Super is an American magician who gained national recognition by winning the NBC reality television show Phenomenon...

Television Stage American Illusionist

7.6 Good

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Franz Cramer

Franz Cramer was a nineteenth-century British magician and inventor who created numerous stage illusions, including the...

German Stage Historical Illusionist

7.3 Good

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Murray Sawchuck

Murray Sawchuck is a Canadian illusionist famous for his grand-scale stage tricks and his prominent appearances as a con...

Television Stage Canadian Illusionist

6.5 Fair