This list includes notable psychiatrists.

Individuals listed below are all physicians, and are board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or are members of the American Psychiatric Association, or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, or another professional medical psychiatric association in a different country.

Additional lists of psychiatrists can be found at the articles Famous figures in psychiatry (though not all individuals at this list are psychiatrists and medical doctors), Fictional psychiatrists, and List of physicians.

Medical doctors who are psychiatrists and included in those lists; are also listed below:

• Ahmed Okasha, Egyptian psychiatrist, president of World Psychiatric Association from 2002 to 2005.
• Jean-Marie Abgrall (1950 – ), French specializing in forensic medicine
• Keith Ablow (1961 – ), American television psychiatrist
• Alfred Adler (1870–1937), individual psychology
• Leo Alexander (1905–1985), Austrian–American psychiatrist, author
• Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist, Alzheimer's disease
• Nancy C. Andreasen, Recipient, National Medal of Science in 2000, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
• Vittorino Andreoli, Italian Professor of Psychiatry, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, President of Honour of The Section "Psychopathology of Expression" of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

• Franco Basaglia (1924–1980), Italian psychiatrist and mental health reformer
• Jack Barchas, American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Peter Baumann (1935 – ), Swiss psychiatrist, advocate for psycholytic therapy and euthanasia
• Aaron T. Beck (1921 – ), American psychiatrist, father of cognitive therapy
• Eugen Bleuler (1857–1940), Swiss psychiatrist, named term " schizophrenia"
• Ian Brockington (1935 – ), British psychiatrist, researched nosology of psychiatry
• William Breitbart, American psychiatrist, Chief, Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• John Charles Bucknill (1817–1897), British psychiatrist and mental health reformer

• Donald Ewen Cameron (1901-1967), Scottish born psychiatrist, "depatterning" and "psychic driving" CIA funded experiments, head of APA and WPA
• John Cade (1912–1980), Australian psychiatrist, Lithium therapy research
• Fiona Caldicott (born 1941), British psychiatrist
• Daniel Harold Casriel (1924–1983), U.S. psychiatrist, creator of 'The New Identity Process' (now called Bonding Psychotherapy)
• Ferdinando Cazzamalli (1887–1958), Italian psychiatrist, interested in paranormal and metaphysics
• Anthony Clare (1942–2007), Irish psychiatrist
• John Gordon Clark (1926–1999), American psychiatrist, 1991 psychiatrist of the year, Psychiatric Times
• Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italian neurologist, specialised in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy
• Eustace Chesser (1902–1973), Scottish psychiatrist
• John Cutting, British psychiatrist and writer, specialising in schizophrenia

• Eric Cunningham Dax (1908–2008), British psychiatrist, specialised in shock therapy and lobotomy
• Arthur J. Deikman (1929 – ), American psychiatrist, author, The Wrong Way Home
• Christine Dean (1939 – ), British community psychiatrist; alternatives to psychiatric hospital treatment and human rights of people with mental health problems.
• Mason Durie New Zealand Psychiatrist
• DS Mac MD Adult Psychiatrist Agoura Hills, CA

• Leon Eisenberg (1922–2009), American psychiatrist and medical educator, first RCT in clinical child psychopharmacology, protege of Leo Kanner, author of early articles about autism and neurodevelopmental disorders
• Milton H. Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist, founding president, American Society for Clinical Hypnosis

• Wayne Fenton, as per National Institute of Mental Health, ex- Chestnut Lodge, died 2006
• Daniel X. Freedman (1921–1993), American psychiatrist, pioneer in biological psychiatry
• Walter Freeman, American psychiatrist, office leucotomist
• Jacob H. Friedman (1905–1973), American psychiatrist, pioneer in geriatric psychiatry
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian neurologist, "the father of psychoanalysis"

• Lars Christopher Gillberg (1950 – ), Swedish psychiatrist, researched on ADHD and autism
• William Glasser (1925 – ), American psychiatrist, Reality Therapy and Choice Theory
• Semyon Gluzman (1946 – ), Soviet and Ukrainian psychiatrist and ‘whistle blower’ on political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
• Richard Green (sexologist) (1938 – ), American psychiatrist, influential work done in studying gender identity
• Mikhail Gurevich (1878–1953), Russian psychiatrist and pioneer of Soviet child psychiatry
• Samuel Guze, (October 18, 1923 – July 19, 2000) was an American psychiatrist, medical educator, and researcher.

