Magicians' Real Names

S. S. ADAMS Soren Sorenson Adams ARTHUR AINSLIE Arthur Wellesley Odell Pain DON ALAN Don Alan McWethy HERBERT ALBINI Abraham Laski ALDINI Alex Weiner ALEXANDER Claude Conlin ALI BEY David Charles Lemmy ALI BONGO William Wallace STAN ALLEN Stanley A. Sokulski BERT ALLERTON Albert Allen Gustafson THE MYSTERIOUS ALMA Oswald Henry Bishop WILL ALMA Oswald William Bishop AMASIS Arthur Hartopp THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN Johnathan Szeles CRISS ANGEL Christopher Sarantakos THEODORE ANNEMANN Theodore John Squires ANVERDI Antonius de Vries ARGUS Arthur Gilbert BALABREGA John Balabrega Miller CARL BALLANTINE Meyer Kessler BEN ALI BEY Max Auzinger MOHAMMED BEY Leo "Sam" Horowitz BLACK HERMAN Benjamin Herman Rucker BLACKSTONE JR. Harry Boughton Jr. BLACKSTONE SR. Harry Boughton DAVID BLAINE David Blaine White SIGNOR BLITZ Antoni Van Zandt BOSCO Leon Bosco CARL BREMA Karl Brehmer KUDA BUX Khuda Bakhsh JOHN CALVERT Elburn Madren Calvert THE GREAT CARAZINI Jim "Jay" Williams CARDINI Richard Valentine Pitchford CARTER THE GREAT Charles Joseph Carter CHANG Jose Pablo Jesorum CHING LING FOO Chee Ling Qua CHUNG LING SOO William Robinson KEITH CLARK Pierre Cartier JUDSON COLE Milton Greishaber DAVID COPPERFIELD David Kotkin PAUL DANIELS Newton Edward Daniels DANTE August Harry Jansen LEWIS DAVENPORT George Ryan DE KOLTA Joseph Buatier DE LA MANO Zell Dreitzehn DAVID DEVANTE David Wighton T. NELSON DOWNS "Tommy" Nelson Downs ADE DUVAL Adolph Amrein JARDINE ELLIS Duncan Loren Campbell ENARDOE Edward O. Drane FANTASIO Ricardo Roucau DR. FAUST David Hoy OTTOKAR FISCHER O.F. Marteau AL FLOSSO Albert Levinson IMRO FOX Isador Fuchs JOSEPH GABRIEL Joseph Gabriel Wierzbicki GALI GALI Mohamed Mahguob THE GEORGIA WONDER Lulu Hurst KARL GERMAIN Charles Mattmueller PAUL GERTNER Paul Gaertner HORACE GOLDIN Hyman Goldstein GOODLIFFE Charles Goodliffe Neale JACK GWYNNE Joseph McCloud Gwynne ROBERT HARBIN Edward "Ned"  Williams HARDEEN Theodore Weiss ROBERT HELLER William Henry Palmer CARL HERTZ Leib Morgenstern PROFESSOR HERWIN William Humpage PROFESSOR HOFFMANN Angelo Lewis MAX HOLDEN William Holden Maxwell PROFESSOR OTTO HORNMANN Otto Horn HARRY HOUDINI Erich Weiss JEAN HUGARD John G. Boyce BURLING HULL Burlingame Gilbert Hull RICKY JAY Ricky Potash WALTER CERRETTA JEANS Walter Janes FRANK JOGLAR Milbourne Christopher JOSEFFY Joseph P. Freud KALANAG Helmut Schreiber FRED KAPS Abraham Pieter Bongers TONY KARDYRO Anthony Barbato KAR-MI Joseph Bryant Hallworth HARRY KELLAR Heinrich Kellar ANDRE KOLE Bob Gurtler Jr. AL KORAN Edward Doe SIR FELIX KORIM Brewerton H. Clarke KRESKIN George Joseph Kresge, Jr. LAFAYETTE Siegmund Neuberger EUGENE LAURANT Eugene Greenleaf RENE LAVAND Renato Lavandeira LA VELLMA David J. Lustig LE GRAND DAVID David Bull NATE LEIPZIG Nathan Leipziger THE GREAT LEON Leon H. Levy PAUL LE PAUL Paul Braden LEVANTE Leslie George Cole LES LEVEEN John Lesley Barlow LI SING FOO Arthur Hartopp DR. H.S. LYNN John Wesley Simmons Lynn MAGIC CHRISTIAN Christian Stelzel M.S. MAHENDRA Frank B. Sterling MAX MALINI Max Breit ED MARLO Edward Malkowski MARO Walter Truman Best MARGERY Mina (Mrs. Leroy) Crandon JAY MARSHALL James Ward Marshall MAX MAVEN Philip Thorner Goldstein MASKED MAGICIAN Val Valentino (Leonard Montano) NEWMANN C.A. George Naeseth NICOLA William Mozart Nicol NIKOLA Walter J. Obree Smith DELL O'DELL Nell Newton OKITO Theo Bamberg OVETTE Giuseppi Olivio PAVEL Pavel Pomezny JONATHAN PENDRAGON Claude Yarbrough THE PROFESSOR Dai Vernon PROFESSOR TUCAN Cantu RAJAH RABOID Maurice P. Kitchen GREAT RAYMOND Maurice Raymond Saunders DR. KORDA RAMAYNE Robert Nelson WILL ROCK William George Rakauskas CARL ROSINI Johan Rosen (John Rose) PAUL ROSINI Paul Vucic RICHARD ROSS Henk Rozenboom ROY (of Siegfried & Roy) Roy Horn JOHN SCARNE Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia P.T. SELBIT Percy Thomas Tibbles SENATOR CRANDALL Clarke Crandall SIEGFRIED (of Siegfried & Roy) Siegfried Fischbacker SILENT MORA Louis Jerome McCord SILVAN Aldo Savoldello SLIDINI Quintino Marucci P.C. SORCAR JR. Prodip Chandra Sorcar P.C. SORCAR SR. Pratul Chandra Sorcar SI STEBBINS Will H. Coffrin COLONEL STODARE Jack Inglis TALMA Mary Ann Ford LeRoy TAMPA Raymond S. Sugden PRINCESS TENKO Tenko Hikita DAI VERNON David Wingfield Verner VICTORINA Joseph Bryant Hallworth LEN VINTUS Melvin J.G. McMullen VIRGIL Virgil Harris Mulkey VON ARX Charles Albert Nicol PETER WARLOCK Alec Bell TOMMY WINDSOR Thomas L. Lowry TOMMY WONDER Jacobus Maria Bemelman LUNG TCHANG YUEN Joseph Ovette

