The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#7801
Bruce Baillie
#124902
Overall Influence
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Bruce Baillie was an American experimental filmmaker. Early life Baillie was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota on September 24, 1931. to Gladys and E. Kenneth Baillie. His father, E. Kenneth Baillie, was a sculptor who taught at Northern State Teachers College. After graduating high school, Baillie served in the Navy during the Korean War. He studied art at the University of Minnesota and UC Berkeley before studying filmmaking at the London School of Film Technique.
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Bill Evans
#116195
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
William D. Evans is an American jazz saxophonist, who was a member of the Miles Davis group in the 1980s and has since led several of his own bands, including Push and Soulgrass. Evans plays tenor and soprano saxophones. He has recorded over 17 solo albums and received two Grammy Award nominations. He recorded an award-winning album called Bill Evans – Vans Joint with the WDR Big Band in 2009.
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Samuel Avital
#103586
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Samuel Avital is a mime artist. He has also taught kinesthetic awareness and Kabbalah. He was born in Sefrou, near Fez in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. He moved to a kibbutz in Israel when he was fourteen. From 1958 he studied dance and drama at the Sorbonne in Paris, and also mime under Étienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault.
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Gloria Lubkin
#89239
Overall Influence
1933 - 2020 (87 years)
Gloria Lubkin was an American science journalist and editor for the magazine Physics Today, of which she was the editor-in-chief from 1985 to 1994. She also cofounded the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota and was a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Sue Gardner
#121127
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Sue Gardner is a Canadian journalist, not-for-profit executive and business executive. She was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from December 2007 until May 2014, and before that was the director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website and online news outlets.
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Mark Waters
#119415
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Mark Stephen Waters is an American director. Early life Waters was raised in South Bend, Indiana. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in theatre arts before studying at the American Film Institute. When studying at Penn, he saw The House of Yes and saw things in the play that he felt he could make cinematic. He contacted the author of the play in Wendy MacLeod and got a manuscript copy by saying he was a film producer. He worked as a stage actor and director in Philadelphia and San Francisco before his work with AFI, where he graduated in 1994. He made a number of short films.
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Cecil Bridgewater
#127634
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Cecil Bridgewater is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Biography Bridgewater, who is of African American heritage, was born in Urbana, Illinois and studied at the University of Illinois. He and brother Ron formed the Bridgewater Brothers Band in 1969, and in the 1970s he was married to Dee Dee Bridgewater. In 1970 he played with Horace Silver, and following this with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis from 1970 to 1976. Also in the 1970s he played with Max Roach, starting a decades-long association. Elsewhere he has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Randy Weston, Charles McPherson, Joe Henderson, Roy Brooks, Abdullah Ibrahim and Sam Rivers.
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Garland E. Allen
#72421
Overall Influence
1936 - 2023 (87 years)
Garland Edward Allen III was an American historian and biographer at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests lie primarily in the history of genetics, eugenics and evolution. Life Garland Edward Allen III was born on February 13, 1936, in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from the University of Louisville in 1957. He completed his PhD in the history of science at Harvard University in 1966 under the direction of Ernst Mayr and Everett Mendelsohn after spending a few years as a high school biology teacher. He taught at Washington University and held several visiting profess...
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Sándor Veress
#106335
Overall Influence
1907 - 1992 (85 years)
Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.
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Mychael Danna
#103540
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Mychael Danna is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special in his work on the miniseries World Without End.
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Susan Tedeschi
#73560
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Susan Tedeschi is an American singer and guitarist. A multiple Grammy Award nominee, she is a member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, a conglomeration of her band, her husband Derek Trucks’ band, and other musicians.
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Leonard Ratzlaff
#60991
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Leonard Peter Ratzlaff, CM, AOE is the choral conductor for Edmonton's Richard Eaton Singers. Born in Swalwell, Alberta, he obtained his graduate degree in choral conducting from the University of Iowa, and his doctoral dissertation on Anton Bruckner's Te Deum earned him the American Choral Directors Association Julius Herford Dissertation Prize. A professor of Choral Music at the University of Alberta since 1981, he also conducts the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, and co-supervises the largest graduate program in choral conducting in Canada. His honours include induction into the Ci...
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Zoe Lister-Jones
#108496
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Zoe Lister-Jones is an American actress and filmmaker who co-starred as Jen Collins Short in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces from 2015 to 2019. She is also known for her roles in the television shows Delocated , Whitney , and New Girl . Lister-Jones made her directorial debut with the 2017 comedy-drama film Band Aid. In 2020, she wrote and directed the horror film The Craft: Legacy. She also co-wrote and co-directed the comedy-drama film How It Ends with Daryl Wein.
