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List of the most influential female people in Communications,

#1801

Judy McGregor

#104390

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Dame Judith Helen McGregor is a New Zealand lawyer, journalist, public servant and academic. She is currently a full professor at Auckland University of Technology and chairs the Waitematā District Health Board.

#1802

Sabine Henze-Döhring

#146053

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sabine Henze-Döhring is a German musicologist and opera researcher. Career Henze-Döhring was born in Höxter, 10 December 1953. After her studies of German, history and musicology in Marburg, she passed the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1977. In 1981, she received her doctorate in musicology. From 1982 to 1985, she worked as a research assistant in the music history department of the German Historical Institute in Rome.

#1803

Els Aarne

#168195

Overall Influence

1917 - 1995 (78 years)

Els Aarne was an Estonian composer and pedagogue. She was born in Makiivka, Russian Empire and studied at Tallinn Conservatory, graduating as a music teacher in 1939, in 1942 as pianist and in 1946 as composer under Heino Eller. Els was famous, among other things, as a chamber music composer ; in addition, she wrote two symphonies.

#1804

Tamara Miansarova

Tamara Miansarova

#155095

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Tamara Grigoryevna Miansarova was a Soviet Ukrainian lyric soprano, pop singer and professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, best known for her hit May There Always Be Sunshine. Biography She was born on March 5, 1931, in Zinovievsk.

#1805

Minami Takayama

#161727

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

is a Japanese voice actress, narrator and singer who is currently affiliated with 81 Produce. She is also the main vocalist of Two-Mix and ES CONNEXION when it was active. Her uncle is a former New Japan Pro-Wrestling managing director Hisashi Shinma.

#1806

Irene Dalis

#154246

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Irene Dalis was an American mezzo-soprano singer, who had a long international career at the highest levels of world opera. In 1946, she received her bachelor's degree from San Jose State College , where she regarded herself not as a singer, but as a pianist.

#1807

Yang Jingyuan

#123889

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Yang Jingyuan also known by her pen name Yuan Qing , was a Chinese translator. Yang is most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the English novelists Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë.

#1808

Kenzie

#92831

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kim Yeon-jung , known professionally as Kenzie, is a South Korean songwriter and record producer who signed under SM Entertainment. She has composed, arranged and written mostly songs for SM artists such as BoA, Isak N Jiyeon, Super Junior, The Grace, TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Shinee, f, Exo, Red Velvet, SuperM, and NCT, as well as non-SM acts such as Twice, CIX, BAE173, and The Boyz.

#1809

Marleen S. Barr

#77983

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Marleen S. Barr teaches communication and media studies at Fordham University, New York City. She is notable for her significant contributions to science fiction studies, for which she won a Pilgrim Award from the Science Fiction Research Association in 1997. Her primary contributions have been her foundational work in the field of feminist science fiction criticism; her 1981 anthology Future Females: A Critical Anthology "served as an introduction and eye-opener to the field of Feminist Science Fiction."

#1810

Odaline de la Martinez

#107854

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Odaline de la Martinez is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of Lontano, a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zealander flautist Ingrid Culliford, and was the first woman to conduct at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 1984. As well as frequent appearances as a guest conductor with leading orchestras throughout Great Britain, including all the BBC orchestras, she has conducted several leading ensembles around the world, including the Ensemble 2e2m in Paris; the New Zealand Symphony Orch...

#1811

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#126535

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Life and career MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of partial Lebanese descent through her mother.

#1812

Karla Gower

#137914

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Karla K. Gower is an American public relations professor, focusing in journalism and media and strategic communication, currently the Behringer Distinguished Professor in the Advertising and Public Relations at University of Alabama. Since 2008, she has been the director of The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations.

#1813

Hillary Anger Elfenbein

#173524

Overall Influence

Hillary Anger Elfenbein is the John and Ellen Wallace Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at Washington University in St. Louis, known for her research on emotion in the workplace and cross-cultural differences in emotion.

#1814

Heidi M. Anderson

#82987

Overall Influence

Heidi Milia Anderson is an American academic administrator serving as the president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore since September 2018. She was previously the provost at Texas A&M University–Kingsville and the University of the Sciences.

