List of Gnostics

Gnostics are representatives of Gnosis or Gnosticism.

Gnostic groups

Persian Gnostics

• Mandaeans existing to this day.
• Manicheans

Syrian-Egyptian Gnostics

• Setians
• Valentinians
• Basilidians
• Ophites
• Cainites
• Carpocratians
• Borborites

Gnostic of the Middle Ages

• Bogomils
• Cathars (Albigensians)

German Gnostics

• Rosicrucians

Gnostic persons

• Simon Magus
• Leucius Charinus , alleged author of a late cycle of Acts of the Apostles
• Menandros (Gnostic)
• Satornilos
• Kerinth
• Saturninus
• Monoimus
• Karpocrates and his son Epiphanes
• Bardesanes from Edessa
• Ptolemy (Gnostic) and Colorbasus
• Valentinus
• Basilides of Alexandria
• Marcion of Sinope, with Gnostic tendencies

Modern people, according to some authors gnostically influenced:

• Jacob Taubes , philosopher and religious scholar
• Carl Schmitt , constitutional lawyer and philosopher
• Samael Aun Weor
• Antonio Orbe , Jesuit, professor at the PUG Rome