The Most Influential People Across History

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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#1551

Aileen Passloff

#100939
Overall Influence
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Aileen Passloff was an American dancer and teacher who lived and worked in New York City. From 1949 to 1953, she studied at Bennington College. She attended the School of American Ballet, where she met James Waring, and participated in his workshops and dance company. From 1958 to 1968, Passloff ran the Aileen Passloff Dance Company in New York City. She was a member of the experimental dance collective Judson Dance Theater and part of their retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. She was a professor of dance at Bard College for 40 years. Passloff stars in Marta Renzi's film Her Magnum Opu...
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#1552

Joanna Zylinska

Joanna Zylinska
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Joanna Zylinska is a British writer, researcher and artist. She is Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice at King's College London. Prior to Joining King's in September 2021 she was Professor of New Media and Communications, and in 2017–2020, Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2017 she proposed a “feminist counter-apocalypse” as an alternative to the dangers of the "Exit of Man", Artificial Intelligence and Populism.
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#1553

Katherine MacLean

Katherine MacLean
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2019 (94 years)
Katherine Anne MacLean was an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. Profile Damon Knight wrote, "As a science fiction writer she has few peers; her work is not only technically brilliant but has a rare human warmth and richness." Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic."
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#1554

Petra Kuppers

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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Petra Kuppers is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and Disability Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and she serves on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA program in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her book Gut Botany was named one of New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2020."
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#1555

Jan Van Dyke

Jan Van Dyke
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2015 (74 years)
Jan Van Dyke was an American dancer, choreographer, dance educator and scholar who was a pioneer of modern and contemporary dance. Education Van Dyke graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an undergraduate degree in dance. She was the first person admitted to the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University's Master of Arts in Dance Program. She received her Masters of Arts from George Washington University in 1966. In 1989 she enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, earning a degree in curriculum and educational fou...
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#1556

Beatrix Busse

#156452
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Beatrix Busse is Professor of English Linguistics and the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching at the University of Cologne. From 2011 to 2019 she held the Chair of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University where she was appointed as Vice-Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs twice, from 2013 to 2019.
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#1557

Stefania Giannini

#105180
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Stefania Giannini is an Italian politician and linguist. She served as Minister of Education, Universities and Research from 2014 until 2016. She is currently Assistant-Director General for Education at UNESCO in Paris.
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#1558

Augusta Read Thomas

#121469
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer and professor. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University; and at the Royal Academy of Music in London . She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1990–91 and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez, from 1997 to 2006. This residency culmi...
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#1559

Ousseina Alidou

#96769
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Ousseina D. Alidou is an Africanist scholar focusing on Muslim women, and a professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature at Rutgers University. She received a Master of Arts degree in linguistics at the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger, and a MA degree in applied linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington where she also obtained a theoretical linguistics PhD. She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the 2022 president of the African Studies Association.
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#1560

Hilda Koopman

#162106
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Hilda Judith Koopman is a linguist who does research and fieldwork in the areas of syntax and morphology. She is a professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the SSWL database. The SSWL, which she together with Dennis Shasha inherited from Chris Collins at New York University NYU, is an open-ended database of syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties.
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#1561

Lucy Parham

#160252
Overall Influence
Lucy Parham is a British concert pianist and academic. She is a professor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1984 she won Piano Class BBC Young Musician. Biography Parham grew up in Guildford, Surrey. She was educated at Bedales School, Hampshire and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under concert pianist, Professor Joan Havill.
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#1562

Rosa Lamoreaux

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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Rosa Lamoreaux is an American soprano, appearing mostly in concert, both as a soloist and in vocal ensembles. She has appeared at festivals such as the Carmel Bach Festival and the Rheingau Musik Festival, and has recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach with different conductors.
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#1563

Naomi Jackson Groves

#119955
Overall Influence
1910 - 2001 (91 years)
Naomi Jackson Groves was a Canadian painter, art historian and linguist. An expert on German expressionist artist Ernst Barlach, she translated a number of his works in addition to releasing a series of books about her uncle, painter A. Y. Jackson, and translations of artist Jens Rosing's writing.
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#1564

Alexandra Pierce

#146966
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Alexandra Pierce was an American composer, pianist, music theorist, movement educator, author, and Emerita Research Professor of Music and Movement at the University of Redlands. Biography Born and raised in Philadelphia, her family later moved to Washington, D.C., where she studied piano with contemporary music specialist, Margaret Tolson. She received a Bachelor of Music, Phi Beta Kappa , from the University of Michigan, where she majored in piano performance and medieval history; a Master of Music in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music ; a Master of Arts in music history from Harvard University ; and a Ph.D.
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#1565

