The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#7501
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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Hans Christoph Becker-Foss
#99286
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Hans Christoph Becker-Foss is a German conductor, organist and harpsichordist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Biography Becker-Foss studied church music in Bremen. From 1973 to 1979 he was director of the Hastedter Kantorei in Bremen. Since 1993 he has been director of the Göttinger Vokalensemble. With the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the NDR Sinfonieorchester, Jenaer Philharmonie, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen among others. Becker-Foss has contributed to many performances of ...
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Zhang Yimou
#110019
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer, actor, professor and former cinematographer. Considered a key figure of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers, he made his directorial debut in 1988 with Red Sorghum, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Jon Garrison
#150611
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Jon Garrison is a successful American operatic tenor who has been performing in locations around the world since 1965. He first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1974, in a secondary role in the company premiere of Death in Venice, which featured Sir Peter Pears. At that theatre, he has since been seen in Gianni Schicchi , Don Pasquale , Fidelio , Wozzeck , Don Giovanni , Die Fledermaus , etc.
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Noah Creshevsky
#138532
Overall Influence
1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Noah Creshevsky was a composer and electronic musician born in Rochester, New York. He used the term hyperrealism to describe his work. Biography Noah Creshevsky was born Gary Cohen in Rochester, New York, to Joseph and Sylvia Cohen. He changed his surname to Creshevsky in order to honor his maternal grandparents. At the same time he also changed his first name because, he said, "I never felt like a Gary." He studied in the preparatory division of the Eastman School of Music from the age of 6 until 1961, then earned a B.F.A. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966, study...
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Vassar Clements
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2005 (77 years)
Vassar Carlton Clements was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions.
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Daniel Boone
#138159
Overall Influence
1942 - 2023 (81 years)
Daniel Boone was an English pop musician who became a one-hit wonder in the United States with the single "Beautiful Sunday" in 1972. The song was written by Boone and Rod McQueen and sold over 2,000,000 copies worldwide. It peaked at number 15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at the end of the summer of 1972, having already reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart earlier during that same year. In 1972, Boone was the recipient of the "Most Likeable Singer" award from Rolling Stone magazine.
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Jesse Stone
#106159
Overall Influence
1901 - 1999 (98 years)
Jesse Albert Stone was an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres. He also used the pseudonyms Charles Calhoun and Chuck Calhoun. His best-known composition as Calhoun was "Shake, Rattle and Roll".
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Peter Stumpf
#169561
Overall Influence
Peter Stumpf is the former principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He was educated first at the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Orlando Cole and then the New England Conservatory. He started his professional career at age sixteen as a cellist in the Hartford Symphony, then spent twelve years as associate principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra, before assuming his position at the start of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2002/2003 season. He took a year's sabbatical from the LA Phil in 2011 to teach full-time at Indiana University's Jacob School of Music. He left the orche...
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Sung-Won Yang
#78989
Overall Influence
Sung-Won Yang is a South Korean cellist who performs worldwide as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He studied with Philippe Muller and Janos Starker, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
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Shuichi Murakami
#112053
Overall Influence
1951 - 2021 (70 years)
Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami was a Japanese jazz drummer and session musician. Career Murakami was born in Nishinomiya. He first learned to play French horn, but switched to classical percussion as a teenager before settling on the drum kit. He worked extensively as a sideman on jazz sessions in the 1970s and 1980s, with, among others, Sadao Watanabe, Yosuke Yamashita, Kazumi Watanabe, Masayoshi Takanaka, Jun Fukamachi, Akira Sakata, and Takashi Kako. He founded the group Ponta Box , which recorded three albums for JVC Victor and appeared at the 1995 Montreux Jazz Festival, and has recorded several albums under his own name.
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Manfred Trojahn
#128598
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Manfred Trojahn is a German composer, flautist, conductor and writer. Career Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for musical composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he...
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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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Te Wharehuia Milroy
#117022
Overall Influence
1937 - 2019 (82 years)
James Te Wharehuia Milroy was a New Zealand academic and expert in the Māori language. He was of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Together with Tīmoti Kāretu and Pou Temara, Milroy was a lecturer at Te Panekiretanga o te Reo , which the three professors founded in 2004.
