The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#8601
Elizabeth Minchin
#108968
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Elizabeth Hume Minchin is an Australian classicist and former professor of classics at the Australian National University . Until 2014 she was one of the two editors of Antichthon, the journal of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.
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Joe Temperley
#169877
Overall Influence
1929 - 2016 (87 years)
Joe Temperley was a Scottish jazz saxophonist. He performed with various instruments, but was most associated with the baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, and bass clarinet. Life Temperley was born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, and grew up in Lochgelly. His father was a bus driver.
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Mickey Roker
#111724
Overall Influence
1932 - 2017 (85 years)
Granville William "Mickey" Roker was an American jazz drummer. Biography Roker was born into extreme poverty in Miami to Granville and Willie Mae Roker. After his mother died , when he was only ten, he was taken by his grandmother to live in Philadelphia with his uncle Walter, who gave him his first drum kit and communicated his love of jazz to his nephew. He also introduced the young Roker to the jazz scene in Philadelphia, where drummer Philly Joe Jones became Roker's idol.
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Mayuko Watanabe
#112659
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Mayuko Watanabe is a Japanese journalist and media scholar specialized in media literacy, gender and sexuality. She had been a Senior Researcher and lecturer at Keio University Research Institute. Her research interest through nearly 20 years of career including as a TV news reporter has been the way of regulatory policy of obscene expressions. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of media communication and literacy of Japanese obscene content.
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Bill Hardgrave
#55267
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Bill Hardgrave is an American academic who currently serves as the president of the University of Memphis, a role he's held since April 1, 2022. He was previously the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Auburn University. Prior to his time at Auburn, he served as the Bradberry Chair in Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
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Danny McBride
#131344
Overall Influence
1945 - 2009 (64 years)
Daniel McBride aka Dirty Dan McBride was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Early life Born Daniel Hatton in Somerville, Massachusetts, and raised in Reading, Massachusetts, McBride graduated from Reading Memorial High School, class of 1963 and from Boston University College of Communication in 1970.
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Jack Wilkins
#126115
Overall Influence
1944 - 2023 (79 years)
Jack Rivers Lewis , known professionally as Jack Wilkins, was an American jazz guitarist. Career A native of New York City, Wilkins grew up listening to his parents' music, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday. He started playing guitar when he was thirteen. He had an older cousin who played albums for him by Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt, and Johnny Smith. He cited Smith's Designed for You as one of the albums that meant the most to him, in addition to Sounds of Synanon by Joe Pass, Poll Winners by Barney Kessel, The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow, and I...
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Peter Manning
#141797
Overall Influence
Peter Manning FRSA is a British conductor and violinist. Biography Manning was born in Manchester on 17 July 1956. His conducting career includes work with the Royal Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Edsberg Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Musica Vitae and the Soloists of The Royal Opera House. He is currently Concertmaster of The Royal Opera House and Artistic Director of Musica Vitae, Sweden, The Soloists of The Royal Opera House and guest Conductor Dallas Opera Texas USA. He is also Artistic Director of Manning Camerata, the classical group for the ...
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Vladimir Samarin
#154216
Overall Influence
1913 - 1992 (79 years)
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Sokolov , also known under the pen name of Samarin, was a Russian Axis collaborator, journalist, writer, researcher and educator. Following his work as a propagandist for Nazi Germany as one of the writers of the Rech newspaper, he fled to the United States and became a senior lector of Russian language studies at Yale University from 1949 to 1976. In 1982, he was targeted by the United States Department of Justice for deportation, bringing him national notoriety. Following the revocation of his citizenship, he fled to an Orthodox monastery in Montreal, Canada, where he d...
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Margaret Stratton
#125467
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Margaret Stratton is an American photographer and video artist. Her work in photography has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Her videos are represented by the Video Data Bank, and have been screened nationally and internationally, as noted in the Harvard Crimson, Wild Women Storm the Film Archive, The Berlin Film Festival. Awards include the Director's Award: Black Maria Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA.
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William Smith
#107837
Overall Influence
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
William Emmett Smith was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. Smith is also known for films like Any Which Way You Can , Conan the Barbarian , Rumble Fish , and Red Dawn , as well as lead roles in several exploitation films during the 1970s and 1990s.
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Jay Light
#163457
Overall Influence
Jay Light is an oboist and author. He is a native of Philadelphia. His teachers were John de Lancie, Charles M. Morris, and Norman Wells, jr., all of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a 1963 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. He was principal oboist of the Philadelphia Lyric and Grand Opera Companies and L'orchestre Symphonique de Quebec . He served in the U.S. Army as a military journalist and Armed Forces TV news anchor from 1966-69. He taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy and earned an MM degree from Michigan State University in 1972. Beginning in 1974, Light was principal oboist for the Des Moines Symphony.
