The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#8001
Rudolf Brucci
#159619
Overall Influence
1917 - 2002 (85 years)
Rudolf Brucci , was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb. He was married to Yugoslavian opera singer, . He began his artistic life playing viola in various orchestras, ranging from the cabaret to the symphonic. After moving to Belgrade, at the age of 30 he began his music studies as the only student of the composer , who was a student of the French composer Vincent d'Indy. In 1953, he took composition lessons with the Viennese composer Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Music Academy.
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René Kager
#172944
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
René Willibrord Joseph Kager is a Dutch linguist and Chair of English Linguistics and Phonology at Utrecht University. He is known for his works on phonology. Career Kager is a theoretical phonologist and works on child language acquisition. In his theoretical work he focuses on metric word stress and phonotactics in optimality theory and early perception of word prosodic properties such as tone, stress and rhythm, and segmental contrasts, in monolingual and bilingual infants. He is also involved in modeling aspects of phonological acquisition through artificial language learning studies. He ...
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Carol Stabile
#116958
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Carol Stabile is a professor in the department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2014, Stabile received an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for her work on blacklisted and conservative women's involvement in 1940s and 1950s television industries. Her project "examines the forms of employment progressive women were seeking in the new industry, as well as the opposition they faced from anti-communist men and women opposed to viewpoints they considered un-American." Prior to the ACLS fellowship, Stabile's peer-reviewed academic article "The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race, and the Broadcast Blacklist" received the 2013 Ronald D.
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David Effron
#40278
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
David Effron is an American conductor and educator. After earning a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music degree in piano from Indiana University, he worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Sawallisch at the Cologne Opera. Upon returning to the United States he served as a member of the conducting staff at the New York City Opera for eighteen years. He served as head of the Merola Program in San Francisco and artistic director of the Central City Opera in Colorado.
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Marty Walsh
#113421
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Martin Kevin Walsh is an American guitarist, songwriter, arranger, composer and record producer. In 1979 Walsh had the opportunity to play on his first Billboard charting song, "Love Pains", by Yvonne Elliman. During his career as a session musician in the 1980s, Walsh participated as a guitarist on hits "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" by Barbara Mandrell, "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton, "She Works Hard for the Money" by Donna Summer and "Heartlight" by Neil Diamond. Among Walsh's credits on albums of artists such as John Denver, Eddie Kendricks, Seals and Crofts, Julio Iglesias, Kenny Rog...
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Oleg Maisenberg
#129711
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Oleg Maisenberg is a Soviet-Austrian pianist and teacher. Early life and career Born to a Jewish family in Odessa, Oleg Maisenberg received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of five. He completed his studies at the Central Music School Kishinev and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Alexander Jocheles. In 1967 he won the second prize at the "International Schubert Competition" in Vienna, where in the same year he won the first prize in the competition "Music of the 20th Century". From 1971 to 1980 he appeared regularly with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra an...
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Ravi Coltrane
#102723
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Ravi Coltrane is an American jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has produced pianist Luis Perdomo, guitarist David Gilmore, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi. Biography Ravi Coltrane is the son of saxophonist John Coltrane and jazz harpist Alice Coltrane. He is the second born of John and Alice Coltrane's three children; John Jr. and Oran. Alice had a daughter Michelle prior to her union with John Coltrane. He is a first cousin once removed of experimental music producer Steven Ellison, aka Flying Lotus. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and was named after sitar player Ravi Shankar.
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Pretty Lights
#90520
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Derek Vincent Smith , known by his stage name Pretty Lights, is an American electronic music producer. Pretty Lights was originally a music project consisting of Smith and Michal Menert, who left after the release of their first album. Rick Rubin once described Pretty Lights as "the face and voice of the new American electronic music scene".
