The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#7401
Haldur Õim
#106443
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Haldur Õim is an Estonian linguist. In 1965 he graduated from Tartu State University in Estonian philology. Since 1969 he has taught at the Tartu of Tartu . From 1981 until 1984, he taught Estonian language at the University of Helsinki.
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John Doyle
#112687
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
John Doyle is an English drummer, who was a member of new wave bands like Magazine and The Armoury Show. He reunited with Magazine for a tour in February 2009. Biography While at William Hulme's Grammar School, with friends on the stage staff formed a band. He then played with various local Manchester bands, including Idiot Rouge, alongside Neil Cossar, later of power pop band The Cheaters, and Nick Simpson, later frontman of 23 Jewels.
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Christopher Hobbs
#107004
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Christopher Hobbs is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British systems music. Life and career Hobbs was born in Hillingdon, near London. He was a junior exhibitioner at Trinity College London, then was Cornelius Cardew's first student at the Royal Academy of Music from 1967. Hobbs worked with Cardew and Christian Wolff: he joined AMM, appearing on two albums: The Crypt and Laminal.
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Georgina Born
#106166
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Georgina Emma Mary Born, is a British academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born and for her work in Henry Cow and with Lindsay Cooper. Background Born was born in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, the granddaughter of the physicist and Nobel laureate Max Born, daughter of the pharmacologist Gustav Born, and cousin of the pop singer Olivia Newton-John.
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Paul Workman
#85938
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Paul Workman is a Canadian journalist. He is the CTV News LONDON, GB, Bureau Chief, filing his first report on February 3, 2009. Workman was formerly the South Asia Bureau Chief based in New Delhi, India. Prior to joining CTV News on July 13, 2006, he was a journalist for CBC News for over twenty years. Workman is guest-hosting the science news show Daily Planet on Discovery Channel.
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Daniel Catán
#109571
Overall Influence
1949 - 2011 (62 years)
Daniel Catán Porteny was a Mexican composer, writer and professor known particularly for his operas and his contribution of the Spanish language to the international repertory. With a compositional style described as lush, romantic and lyrical, Catán's second opera, Rappaccini’s Daughter, became the first Mexican opera in the United States to be produced by a professional opera company. Upon receiving international recognition, Catán's next opera, Florencia en el Amazonas, became the first opera in Spanish to be commissioned by an opera company in the United States. Shortly after, Catán received a Plácido Domingo Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his contributions to music.
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Vijaya Bhaskar
#117467
Overall Influence
1931 - 2002 (71 years)
Vijaya Bhaskar was an Indian music director and composer who composed music for several mainstream and experimental feature films in the Kannada film industry. Scoring music for over 600 feature films, Bhaskar worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu and Konkani language films as well. He was a part of all films of director KSL Swamy and also shared a great association with acclaimed directors Puttanna Kanagal and Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
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Art Davis
#90592
Overall Influence
1934 - 2007 (73 years)
Arthur David Davis was a double-bassist, known for his work with Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Max Roach. Biography Davis was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, where he began studying the piano at the age of five, switched to tuba, and finally to bass while attending high school. He studied at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music but graduated from Hunter College.
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Pavel Klinichev
#163597
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Pavel Klinichev is a Russian conductor. Biography Klinichev was born in Moscow and graduated from its Conservatory in 2000. In 2001 he became the Bolshoi Theatre conductor and by 2002 became its music director. The same year he conducted dramatic opera of Marice Jarre called Notre-Dame de Paris which used choreography by Roland Petit. In 2006 he was a conductor Dmitri Shostakovich's The Golden Age and next year conducted Le Corsaire following by Cesare Pugni's Esmeralda in 2009 and Johann Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia in 2010. Besides international operas he also conducted national ones such as both Yekaterinburg based The Tsar's Bride and Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet in Rostov-on-Don.
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Zoltán Székely
#118619
Overall Influence
1903 - 2001 (98 years)
Zoltán Székely was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Biography Székely studied violin with Jenő Hubay and composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. He composed mainly chamber music. Székely toured Europe with the virtuoso young cellist Paul Hermann. Székely was a friend of Béla Bartók and was the one to request the composition of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto and its dedicatee as well as performer at its premiere in March, 1939, Mengelberg conducting. The performance was a live broadcast and was recorded by Radio Hilversum on 78 RPM acetates, the most used recording medium at the time.
