The Most Famous
MAGICIANS from United Kingdom
This page contains a list of the greatest British Magicians. The pantheon dataset contains 11 Magicians, 2 of which were born in United Kingdom. This makes United Kingdom the birth place of the 2nd most number of Magicians.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary British Magicians of all time. This list of famous British Magicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dynamo (1982 - )
With an HPI of 39.31, Dynamo is the most famous British Magician. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Steven Frayne (born 17 December 1982), better known by his former stage name Dynamo, is a British magician born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His television show Dynamo: Magician Impossible ran from July 2011 to September 2014, and saw him win the Best Entertainment Programme award at the 2012 and 2013 Broadcast Awards. Dynamo has toured the world, and his Seeing Is Believing arena tour was seen by over 750,000 people across the UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
2. Derren Brown (1971 - )
With an HPI of 34.36, Derren Brown is the 2nd most famous British Magician. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Derren Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English entertainer, mentalist, illusionist, and writer. Brown began performing in 1992, making his television debut with Mind Control (2000). He has since starred in several more shows for stage and television, including Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006) and Svengali (2012) which won him two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment, as well as The Experiments (2011) which won him a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme at the 2012 awards. Brown made his Broadway debut with his 2019 stage show Secret. He has also written books for both magicians and the general public. Brown does not claim to possess any supernatural powers; conversely, his acts are often designed to expose the methods of those who do assert such claims, such as faith healers and mediums. He often begins live performances by stating that his results are achieved through "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship".
Pantheon has 2 people classified as magicians born between 1971 and 1982. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living magicians include Dynamo and Derren Brown.