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Mamoru Miyano
#137670
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known for his roles on Steins;Gate, Durarara!!, Death Note, Soul Eater, Wolf's Rain, Ouran High School Host Club, Ajin: Demi-Human, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Free!, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Hunter x Hunter, Chihayafuru, Bungo Stray Dogs, Uta no Prince-sama and Zombieland Saga. He was nominated for the award for Death Note at the 1st Seiyu Awards and won the "Best Voice Actor" award at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair. At the 2nd Seiyu Awards, he won "Best Lead Actor Award" for his role as Setsuna F. Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and as Hakugen Rikuson in Kōtetsu Sangokushi.
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Malcolm McNab
#165416
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Malcolm Boyd McNab is a trumpeter and player of other brass instruments, and a Los Angeles-based session musician who has performed on nearly 2000 film and television soundtracks. Education Raised in the San Gabriel Valley, McNab began studying the trumpet at the age of nine, with his father as his first teacher. Later, he studied with Pasadena maestro Walter Laursen, and performed with the Pasadena Symphony at the age of fourteen while still attending Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra.
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Henning Christiansen
#108256
Overall Influence
1932 - 2008 (76 years)
Henning Christiansen was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Bazon Brock and Wolf Vostell as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Other collaborators include Bjørn Nørgaard, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tato, Ernst Kretzer, Ben Patterson, David Moss, Ute Wassermann, Andreas Oldörp, Christophe Charles, Bernd Jasper, Henrik Kiel, Vilem Wagner, Vladimir Tarasov, Niko Tenten, and many others.
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Jerzy Antczak
#116731
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
Jerzy Antczak is a Polish film director. His film Nights and Days was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival. Jerzy Antczak was the co-founder, Artistic Director and Chief Producer of “Masterpiece Theatre” which was produced on Polish Television. He is a professor at the UCLA.
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David Sawer
#121585
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
David Sawer , is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. Biography Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he studied music at the University of York where he began composing contemporary music-theatre pieces. He directed the UK premiere of Mauricio Kagel's Kantrimiusik at the ICA, conducted the UK premieres of Mare Nostrum and Szenario, and appeared as solo performer in Phonophonie at the South Bank Centre, London, and in the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain at the Royal Opera House.
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Akin Euba
#120393
Overall Influence
1935 - 2020 (85 years)
Olatunji Akin Euba , was a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. Career Born on 28 April 1935 in Lagos, Nigeria, Akin Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of fellow of the Trinity College London and fellow of the Trinity College London . He was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1962. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He held a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Ghana, Legon .
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Hanna Schwarz
#122509
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Hanna Schwarz is a German mezzo-soprano and contralto singer in opera and concert. In 1976 she performed the roles of Fricka and Erda in the centenary Jahrhundertring production at the Bayreuth Festival, directed by Patrice Chéreau.
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Margherita Buy
#100321
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Margherita Buy is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and seven-time Nastro d'Argento winner. Overview After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's Una grande storia d'amore , which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects It's Happening Tomorrow and The Week of the Sphinx . For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
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Byron Hurt
#124858
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Byron Patrick Hurt is an American activist, lecturer, writer, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. In 2010, he hosted the Emmy-nominated television show, Reel Works with Byron Hurt. His documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS in 2007. His film Soul Food Junkies received the Best Documentary Award at the 2012 American Black Film Festival and aired on PBS' Independent Lens in January 2013.
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Erik Martin
#129846
Overall Influence
1936 - 2017 (81 years)
Erik Martin was a German writer, songwriter and composer of songs. He was the founder and editor of the literature and art magazine Muschelhaufen. Life and work Erik Martin was the first-born son of Illa and Ernst J. Martin – both dentists and dendrologists; they were the founders of the Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen. His sister is the tree-and-bush expert Helge Breloer. Martin grew up in Kaldenkirchen, went to Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg and graduated at Thomaeum High-School Kempen. After studies in Aachen he worked as a teacher of German and Biology in Viersen, where he created schoolgardens and worked out environmental projects joining the German Waldjugend.
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Jean Micault
#138987
Overall Influence
1924 - 2021 (97 years)
Jean Micault was a French pianist and music educator. He was a direct descendant of Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes, a well-known French historian, writer and administrative expert of the 18th and 19th century.