Agniya Desnitskaya

#76078
Overall Influence
1912 - 1992 (80 years)
Agniya Vasilyevna Desnitskaya was a Soviet and Russian linguist, a specialist in Indo-European languages, esp. Germanic languages and the Albanian language, literature and folklore. Professor of Leningrad State University, candidate member of the USSR Academy of Sciences via Department of Literature and Language .
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#1566

Loyce Houlton

#77377
Overall Influence
1925 - 1995 (70 years)
Loyce Houlton was an American dancer, choreographer, dance pedagogue, and arts administrator centered for most of her adult life in Minneapolis. Founder of the Minnesota Dance Theatre, she maintained connections with many of the most prominent national and international dance figures and composers of her day. She was acknowledged to be one of the most significant American choreographers of the 20th century and one of the first American women to gain national and international recognition as a choreographer, teacher, and producer.
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#1567

Julia Hamari

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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Julia Hamari is a Hungarian mezzo-soprano and alto singer in opera and concert, appearing internationally. She is an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart. Professional career Julia Hamari was born in Budapest where she received her vocal training with Fatime Martins and Jenö Sipos. She studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and received her diploma for both singer and singing teacher. In 1964 she won the Erkel International Singing Competition in Budapest. She then continued her studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Stuttgart until 1966.
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#1568

Elizabeth Finkel

#105209
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Elizabeth "Ella" Finkel AM is a multi-award-winning Australian science journalist, author and communicator. A former biochemist, she has been broadcast on ABC Radio National, and written for publications such as Science, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, The Bulletin, New Scientist, The Age and The Monthly. In 2005 Finkel co-founded the popular science magazine COSMOS, served as Editor in Chief from 2013 to 2018 and she remains its Editor at Large. In 2016 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her science communication work and philanthropy. In 2019 Finkel was awarded a Doctor of La...
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#1569

Karen Grylls

#167033
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Karen Lesley Grylls is a New Zealand choral conductor. She is an associate professor in choral conducting at the University of Auckland and founder of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. Early life and education Grylls was born in Pahiatua on 9 July 1951. As her father worked for the Post Office, the family moved around the country during her childhood. She was educated at Napier Girls' High School, Hokitika High School, and Central Southland College, where she was dux in 1968.
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#1570

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
#68506
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is an American novelist, short story writer and journalist whose fiction and literary non-fiction includes the recent novel Burning Distance, upcoming novel The Far Side of the Desert, regional bestseller The Dark Path to the River, the short story collection No Marble Angels, and PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line. She’s also the senior editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate. She is a Vice President of PEN International and has served as the International Secretary of PEN International and Chair of PEN International's Writer...
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#1571

Irmgard Oepen

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Overall Influence
1929 - 2018 (89 years)
Irmgard Oepen was a German physician and medical journalist. She was known for her steadfast criticism of alternative medicine, especially of homeopathy. Education and Career Irmgard Oepen studied medicine at the University of Freiburg and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , earning her doctorate at LMU in 1958. In 1973 she got her habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg with a study of blood group serology.
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#1572

Lisa Breckenridge

#91548
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Lisa Breckenridge is a former American television personality and news anchor. She currently runs a blog called Happily Lisa Biography Breckenridge dropped out from Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley in 1987 and struggled with issues relating to hair loss in the late 1980s.
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#1573

Lorraine Gamman

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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Lorraine Patricia Gamman is professor of design at the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central Saint Martins in the University of the Arts, London which she founded in 1999. Her taking of the oral history of professional shoplifter Shirley Pitts as part of her PhD kindled her interest in oral history as a form and lead to her book Gone shopping: The story of Shirley Pitts, Queen of thieves. In 2012, the production company Tiger Aspect bought an option to acquire the television and film rights to the book.
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#1574

Irina Antanasijević

Irina Antanasijević
#104917
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Irina Antanasijević is a Russian and Serbian philologist, literary critic, and translator. She received her Doctor of philological sciences degree in 2002 and has been a professor of Russian literature at Philology Faculty of University in Belgrade since 2004. Her scholarly interests include folklore and post-folklore, visual literature and visual text, poetics of comics, illustration, children's literature, and history of Russian emigration studies.
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#1575

