Famous Magicians

• Blackstone, Harry Sr.

  Stage magician with elaborate props, 1910-60

• Blaine, David

  The stunt magician who was once buried alive in New York City

• Chung Ling Soo

  The fake Chinese magician killed on stage during a trick in 1918

• Copperfield, David

  The magician who made the Statue of Liberty disappear

• Henning, Doug

   The pixie-ish, big-toothed magician of the 1970s

• Houdini, Harry

  The world's greatest escape artist

• Jay, Ricky

  The sleight-of-hand magician who appeared in David Mamet movies

• Siegfried and Roy

  The tiger-loving Las Vegas magicians of the 1990s

See: Index by Occupation