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Shiv Sharma
1906 – 1980Led the campaign that won Ayurveda statutory recognition in independent India.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1918 – 2008Exported Transcendental Meditation and revived classical Ayurveda as a global health programme.
Brihaspati Dev Triguna
1920 – 2013The century's most celebrated pulse diagnostician; chaired India's central Ayurvedic council.
Ashok Vaidya
1940 – 2023Pioneer of reverse pharmacology, translating classical formulas into clinical trials.
Vasant Lad
b. 1943Founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico and trained the first Western practitioners.
Deepak Chopra
b. 1946Endocrinologist turned global voice of mind-body medicine; contested by clinical researchers.
Baba Ramdev
b. 1965Made yoga and Ayurveda a mass movement and a corporate empire; repeatedly censured over health claims.