#1815

Suzana Amaral

#156966

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Suzana Amaral Rezende was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. She was best known for the 1985 film A Hora da Estrela . Career Amaral's film career started at the age of 37 when she entered the University of São Paulo film school. After graduating, she taught at the University for three years and began working for Radio and Television Cultura. In her 14-year career at Radio and Television Cultura she produced approximately 50 documentaries, films, and plays for the station. In 1976 she moved to New York to pursue a degree in film from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

#1816

Rebeca Quintáns

#157042

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Rebeca Quintáns López is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher. Biography Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.

#1817

Henriette Puig-Roget

#170252

Overall Influence

1910 - 1992 (82 years)

Henriette Marie Eulalie Puig-Roget was a French pianist, organist and music educator. Biography Born in Bastia, she began her musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1919. She won 6 first prizes between 1926 and 1930 in the classes of Isidore Philipp, Jean Gallon and Noël Gallon, Maurice Emmanuel and Marcel Dupré: piano, harmony, music history, piano accompaniment, counterpoint, fugue, organ. She was also a student of Charles Tournemire in chamber music.

#1818

Alicia Terzian

#152723

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Alicia Terzian is an Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer of Armenian descent. Biography Alicia Terzian was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She studied at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires under Alberto Ginastera, Gilardo Gilardi, Roberto García Morillo and Floro Ugarte. She received a degree in piano in 1954 and a degree in composition in 1958. In 1962 she continued her studies in electronic music and medieval Armenian church music with Father Leoncio Dayan at the Mekhitarist Monastery of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice.

#1819

Sally Grace

#147987

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Sally Grace is an English actress who has worked extensively on radio and television and in animation. Life and career Grace was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

#1820

Nicola Botting

#171020

Overall Influence

Nicola Botting is a language and communication scientist whose work focuses on language and psychological outcomes of children with low birth weight, autism spectrum disorder, developmental language disorder, and other developmental disabilities. She is Professor of Developmental Disorders, Language & Communication Science at the City University of London. Botting is editor-in-chief of the journal Autism & Developmental Language Impairments.

#1821

Nikki Iles

#170782

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Nikki Anne Iles is a British jazz composer, pianist and educator. Early life Iles was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 16 May 1963. She started her musical education at primary school, where she learnt to play the harmonica and the clarinet, and at eleven years old she won a junior exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied clarinet and piano from 1974 to 1981. She became a member of the Bedfordshire Youth Jazz Orchestra. She went on to the Leeds College of Music .

#1822

Sangeeta

#101504

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Parveen Rizvi, better known as Sangeeta, is a Pakistani film actress, filmmaker and director of television drama serials. Early life Parveen Rizvi was born on 14 June 1958 in Karachi, British India. Parveen Rizvi's mother Mehtab Rizvi also had a career in show business. Additionally, Parveen's younger sister, Nasreen Rizvi is also associated with Pakistani cinema. The British-American actress Jiah Khan was her niece.

#1823

Camilla Wicks

#172992

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Camilla Dolores Wicks was an American violinist, and one of the first female violinists to establish a major international career. Her performing career included solo appearances with leading European and American symphony orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

#1824

Annea Lockwood

#143343

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her range is vast and often includes microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music, as well as recordings of natural found soundss. She has also recorded Fluxus-inspired pieces involving burning or drowning pianos.

#1825

Alexandra Vydrina

#161741

Overall Influence

1988 - 2021 (33 years)

Alexandra Vydrina was a Russian linguist and researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research specializing in research on African languages of Guinea. Life and contributions Vydrina received her education at St. Petersburg State University and in 2008 started working on the Kakabe language of Guinea, a Mande language spoken in the Fouta Djallon highland region. She was a doctoral student at INALCO , and had postdoctoral positions in the CNRS and at the Higher School of Economics .

#1826

Irene Geis

#176889

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Irene Bluthenthal Geis is a Chilean journalist, writer, editor, and former television presenter, best known for hosting the program Emisión Cero on during the 1960s, and Contrapunto and Aire Libre in the early 1970s on the same channel.

#1827

Gillian Whitehead

Gillian Whitehead

#123962

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead is a New Zealand composer. She is of Māori Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her Māori heritage has been an important influence on her composing. Early life Whitehead was born in Hamilton in 1941. The daughter of Ivan and Marjorie Whitehead, she is of Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her father was a music teacher and conductor of the Waipu Choral Society and her mother played the piano. She began composing early, making clear to her mother at age 17 that she wanted to be a composer.

#1828

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

#95491

Overall Influence

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Michigan and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Shelemay was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013.

