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.
 * C. A. Ansar – Indian alternative medical practitioner
 * 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.
 * Ty Bollinger - Co-founder of The Truth About Cancer, promoter of ineffective cancer cures.
 * 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, which advocates Christian healing.

F

 * Moshé Feldenkrais – Inventor of the Feldenkrais method.

G

 * Irene Gauthier – One of the founders of the field of Myomassology.
 * 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

 * Stan Jones – Promoter of colloidal silver, which has permanently turned his skin a blue-gray color.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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.
 * David Stephan - Speaker at health and wellness expos where he promotes Truehope Nutritional Support supplements.
 * 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.
 * Mohammad Ali Taheri – founder of two complementary medicines Faradarmani and Psymentology.

U

 * Mikao Usui – Founded Reiki during the early twentieth century in Japan.

W

 * Andrew Weil – Founder of Integrative Medicine and author.
 * Darrell Wolfe – Founder of The Wolfe Clinic
 * 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.