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This is a list of notable people who have explicitly claimed and are considered by others to be the [[Avatar]]s of the [[Supreme Being]] or of a more limited expansion of [[Ishvara]] or other expression of divinity. This list does not include the traditional [[Dashavatara]] (ten avatars of [[Vishnu]]) of [[Hinduism]].<ref>[[Garuda Purana]] (1.86.10-11)</ref><br />
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== Claimants ==<br />
* [[Meher Baba]] - "I am the Avatar of this Age!"<ref>''Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba'', Manifestation, Inc. 1986, by Bhau Kalchuri, p. 6018</ref> "You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar. It is my whole life!"<ref>To [[Paul Brunton]] in 1930, ''Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba'', Manifestation, Inc. 1986, by Bhau Kalchuri, p. 1349</ref> "Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false."<ref>''The God-Man: The life, journeys and work of Meher Baba with an interpretation of his silence and spiritual teaching'', C.B. Purdom, 1964 p. 171</ref><ref>[http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/hoftheh.html Meher Baba's Highest of the High Declaration]</ref> He maintained he was the Avatar, God in human form<ref>https://www.oshonews.com/2015/01/09/osho-speaks-on-meher-baba/</ref><br />
* [[Mother Meera]] - claims to be an avatar of [[Shakti]], the primordial [[Mother Goddess#Shaktism|mother goddess]].<ref>Adilakshmi Olati, "The Mother", page 4</ref> The sense of avatar as mother goddess is unique to the sect of Hinduism called [[Shaktism]].<ref>John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan, ''The life of Hinduism'', University of California Press, 2006, p. 174</ref><ref>Noel Sheth, ''Hindu Avatāra and Christian Incarnation: A Comparison.'' 2002. Philosophy East and West (University of Hawai'i Press) pp. 98–125.</ref><br />
* [[Sathya Sai Baba]] - claimed to be an avatar of [[Shiva]] and [[Shakthi]].<ref>Sathya Sai Baba "[..] Shiva and Shakthi together at Puttaparthi as Sathya Sai Baba [..] Let Me tell you one more thing: nothing can impede or halt the work of this Avatar." [http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/pages/srisathyasaibaba/1963_Discourse.htm Discourse by Sathya Sai Baba delivered on the occasion of Guru Poornima Day, 6 July 1963]</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Buddha claimants]]<br />
* [[List of Mahdi claimants]]<br />
* [[List of messiah claimants]]<br />
* [[List of people who have been considered deities]]<br />
* [[List of people claimed to be Jesus]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*''Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma. Norman C. McClelland. McFarland 2011. {{ASIN|B06WGMT2CS}}.<br />
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