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Hakim Ajmal Khan
1868 – 1927Physician of Unani medicine who built its modern colleges and led the Indian National Congress.
P. S. Varier
1869 – 1944Founded Arya Vaidya Sala at Kottakkal and industrialised classical Ayurvedic pharmacy.
Shiv Sharma
1906 – 1980Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.
Deng Tietao
1916 – 2019Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.
B. K. S. Iyengar
1918 – 2014Turned yoga into a precise therapeutic method taught in clinics and studios worldwide.
Vasant Lad
b. 1943Founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and trained the first Western practitioners.