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Vicentico
#88239
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Gabriel Julio Fernández Capello is a musician and composer better known by his stage name Vicentico. Co-founder and vocalist of the band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs along with Flavio Cianciarulo. He was part of the group since its creation in 1984 to the year 2001, when he began a solo career as a singer. Vicentico won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2021 for El Pozo Brillante and Best Rock Song for "Ahora 1".
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Sigurd Raschèr
#127360
Overall Influence
1907 - 2001 (94 years)
Sigurd Manfred Raschèr was an American saxophonist born in Germany. He became an important figure in the development of the 20th century repertoire for the classical saxophone. Early life Sigurd Raschèr was born in Elberfeld, Germany , where his father, Hans August Raschèr , was temporarily stationed as a military physician. His schooling began in Arlesheim, Switzerland and continued in Stuttgart, Germany, where he graduated from the first Waldorfschule. After learning piano for some time, he decided to study clarinet with Philipp Dreisbach at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik . In an interv...
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Don Arden
#110935
Overall Influence
1926 - 2007 (81 years)
Don Arden was an English music manager, agent, and businessman. He managed the careers of rock acts such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard,Gene Vincent, Air Supply, Small Faces, The Move, Black Sabbath and Electric Light Orchestra.
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Ludovic Morlot
#120426
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Ludovic Morlot is a French conductor. Early years Morlot was born in Lyon on 11 December 1973. As a youth, he trained as a violinist. He later attended the Royal Academy of Music, and began his studies in conducting in London in 1994, where his mentors included Sir Colin Davis, George Hurst and Colin Metters. At the Royal College of Music, he was a Norman Del Mar conducting fellow. In the US, he attended the Pierre Monteux school for conductors. He held the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship in conducting at the Tanglewood festival in 2001.
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Jeff Moss
#129318
Overall Influence
1942 - 1998 (56 years)
Jeff Moss was an American composer, lyricist, playwright and television writer, best known for his award-winning work on the children's television series Sesame Street. Early life Moss was born in New York City; his father was a stage and screen actor, Arnold Moss, and his mother, Stella Reynolds gave up acting to become a soap opera writer. He attended the Browning School, a prestigious New York private school, and was #1 in his class.
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Alexandre Rockwell
#118755
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Charles Alexandre Rockwell is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and professor. Life and career Alexandre Rockwell is best known for his independent films made in NYC with a small group of actors he met on the lower east side in the late 80s. His first films helped launch the careers of well known actors like Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Stanley Tucci, as well as many other notable indie stars of the time. His filming style is described as purely independent in spirit and poetic in style. He mixes a blend of comedy and drama to create a portrait of outsiders. His...
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Julius Hemphill
#100616
Overall Influence
1938 - 1995 (57 years)
Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute. Biography Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended I.M. Terrell High School . He studied the clarinet with John Carter, another I.M. Terrell alumnus, before learning saxophone. Gerry Mulligan was an early influence. He studied music at North Texas State College.
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Lloyd Maines
#99690
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Lloyd Wayne Maines is an American country music record producer, musician and songwriter. He was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame as one of the first three members, the other two being Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He is the father of Natalie Maines who is best known as the lead singer of The Chicks.
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Janet Sung
#127201
Overall Influence
Janet Sung is an American classical violinist. Born in New York City, she began studying the violin at age 7 and debuted at the age of nine with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She then studied privately with Josef Gingold for ten years. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, and then studied at the Juilliard School.
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Jeffrey Steele
#95597
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jeffrey LeVasseur , known as Jeffrey Steele, is an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with recording his own material, Steele has become a prolific Nashville songwriter, having co-written more than 60 hit songs for such artists as Montgomery Gentry, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus, and others.
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Vera Gornostayeva
#131836
Overall Influence
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Vera Gornostayeva was a Russian pianist and pedagogue. An Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation at the time of her death, Gornostayeva was a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teacher was Heinrich Neuhaus.
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Gary Rossington
#64702
Overall Influence
1951 - 2023 (72 years)
Gary Robert Rossington was an American guitarist. He is best known as a founding member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, in which he played lead and rhythm guitar. He was the longest-surviving founding member of the band. Rossington was also a founding member of the Rossington Collins Band, along with former bandmate Allen Collins.
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Javier Aguirre
#147780
Overall Influence
1935 - 2019 (84 years)
Javier Aguirre Fernández was a Spanish film director, writer and producer. Biography and career Aguirre was born in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain. Aguirre developed an interest in film at an early age. When he was a teenager, he started collaborating for entertainment magazines like Radiocinema, Film Ideal, and others. In 1955, when he was around 20 years old, he founded and directed the San Sebastián Film Club. From 1956 to 1957, Aguirre organized film courses and film festivals. During those years, he also studied at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas . He wo...