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Jimmy Hamilton
#102913
Overall Influence
1917 - 1994 (77 years)
Jimmy Hamilton was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Biography Hamilton was born in Dillon, South Carolina, United States, and grew up in Philadelphia. Having learned to play piano and brass instruments, in the 1930s he started playing the latter in local bands before switching to clarinet and saxophone. During this time he studied with clarinet teacher Leon Russianoff. In 1939, he played with Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Mundy, and Bill Doggett, going on to join the Teddy Wilson sextet in 1940. After two years with Wilson, he played wit...
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Russell Oberlin
#142985
Overall Influence
1928 - 2016 (88 years)
Russell Keys Oberlin was an American singer and founding member of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua ensemble who became the first, and for years the only, countertenor in the United States to attain general recognition—in The New Yorkers words, "America's first star countertenor." A pioneering figure in the early music revival in the 1950s and 1960s, Oberlin sang on both sides of the Atlantic, and brought a "full, warm, vibrato-rich tone" to his recitals, recordings, and his performances in works ranging from the thirteenth-century liturgical drama The Play of Daniel to the twentieth-century o...
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Sándor Szokolay
#155208
Overall Influence
1931 - 2013 (82 years)
Sándor Szokolay was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest. Life Szokolay was born in Kunágota in a Lutheran evangelic family and began his music studies in Békéstarhos. Then he attended the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. His teachers were Ferenc Szabó and Ferenc Farkas. Between 1957 and 1961 he worked at the Hungarian Radio music department. Between 1959 and 1994 he was a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He retired in 1994 and moved to Sopron where he lived and worked till his death. His main works, operas, oratoria, are well...
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Julia Brown
#157399
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Julia Brown is an American-born artist who works in photography, installation and video. Her work is largely concerned with subject formation, visibility, invisibility and the political power of representation. Brown is an assistant professor of painting in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at George Washington University.
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Jason Moran
#108092
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Jason Moran is an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator involved in multimedia art and theatrical installations. Moran recorded first with Greg Osby and debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, Moran has released albums with his trio The Bandwagon, solo, as a sideman, and with other bands. He combines post-bop and avant-garde jazz, blues, classical music, stride piano, and hip hop.
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Eleanor Dickey
#86357
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Eleanor Dickey, FBA is an American classicist, linguist, and academic, who specialises in the history of the Latin and Greek languages. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Classics at the University of Reading in England.
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Larry Butler
#99259
Overall Influence
1942 - 2012 (70 years)
Larry Butler was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include Kenny Rogers , The Gambler , Gideon and I Prefer The Moonlight . Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers' 1993 album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD The Journey.
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Ron Miller
#117038
Overall Influence
1932 - 2007 (75 years)
Ronald Norman Miller was an American popular songwriter and record producer who wrote for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s and attained many Top 10 hits. Some of his songs, such as "For Once in My Life", have become pop standards.
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Manobala
#72200
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Balachander , known by his stage name Manobala, was an Indian actor, film producer, director, comedian, and YouTuber who predominantly played supporting roles in Tamil-language films. He worked predominantly in the film industry for nearly forty years and was notable for his unique body language and dialogue delivery and was also well known for his intonation.
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Bruce McDonald
#89507
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Bruce McDonald is a Canadian film and television director, writer, and producer. Born in Kingston, Ontario, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of the loosely-affiliated Toronto New Wave. McDonald has directed more than a dozen features films over the course of his three-decade-long filmmaking career. The Hollywood Reporter has called him an "iconoclastic filmmaker". Several of his films, ranging from mockumentaries to horror films, have attracted cult followings. His most notable films include Roadkill , Highway 61 , Hard Core Logo , Pontypool , Trigger , and Hellions . Hard Core Logo...
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Paul Young
#134789
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Paul Young is an Irish animator, illustrator, cartoonist, producer, and director. He is the CEO of Cartoon Saloon, a four-times Academy Award nominated and BAFTA nominated Irish animation studio. He co-founded the studio in 1999 with Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey. In 2015 he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has been a board member of Animation Ireland.
