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| [[File:Stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 2255–2119 BCE
| The first Mesopotamian emperor who claimed to be a god.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Emperor of Japan|Japanese emperors]]
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| [[Alexander the Great]]
| [[file:Alexander_the_Great_mosaic_%28cropped%29.jpg | 70px]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 356 BC - 323 BC
| To legitimize taking power (in Egypt) and be recognized as the descendant of the long line of pharaohs, Alexander made sacrifices to the gods at Memphis and went to consult the famous oracle of Amun-Ra at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert, at which he was pronounced the son of the deity Amun. Henceforth, Alexander often referred to Zeus-Ammon as his true father, and after his death, currency depicted him adorned with horns, using the Horns of Ammon as a symbol of his divinity.[80] The Greeks interpreted this message - one that the gods addressed to all pharaohs - as a prophecy.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Natchez people|Natchez rulers]]
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| [[File:Wringin Lawang, Trowulan.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1293–1597
| [[Javanese people|Javanese]] rulers of South East Asia's largest ever kingdom, in [[Indonesia]]. After death, they were depicted as Hindu gods (see for instance [[Raden Wijaya]]).{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Dalai Lama]]s
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| [[File:Banner of the Inca Empire.svg|center|70px]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1438–1533
| The Inca Emperors had a status very similar to that of the Pharaohs of Egypt.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[King of Nepal|Nepalese kings]]
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| [[Gilgamesh]]
| [[File:Hero lion Dur-Sharrukin Louvre AO19862.jpg|70px|center]]
| Sometime between 2800
| Most historians generally agree that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of [[Uruk]],<ref name="BlackGreen1992">{{citation|last1=Black|first1=Jeremy|first2=Anthony|last2=Green|title=Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary|publisher=The British Museum Press|year=1992|isbn=0714117056|pages=89–71}}</ref><ref name="Dalley"/> who probably ruled sometime during the early part of the [[Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)|Early Dynastic Period]] ({{circa}} 2900–2350 BCE).<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/><ref name="Dalley">{{citation|last=Dalley|first=Stephanie|author-link=Stephanie Dalley|title=Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others|date=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0192835890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ERp_y_w1nIC&q=Ishtar|page=40}}</ref> It is certain that, during the later Early Dynastic Period, Gilgamesh was worshipped as a god at various locations across Sumer.<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/> In the twenty-first century BCE, [[Utu-hengal]], the king of Uruk adopted Gilgamesh as his patron deity.<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/> The kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur were especially fond of Gilgamesh, calling him their "divine brother" and "friend".<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/> During this period, a large number of myths and legends developed surrounding him.<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/> Probably during the [[Kassites|Middle Babylonian Period]] ({{circa|1600 BCE}} – {{circa|1155 BCE}}), a scribe named [[Sîn-lēqi-unninni]] composed the ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', an [[epic poem]] written in [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] narrating Gilgamesh's heroic exploits.<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/> The opening of the poem describes Gilgamesh as "one-third human, two-thirds divine".<ref name="BlackGreen1992"/>
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| [[File:Léonard Limosin - Dido - Walters 44240.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 814 BCE
| Founder and first queen of [[Carthage]], after her death, she was deified by her people with the name of [[Tanit]] and assimilated to the Great Goddess [[Astarte]] (Roman [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]]).<ref>Virgil, Aeneid 1.446f, Silius Italicus, Punica 1.81f</ref> The cult of [[Tanit]] survived Carthage's destruction by the Romans; it was introduced to Rome itself by Emperor Septimius Severus, himself born in North Africa. It was extinguished completely with the Theodosian decrees of the late 4th century.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Homer]]
| [[File:Homer British Museum.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 8th century BCE
| Venerated at [[Alexandria]] by [[Ptolemy IV Philopator]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Romulus and Remus]]
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| [[File:(Venice) Portrait of Hephaistion - Correr Museum.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 356–324 BCE
| Deified by [[Alexander the Great]]{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Alexander the Great]]
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| [[File:Hyakuninisshu 024.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 845–903 CE
| Japanese Imperial courtier banished from the capital and deified upon his death to appease his angry spirit. Worshipped as [[Tenjin (kami)|Tenjin]], [[kami]] of scholarship.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Mazu|Lin Moniang]]
| [[File:林默娘公園林默娘像.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"|987 CE or later
| Fujianese shamaness worshiped as a sea goddess throughout coastal China and the Chinese diaspora community under the name Mazu.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah]]
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| [[File:Tokugawa Ieyasu2.JPG|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1616
| Deified posthumously with the name Tōshō Daigongen by his successors.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Hu Tianbao]]
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1831–1861
| 108 men from [[Hainan]] who were returning home from [[Vietnam]] with money earned by them and fellow migrants for their families when they were killed by pirates.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
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| [[Gauchito Gil]]
| [[File:Gauchito Gil Rosario 1.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1840s, allegedly 1847
| Venerated as a [[folk saint]] and deity in [[Argentina]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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| [[George Washington]]
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| [[File:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 20th century–present
| Considered a god by members of the [[Oomoto]] religion.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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| [[José Rizal]]
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| style="text-align:center;"| ?
