List of people who have been considered deities

This is a list of notable people who were considered deities by themselves or others.

Imperial cults and cults of personality

Posthumous deification

Involuntary deification

Self-deification

Controversial deification

See also

• Advaita Vedanta
• Apotheosis
• Arahitogami
• Brahman
• Christ myth theory
• Cult of personality
• Culture hero
• Divinity#Mortal
• Divinization (Christian)
• Euhemerism
• Folk saint
• God complex
• God in Hinduism
• Godman (Hindu ascetic)
• Hero cult
• Idolatry
• Imperial cult
• Incarnation
• List of avatar claimants
• List of Buddha claimants
• List of deities
• List of demigods
• List of Mahdi claimants
• List of messiah claimants
• List of people claimed to be Jesus
• List of pharaohs deified during lifetime
• Mahāvākyas
• Maitreya claimants
• Messiah complex
• Religion in ancient Rome
• Sacred king
• Shaktyavesha Avatar
• Tat Tvam Asi
• "Thou Art God"
• Veneration of the dead

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