List of people accused of being the Antichrist

Pope John XXII (left) depicted as the antichrist in Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus (1340)

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“”Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

—1 John 2:18

In most Christian circles, the Antichrist is described as the future leader of a supranational state, and is seen as a messianic figure, opposing all things about God, all while declaring himself as God (2 Thessalonians 2:3-10). Throughout the centuries that Christianity existed, many political and social figures of their time have been accused of being such. This list chronicles those who have either failed to make the cut, or are pending to be, depending on the level of shoehorning one relies on. Many non-specific people are called "Antichrists" in the New Testament (1 John 2:18, 2 John 1:7), so this will list specifically refer to those who are, or were, said to fulfill the events of Daniel or Revelation, signaling the End Times.

Dead

• Jesus (c. 4 BCE – 30 or 33 CE): According to Paul Sides (a former computer programmer who runs an obscure webshite using the pen name Rav Sha'ul that contains plenty of other incomprehensible green ink "religious" babble), Jesus Christ himself is the Antichrist. This stance seems to have replaced a previous numerology-oriented "theory" from Sides that speculated the Antichrist to be Charles III when he was still Prince of Wales.
• Nero (37–68): The OG. Scholars claim that in Gematria, 666 was to refer to Nero during his reign and persecution of Christians at that time. Preterists also believe Nero already fulfilled the events of Revelation.
• Pope Gregory VII (c. 1015–1085) and all subsequent popes, according to John Wesley, one of the founders of Methodism.
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250)
• During the Middle Ages, the idea that the Pope was the Antichrist was widespread.
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821): His rampant conquests made many preachers in Europe fear the idea that he would take over the world. For those who believe that Nostradamus predicted the rise of three Antichrists, Napoleon is often considered the definitive candidate for the first slot.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
• Benito Mussolini (1883–1945): Being Italy's dictator and his takeover of Rome made preachers concerned he would revive the Roman Empire.
• Adolf Hitler (1889–1945): Kinda like Napoleon, but also planned to wipe out all Jews. Nostradamus fans often consider Hitler to be the second candidate of the predicted three.
• Aleister Crowley (1875–1947): "The Great Beast 666"
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963): Being the first Catholic President in America surely gets you quite a scare. Extra points for getting shot in the head, though no resurrection as of now.
• Ronald Reagan (1911–2004): A mentally troubled man named Gregory Gordon had an obsession with Reagan being the Antichrist, to the point of getting arrested and convicted for threatening the life of a former President in 1990. There was also the once widely-circulated factoid that each of his three names, Ronald Wilson Reagan, consisted of 6 letters: 666.
• Pope John Paul II (1920–2005), according to Ian Paisley
• Jose Luis de Jesús (1946–2013): Claimed to be both Jesus and the Antichrist at the same time.
• Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022): It all had to do with the birthmark.

Alive

• Henry Kissinger (1923–)
• George Soros (1930–): At least, Rudy Giuliani seems to think Soros is the Antichrist for some reason.
• Pope Francis (1936–): Protestants have long had a tradition of accusing the Catholic papacy (as well as individual popes) of being the Antichrist, a tradition that dates all the way back to one of the movement's major founders, Martin Luther. So it's no surprise that in the modern age, crazy "birther" Republican politicians ranting on Facebook will do so likewise.
• Joe Biden (1942–): The current President of the United States. He's a Catholic, but that didn't stop a Kansas man from travelling to D.C to attempt to kill "Antichrist Biden".
• Donald Trump (1946–): The rallying point, if not outright leader, of a dizzying array of cult-like political movements, such as QAnon and MAGA. He also has a large chunk of the Religious Right in his corner, despite (or maybe because of) being a charlatan with a narcissistic streak and habit of running con games rivaling L. Ron Freaking Hubbard. Oh, yeah, and he's also a hard-boiled authoritarian whose Hitler-esque approach to politics has won him the adoration of America's Neo-Nazis. Notably the tabloid New York Daily News, reporting on a spat between Trump and Francis over Trump's border wall, called Trump "ANTICHRIST!" on the front cover of their February 19 2016 edition.
• Hillary Clinton (1947–): Accused of being the Antichrist by the GOP representative of Montana, Ryan Zinke, as part of his 2014 campaign.
• Vladimir Putin (1952–): After Putin began his widely condemned invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, several bishops in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine called Putin a "modern-day anti-Christ", or at the least operating in "the spirit of the anti-Christ".
• Jerry Seinfeld (1954–): Some forums have actually said this.
• Bill Gates (1955–): Foreshadowing the shitshow of the modern QAnon web, a 1994 chain letter email used numerology and an easter egg in Microsoft Excel called the "Hall of Tortured Souls" to proclaim Gates as the Antichrist. Gates' later transformation into a health philanthropist added a new wrinkle to these claims during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to fundamentalism's wholehearted embrace of the anti-vaccination movement, and the widespread belief within the movement that COVID-19 vaccines Gates was promoting would contain mass-trackable microchips. This led to a few preachers to once again accuse Gates of being the Antichrist.
• John Lydon (1956–): self-accused, "I am an antichrist / I am an anarchist."
• Barack Obama (1961–): The most obvious example in recent memory.^{[citation NOT needed]} Ultimately, this was inevitable given that he was the first black President of the United States. Not helping is that he was accused of being a Muslim, as well as being born in Kenya. Accusing Obama of being the Antichrist was a common hysterical rant in the FW:FW:FW: chain emails of the aughts. Notably, witnesses said that the motivation of the suspect of the 2011 White House shooting, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who thought that Obama was the Antichrist.
• Yuval Noah Harari (1977–): Accused of by ReAwaken America tour co-founder Clay Clark as part of an over-arching conspiracy theory involving the Great Reset. The reasons Clark thinks Harari is the Antichrist seems to be because Harari is gay, vegan, has the same first name as a descendant of Cain mentioned once in the Bible, and made a grand total of two speeches at the World Economic Forum in 2018 and 2020 (which, translated into Clark's conspiracy-speak, meant that for some reason Harari was the "lead advisor" of WEF head Klaus Schwab). Helpfully to the conspiracists, ironically, a lot of Harari's actual works are dystopian futurism what-ifs (particularly when he discusses technology, especially AI); such provides a lot of material for Clark and other conspiracists to misuse in order to justify their "End Times" spin.
• Emmanuel Macron (1977–): Current French President. Another favorite Antichrist candidate of Internet conspiracy theorists. Macron did himself no favors in a long interview on April 17 2020 with the Financial Times by referring to "bête de l'événement" (the beast of the event) as an allusion to the challenges of the times, such as terrorism and the COVID-19 pandemic. This, of course, allowed conspiracy theorists to quote mine the phrase into implying that Macron was the "beast" himself.
• Jared Kushner (1981–): Trump’s son in law, and senior adviser when he was in the White House. President of Kushner Companies, who for a long time owned a building in New York City with an address of (gasp!) 666 Fifth Avenue. Also got a line of credit from (gasp!) George Soros to help fund a company called Cadre. These facts, and an allusion to Kushner somehow looking like the fictional Nicolae Carpathia from the Left Behind series, are all certain End Times webshites need to proclaim that "we are not saying that Jared Kushner is the Antichrist, but..."
• Prince Harry (1984–): So much Gematria…

See also

• List of predictions of the end of the world