Notable People in Rosicrucian History

Dante Alighieri

 * Born 1265.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1321.

Christian Rosenkreuz

 * Born 1378.
 * The legendary, perhaps allegorical, founder of the Rosicrucian Order.
 * Considered the founder of Rosicrucianism.
 * Died 1484.

Leonardo da Vinci

 * Born 1452.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1519.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

 * Born 1486.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1535.

Paracelsus

 * Born 1493.
 * Was a Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist.
 * is claimed by the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis to be the true identity of the mythical alchemist Christian Rosenkreutz.
 * Died 1541.
 * Looks like Andy Richter.

Heinrich Khunrath

 * Born 1560.
 * Was a physician, hermetic philosopher, and alchemist.
 * His famous work on alchemy, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, influenced the first Rosicrucian manifesto, Fama Fraternitatis.
 * Died 1605.

Francis Bacon

 * Born 1561.
 * Was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1626.

Jakob Bohme

 * Born 1575.
 * Died 1624.

Johannes Valentinus Andreae

 * Born 1586.
 * Died 1654.

Rene Descartes

 * Born 1596.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Born 1650.

Blaise Pascal

 * Born 1623.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1662.

Christopher Wren

 * Born 1632.
 * One of the best known and highest acclaimed English architects in history.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1723.

Isaac Newton

 * Born 1643.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1727.

Johann Jacob Zimmermann

 * Born 1644.
 * Believed the apocalypse would occur in 1694 on the "edge of the wilderness."
 * He developed a following of Rosicrucians in the city of Hamburg. While preparing to travel to the United States and prepare for the supposed 'apocalypse,' he passed away.
 * Died 1693.

Gottfried Leibniz

 * Born 1646.
 * A German mathematician and philosopher.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1716.

John Bargel

 * Born 1660.
 * Was an English writer, Rosicrucian philosopher and controversialist.
 * Died 1680.

Frederick Augustus II the Strong

 * Born 1670.
 * Was Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
 * Died 1733.

Johannes Kelpius

 * Born 1673.
 * Was a German Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer.
 * He believed in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness" and that the end of the world would occur in 1694.
 * He crossed the Atlantic with his followers in 1694 and established a colony in what is now Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
 * Died 1708.

Benjamin Franklin

 * Born 1706.
 * A leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1790.

Thomas Jefferson

 * Born 1743.
 * The third President of the United States, and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1826.

Napoleon Bonaparte

 * Born 1769.
 * A military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1821.

Michael Faraday

 * Born 1791.
 * An English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1867.

Victor Hugo

 * Born 1802.
 * Died 1885.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 * Born 1803.
 * Was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist.
 * Was a Rosicrucian Baron who authored the 1842 Rosicrucian novel, Zanoni.
 * Died 1873.

Paschal Beverly Randolph

 * Born 1825.
 * Was an American medical doctor, occultist and writer.
 * He was not a member of the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC).
 * He founded the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis in 1858.
 * Was the first person to introduce the principles of sex magic to North America, established the earliest known Rosicrucian-type group in the United States.
 * Died 1875.

Kenneth Mackenzie

 * Born 1833.
 * He was an English linguist, orientalist and autodidact.
 * He is credited with the structural design of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
 * Died 1886.

Robert Wentworth Little

 * Born 1840.
 * He was a clerk and cashier of the secretary’s office at the United Grand Lodge of England.
 * He is credited with the structural design of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.
 * Died 1878.

Bram Stoker

 * Born 1847.
 * Known or alleged member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1912.

William Wynn Westcott

 * Born 1848.
 * He was a coroner, ceremonial magician, and Freemason.
 * He was a co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1925.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 * Born 1850.
 * She was an American author and poet.
 * She was supposedly associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
 * Died 1919.

Claude Debussy

 * Born 1862.
 * A French composer and one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1918.

Max Heindel

 * Born 1865.
 * He was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic.
 * He was not a member of the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
 * He founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909.
 * Died 1919.

Rudyard Kipling

 * Born 1865.
 * Died 1936.

William Butler Yeats

 * Born 1865.
 * Known or alleged member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1939.

Erik Satie

 * Born 1866.
 * A French composer and pianist.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1925.

Aleister Crowley

 * Born 1875.
 * Known or alleged member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1947.

Sara Allgood

 * Born 1879.
 * Known or alleged member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1950.

Harvey Spencer Lewis

 * Born 1883.
 * A noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, and the first Imperator of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
 * Died 1939.

Walt Disney

 * Born 1901.
 * Died 1966.

Ralph Maxwell Lewis

 * Born 1904.
 * The second Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1987.

Israel Regardie

 * Born 1907.
 * Was a popularizer of the occult, specifically the legacy of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
 * Died 1985.

Edith Piaf

 * Born 1915.
 * A French singer and cultural icon who became universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.
 * Died 1963.

Samuel Aun Weor

 * Born 1917.
 * He was an author, lecturer and founder of the 'Universal Christian Gnostic Movement.'
 * He was the author of The Perfect Matrimony.
 * He belonged to the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua.
 * Died 1977.

Zhuge Zhan

 * Born 1920.

Christian Bernard

 * Born 1951.
 * Is the fourth and current Imperator of AMORC.
 * Associated with the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.

Gary L. Stewart

 * The third Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or Rosicrucian Tradition and work.