| The [[Quran]] claims that a group of Jews, often interpreted as the [[Yemenite Jews]], believed "[[Uzair]]" was the son of God.{{qref|9|30|b=y|s=y}}<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 6, Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, p. 1108</ref> It is argued by some that Uzair was [[Ezra]]. Ezra established [[Second Temple Judaism]]<ref name="Brueggemann2002p75">[[#Brueggemann2002|Brueggemann 2002]], pp. 75, 144.</ref> and is regarded as a very important figure in [[Judaism]].<ref>''The New Encyclopedia of Judaism'', ''Ezra''</ref> The concept of "son of God" as the God in the Flesh is now strictly rejected in Judaism.
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| [[Antiochus II Theos]]
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| [[File:John Robert Dicksee Brigadier General John Nicholson.jpg|70px|Brigadier-General John Nicholson|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 19th century–present
| Inspired the cult of Nikal Seyn.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]]
| [[File:Jiddu Krishnamurti 01.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1909–present
| Renounced the status of messiah and [[Maitreya]] incarnation given him by the [[Theosophical Society]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Haile Selassie I]]
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| [[File:Mary Baker Eddy.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1947–present
| Founder of [[Christian Science]], Eddy was first deified with the private publication of [[The Destiny of The Mother Church]] by [[Bliss Knapp]]. Although the book is distributed in Christian Science reading rooms, it is not considered authorised literature, and Eddy herself denied any comparison to Jesus and allegations of her being the Second Christ.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]]
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| {{circa|86 BCE}}–38 BCE
| King of [[Commagene]] who instituted a cult for himself and several syncretistic Graeco-Persian deities at [[Mount Nemrud]] and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nemrud.nl/index.php/tourist-information/the-nomos/ |title=The Nomos: The Holy Law of King Antiochos |access-date=2015-11-27 |date=2015 |author=International Nemrud Foundation }}</ref>
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| [[Simon Magus]]
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| [[File:Velleda, Laurent-Honoré Marqueste.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1st century
| Germanic prophetess considered a deity during her lifetime.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Ismail I]]
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| [[File:Hong Xiuquan.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 19th century
| Chinese man who claimed he was the younger brother of [[Jesus]], and thus a son of God. Led the [[Taiping Rebellion]], conquering a large part of China before defeat and suicide.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ~1887
| Philippine [[babaylan|shaman]] who called himself "God Whirlwind."{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Father Divine]]
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| [[File:Sathya Sai Baba stamp (cropped).jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;" |20th century
| Hindu guru that followers believed was a reincarnation of an [[avatar]] of [[Dattatreya]]. He alleged that he had the ability to heal, raise the dead, appear in more than one location at the same time, materialize objects, such as jewellery, etc.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Yahweh ben Yahweh]]
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| [[File:Vissarion smiling.jpg|70px|center]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 1961
| Claims to be Jesus Christ returned, which makes him not "God" but the "[[Jesus the Logos|word of God]]".{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[François Duvalier]]
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1987
| Proclaims himself the spokesperson of [[God]] and a [[spirit medium]], and has been considered by some as a [[cult of personality]], and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
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| [[Ryuho Okawa]]
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* [[Cult of personality]]
* [[Culture hero]]
* [[Divinity#
* [[Divinization (Christian)]]
* [[Euhemerism]]
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