List of people in alternative medicine

This is a list of people in alternative medicine who are notable for developing, founding, inventing, promoting, practicing, marketing, commentating or researching on alternative medicine.

A

• Albert Abrams - inventor of Electronic Reactions of Abrams "technology", dynomizer, oscilloclast and radioclast.
• F. Matthias Alexander - founder of the Alexander Technique, a movement retraining process.
• Guillermo Arévalo Valera - Shipibo writer, vegetalista, and exponent of Amazonian traditional medicine

B

• Edward Bach - Founder of flower essence therapy and the Bach flower remedies.
• William Horatio Bates - Founder of the Bates Method alternative approach to eyesight improvement.
• Henry G. Bieler - American physician and author of Food is Your Best Medicine, known for diet-based healing and treatment of Hollywood celebrities.
• Paul Bragg - Known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts, organic foods, juicing and listening to one's body.

C

• Charaka - One of the founders of Ayurveda.
• Deepak Chopra - Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, author of popular books on health and spirituality.
• Nicholas Culpeper - English physician, author of the early seventeenth century Culpeper's Herbal.

E

• Mary Baker Eddy - Founder of Christian Science and its readvocacy of Christian healing.

F

• Moshé Feldenkrais - Founder of the Feldenkrais method.

G

• Sylvester Graham - Known for Graham Crackers and founded Grahamism.
• Stanislav Grof - One of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and founder of Holotropic Breathwork.

H

• Samuel Hahnemann - Founded homeopathy.
• Michael Harner - Synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.
• Gustav Hemwall - Prolotherapy injection proponent.

J

• Adolf Just - Late 19th/Early 20th century German naturopath. Advocate for the "Nature Cure" movement.

K

• John Harvey Kellogg - Promoter of colon therapy at the Battle Creek Sanatorium in Battle Creek, Michigan.
• Will Keith Kellogg - Inventor of corn flakes in 1894 and manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
• Sebastian Kneipp - Bavarian priest who began the Nature Cure movement (1890s). Chiefly known for his contributions to hydrotherapy.
• Louis Kuhne - Promoter of hydrotherapy, especially hip and sitz baths.

L

• George Lewith - UK advocate for alternative medicine and professor at Southampton University.
• Karl Axel Lind - Founder of Full-body reflexology.
• Pehr Henrik Ling - Swedish pioneer of physical education. Falsely credited as the Father of Swedish Massage (that credit goes to Johann Georg Mezger).
• Benedict Lust - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.

M

• Maria Sabina - Mexican healer, mystic leader of Mazatec people, curandero specializing in the native psilocybe mushrooms.
• Caroline Myss - American medical intuitive, mystic and author.

N

• Devi Nambudripad - Founder of NAET, controversial allergy treatment.

O

• Leonard Orr - Developed Rebirthing.
• David Orme-Johnson - Researcher and proponent of Transcendental Meditation technique.

P

• Daniel Palmer - Founder of chiropractic.
• B. J. Palmer - Son of D.D. Palmer and known as the "developer" of chiropractic.
• Linus Pauling - Coined the term "orthomolecular medicine," the controversial use of Vitamin C and other megavitamin therapies. Pauling was however not a general supporter of alternative medicine.
• Fritz Perls - Founder of Gestalt Therapy.
• Vincent Priessnitz - One of the founders of hydrotherapy.
• Partap Chauhan - Indian Ayurvedic doctor and the pioneer of online Ayurvedic medicine.

R

• Wilhelm Reich - Founder of Orgonomy.
• Ida P. Rolf - Founder of Rolfing Structural Integration, the first bodywork that attempted to change posture.

S

• Charlotte Selver - Introduced the concept of sensory awareness for movement education and healing, which influenced many health disciplines during the Human Potential Movement.
• Herbert Shelton - Founded the Natural Hygiene movement.
• Bernie Siegel - American MD and author who promotes cultivating one's attitude toward healing.
• Rudolf Steiner - Founded anthroposophical medicine.
• Andrew Taylor Still - Founded osteopathy, a manual therapy practice.

T

• Samuel Thomson - 19th century herbalist, founded Thomsonian Medicine.
• Mabel Todd - Founded Ideokinesis, a form of somatic education, in the 1930s.

U

• Dana Ullman - Proponent of Homeopathy in the United States
• Mikao Usui - Founded Reiki during the early twentieth century in Japan.

W

• Andrew Weil - Founder of Integrative Medicine and author.
• J. R. Worsley - Founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture.
• Frances Wright - Active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830s and 40s.
• P. K. Warrier - Indian Ayurvedic physician who received Padma Bhushan in 2010.

Y

• Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) - Historically credited as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Founder of Transcendental Meditation.