Maria Curcio

#128190
Overall Influence
1918 - 2009 (91 years)
Maria Curcio was an Italian classical pianist who became a sought-after teacher. Her students included Barry Douglas, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Martha Argerich, Evelyne Brancart, Radu Lupu, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Myung-Whun Chung, Leon Fleisher, Rafael Orozco, Christopher Elton, Hilary Coates, Simone Dinnerstein, Massimiliano Mainolfi, Matthew Schellhorn and Geoffrey Tozer. She was the last student of Artur Schnabel and she passed on his teachings to her own students.
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#1576

Nikki Sanderson

Nikki Sanderson
#89445
Overall Influence
1984 - Present (42 years)
Nikki Sanderson is an English actress and former glamour model who is known for playing Candice Stowe in the television soap opera Coronation Street, Dawn Bellamy in Heartbeat and Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks. During her time at Coronation Street and since, she has also been a television presenter on programmes such as CD:UK, Junior Eurovision: The British Final and Ministry of Mayhem.
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#1577

Adrienne Russell

Adrienne Russell
#152776
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Adrienne Russell is an American academic whose work focuses on the digital-age evolution of journalism and activist communication. She is currently Mary Laird Wood Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and co-director with Matt Powers of the department's Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.
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#1578

Debashree Roy

#95990
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Debashree Roy also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist. As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She has been cited as the reigning queen of Bengali commercial cinema. She acted in more than a hundred films and won over forty awards, including a National Award, three BFJA Awards, five Kalakar Awards and an Anandalok Award. As a dancer, she is known for her stage adaptations of the various forms of Indian folk dances as well as her innovative dance forms imbued with elements from Indian classical, tribal and folk dance.
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#1579

Elżbieta Jabłońska

#100624
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Elżbieta Jabłońska is a Polish contemporary visual artist, and professor. She has served as the Chair of Drawing and has taught art at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 1996. Jablonska is known for photography, film, installation art, and performance art. Her artwork engages with Polish stereotypes and myths of women, mothers, and the Catholicism. She lives in Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, in a farming cooperative.
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#1580

Rigmor Andersen

#116323
Overall Influence
1903 - 1995 (92 years)
Rigmor Andersen was a versatile Danish designer, educator and author. Above all she is remembered for maintaining the traditions of Kaare Klint's furniture school at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
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#1581

Cynthia Ling Lee

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Overall Influence
Cynthia Ling Lee is an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She performs in contemporary, postmodern, and classical Indian dance techniques. Her research focuses on queer and postcolonial experiences in Asian diasporic performance.
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#1582

Ruth Gipps

#133441
Overall Influence
1921 - 1999 (78 years)
Ruth Dorothy Louisa Gipps was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos, and numerous chamber and choral works. She founded both the London Repertoire Orchestra and the Chanticleer Orchestra and served as conductor and music director for the City of Birmingham Choir. Later in her life she served as chairwoman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.
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#1583

Fern Shaffer

Fern Shaffer
#127284
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Fern Shaffer is an American painter, performance artist, lecturer and environmental advocate. Her work arose in conjunction with an emerging Ecofeminism movement that brought together environmentalism, feminist values and spirituality to address shared concern for the Earth and all forms of life. She first gained widespread recognition for a four-part, shamanistic performance cycle, created in collaboration with photographer Othello Anderson in 1985. Writer and critic Suzi Gablik praised their work for its rejection of the technocratic, rationalizing mindset of modernity, in favor of communion with magic, the mysterious and primordial, and the soul.
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#1584

Vera Bradford

#154950
Overall Influence
1904 - 2004 (100 years)
Vera Florence Bradford was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power. Vera Bradford was born in Melbourne to a musical family. Her mother Edith was a pianist, and her father Frederick and brother Cec were violinists. She started learning the piano at the age of seven, and she graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium in 1927, with the highest honours. In 1928 she took up a scholarship with Percy Grainger in Chicago. She also studied at the Chicago Musical College with Rudolph Ganz and Alexander Raab.
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#1585

Betty Haag

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Overall Influence
Betty Haag-Kuhnke, commonly referred to as Betty Haag, is an American music educator. Life She received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University Bloomington where she was the recipient of the Goodbody Fellowship and the Performer's Certificate. After graduation, she began playing professionally with the Atlanta Symphony. She later taught violin at Earlham College.
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#1586

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

#113745
Overall Influence
Marjolein Silvia Lips-Wiersma is a New Zealand academic. She specializes in ethics, meaningful work and sustainability. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career Marjo Lips-Wiersma is Professor of Ethics and Sustainability Leadership at AUT. In 1999 she submitted a doctoral thesis titled The influence of 'spiritual meaning-making' on career choice, transition and experience at the University of Auckland. Her research takes place at the nexus of meaningful work, sustainability, hope and well-being.
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#1587

