Derren Brown, and Joseph Dunninger. Notable mentalists Alexander Theodore Annemann Banachek Keith Barry Guy Bavli David Berglas Paul Brook Derren Brown Akshay Laxman Chan Canasta Bob Cassidy The Clairvoyants Colin Cloud Corinda Joseph Dunninger Anna Eva Fay Glenn Falkenstein Maurice Fogel Uri Geller Haim Goldenberg Michael Gutenplan Wayne Hoffman Burling Hull Al Koran The Amazing Kreskin Nina Kulagina Max Maven Gerry McCambridge Alexander J. McIvor-Tyndall Wolf Messing Alain Nu Marc Paul Richard Osterlind The Piddingtons Oz Pearlman Princess Mysteria Marc Salem Joshua Seth Suhani Shah Nakul Shenoy Lior Suchard George Tait Rob Zabrecky The Zancigs Historical figures Mentalism techniques have, on occasion, been allegedly used outside the entertainment industry to influence the actions of prominent people for personal and/or political gain. Famous examples of accused practitioners include: Erik Jan Hanussen, alleged to have influenced Adolf Hitler Grigori Rasputin, alleged to have influenced Tsaritsa Alexandra Wolf Messing, alleged to have influenced Joseph Stalin Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, accused of influencing members of the French aristocracy in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace In Albert Einstein's preface to Upton Sinclair's 1930 book on telepathy, Mental Radio, he supported his friend's endeavor to test the abilities of purported psychics and skeptically suggested: "So if somehow the facts here set forth rest not upon telepathy, but upon some unconscious hypnotic influence from person to person, this also would be of high psychological interest." As such, Einstein here alluded to techniques of modern mentalism. See also Cold reading Memory sport Mnemonist Scientific skepticism Thirteen Steps To Mentalism The Mentalist References Further reading H. J. Burlingame. (1891). Mind-Readers and Their Tricks. In Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap books: Or, Modern Magicians and Their Works. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co. pp. 108–127 Derren Brown (2007). Tricks of the Mind. Transworld Press. United Kingdom. Steve Drury (2016). Beyond Knowledge. Drury. Max Maven (1992). Max Maven's Book of Fortunetelling. Prentice Hall General; 1st edition. William V. Rauscher. (2002). Mind Readers: Masters of Deception. Mystic Light Press. Barry H. Wiley. (2012). The Thought Reader Craze: Victorian Science at the Enchanted Boundary. McFarland. Magic (illusion) Performance art