#1829

Janet Lawson

#151373

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Janet Lawson was a jazz singer and educator. Her primary influences as a singer were saxophonists such as Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sonny Rollins. Her voice was described by jazz critic John S. Wilson in a 1977 New York Times article entitled Janet Lawson: The Dream Jazz Voice writing that she "has the kind of voice that most jazz singers probably wish they had. It is a full, well-developed, remarkably pliant voice with a lower range whose dark sonorities compare favorably with the deep power of Sarah Vaughan, and a high register in which she does not have to strain to project very fa...

#1830

Sofi Jeannin

#170066

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Sofi Jeannin is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano. Biography Born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a French father, Jeannin grew up in Lindesberg, following her parents' divorce when she was age 8. In her youth, Jeannin studied piano and singing. She continued her musical education at the Conservatoire de Nice, where her instructors included Bertrand Dutour de Salvert. Jeannin additionally studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where she also sang with the institution's vocal ensemble.

#1831

Evelyn Barbirolli

#168275

Overall Influence

1911 - 2008 (97 years)

Evelyn, Lady Barbirolli OBE was an English oboist, and the wife of the eminent conductor Sir John Barbirolli. She was born Evelyn Rothwell, and was known professionally by that name until after she was widowed, when she became known as Evelyn Barbirolli. She rose to fame at a time when there were very few women in orchestras except for harpists.

#1832

Katherine Ciesinski

#143012

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Katherine Ciesinski is an American mezzo-soprano, stage director, and voice professor. Ciesinski was born to Delaware Sports Hall of Famer Roman Ciesinski and Katherine Hansen Ciesinski. She is the sister of opera singer Kristine Ciesinski . Her early studies in piano and voice were locally in Delaware, then at Temple University and the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw and Dino Yannopolous. In 1974, she won the Gramma Fischer Award at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the following year, the WGN Auditions of the Air. In 1977, she took first prize at the Conc...

#1833

Wendy Allnutt

#172081

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Wendy Allnutt is an English stage and screen actress. She now teaches at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leading a degree course in Training Actors Movement. Life Born in Lincoln, Allnutt trained for an acting career at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1963 to 1966. She soon gained many parts on and off stage, and a full-face portrait of her filled the cover of TV Times magazine dated 3 February 1968.

#1834

Hana O'Regan

#119612

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Hana Merenea O'Regan is a Māori language advocate and academic in New Zealand. She is a member of the Ngāi Tahu iwi . Early life and education O'Regan was born in Wellington, the youngest of five children, to Tipene O'Regan, an academic, and Sandra O'Regan, a nurse. O'Regan attended Kelburn Normal School, Roseneath Primary School, and Auckland's Queen Victoria Māori Girls' Boarding School. She spent her final school year as an AFS exchange student at Chaeng Ron Wittiya School in Bangkok, Thailand.

#1835

Onutė Narbutaitė

#97160

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Onutė Narbutaitė is a Lithuanian composer. Life and work Born in Vilnius, in the family of musicologist Ona Narbutienė and geologist Vytautas Narbutas, Onutė Narbutaitė learned the basics of composition from Bronius Kutavičius at M.K.Čiurlionis School of Art, graduating in 1979 from the Lithuanian State Conservatory where she studied composition under Julius Juzeliūnas. From 1979 to 1982 she taught music theory and history at the Klaipėda Faculty of the Lithuanian State Conservatory. Since then she has been working as a freelance composer in Vilnius. Her works have been performed at various ...

#1836

Alejandrina Cristia

#57680

Overall Influence

Alejandrina Cristia is an Argentinian linguist known for research on infant-directed speech, daylong audio recordings of children's diverse linguistic environments, and language acquisition across cultures. Cristia is interested in how phonetic and phonological representations are formed during infancy and their interactions with other linguistic formats and cognitive mechanisms. She holds the position of Research Director of the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the Paris Sciences et Lettres University .

#1837

Elizabeth Minchin

#108968

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian classicist and former professor of classics at the Australian National University . Until 2014 she was one of the two editors of Antichthon, the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

#1838

Mayuko Watanabe

#112659

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Mayuko Watanabe is a Japanese journalist and media scholar specialized in media literacy, gender and sexuality. She had been a Senior Researcher and lecturer at Keio University Research Institute. Her research interest through nearly 20 years of career including as a TV news reporter has been the way of regulatory policy of obscene expressions. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of media communication and literacy of Japanese obscene content.

