Top best magicians in the world

Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon

While studying theater at the University of California, Jonathan met Charlotte, who was attending dance and gymnastics classes at the same university where the young illusionist was studying. Having common hobbies, the young couple quickly mastered magic tricks and began touring the country. The most famous was the sawing of a girl. Charlotte would lie down in a supposedly transparent box, and her husband Jonathan would cut her in half with a hacksaw.

The great Dante

Harry Jansen, known by the pseudonym Dante, was one of the first magicians to work in tandem with professionals. The young magician was born in 1883 in Copenhagen and died in California after living for 72 years. With his mysterious death, most likely from a heart attack, he took with him the secrets of the best tricks.

Harry Blackstone

One of the most popular illusionists of the 19th century, Harry Blackstone was born on September 27, 1885. He is the author of the world-famous construction for cutting a person into two parts.

Harry’s most famous trick is the “flower garden”, in which he filled the stage with many bouquets that appeared from nowhere. Appearance and disappearance tricks were the signature of this illusionist.

Cyril Takayama

Cyril Takayama, a Japanese national, was born in 1973 in Hollywood. It was there that he began his career as a magician at the age of 12, attending one of the local schools for magicians. In his youth, he loved to perform coin tricks on the streets of the city.

Cyril Takayama gained his worldwide fame thanks to his videos on YouTube. It was there that people learned about him in Japan, the illusionist’s homeland.

Pen and Teller

Two comedians, Pen Fraser Gillette and Raymond Joseph Teller, were the first in the world to combine magic tricks with humor.

They performed mostly dangerous tricks, such as hanging over a pillow with nails in a straitjacket or diving into a container. In addition to performances, they wrote books about their tricks and, of course, starred in comedy television series.

David Blaine

Brooklyn-based illusionist born in 1973 in New York City is known all over the world. The fate of this magician is quite tragic: he was raised by a single mother who died of cancer in 1994. At that time, David was 21 years old.

He recorded his magic performance on a videotape and sent it to the ABC TV channel. After that, the show “David Blaine: Street Magic” was born.

David Copperfield

Perhaps even those who have never been interested in magic have heard this name. David Seth Kotkin (this is the magician’s name) was born on September 16, 1956 in New Jersey.

Like the Japanese Cyril Takayama, young David began his career at the age of 12, and at 16 he was already teaching “magic courses” at New York University. The “Wizard of the Century” has been awarded 21 Emmy Awards.

Harry Houdini

Is there really anyone better than Copperfield? Born in March 1874 in Budapest, Harry Houdini became a true shoot expert. Erich Weiss (the magician’s real name) not only performed tricks, but also exposed charlatans.