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Johnny "Hammond" Smith
#128307
Overall Influence
1933 - 1997 (64 years)
John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a renowned player of the Hammond B-3 organ so earning "Hammond" as a nickname, which also avoided his being confused with jazz guitarist Johnny Smith though this could lead to him being confused with Jimmy Smith , another Hammond great.
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Beata Tyszkiewicz
#140665
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Beata Maria Helena Tyszkiewicz is a retired Polish actress and TV personality. Career Beata Tyszkiewicz has worked mostly on the big screen but acted in several French TV movies, becoming famous through her portrayal of distinguished ladies in costume dramas like The Doll by Wojciech Has and The Ashes by Andrzej Wajda. She has worked with leading directors such as Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi, André Delvaux and former husband Andrzej Wajda. Tyszkiewicz has appeared in more than a hundred films.
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Justin Catanoso
#114223
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Justin Catanoso is the author of My Cousin the Saint -- A Search for Faith, Family and Miracles, the founding executive editor of The Business Journal , and the fourth director of journalism at Wake Forest University from 2011-2016, where he is now a full professor.
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George Wallace
#112135
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
George Henry Wallace is an American comedian and actor. Early life and education Wallace was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Mary Lou and George Wallace Sr. Wallace was educated at Lynwood Park Elementary School and Lynwood Park High School. His mother died when he was sixteen, prompting him to move to Ohio where he found a job with Firestone Tire. As part of the company's tuition reimbursement program, Wallace enrolled in the University of Akron, in Akron, Ohio. He studied transportation, marketing and advertising.
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Riccardo Garrone
#149881
Overall Influence
1926 - 2016 (90 years)
Riccardo Garrone was an Italian actor and dubber. Biography Garrone began his acting career in 1949 and attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1949 until his retirement in 2014. He made his debut in the film Adam and Eve directed by Mario Mattoli. He also worked in several theatre productions alongside other actors such as Vittorio Gassman, Diana Torrieri and Elena Zareschi.
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Nico Lange
#49301
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Nico Lange is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as Federal Minister of Defence Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s chief of staff since 2019. Early life and education Lange was born 1975 in Berlin and studied political science at the University of Greifswald. As part of his military service, he served in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo.
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Joan Maling
#170802
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Joan Maling is an American linguist and a former program director at the National Science Foundation. Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic. Her mother was Harriet Florence Maling.
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Barbara Dilley
#41008
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Barbara Dilley is an American dancer, performance artist, improvisor, choreographer and educator, best known for her work as a prominent member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company , and then with the groundbreaking dance and performance ensemble The Grand Union, from 1969 to 1976. She has taught movement and dance at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, since 1974, developing a pedagogy that emphasizes what she calls “embodied awareness,” an approach that combines dance and movement studies with meditation, “mind training” and improvisational composition. She served as the president of ...
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Julie Miller
#103245
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Julie Anne Miller is a songwriter, singer, and recording artist living in Nashville, Tennessee. She married Buddy Miller in 1981. They sing and play on each other's solo projects and have recorded three duet albums.
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Juliane Banse
#142565
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Juliane Banse is a German opera soprano and noted singer. Banse received her vocal training at the Zürich Opera, and with Brigitte Fassbaender in Munich. She won first prize in the singing competition of the Kulturforum in Munich in 1989. She made her operatic debut that year as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Komische Oper Berlin. In 1993, the International Franz Schubert Institute, whose jury that year included Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, awarded her first prize in the International Franz Schubert Competition.
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Bruce Molsky
#114220
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Bruce C. Molsky is an American fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer. He primarily performs old-time music of the Appalachian region. Early years As a young man, Molsky first became interested in blues music, but eventually became absorbed in old-time music while studying engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, beginning in 1972. His playing was influenced by the fiddling of Tommy Jarrell, whom Molsky visited in North Carolina in 1976. He recorded with Bob Carlin in 1990.