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Dave Taylor
#130185
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Dave Taylor is an American bass trombonist. Early life and education David Michael Taylor was born on June 6, 1944, in New York City. Taylor learned to play trumpet, tuba, and trombone in his youth, and while attending the Juilliard School picked up bass trombone, which became his primary instrument. He graduated with a master's degree from Juilliard in 1968.
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Josh Boone
#96929
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Josh Boone is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars , based on the novel of the same name. Boone also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Stuck in Love and the superhero horror film The New Mutants . In 2020, he directed the first and last episode of the miniseries The Stand.
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Bronius Kutavičius
#94200
Overall Influence
1932 - 2021 (89 years)
Bronius Kutavičius was a Lithuanian composer and academic composition teacher. He wrote numerous oratorios and operas, often inspired by ancient Lithuanian polytheistic beliefs and music. He also composed film scores, orchestral works and chamber music. Kutavičius is regarded as a symbol of Lithuanian cultural identity, both in music and in politics. Among many awards, he received the Lithuanian State Prize in 1987.
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Roger Woodward
#99225
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Roger Woodward is an Australian classical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and human rights activist, who is widely regarded as a leading advocate of contemporary music. Life and career Early life The youngest of four children, Roger Woodward was born in Sydney where he received first piano lessons from Winifred Pope. His mother and second sister were amateur violinists and his father and elder sister sang in the local church choir. At Chatswood Public School, he befriended Peter Kraus, an Auschwitz train survivor, whose family's story deeply impacted his emerging vision and personal development.
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Glenn Beck
#88538
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts the Glenn Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News and now airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six New York Times–bestselling books.
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Alex Foster
#112755
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Alex Foster is an American jazz musician who plays alto and tenor saxophone. He has recorded for record labels since the early 1970s. He is known for playing alto sax in the Saturday Night Live house band. He is also the co-musical director for the Mingus Big Band , Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty.
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John Powell
#106981
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
John Powell is an English composer best known for his film scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing and/or co-composing scores for animated films, such as Antz , The Road to El Dorado , Chicken Run , Shrek , Robots , the second through fourth Ice Age films , the Happy Feet films , Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! , the first two Kung Fu Panda films , Bolt , the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy , Mars Needs Moms , the Rio films , Dr. Seuss' The Lorax , and Ferdinand .
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Gerald Albright
#69212
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Gerald Albright is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for 24/7 in 2012 and Slam Dunk in 2014 and has been nominated for New Beginnings in 2008 and for Sax for Stax in 2009. Biography Albright began piano lessons at an early age, although he professed no interest in the instrument. His love of music picked up when he was given a saxophone that belonged to his piano teacher. It further reinforced when he attended Locke High School. After high school, he attended the University of Redlands where he was initiated into the Iota Chi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha and received a degree in business management with a minor concentration on music.
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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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François Leleux
#151046
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
François Leleux is a French oboist, conductor, and professor. His professional career began at 18 when he became principal oboe at the Paris Opera. He went on to win a solo position at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and currently does some concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as well as putting out CDs. He is married to violinist Lisa Batiashvili.
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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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Isak Rogde
#135261
Overall Influence
1947 - 2010 (63 years)
Isak Rogde was a Norwegian translator. He was born on the island of Senja and he enrolled in the University of Oslo in 1968, and graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1972. He worked as a teacher, and also lectured in the Norwegian language at the University of Moscow. He translated about 150 books to Norwegian, especially from Russian. For this he was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1989.
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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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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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László Szabó
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Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
László Szabó is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. Since 1952, he has appeared in more than 120 films. These include seven films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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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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Mark Samuels Lasner
#94264
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Mark Samuels Lasner is an American researcher. He is an authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian era. He is also a collector, bibliographer and typographer. Samuels Lasner is senior research fellow at the University of Delaware Library.
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Ray Benson
#90758
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Ray Benson is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel as well as an actor and voice actor. Biography Benson was raised Jewish. In 1970, Benson, a native of Philadelphia, formed Asleep at the Wheel with friends Lucky Oceans and Leroy Preston in Paw Paw, West Virginia. They were soon joined by Gene Dobkin, a classmate of Benson's at Antioch College, and Chris O'Connell. The group relocated to Austin in 1973 after a suggestion from Willie Nelson.