Kana Hanazawa

Kana Hanazawa
#124168
Overall Influence
1989 - Present (37 years)
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer. A prolific voice performer in anime, she has amassed several film and television credits since her debut in 2003. She won the Seiyu Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2015, and won the Newtype Anime Awards for Best Voice Actress three times in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
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#1588

Lorraine Desmarais

#146323
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Lorraine Desmarais C.M. is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in Montreal, she earned a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in classical piano at Université de Sherbrooke. She studied with Armas Maiste at McGill University in 1978 and 1979, and later took lessons from Kenny Barron in New York. She has also been influenced by Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson.
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#1589

Chau Nguyen

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Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Chau Nguyen is a former Vietnamese-American news anchor most recently seen with KHOU-TV, before stepping down in December 2007 to become a social worker. She is now the Chief Public Strategies office for the Houston Area Women's Center.
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#1590

Susan Tifft

#97533
Overall Influence
1951 - 2010 (59 years)
Susan Tifft was an American journalist, author, and educator. Early life and education Tifft was born to Austin and Elizabeth Tifft in Rumford, Maine, on February 14, 1951. She grew up there and in St. Louis, where her father moved for his work in the early 1960s. She had a younger brother and sister, as well as an older brother who died as a child in Maine. Tifft later said of her childhood that she felt that she "grew up in a Currier & Ives Christmas card, more in the 19th century than in the 20th."
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#1591

Adriana Farmiga

#95180
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Adriana Farmiga is an American visual artist, curator, and professor based in New York City. She serves as a programming advisor for the non-profit La Mama Gallery in the East Village, and is the current Associate Dean at Cooper Union School of Art.
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#1592

Deborah Jowitt

#84040
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Deborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.
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#1593

Nieves Herrero

Nieves Herrero
#131755
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Nieves Herrero Cerezo is a Spanish journalist, television presenter, and writer. Career Beginnings: TVE Born in Madrid, Nieves Herrero graduated in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1980, and in Law from the European University of Madrid in 2010. After her beginnings in the press, she went to Antena 3 Radio and arrived at Televisión Española as editor of the morning program hosted by Jesús Hermida, and of which she became deputy director. The show earned her the nickname "Chica Hermida", which she shared with other media professionals in the following years, such as...
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#1594

Caroline Shaw

#79982
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Caroline Adelaide Shaw is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She is best known for the a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, for which she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Shaw received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow Sea.
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#1595

Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti
#109004
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti is an Italian-Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012, she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin. She became the first woman to lead the Edinburgh International Festival when she was made Festival Director on 1 October 2022.
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#1596

Shubha Mudgal

#74756
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Shubha Mudgal is an Indian musician, composer, singer, and multi instrumentalist known for her works in Hindustani classical music, Indian pop, and Tamil cinema. Her repertoire includes the genres of khyal, thumri, dadra. She has received the Padma Shri in 2000.
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#1597

Michelle DiBucci

#160335
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Michelle DiBucci is an American composer born in 1961 who writes scores for opera, theater, dance, film, and TV. She has composed several of the scores featured in Wendigo, Carrier, Gêmeas and Creepshow. She is primarily a theater composer, with more than 30 credits.
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#1598

Marjorie Nicholson

#128042
Overall Influence
1914 - 1997 (83 years)
Marjorie Nicholson , was a British socialist activist. Born in the Benwell area of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nicholson grew up in Kenton, then in Middlesex. She was educated at Harrow High School before winning a scholarship to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she received a degree in modern history. While at the university, she became interested in socialism, and joined the Oxford University Labour Club.
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#1599

Nina Dorliak

#130062
Overall Influence
1908 - 1998 (90 years)
Nina Lvovna Dorliak was a Russian soprano and a voice teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. She is known for forming a duo with pianist Sviatoslav Richter in recitals and recordings. Life Nina Dorliak was born in Saint Petersburg. Her mother was Xenia Nikolayevna Dorliak , a maid of honour of Empress Marie Feodorovna, and later a singer and voice teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. Her father was the financier Lev Fabianovitch Dorliak , whose father had emigrated from France to Russia during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. She attended the Petrischule, a German school in Saint Petersburg. ...
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#1600

Lynn Mahoney

#77104
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Lynn Mahoney is an American university president, author, and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University since July 2019, and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history, women's history, feminism, race studies, and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture ; a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.
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