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Paul Hunter
#147377
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Paul Hunter is a Canadian television journalist for CBC News reporting from Washington, D.C., mainly on American politics. Hunter has reported from numerous places across Canada and the world, both as a reporter and correspondent reporting on events including the prime ministerships of Stephen Harper and Paul Martin, the Haiti earthquake, the inauguration of Barack Obama, the Montreal ice storm of 1998, the trial of Paul Bernardo and the American occupation of Iraq. In 2008 he was embedded for two months with Canadian troops in Afghanistan. His report "The Fundamental Day", which brought atten...
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Jeff Ballard
#138664
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Jeff Ballard is an American jazz drummer. He has played with Ray Charles and Pat Metheny and played periodically with Chick Corea in many groups such as Origin and the Chick Corea New Trio. He also played with many New York–based jazz musicians such as Reid Anderson, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon and Eli Degibri. He has also played with the Joshua Redman Elastic Band.
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Toshio Iwai
#94244
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Toshio Iwai is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design.
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John Shepherd
#118934
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
John Graham Shepherd CBE FRS is a British Earth system scientist, Emeritus Professor at University of Southampton, and a former director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He has worked on a wide range of environment-related topics, including the transport of chemical tracers in the atmospheric boundary layer and in the deep ocean, the management of marine fish stockss, and the dynamics of the Earth system. More recently he led a comprehensive review of geoengineering for the Royal Society.
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Charlene J. Sato
#169874
Overall Influence
1951 - 1996 (45 years)
Charlene J. Sato or Charlene Junko Sato, called "Charlie" , was a linguist known for her contributions to pidgin and creole studies. Life Sato grew up in Wahiawa and attended Leilehua High School. She was married at the time of her death. Sato died of ovarian cancer.
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Kenichi Suzumura
#151573
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer who is affiliated with and a representative of INTENTION, a voice acting company he founded in March 2012. He voiced Morley in Macross 7, Hikaru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Masato Hijirikawa in Uta no Prince-sama, Kyoichi Kanzaki alongside Hideo Ishikawa, Shinichiro Miki, Michiko Neya & Kazusa Murai in BOYS BE, Shiki Tohno in Tsukihime, Tsubaki Asahina in Brothers Conflict, Yuya Aso alongside with Megumi Toyoguchi, with Haruna Ikezawa, Oma Ichimura, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroshi Kamiya & Yukimasa Obi in Super Gals!, Atsushi Murasakiba...
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Barbara Schlick
#126918
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Barbara Schlick is a German soprano who is particularly admired for interpretations of the concert literature of the baroque era. Career Schlick studied singing under at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and in Essen under Hilde Wesselmann. She later pursued further studies with Rudolf Piernay and Gisela Rohmert. Starting in 1966, Schlick began to appear throughout Europe as a soloist with Adolf Scherbaum's Baroque ensemble. She appeared for the first time in North America in a tour with Paul Kuentz and his chamber orchestra. She has since appeared at major concert halls, performance venues...
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Maria Lidka
#160460
Overall Influence
1914 - 2013 (99 years)
Maria Lidka was a German-born classical violinist. She was born Marianne Louise Liedtke in Berlin into a highly cultured Jewish family. Her father was an appellate court lawyer, a role he lost in April 1933 with the rise of the Nazis. She was a student of Josef Wolfsthal and Max Rostal. She fled to London in 1934 and taught German and violin lessons, as well as performing with the pianist Peter Gellhorn and her housemate, cellist Eva Heinitz. In 1939, she played at London's Wigmore Hall. In 1941, she joined the Czech Trio alongside Walter Susskind and Karel Horitz. To sound Czech, she changed...
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Nathalie Magnan
#133319
Overall Influence
1956 - 2016 (60 years)
Nathalie Magnan was a media theoretician and activist, a cyber-feminist, and a film director. She taught at both universities and art schools, and is known for initiating projects linking Internet activism and sailing with the Sailing for Geeks project. She also co-organised the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1984. She died at home of breast cancer.
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