David Icke

David Icke is one of the most bewildering biographies I have come across. A goalkeeper whose playing dreams ended at twenty-one to rheumatoid arthritis, he reinvented himself as a sports journalist and then, improbably, as one of the world's most notorious conspiracy theorists. I keep a firm distance from the substance of his claims, which I find unpersuasive and at times troubling. Yet purely as a study in relentless self-belief, the man is undeniable: over twenty self-published books and talks in more than twenty-five countries. I cannot endorse the message, but the sheer momentum of his self-mythologizing is, in its own strange way, unforgettable.

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Name (English)

David Icke

Name (Japanese)

デイビッド・アイク

Reading

でいびっど・あいく

Born

April 29, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Leicester, United Kingdom

Occupation

sports journalist / association football player / writer / ufologist / conspiracy theorist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

• Official sitehttps://davidicke.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davidickeofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/davidicke
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Icke
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333118

Tags

• sports journalist
• association football player
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.