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Marcus Rojas
#135243
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Marcus Rojas is an American tubist from New York City. Early life Rojas was born in New York City on February 23, 1963, and grew up in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His early influences included Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colón, and uncles who played percussion and trombone. He began on trombone at elementary school, then changed to tuba in junior high school. At age 15, Rojas began lessons with tubist Samuel Pilafian. He went on to attend the High School of Music & Art in New York, and studied further at the New England Conservatory.
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Ricky Ford
#94781
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Ricky Ford is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Biography Ford was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States,1976–771978–811980–8219821983–901989–94 Ford has recorded extensively as a leader for Muse and Candid.
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Antoni Wit
#113081
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Antoni Wit is a Polish conductor, composer, lawyer and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Between 2002 and 2013, he served as the artistic director of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
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Valery Durov
#28888
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Valery Semenovich Durov is a Russian antiquarian, philologist, and academic . From 1992 until 2013, he was head of the Department of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg State University. Career Durov graduated from the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University in 1968, was in graduate school at the Department of Classical Philology and in 1974 he defended his thesis "The Tenth Satire of Juvenal".
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Robert Lansing
#110236
Overall Influence
1928 - 1994 (66 years)
Robert Lansing was an American stage, film, and television actor. Lansing is probably best remembered as the authoritarian Brigadier General Frank Savage in 12 O'Clock High , the television drama series about American bomber pilots during World War II. During his career, which spanned five decades, Lansing appeared in 245 episodes of 73 television series, 11 TV movies, and 19 motion pictures. His other notable television roles included 87th Precinct , Automan , and The Equalizer .
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Mowry Baden
#49119
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Mowry Baden is an American sculptor who has lived and worked in Canada since 1975. He is known for his gallery-based kinaesthetic sculptures and for his public sculpture, both of which require a strong element of bodily interaction on the part of the viewer.
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Phoebus
#102078
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Phoebus , sometimes spelled Phivos or Foivos, is a well-known songwriter in both Greece and Cyprus. Phoebus is mostly known for his music through Despina Vandi and Katy Garbi, although he has composed albums for many other artists in Greece and Cyprus. A high percentage of the albums he composes receive certification making him one of the most successful Greek songwriters of the 1990s and 2000s, selling 6,000,000 records. In 2009, he founded his own record label, The Spicy Effect, to which he has signed various artists, many of whom he has collaborated with in the past. He has an estimated net...
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Athanasius Treweek
#91167
Overall Influence
1911 - 1995 (84 years)
Lieutenant Colonel Athanasius Pryor "Ath" Treweek was an Australian academic, linguist, mathematician and code-breaker. He was the son of Walter Henry Treweek and Mary Matilda Dwyer a nurse. They married in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia on 11 February 1909. She was 37 and he was 43. He was an only child and his father died in 1920 of the Spanish influenza when Ath was 8 years old. His mother could work as a nurse only by living in at a hospital, so he was sent to a boarding school in Bowral.
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Namie Amuro
#84929
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Namie Amuro is a Japanese former singer, dancer, model, actress and entrepreneur who was active between 1992 and 2018. A leading figure of the Japanese entertainment industry since the early 1990s, Amuro is known for breaking the youthful idol stereotype of J-Pop, changing the fashion trends and lifestyle of women in Japan, her experimentation across music styles, and for her visual imagery in music videos and live performances. Due to her career longevity, resilience, professionalism, efforts behind-the-scenes in the music industry, and her way of life, she is considered a pop culture icon in Japan and Asia.
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Willie Mitchell
#86509
Overall Influence
1928 - 2010 (82 years)
William Lawrence Mitchell was an American trumpeter, bandleader, soul, R&B, rock and roll, pop and funk record producer and arranger who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He was best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, O. V. Wright, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles and Quiet Elegance.
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Martin J. Eppler
#35350
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Martin J. Eppler is a Swiss communication and management scholar, Professor of Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen, and director of its Institute for Media and Communication Management, known for his contributions in the field of knowledge management, specifically information overload and Information Quality Management, Collaboration, and Knowledge Visualization.
