Sabbatai Zevi, Turkish rabbi and scholar (born 1626)

Sabbatai Zevi

Jewish mystic and self-proclaimed Messiah (1626–1676)

Sabbatai Zevi was an Ottoman Jewish mystic and ordained rabbi from Smyrna. His family were Romaniote Jews from Patras. His two names, Shabbethay and Ṣebi, mean Saturn and mountain gazelle, respectively.