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List of people who have claimed to be Jesus

The list of people who claimed to be Jesus consists of notable people who have made statements claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth.

Who	Image	When	Claim
John Nichols Thom		born 1799	Cornishman who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and his body temple of the Holy Ghost. He was killed by British soldiers at the Battle of Bossenden Wood, on May 31, 1838 in Kent, England.
Jim Jones		May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978	Claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine. (see Jonestown).
Marshall Applewhite		1931–1997	Applewhite posted a famous Usenet message declaiming, "I, Jesus—Son of God—acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: …". This was two years before he and his Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide to rendezvous with a spaceship hiding behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
Suma Ching Hai		Birth date unknown, possible late 1950s	A meditation teacher who claims to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara and a living reincarnation of the Buddha and Jesus Christ.

Religious leaders

Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda — Organizer of the Growing in Grace who claims that the resurrected Christ "integrated himself within me.".
Luc Jouret — Leader of the Order of the Solar Temple and who was believed to be the third reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Maitreya — The expected "world teacher" who is promoted by the British author Benjamin Creme.
Sun Myung Moon — Founder of the Unification Church, who considers himself the second coming of Christ, but not Jesus himself.
Jung Myung Seok — Founder of Providence Church; an international fugitive wanted for rape among other crimes.
Ariffin Mohamed — Also known as "Ayah Pin", the founder of the banned Sky Kingdom in Malaysia. He claims to be the incarnation of Jesus Christ, as well as Muhammad, Shiva, and Buddha.
Ayya Vaikundar — According to Akilattirattu Ammanai, the scripture of Ayyavazhi Narayana, who was one among the trinity in Vaikundar was the one who incarnated as Jesus.
Inri Cristo — Brazilian religious leader.
Matayoshi Jesus — In 1997 he established the World Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is the God and Christ.
Hogen Fukunaga — He claimed to realize he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and the Buddha .
Apollo C. Quiboloy — A Cebuano pastor who claims to be the Christ. He has also marked Pastor Eli Soriano as being condemned to hell.
Arnold Potter, schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; called himself "Potter Christ"
Charles Manson — Founder of "The Family".
Sergei Torop — a Russian who claims to be "reborn" as Vissarion, the returned Jesus Christ. He founded the Church of the Last Testament and the spiritual community Ecopolis Tiberkul in Southern Siberia.

Others

Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko — A supporter of the New Chronology, claims that Jesus Christ is the same person as the prophet Elisha, Saint Basil of Caesarea, and Pope Gregory VII.
Vince Taylor — Musician.
Mehmet Ali Ağca a Turkish assassin who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II
Tom Graeff — filmmaker who claimed to be Jesus Christ II in the early 1960s
David Icke — Claimed he was the Son of God on UK chatshow 'Wogan' in 1991. He later denied his claim, saying that the media had misinterpreted his remarks.
Hong Xiuquan — self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.
Laszlo Toth - Hungarian-born Australian who vandalised Michelangelo's Pietà in 1972
Ahnsahnghong - South Korean man worshiped by World Mission Society Church of God as the second coming of Jesus
David Shayler - former MI5 (British Security Service) officer who gained notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for his passing secret documents to the press. In July 2007 Shayler claimed to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Billy Meier — Alleged sole contactee of the "Pleiadian" race of human ETs; it is claimed in literature disseminated by Meier that he is not only the re-incarnation of Christ and the "prophet" and world-savior of the modern-age, but also the re-incarnation of Isaiah, Elijah, Muhammad, and others.

Notes

From My Best Fiend. the documentary detailing his life.
Galanter, Marc (1999). Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion. Oxford University Press; 2nd edition. ISBN 0-19-512370-0.(meta-citation)
"After the Upper House Election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should hand the seat of the Prime Minister to Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God." Cgunson
I, Jesus—Son of God—acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: 1. I am about to return to my Father's Kingdom. 1A. This "return" requires that I prepare to lay down my borrowed human body in order to take up, or reenter, my body (biological) belonging to the Kingdom of God (as I did appx. 2000 years ago when I laid down the body that was about 33 years old in order to reenter my body belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven). Marshall Applewhite (1995). UNDERCOVER JESUS SURFACES alt.consciousness.mysticism. Retrieved August 15, 2005.
Link to a BBC article on his statements and claims.
For the past three weeks the face of "the master", as her followers call her, has smiled out from laminated posters tied to traffic lights and road signs advertising the event and bearing the message: "See the living god".Mullins, Andrew "Cult warning on travelling 'god'". The Independent (London), .
Followers of Suma Ching Hai claim she is the living reincarnation of Buddha and Jesus Christ, and go so far as to drink her bathwater and buy up her used personal items, marketed as "Celestial Clothing." One disciple bought her sweat socks for $ 1,100 because "when the Master leaves the physical world, at least I will have her socks."Phillips, Andrew "Cash and the campaign". Maclean Hunter Limited, .
In an article from The Guardian he states: "It's all very complicated," he starts quietly. "But to keep things simple, yes, I am Jesus Christ. That which was promised must come to pass. And it was promised in Israel 2,000 years ago that I would return, that I would come back to finish what was started. I am not God (My emphasis). And it is a mistake to see Jesus as God. But I am the living word of God the Father. Everything that God wants to say, he says through me".