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Archie Roach
#62882
Overall Influence
1956 - 2022 (66 years)
Archibald William Roach was an Australian singer-songwriter and Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. His wife and musical partner was the singer Ruby Hunter .
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Horace Parlan
#99262
Overall Influence
1931 - 2017 (86 years)
Horace Parlan was an American pianist and composer known for working in the hard bop and post-bop styles of jazz. In addition to his work as a bandleader Parlan was known for his contributions to the Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots.
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Leslie Bassett
#95339
Overall Influence
1923 - 2016 (93 years)
Leslie Raymond Bassett was an American composer of classical music. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Bassett had a lifelong relationship with the University of Michigan School of Music. He received the MM there, and in 1956 was the recipient of the University's first DMA. Bassett was a member of the University of Michigan faculty from 1952 until 1992. Upon retirement from active teaching in 1992, he held the title of Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition until his death in 2016.
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Mikhail Schweitzer
#113631
Overall Influence
1920 - 2000 (80 years)
Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR . Biography Mikhail Schweitzer graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in the directing class of the Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm since 1943. Schweitzer was an assistant director of Man No 217 film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Schweitzer lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovs...
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Marty Ehrlich
#120604
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in avant-garde jazz. Biography Though born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the portion of Ehrlich's youth spent in St. Louis, Missouri, was particularly important. As a high school student at University City High School in nearby University City, the teenager came into contact with the influential Black Artists' Group which was modelled after the AACM in Chicago.
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Sarah Walker
#146788
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Sarah Elizabeth Royle Walker is an English mezzo-soprano. Walker was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She studied at the Royal College of Music from 1961 to 1965, initially as a violinist and cellist, and went on to study singing with Vera Rózsa. She has appeared in numerous opera performances and is also known as a concert soloist and recitalist.
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Johnny Bristol
#73648
Overall Influence
1939 - 2004 (65 years)
John William Bristol was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a native of Morganton, North Carolina, about which he wrote an eponymous song. His composition "Love Me for a Reason" saw global success when covered by The Osmonds including a number 1 in the UK charts in 1974. His most famous solo recording was "Hang On in There Baby" recorded in 1974, which reached the Top Ten in the United States and number 3 in the United Kingdom. Both singles were in the UK top 5 simultaneously.
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Clark
#110137
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Christopher Stephen Clark is a British electronic musician, performing under the mononym Clark. He has produced music for his own albums, as well as music for television, films and video games, having composed scores for award-winning contemporary dance and BAFTA nominated TV series. His records have been released by Warp Records, Deutsche Grammophon and his own label Throttle Records.
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Tabea Zimmermann
#122599
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist who has performed internationally, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has been artist in residence of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Zimmermann founded the Arcanto Quartet, a string quartet that performed until 2016. Several composers have written music for her, including György Ligeti , and she has made her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches.
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Hamish Milne
#151974
Overall Influence
1939 - 2020 (81 years)
Hamish Milne was an English pianist known for his advocacy of Nikolai Medtner. Milne studied at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he taught, and later in Italy under Guido Agosti.
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Jere T. Humphreys
#56101
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jere T. Humphreys is an American music scholar who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to music education and arts business. Education Humphreys holds a B.M. in music education from the University of Mississippi, an M.M. in clarinet performance from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan.
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Johnny Smith
#81521
Overall Influence
1922 - 2013 (91 years)
Johnny Henry Smith II was an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist. He wrote "Walk, Don't Run" in 1954. In 1984, Smith was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Early life During the Great Depression, Smith's family moved from Birmingham, Alabama, where Smith was born, through several cities, ending up in Portland, Maine.
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Paul Turner
#112661
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Paul Turner is an English musician who has been the bassist of the jazz-funk band Jamiroquai since 2005. Turner is a known practitioner of Slap bass and plays using the “up-thumb” technique as seen in several of his Twitter posts.
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William Weintraub
#124767
Overall Influence
1926 - 2017 (91 years)
William Weintraub was a Canadian documentarian/filmmaker, journalist and author, best known for his long career with the National Film Board of Canada . Early life Weintraub was born in Montreal, to Louis Weintraub and Mina Blumer Weintraub, and grew up in the blue-collar neighbourhood of Verdun. His father had been a stock broker; he lost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and worked as the manager of a corner store. William studied English Literature and political science at McGill University, where he had worked on the McGill Daily. In 1947, he took the job of a ski reporter at The Montreal Gazette, from which he was fired for trying to unionize.