#1839

Margaret Stratton

#125467

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Margaret Stratton is an American photographer and video artist. Her work in photography has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Her videos are represented by the Video Data Bank, and have been screened nationally and internationally, as noted in the Harvard Crimson, Wild Women Storm the Film Archive, The Berlin Film Festival. Awards include the Director's Award: Black Maria Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA.

#1840

Frances Yeend

#143249

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Frances Yeend was an American classical soprano who had an active international career as a concert and opera singer during the 1940s through the 1960s. She had a long and fruitful association with the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1958, after which she joined the roster of principal sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera where she sang between 1961 and 1963. She also had an extensive concert career, particularly in the United States. By 1963 she had sung in more than 200 orchestral concerts in North American with major symphonies like the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orches...

#1841

P. P. Arnold

#140236

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Patricia Ann Cole , known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American soul singer. Arnold began her career as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965. The following year she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Arnold enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom with her singles "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and "Angel of the Morning" .

#1842

Nicole Burdette

#126844

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Nicole Maria Burdette is an American playwright and actress. She is also an assistant professor at The New School for Drama. Early life and education Burdette was born in San Francisco, the first of two children of Ellen and Lawrence Burdette. Her uncle is former governor of Alaska, Mike Stepovich whose daughter, Nada, is married to NBA Hall of Fame player John Stockton.

#1843

Jas Waters

#112699

Overall Influence

1980 - 2020 (40 years)

Jas Waters , also known as Jas Fly, was an American screenwriter and journalist. She was a staff writer for the television series This Is Us and also wrote for The Breaks, Hood Adjacent with James Davis, and Kidding. Waters was a journalist in the hip hop industry, writing a digital column for Vibe Vixen in the early 2010s and starring in the reality show The Gossip Game. She advocated for the importance of black writers in the film and television industry. Waters was born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised by her grandmother in a senior home. After graduating from Evanston Township High School, she attended Columbia College Chicago.

#1844

Deborah Bowman

#73985

Overall Influence

Deborah Bowman is a British academic, Professor of Ethics and Law at St George's, University of London. Bowman has written widely about medical ethics in both academic and popular publications, including the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Die Psychiatrie, International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine and JAMA. Bowman is the author and co-author of books, including a The Worried Student's Guide to Medical Ethics and Law, "Primary Care Ethics" and "Informed Consent" . She has contributed chapters to many books, including Kumar and Clark "Clinical Medicine" ,], "Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions", "Clinical Medicine for MRCP PACES: Vol.

#1845

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

#170317

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is a Polish linguist and professor of English linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is the editor-in-chief of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. A festschrift in her honor titled Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk edited by Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, and Piotr Gąsiorowski was published in 2020 by Routledge.

#1846

Noelle Barker

#175500

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Noelle Barker OBE was an English soprano singer and singing teacher. She was considered one of the most outstanding singing teachers of her generation. She taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Among her students was the soprano Sophie Karthäuser.

#1847

Ingeborg Reichelt

#156441

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

Ingeborg Reichelt was a German soprano singer known for her interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Reichelt was born in Frankfurt an der Oder studied in Dresden and at the Musikakademie in Hamburg . She also studied physiology. She graduated as a music teacher in 1950 and passed her concert exam as a pupil of Henny Wolff in 1953.

#1848

Francine Simonin

Francine Simonin

#126276

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Francine Simonin was a Swiss-Canadian painter, engraver, and designer. She was considered to be an expressionist. Biography Simonin received much exposure to painting, literature, and music during her childhood, where she often moved between Lausanne and Champex. She entered the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 1953. She attended the studio of Casimir Reymond from 1958 to 1960. During her artistic career, she regularly travelled across Europe and built a friendship with Marguerite Duras, and the two women were very close until the 1980s. She was also good friends with Janette Laverrière.

#1849

Teresa Cheng

#108083

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Teresa Cheng is an animation producer specifically skilled in computer graphics and most famously known for her work on Shrek Forever After, Madagascar, Batman & Robin, and True Lies. She has worked with major agencies such as Warner Brothers Studios, DreamWorks, assumed the role of general manager for Lucasfilm Animation, and most recently has become chair of the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

#1850

Susan M. Dray

#87591

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Susan M. Dray is an American human-computer interaction and user experience professional who is a member of the CHI academy and the User Experience Professionals Association . Dray is known for her work in the field of UX design and is also a founding member of SIGCHI, the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for human-computer interaction.

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