List of famous people in alternative medicine
Famous people in alternative medicine provides a master list of the biographical articles included in the alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles.

# A
- F. Matthias Alexander - founder of the Alexander Technique

# B
- Edward Bach - founder of flower essence therapy and the Bach flower remedies.
- Juliette de Bairacli Levy - renowned for her skill in veterinary herbalism.
- William Horatio Bates - founder of the Bates Method alternative approach to eyesight improvement.
- Paul Bragg - known for the Bragg Health Crusades, the Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, deep breathing, water fasts, organic foods, drinking water, juicing, exercise and listening to one's body.
- Emanuel Bronner - aka "Dr. Bronner," master soap-maker known for eccentric messages on labels for natural soaps and other health products.

# C
- Charaka - is one of the founders of Ayurveda.
- Mantak Chia - claimed healer and author of books on "Taoist sexuality".
- Hulda Regehr Clark - wrote a series of books including The Cure for all Diseases, advocating extreme dietary practices and "zapping" of parasites.
- Dr. Deepak Chopra - Endocrinologist and Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, who writes popular books on health and spirituality.
- Nicholas Culpeper - an English physician of the early 17th century who left to future generations a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.

# D
- Dr. Lorraine Day - major marketer of a 10 step alternative cure for cancer, and critic of conventional medicine.

# E
- Mary Baker Eddy - founder of Christian Science and its readvocacy of Christian healing, thereby also reawakening 20th-century interest in the subject in more mainstream denominations as well as in certain more unrestrictive New Age offshoots.
- Donna Eden  known for developing energy medicine methods and sharing them with the public; author of Energy Medicine;  founder of Eden Energy Certification Program

# F
- Moshe Feldenkrais - founder of the Feldenkrais method.
- William Fitzgerald - introduced reflexology to the West.

# G
- Elsa Gindler
- Sylvester Graham -  was known for his graham crackers and founded Grahamism.
- Stanislav Grof - one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness for purposes of healing & growth, founder of Holotropic Breathwork

# H
- Samuel Hahnemann - founded homeopathy.
- Daria Halprin
- Michael Harner - synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as neoshamanism.

# I

# J
- Heinrich Jacoby
- Bernard Jensen - leading American iridologist

# K
- John Harvey Kellogg - promoter of colon therapy at the Battle Creek Sanitarium 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 recognized for his contributions to hydrotherapy.

# L
- Alexander Lowen
- Benedict Lust - Founder of naturopathic medicine in the United States. Purchased the rights to the term "naturopathy" from John Scheel.

# M
- Caroline Myss - American medical intuitive, mystic and author of numerous books

# N
- Devi Nambudripad - founder of NAET, controversial allergy treatment

# O
- Leonard Orr - developed Rebirthing.

# P
- Daniel Palmer - founder of chiropractic.
- B. J. Palmer - son of D.D. Palmer and known as the "developer" of chiropractic.
- Linus Pauling - established a new discipline called orthomolecular medicine and advocated the use of Vitamin C to prevent or treat  viral respiratory diseases, Lipoprotein(a) associated atherosclerosis, and cancer, along with several other  megavitamin therapies for  mental illness. Pauling was however not a general supporter of alternative medicine.
- Vincent Priessnitz - developed a system of water cures.

# Q

# R
- Theron Randolph - father of modern allergy medicine, founder of environmental medicine
- Wilhelm Reich - founder of Orgonomy.
- Royal Rife

# S
- 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.

# T
- Samuel Thompson - founded Thomsonianism.
- Mabel Todd
- Russell Trall - founded the New York College of Hygieo-Therapy.

# U
- Mikao Usui - founded Reiki during the early 20th century in Japan.

# V
- Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. - psychologist and medical anthropologist, founder of The Four Winds Society and Healing the Light Body School

# W
- Ita Wegman
- Andrew Weil - founder of Integrative Medicine and author of many modern books on alternative medicine.
- J. R. Worsley - founder of Five Elements school of acupuncture.
- Frances Wright - was active in the American Popular Health Movement of the 1830's and '40s.

# X

# Y
- Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) - culture hero historically credited as the founder of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - the founder of Transcendental Meditation.

# Z
- Elder Zhang Guo - Chinese alchemist.