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John Lee
#118741
Overall Influence
1931 - 2012 (81 years)
John Lee is an American writer of thrillerss, many of them set in Second World War settings, as well as non-fiction books. He was also a professor of journalism, distinguished by his conscious decision not to take up a doctorate despite having made all the preparations for it.
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Johnny Lee
#98913
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Johnny Lee is an American country music singer. His 1980 single "Lookin' for Love" became a crossover hit, spending three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart while also appearing in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and top 10 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart. He racked up 17 top 40 country hits in the early and mid-1980s.
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John Collins
#148184
Overall Influence
1913 - 2001 (88 years)
John Elbert Collins was an American jazz guitarist who was a member of the Nat King Cole trio. Career A native of Alabama, Collins grew up in Chicago. When he was fourteen, her performed with his mother, Georgia Gorham, who was a jazz pianist. At twenty-one, he played with Art Tatum in the 1930s, followed by Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Carter. At the end of the 1930s, he started playing electric guitar.
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Andrei Khrzhanovsky
#101940
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Andrei Yurievich Khrzhanovsky is a Soviet and Russian animator, documentary filmmaker, writer and producer known for making art films. He is the father of director Ilya Khrzhanovsky. Married to philologist, editor and script doctor Maria Neyman. People's Artist of Russia .
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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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Joanna Zylinska
#82521
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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José Antonio Pascual
#129048
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
José Antonio Pascual Rodríguez is a linguist and professor of the Spanish language at Charles III University of Madrid, and a member of the Royal Spanish Academy and Accademia della Crusca, the regulatory institutions of standard Spanish and Italian, respectively. He joined the Royal Spanish Academy in 2002, serving as its vice president from 2007 to 2015, and is best known for his work with Joan Coromines on the Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico , as well as the television series Hablando claro aired in Spain in the late 1980s.
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Férid Boughedir
#127394
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Férid Boughedir is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. Career Boughedir has directed five films since 1983. His film Caméra d'Afrique was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. In 1996, his film Un été à La Goulette was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Tal Farlow
#100214
Overall Influence
1921 - 1998 (77 years)
Talmage Holt Farlow was an American jazz guitarist. He was nicknamed "Octopus" because of how his large, quick hands spread over the fretboard. Biography Talmage Holt Farlow was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. He taught himself how to play guitar, which he started when he was 22 years old. He learned chord melodies by playing a mandolin tuned like a ukulele. He said playing the ukulele was the reason he used the higher four strings on the guitar for the melody and chord structure, with the two bottom strings for bass counterpoint, which he played with his thumb. His only professional training was as an apprentice sign painter.
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Dave Kelly
#140199
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
David William Kelly is a British blues singer, guitarist and composer, who has been active on the British blues music scene since the 1960s. He has performed with the John Dummer Blues Band, Tramp, The Blues Band, and his own Dave Kelly Band.
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Katherine MacLean
#39178
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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Joseph Silverstein
#102786
Overall Influence
1932 - 2015 (83 years)
Joseph Harry Silverstein was an American violinist and conductor. Known to family, friends and colleagues as "Joey", Silverstein was born in Detroit. As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard Silverstein, who was a public school music teacher. He began studies at the Curtis Institute of Music at age 12. His teachers included Efrem Zimbalist, D.C. Dounis, William Primrose, Josef Gingold, and Mischa Mischakoff. Although he never formally completed his high school education, Silverstein did graduate from Curtis in 1950. Following completion of his studies at Curtis, Silverstei...
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Petra Kuppers
#61860
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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Jan Van Dyke
#98325
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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Aaron D. Rubin
#117858
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Aaron David Rubin is an American linguistics researcher. He is currently the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at The University of Georgia. From 2004 to 2023 he was Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, and Linguistics at Penn State University. His main area of study is the Semitic language family, focusing on Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and the modern languages of Southern Arabia, especially Mehri and Jibbali. He has also worked extensively on non-Semitic Jewish languages, as well as on Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts. At Penn Stat...
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