Great Magicians

1 . David Blaine
David Blaine (April 4, 1973 -) is an American illusionist and stunt performer born in Brooklyn, New York City. He made his a name as a performer of close-up magic, usually working on the streets. His act includes a variation of the Balducci levitation illusion. This format, recorded by a small camera crew, provided the basis for his breakthrough television special, "David Blaine : Street Magician".
He later turned his attention to feats of endurance, including being buried alive for five days and spending 61 hours encased in ice. His most recent feat in 2002 was standing on a tiny platform at the top of a 100 foot high pole for 35 hours, followed by jumping down onto a landing platform made of cardboard boxes.

2 . Derren Brown
Derren Brown (b. 1971, Croydon, England) is a British psychological illusionist. Since the first broadcast of his channel 4 television show in 2000 he has become increasingly well known for his "mind-reading" act. Derren Brown makes no claims to possess psychic ability. He achieves stunning results by making use of his deep psychological insight. Using his knowledge and skill he is able to predict and influence people's thoughts with subtle suggestion, manipulate the decision making process and read the subtle physical signs or body language that indicate what a person is thinking.

3 . P. C. Sorcar
P. C. Sorcar (Junior) is the living legend of Indian Magic. He is "BANGAL-KA-JADU" personified and is what "Magic of India" means today. P.C.SORCAR(Senior), father of P.C.SORCAR(Junior), who popularised their family art of "MAGIC" beyond the boundaries of India elevating the presentations to a more prestigious pedestal of theatrical form of International standard, keeping the Indian traditions as the central motif. He gave a new lease of life to the dying art and thus is recognised as "THE FATHER OF INDIAN MAGIC".

4 . T. Nelson Downs
(1867-1938), the King of Koins, is pictured with his two books, the "Art of Magic" and "Tricks with Coins", which have become sleight of hand classics.
Downs created an act consisting entirely of coin manipulation. The conventional wisdom was that coins would be too small to be seen from a distance, but Downs' act not only defied conventional wisdom but went on to become one of the most popular and highly paid acts in vaudeville.The 'Miser's Dream' routine he created, in which a seemingly endless number of coins were plucked into existence at this fingertips, has been emulated by performers ever since, and remains the standard classic of coin magic.

5. Harry Kellar
(1849 – 1922) Kellar was was named the 1st "Dean of American magicians", and during his performing lifetime was America's most popular magician . He undertook two world tours, A master of magic at all scales,Kellar is perhaps most famous for the Levitation of Princess Karnac, an illusion originated by Maskelyne, which Kellar revised and made his own.

6 . oward Thurston
(1869-1936) Thurston was anointed second "Dean" of American Magicians, by the first Dean, the legendary Harry Kellar, when Kellar retired. Although he was the most popular magician in America for more than three decades, and Kellar's designated successor, Thurston's passion seemed to lie in proving his acumen as a business-man unrelated to conjuring.,