• David A. Halperin (1934–2003), American psychiatrist
• John Hochman (1946 – ), American psychiatrist, specializing in forensic psychiatry
• Robert Galbraith Heath (1915–1999), American psychiatrist and neurologist
• Karen Horney (1885–1952), German psychiatrist, " neo-Freudian"
• Henry Mills Hurd (1843–1927), American psychiatrist, the first director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital

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• Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), German psychiatrist and existential philosopher
• Eve Johnstone, British psychiatrist, Head of Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
• Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology

• Eric Richard Kandel (1929 – ), American psychiatrist, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Robert Evan Kendell, nosology
• Seymour S. Kety (1915–2000), American psychiatrist, Psychiatric genetics
• Anatoly Koryagin (1938 – ), Russian psychiatrist and ‘whistle blower’ on punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union
• Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist, founder of modern scientific psychiatry
• Arnold Kutzinski (d. 1956), German psychiatrist

• Ronald David Laing (1927–1989), Scottish psychiatrist, Antipsychiatry
• Karl Leonhard (1904–1988), German psychiatrist, nosology
• Saul V. Levine, Canadian psychiatrist, author, Radical Departures: Desperate Detours to Growing Up
• Aubrey Lewis (1900-1975), Australian born psychiatrist, Clinical Director of the Maudsley Hospital, pivoltal influence on British psychiatry
• Robert Jay Lifton (1926 – ), American psychiatrist, author, Thought Reform
• Manuel Isaias Lopez (1941 – ), Mexican psychiatrist, bioethics
• Abraham Low (1891–1954), founder of Recovery International (formerly Recovery, Inc.)

• William Mayer-Gross (1889-1961), German born psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Director of Clinical Research Crichton Royal Mental Hospital, Dumfries, co-author of Clinical Psychiatry
• Thomas McGlashan Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School
• Friedrich Meggendorfer (1880 - 1953), German psychiatrist and neurologist, early describer of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
• Joseph Merlino, psychiatrist, author and hospital administrator.
• Adolf Meyer (1866–1950) Swiss psychiatrist, past president, American Psychiatric Association
• Robert Michaels American psychiatrist. University Professor and former Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Niall McLaren, Australian psychiatrist and philosopher of the mind, author of Humanizing Madness and Humanizing Psychiatry.
• Loren Mosher (1933–2004), an American psychiatrist, creating Soteria houses
• Patrick McGorry, developed early psychosis model

• Conolly Norman Irish psychiatrist, R.M.S. of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, Ireland (1886-1908)

• Peter A. Olsson (1941 – ) American psychiatrist, author Malignant Pied Pipers of Our Time (book)
• Ian Oswald (1929 – ) British psychiatrist, sleep research

• Gordon Parker Australian Psychiatrist, famous for work on mood disorders, in particular melancholia.
• Issy Pilowsky Australian Psychiatrist, famous for work on abnormal illness behaviour
• Philippe Pinel (1745–1826) French psychiatrist, regarded as father of modern psychiatry
• M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist, focused on love and spiritual growth

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• John Rawlings Rees (1890–1969), British psychiatrist, Military psychiatry and mind control
• W. H. R. Rivers (1864–1922), British psychiatrist, Psychiatric anthropologist
• Prof. Gerald Russell (born 1928), British psychiatrist
• Sir Michael Rutter, British psychiatrist

• Manfred Sakel (1900-1957), Austrian psychiatrist, inventor of insulin shock therapy
• William Sargant (1907–1988), British psychiatrist, false memory
• Gunter Schmidt, German psychiatrist, sexuologe
• Kurt Schneider (1887–1967) German psychiatrist, schizophrenia research
• Michael Shepherd (1923–1995) - British psychiatrist, Epidemiological Psychiatry
• Volkmar Sigusch, German psychiatrist and psychologe
• Solomon Halbert Snyder neurotransmitters
• Robert Spitzer American psychiatrist, chair, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–III), 1980
• Hans Steiner, one of the leading advocates of the developmental psychopathology and psychiatry.
• Charles "Chip" Stone, (1969- ), entertainment and forensic psychiatrist; understanding the criminal mind and motivation in organized crime
• Cedric Howell Swanton (1899–1970) Australian psychiatrist, electroconvulsive therapy
• Thomas Szasz (1920 –), an American psychiatrist, criticizing psychiatry

• Daniel Hack Tuke (1827-1895) English alienist, descendended from the Tuke family of the York Retreat, co-author with John Charles Bucknill of the Manual of Psychological Medicine, editor of the Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, editor of the Journal of Mental Science.
• E. Fuller Torrey (1937 – ) American psychiatrist, schizophrenia researcher

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• Vamık Volkan (1932 – ) Turkish-Cypriot psychiatrist, political psychiatry

• Simon Wessely , British psychiatrist, Epidemiology, general hospital and combat psychiatry
• Louis Jolyon West (1924–1999) American psychiatrist, Civil rights activist
• Sula Wolff (1924–2009) British psychiatrist, Stress in children, schizoid personality
• Peter C. Whybrow American psychiatrist and researcher in bio-behavioral sciences.

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• Irvin D. Yalom (1931 – ) American psychiatrist, group psychotherapy research

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