Below is a list of famous hypnotists.

Historical Étienne Eugène Azam Vladimir Bekhterev Hippolyte Bernheim Alfred Binet James Braid (surgeon) John Milne Bramwell Jean-Martin Charcot Émile Coué John Elliotson Dave Elman Milton Hyland Erickson James Esdaile George Estabrooks Abbé Faria Sigmund Freud Pierre Janet Edith Klemperer Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault Ormond McGill Franz Mesmer Albert Moll Julian Ochorowicz Herbert A. Parkyn Ivan Pavlov Morton Prince Marquis de Puységur Otto Georg Wetterstrand Alvaro Uribe Velez

Contemporary Derren Brown Giucas Casella Boris Cherniak Kimberly Friedmutter Chris Hughes Barrie Leslie Konicov Kevin Lepine Robert Maxwell Paul McKenna Michael Newton Peter Powers Peter Reveen

See also List of fictional hypnotists