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Paul R. Lehman
#71590
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Paul R. Lehman is an American Music Educator. As a result of his commitment to both music and education he has devoted his career to promoting music and the other arts as essential disciplines in the elementary and secondary schools of the United States. He served as president of the Music Educators National Conference from 1984 to 1986, which was a particularly challenging period for arts education because of the emphasis on ”back to basics” that resulted from the landmark report, ”A Nation at Risk”, published in 1983 by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Through his speeche...
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Vivek
#52750
Overall Influence
1985 - Present (41 years)
Vivek Velmurugan known by his stage name Vivek is an Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films. After making his debut in Enakkul Oruvan , he received critical acclaim for his work in 36 Vayadhinile , Jil Jung Juk , Mersal , Sarkar , Petta , Bigil and Jagame Thandhiram . His songs "Aalaporan Thamizhan", "Marana Mass", "Verithanam" , "Tum Tum" and "Ranjithame" hit 100 million views on Youtube.Vivek has worked on over 175+ songs.
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Judy Loman
#114727
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Judy Loman is a harpist and harp teacher, born and educated in the United States and active in Canada. She was the principal harp of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1959 until her retirement in 1991, and won a Juno award for Best Classical Album in 1980. She taught at the University of Toronto and established a summer school for harpists. Loman was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2015.
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Zygmunt Vetulani
#96171
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Zygmunt Władysław Vetulani is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in language engineering and artificial intelligence, professor of technical sciences and professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University where he is also Head of the Department of Information Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.
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Ann Ronell
#99955
Overall Influence
1906 - 1993 (87 years)
Ann Ronell was an American composer and lyricist. She was best known for the standards "Willow Weep for Me" and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" . Early life Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Morris and Mollie Rosenblatt. Ronell graduated from Omaha's Central High School in 1923. She enrolled in Wheaton College, Massachusetts, but transferred after her sophomore year to pursue a more serious music education. She graduated from Radcliffe College, where she studied music with Walter Piston. While at Radcliffe, Ronell wrote music for college plays and contributed reviews and interviews to the school's music publication.
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Stanley Cowell
#117579
Overall Influence
1941 - 2020 (79 years)
Stanley Cowell was an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label. Early life Cowell was born in Toledo, Ohio. He began playing the piano around the age of four, and became interested in jazz after seeing Art Tatum at the age of six. Tatum was a family friend.
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Howard Goodall
#134045
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Howard Lindsay Goodall is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards. In May 2008, he was named as a presenter and "Composer-in-Residence" with the UK radio channel Classic FM. In May 2009, he was named "Composer of the Year" at the Classic BRIT Awards.
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May Cutler
#132686
Overall Influence
1923 - 2011 (88 years)
May Ebbitt Cutler was a Canadian writer, journalist, playwright, and publisher. She founded Tundra Books in her home in 1967, becoming Canada's first female publisher of children's books. She served a four-year term as the first female mayor of Westmount, Quebec from 1987 to 1991. As a writer of "literary works" she used the pseudonym Ebbitt Cutler.
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Pascal Devoyon
#148319
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Pascal Devoyon is a French classical pianist. Biography Born in Paris, Devoyon began his studies with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi then with Lélia Gousseau at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won first prize in 1971. Then he became famous for his successes at international competitions: the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition , the Leeds International Piano Competition , finally the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow . Favourite in the final of this competition, the jury awarded him only the second place behind Mikhail Pletnev. The following year he began an international career and gave several concerts in Europe, the United States and the USSR.
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David Owen Norris
#158182
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
David Owen Norris, is a British pianist, composer, academic, and broadcaster. Early life Norris was born in 1953 in Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School. He took lessons locally from composer Trevor Hold before going on to study music at Keble College, Oxford where he was organ scholar; he is now an Honorary Fellow of the college.
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Jack Segal
#118888
Overall Influence
1918 - 2005 (87 years)
Jack Segal was a pianist and composer of popular American songs, known for writing the lyrics to Scarlet Ribbons. His composition May I Come In? was the title track for a Blossom Dearie album. Other songs he authored or co-authored are When Sunny Gets Blue, That's the Kind of Girl I Dream Of, I Keep Going Back to Joe's , A Boy from Texas, a Girl from Tennessee , After Me and When Joanna Loved Me . It has been estimated that his songs have helped sell 65 million records.
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V. Dakshinamoorthy
#95088
Overall Influence
1919 - 2013 (94 years)
Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy , was a veteran carnatic musician and composer and music director of Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films. His work was predominantly in Malayalam films. He has set scores for the songs in over 125 films, and composed as many as 1400 songs over a period of 63 years. Fondly known as Swami, he was instrumental in pioneering classical music-based film songs. Revered as one of the forefathers of the Malayalam music industry, he has mentored many of the renowned contemporary singers and composers including P Leela and K.J Yesudas.
