People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the 20th century •
Mirra Alfassa (1878–1971), Indian poet and mystic •
Kenneth Anger (1927–2023), filmmaker, writer, and
Thelemite •
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (1929–2026), occultist, occult writer, teacher •
Alice Bailey (1880–1949), English writer, mystic and
Theosophist •
Franz Bardon (1909–1958), occult writer, magician •
Frank Bennett (1868–1930), Australian chemist who was disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley •
Carl William Hansen (1872 - 1936), Danish farmer and occultist •
Michael Bertiaux (born 1935), author of the
Voudon Gnostic Workbook, occult artist •
Kerry Bolton (born 1956), New Zealand neo-Nazi activist and writer •
William Breeze (born 1955), writer, musician, patriarch of
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and caliph of
Ordo Templi Orientis; also known as Hymenaeus Beta •
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), Beat writer •
W. E. Butler (1898–1978), esoteric writer •
Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), scarlet woman of Jack Parsons' rituals, artist, actress •
Peter J. Carroll (born 1953), occultist, writer, founder of
chaos magic •
Constant Chevillon (1880–1944), head of
FUDOFSI •
Chic Cicero (born 1936), esoteric writer, magician, Imperator Emeritus of
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc. •
Sandra Tabatha Cicero (born 1959), esoteric writer, magician, Imperator of
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc. •
Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), artist, painted the
Rider–Waite tarot deck, member of the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn •
D. J. Conway (1939–2019), occult writer •
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist and ceremonial magician, founder of
Thelema religion •
Jinx Dawson (born 1950), ceremonial magician, artist, founder of rock band
Coven, recording artist •
Savitri Devi (1905–1982), Greek writer on Hinduism, Nazi spy and leading figure of
Esoteric Nazism •
Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American
modernist poet, known under the pseudonym H.D. •
Gerina Dunwich (born 1959), witch and occult writer •
Lon Milo DuQuette (born 1948), musician, lecturer, and occultist •
Julius Evola (1898–1974), Italian
radical right philosopher, and esotericist who helped to found the
UR Group •
Dion Fortune (1890–1946), considered one of Great Britain's most famous occultists, •
Kenneth Grant (1924–2011), occultist, writer, pupil of
Aleister Crowley •
John Michael Greer (born 1962), occult writer, fantasist, blogger •
Eugen Grosche (1888–1964), known as Gregor A. Gregorius, German occultist, writer, founder of the lodge
Fraternitas Saturni •
Manly Palmer Hall (1901–1990), occult writer, teacher •
Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (1889–1933) •
Inbaal Honigman (born 1974), Israeli-born British
psychic, astrologer, and
Wiccan priestess •
Max Heindel (1865–1919), writer •
Rudolf Hess (1894–1987),
nazi interested in magic and the occult •
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), Nazi
Reichsführer SS, also interested in magic •
Phil Hine (
fl. 1980s), occult writer •
Leah Hirsig (1883–1975), American schoolteacher and occultist •
Murry Hope (1929–2012), occult writer •
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), American writer and Scientology founder •
Christopher Hyatt (1943–2008), writer, teacher, publisher •
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929), filmmaker, comic book writer, writer and teacher on "Psychemagia" •
Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), Canadian occultist and ceremonial magician •
George Cecil Jones (1873–1960), English chemist, occultist, member of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and co-founder of the magical order
A∴A∴ •
Konstantinos (born 1972), American occultist and writer •
Karl Ernst Krafft (1900–1945), occultist •
Donald Michael Kraig (1951-2014), occult writer, magician •
Siegfried Adolf Kummer (1899–1977), German occultist •
Dora van Gelder Kunz (1904–1999), occult writer •
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels (1874–1954), Austrian occultist and pioneer of
Ariosophy •
Sybil Leek (1917–1982), witch and occult writer •
James Lees (1939–2015), English magician known for
English Qaballa •
James H. Madole (1927–1979), American neo-Nazi, founder of the
National Renaissance Party and personal friend of
Anton LaVey •
Friedrich Bernhard Marby (1882–1966), German rune occultist •
Grady Louis McMurtry (1918–1985), American
ceremonial magician and "Caliph" of
O.T.O. •
Alan Moore (born 1953), British writer and occultist •
Marcelo Ramos Motta (1931–1987), Brazilian occult writer and member of
A∴A∴ •
David Myatt (born 1950), allegedly the leader of the
Order of Nine Angles •
Eddy Nawgu (1957–2000), Nigerian sorcerer and self-proclaimed prophet of the Biblical God •
Nema Andahadna (1939–2018), American occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer of
Liber Pennae Praenumbra. •
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (1883–1940), poet and member of the
A∴A∴ •
Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff (born 1949), occultist, science fiction writer •
Eric Nord (born Harry Helmuth Pastor; 1919–1989), American
Beat Generation coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and
hipster, the "King of the Beatniks". •
Sara Northrup Hollister (1924–1997), American occultist and second wife of
Scientologist founder
L. Ron Hubbard. •
Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979), self-proclaimed Australian witch •
Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020), of
Psychic TV video group and
TOPY,
chaos magician •
Jimmy Page (born 1944), musician, occultist, member of rock band
Led Zeppelin •
Tommaso Palamidessi (1915–1983), Christian occultist, founder of the Archeosophical Society •
Jack Parsons (1914–1952), occultist, writer, and rocket scientist •
Helen Parsons Smith (1910-2003), American occultist and book editor, wife of John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons who married
Wilfred Talbot Smith after Parson's death. •
Israel Regardie (1907–1985), occult writer, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley •
C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G. •
Alex Sanders (1926–1988), founder of
Alexandrian Wicca •
Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the
A∴A∴ tradition. •
Pekka Siitoin (1944-2003), Finnish neo-Nazi, occultist and a Satanist. •
Miguel Serrano (1917–2009), Chilean diplomat, writer of books on
Esoteric Nazism •
Stephen Skinner (born 1948), Australian writer •
Harry Everett Smith (1923–1991), visual artist, experimental filmmaker, record collector, bohemian, mystic, largely self-taught student of anthropology, and Neo-Gnostic bishop •
Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885–1957), English occultist and ceremonial magician. •
Lionel Snell, occult writer, known as Ramsey Dukes •
Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956), writer, painter, magician •
Karl Spiesberger (1904–1992), German occultist •
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of
anthroposophy •
Ludwig Straniak (1879–1951) •
Gerald Suster (1951–2001), occult writer •
Ralph Tegtmeier (born 1952), known as Frater U∴D∴, occultist, writer, founder of Pragmatic Magic, Cyber Magic and Ice Magic •
Mellie Uyldert (1908–2009), occult writer •
Doreen Valiente (1922–1999), priestess and writer •
Leila Waddell (1880–1932), mystic and muse •
James Wasserman (1948–2020), American writer and occultist. •
Don Webb (born 1960), writer of occult books and former high priest of
Temple of Set •
Sam Webster, American writer, publisher, co-founder of the Chthonic Auranian Templars of Thelema and
Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn •
Samael Aun Weor (1917–1977), theurgist and founder of a "Gnostic movement" •
Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946), Austrian occultist and
SS officer •
Colin Wilson (1931-2013), English philosopher-novelist and author of
The Occult: A History •
Jane Wolfe (1875–1958), American silent film character actress. •
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), occultist and member of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn •
Catherine Yronwode (born 1947), occult author ==21st century ==