Top 100 name of Sanatan Dharma Yoga Guru

Here is a list of 100 notable Yoga Gurus from the Sanatan Dharma tradition, including ancient sages, historical figures, and modern yoga masters:

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Ancient and Classical Yoga Gurus

1. Lord Shiva (Adiyogi – The First Yogi)
2. Maharishi Patanjali (Author of Yoga Sutras)
3. Sage Vyasa (Commentator of Yoga Sutras)
4. Sage Kapila (Founder of Samkhya Philosophy)
5. Sage Bharadwaja
6. Sage Vasishtha (Guru of Lord Rama)
7. Sage Agastya
8. Sage Dattatreya (Avadhuta Gita)
9. Sage Markandeya
10. Sage Matsyendranath (Founder of Nath Tradition)

Medieval Yoga Gurus

11. Guru Gorakhnath (Nath Yoga Master)
12. Swami Samarth Ramdas (Guru of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj)
13. Sant Jnaneshwar (Author of Jnaneshwari and Yogic Commentator)
14. Sant Eknath
15. Swami Raghavendra
16. Swami Sivananda Saraswati (16th Century)
17. Swami Ramananda (Guru of Kabir)
18. Sant Kabir Das (Bhakti and Yoga Saint)
19. Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Founder of Sikhism, influenced by Yoga)
20. Sant Tulsidas (Author of Ramcharitmanas)

Modern Yoga Gurus (19th to 20th Century)

21. Swami Vivekananda
22. Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
23. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
24. Swami Sivananda Saraswati (Founder of Divine Life Society)
25. Paramahansa Yogananda (Author of Autobiography of a Yogi)
26. Swami Kuvalayananda (Scientific Yoga Researcher)
27. Swami Rama (Founder of Himalayan Institute)
28. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Founder of Transcendental Meditation)
29. Swami Chinmayananda (Chinmaya Mission)
30. Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Bihar School of Yoga)
31. Swami Krishnananda (Divine Life Society)
32. Swami Vishnudevananda (Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers)
33. Sri Yukteswar Giri (Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda)
34. Swami Venkatesananda
35. Swami Dayananda Saraswati (Founder of Arya Samaj)
36. Swami Yogeshwarananda Saraswati
37. Swami Karpatri Ji Maharaj
38. Swami Muktananda (Siddha Yoga)
39. Swami Nithyananda (Avadhoota)
40. Swami Satchidananda (Integral Yoga)

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Contemporary Yoga Gurus (20th & 21st Century)

41. B.K.S. Iyengar (Founder of Iyengar Yoga)
42. K. Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga Yoga)
43. T.K.V. Desikachar (Viniyoga)
44. Swami Rama Dev (Popularized Yoga in India)
45. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Founder of Art of Living)
46. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev (Founder of Isha Yoga)
47. Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha (Vedic Mathematics and Yoga)
48. Acharya Balkrishna (Patanjali Ayurveda & Yoga)
49. Baba Hari Dass (Silent Monk and Yoga Teacher)
50. Dr. Nagendra (SVYASA Yoga University)

Notable Indian Yoga Teachers & Promoters Worldwide

51. Indra Devi (First Western Woman Yoga Teacher)
52. Swami Bua Ji Maharaj
53. Swami Maheshwarananda (Yoga in Daily Life)
54. Gopi Krishna (Kundalini Yoga)
55. Yogi Bhajan (Founder of Kundalini Yoga in the West)
56. Sri Dharma Mittra (Hatha-Raja Yoga)
57. Swami Kriyananda (Ananda Yoga)
58. Swami Tejomayananda (Chinmaya Mission)
59. Dr. H.R. Nagendra (Yoga Therapy)
60. Dr. Bimal Chhajer (Yoga for Heart Health)
61. Sadhu Vaswani (Yoga & Spirituality)
62. Dhirendra Brahmachari (Yoga Guru to Indira Gandhi)
63. Acharya Prashant (Vedantic Yoga)
64. Anandmurti Gurumaa (Spiritual & Yogic Teachings)
65. Yogi Amrit Desai (Kripalu Yoga)
66. Yogrishi Vishvketu (Akhand Yoga)
67. Sri Sri Pranav Pandya (Gayatri Parivar)
68. Pandit Rajmani Tigunait (Himalayan Yoga Tradition)
69. Rishi Nityapragya (Art of Living)
70. Anand Mehrotra (Sattva Yoga)

International Yoga Gurus of Indian Origin

71. Mukunda Stiles (Structural Yoga Therapy)
72. Bikram Choudhury (Bikram Yoga)
73. Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa (Kundalini Yoga)
74. Radhanath Swami (Bhakti Yoga)
75. Swami Sarvapriyananda (Vedanta Society)
76. Swami Chidananda Saraswati (Parmarth Niketan)
77. Kamlesh Patel (Heartfulness Yoga)
78. Dr. Omanand Guruji (Vedic Yoga)
79. Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath (Hamsa Yoga)
80. Swami Medhananda Saraswati

Influential Women in Yoga

81. Indra Devi (First Lady of Yoga)
82. Shakti Mhi (Shakti Yoga)
83. Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani (Puducherry)
84. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati (Parmarth Niketan)
85. Mata Amritanandamayi (Spiritual & Yoga Leader)
86. Anandmurti Gurumaa (Meditation & Yoga)
87. Dr. Hansaji Yogendra (The Yoga Institute)
88. Seane Corn (Yoga Activism)
89. Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa (Women’s Yoga)
90. Yogmata Keiko Aikawa (Himalayan Yoga Master)

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Emerging & Modern Yoga Gurus

91. Dr. Deepak Mittal (Yoga & Meditation)
92. Ankit Tiwari (Yoga Awareness)
93. Akshar (Akshar Power Yoga)
94. Surya Namaskar Swami (Yoga for All)
95. Om Swami (Spiritual & Yogic Wisdom)
96. Sri Prem Baba (Brazil-India Yoga Guru)
97. Dr. Madan Kataria (Laughter Yoga)
98. Rishi Chaitanya (Vedantic Yoga)
99. Niranjanananda Saraswati (Bihar School of Yoga)
100. Anandmurti Gurumaa (Yoga & Meditation)

This list covers a broad range of Yoga Gurus from ancient to contemporary times, contributing to Sanatan Dharma and the global yoga movement.