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Classified
#107843
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Luke Boyd , better known by his stage name Classified, is a Canadian rapper and record producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia. Musical career 1995–2004: Early beginnings Boyd attended Hants East Rural High School in Milford Station, Nova Scotia. He started his own production label, Half Life Records, and released his first full-length LP called Time's Up, Kid in 1995.
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Irmgard Oepen
#81853
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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Ronald Stevenson
#119322
Overall Influence
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Ronald James Stevenson was a Scottish composer, pianist, and writer about music. Biography The son of a Scottish father and Welsh mother, Stevenson was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, in 1928. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music , studying composition with Richard Hall and piano with Iso Elinson, graduating with distinction in 1948. He married Marjorie Spedding in 1952. He moved to Scotland in the mid-1950s. As a socialist pacifist conscientious objector, he applied for exemption from National Service, but was refused recognition by the North Western Tribunal. He, in turn, ref...
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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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Richard Stoltzman
#98909
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Richard Leslie Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California, and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory and Boston University.
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Peter Graham
#110829
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Peter Graham is a prolific British composer for brass band. Graham was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and then undertook postgraduate studies with Edward Gregson at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He holds a PhD in composition.
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Michael McMillan
#92291
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Michael McMillan is a British playwright, artist, curator and educator, born in England to parents who were migrants from St Vincent and the Grenadines . As an academic, he focuses his research on "the creative process, ethnography, oral histories, material culture and performativity". He is the author of several plays, and as an artist his first installation, The West Indian Front Room, was exhibited at the Geffrye Museum in 2005, going on to inspire a 2007 BBC Four documentary Tales from the Front Room, a website, a 2009 book, The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home, and various inte...
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Kamasi Washington
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Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Kamasi Washington is an American jazz saxophonist. He is a founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down. Career Washington was born in 1981 and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music of Alexander Hamilton High School in Beverlywood, Los Angeles. Washington next enrolled in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, where he began playing with faculty members such as Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, and Billy Higgins, who mentored a quartet with Washington, pianist Cameron Graves, and the brothers Stephen and Ronald Bruner. They released their debut ...
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Francisco García Tortosa
#100898
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Francisco García Tortosa is a Spanish University Professor, literary critic, and translator into Spanish. In Spain García Tortosa is considered one of the chief experts on the figure and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce, whose creations he has translated and about which he has published a wide range of studies. The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of Ulysses, in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».
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Minao Shibata
#94348
Overall Influence
1916 - 1996 (80 years)
Minao Shibata; September 29, 1916, Tokyo – February 2, 1996, Tokyo Minao studied botany at Tokyo University, graduating in 1939, and made further studies in the fine arts while studying music privately with Saburo Moroi and playing cello as a member of the Tokyo String Orchestra. His early works are mostly for chamber groups and are indebted to Romanticism.
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Lorraine Gamman
#103315
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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Andrew Hugill
#78758
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Andrew Hugill is a British composer, writer and academic. He is both a professor of music and a professor of creative computing. He directs the Creative Computing programme at University of Leicester.
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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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Ping Li
#109295
Overall Influence
Ping Li is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on bilingual language processing in East Asian languages and connectionist modeling. Li received a B.A. in Chinese linguistics from Peking University in 1983, an M.A. in theoretical linguistics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics from Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1990, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Center for Research in Language at the Univers...
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Ale Smidts
#51012
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Ale Smidts is a Dutch organizational theorist, and Professor of Marketing Research at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University . known for his work on organizational identification, and neuromarketing.
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Minoru Miki
#127311
Overall Influence
1930 - 2011 (81 years)
Minoru Miki was a Japanese composer and Artistic director. He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their performers. In his catalogue these traditional instruments figure solo or in various types of ensembles, with and without Western instruments. This catalogue demonstrates a large stylistic and formal diversity including operas and other kinds of stage music; orchestral; concerto; chamber and solo music; and music for films. This work has found international recognition placing Miki in the company of other celebrated Japanese compos...
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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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Jorma Panula
#116453
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
Jorma Juhani Panula is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting. He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Klaus Mäkelä and Tarmo Peltokoski.
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