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Karthik
#89941
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Karthik is an Indian playback singer and composer. Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung more than 8000 songs in 15 Indian languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi.
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John Rich
#119420
Overall Influence
1925 - 2012 (87 years)
John Rich was an American film and television director. He directed Colonel Humphrey Flack, I Married Joan, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Hogan's Heroes, Something So Right, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Where's Raymond?, Mister Ed, The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Good Times, Barney Miller, Newhart, Benson, The Brady Bunch, and Gilligan's Island. His feature film credits include Wives and Lovers, Boeing Boeing, The New Interns, Roustabout and Easy Come, Easy Go . He also participated in the live telecast of the opening-day ceremonies of Disneyland in 1955.
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Siri Tuttle
#104313
Overall Influence
Siri Tuttle is the former director of the Alaska Native Language Center, the Alaska Native Language Archive, and a former Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She specializes in Dene languages of interior Alaska and has contributed to the fields of acoustic phonetics, phonology, and morphology. She retired in 2021.
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Charles McPherson
#109709
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Joplin, Missouri, United States, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, who worked intermittently with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1974, and as a performer leading his own groups.
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again
#70408
Overall Influence
1999 - Present (27 years)
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden , known professionally as YoungBoy Never Broke Again , is an American rapper. Between 2015 and 2017, he released eight independent mixtapes and steadily garnered a cult following through his work. In August 2017, Gaulden was signed to Atlantic Records. In January 2018, he released the single "Outside Today", which peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song became the lead single for his debut studio album Until Death Call My Name which peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard 200.
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Jamey Haddad
#160345
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Jamey George Haddad is an American percussionist who works primarily in the fields of jazz and world music and specializes in hand drums. Biography Haddad is of Lebanese ancestry. From the age of four, he began playing Lebanese percussion instruments, such as the goblet drum. He later studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in New York City for over 20 years. In 2002, he and his family moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio. He teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. He is also artistic director of the Friday's at 7 series at Cleveland's Severance Hall.
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Thea King
#140345
Overall Influence
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Dame Thea King DBE FRCM FGSM was a British clarinettist. Biography Early life Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Henry Walter Mayer King, the manager of his family engineering business, and Dorothea . She was educated at Bedford High School and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where she studied the piano with Arthur Alexander and the clarinet with Frederick Thurston. In January 1953 she married Frederick Thurston but he died from lung cancer in December of the same year. She never remarried.
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Phil Madeira
#91565
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Philip Kamm Madeira is an American songwriter, producer, musician and singer. He was raised in Barrington, Rhode Island, and attended Taylor University, graduating in 1975. His songs have been recorded by The Civil Wars, Buddy Miller, Alison Krauss, Toby Keith, Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Hornsby, Keb' Mo', Garth Brooks, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Cindy Morgan, Shawn Mullins, The North Mississippi Allstars. His co-writing partners include Will Kimbrough, Matraca Berg, Chuck Cannon, Cindy Morgan, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Gordon Kennedy, Keb' Mo', and Emmylou Harris. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Danny Federici
#63469
Overall Influence
1950 - 2008 (58 years)
Daniel Paul Federici was an American musician, best known as the organ, glockenspiel, and accordion player and a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. In 2014, Federici was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.
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Marisa Merlini
#157582
Overall Influence
1923 - 2008 (85 years)
Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005. In Luigi Comencini's 1953 film Pane, amore e fantasia, she portrayed Annarella, a village midwife, who marries the local police marshal, played by Vittorio De Sica.
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Pascale Braconnot
#152425
Overall Influence
Pascale Braconnot is a Climate Scientist in the Climate and Environmental Sciences at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace. She was involved in writing the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports. Early life and education During her doctoral studies Braconnot worked on tropic ocean models using statistical methods. She is interested in the amplification of Asian and African monsoons during the holocene. Braconnot was one of the first to use a three-dimensional coupled ocean model to show the importance of ocean feedback in glacial inception. She has worked on El Niño and the Holocene insolation.
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Mohammad Kibria
#24316
Overall Influence
1929 - 2011 (82 years)
Mohammad Kibria was a Bangladeshi artist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1983 and Independence Day Award in 1999 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and career Kibria graduated from the Government School of Art at the University of Calcutta in 1950. In 1951, he came to Dhaka where he started his career as an art teacher at the Nawabpur High School. Kibria moved to Dhaka in 1951 and started his career as a school teacher at Nawabpur High School. In 1954, prompted by his teacher and mentor Zainul Abedin, Kibria joined the then Government College of Arts and Crafts as a lecturer. In th...
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