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Frances Yeend
#143249
Overall Influence
1913 - 2008 (95 years)
Frances Yeend was an American classical soprano who had an active international career as a concert and opera singer during the 1940s through the 1960s. She had a long and fruitful association with the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1958, after which she joined the roster of principal sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera where she sang between 1961 and 1963. She also had an extensive concert career, particularly in the United States. By 1963 she had sung in more than 200 orchestral concerts in North American with major symphonies like the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orches...
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P. P. Arnold
#140236
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Patricia Ann Cole , known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American soul singer. Arnold began her career as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965. The following year she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Arnold enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom with her singles "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and "Angel of the Morning" .
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Nicole Burdette
#126844
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Nicole Maria Burdette is an American playwright and actress. She is also an assistant professor at The New School for Drama. Early life and education Burdette was born in San Francisco, the first of two children of Ellen and Lawrence Burdette. Her uncle is former governor of Alaska, Mike Stepovich whose daughter, Nada, is married to NBA Hall of Fame player John Stockton.
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James Purdy
#121869
Overall Influence
James P. Purdy is an American scholar of writing and rhetoric. He is an associate professor at Duquesne University and director of its writing center, and serves on the editorial board of Computers and Composition: An International Journal and Writing Spaces. His focus is on writing, publishing, and literacy in the digital age.
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Wolfgang Puschnig
#107646
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Wolfgang Puschnig is an Austrian jazz musician and composer. Biography After his studies of saxophone and flute at the Vienna Conservatory Puschnig was the founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra together with Mathias Rüegg in the mid-1970s. Here he was active until 1989. He was also involved in projects with Ernst Jandl involving Lauren Newton. He also played with Hans Koller in the early 1980s, with the quartet 'Air Mail' and 'Saxofour'. Carla Bley brought him into her groups in the mid 1980s. He worked with Wolfgang Mitterer, Uli Scherer, and his longtime partner Linda Sharrock and J...
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Emanuel Kiriakou
#78876
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou is an American songwriter, producer, record executive, music publisher and multi-instrumentalist, based in Los Angeles. He recently co-wrote and produced "Take You Dancing" by Jason Derulo, and has produced a number of Billboard Hot 100 charting singles including: "What's Left of Me" by Nick Lachey, "Crush" by David Archuleta, "Who Says" by Selena Gomez & the Scene, and "Tonight Tonight" by Hot Chelle Rae, which was #1 on the Billboard Hot AC charts, "It Girl" by Jason Derulo, as well as "Classic" and "American Dream" by MKTO. He has also collaborated with Celine Dion,...
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Colman McCarthy
#96568
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Colman McCarthy is an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Reader's Digest.
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Mark Frost
#170738
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Mark Stewart Frost is an English actor who has worked widely in both theatre and television. In television, Frost is known as a series regular as Steve Rawlings in Doctors, Jeffrey Simpson in The Bill, Tom Carne in Poldark, and Ray Crosby in Coronation Street.
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Jon Cleary
#120111
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Jon Cleary is a British-born, American funk and R&B musician, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Cleary is an accomplished pianist as well as being a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. Cleary has performed with a number of prolific musicians including Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, B.B. King, Ryan Adams, and Eric Burdon. Compositions by Cleary have been recorded by such notable musicians as Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, and John Scofield on his 2009 album Piety Street.
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Mikko Heiniö
#170426
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Mikko Kyösti Heiniö is a Finnish composer and musicologist. Life Mikko Heiniö was born in 1948 in Tampere, and studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen and piano with Liisa Pohjola at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 1971 to 1975, and then studied composition with Witold Szalonek in West Berlin from 1975 to 1977 while at the same time beginning studies in musicology at the University of Helsinki. He earned a diploma in composition from the Sibelius Academy in 1977, and a doctorate in musicology in 1984 from the University of Helsinki, where he lectured between 1977 and 1985 . He was appo...
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Leonid Nikolaev
#168984
Overall Influence
1940 - 2009 (69 years)
Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolaev , was a Russian conductor and a professor. Biography Leonid Nikolaev graduated from the Moscow Conservatory as a symphony and opera conductor under Balashov in 1963, and completed his postgraduate studies at the same institution under Shereshevsky in 1966. In 1972 - 1973 he studied in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky.
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Harold Danko
#156864
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Harold Danko is an American jazz pianist. Danko attended Youngstown State University. Among his credits are work in the big bands of Woody Herman and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, as well as smaller ensembles with Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Lee Konitz. He worked often with Rich Perry in the 1990s and also played with Rufus Reid, Kirk Lightsey, Jeff Hirshfield, Edward Simon, and Gregory Herbert.
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Gary Gygax
#94192
Overall Influence
1938 - 2008 (70 years)
Ernest Gary Gygax was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he helped develop Chainmail, a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare. He co-founded the company Tactical Studies Rules with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The next year, he and Arneson created D&D, which expanded on Gygax's Chainmail and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. The same year, he founded The Dragon, a magazine based around the new game.
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Tommy Smith
#145542
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Thomas William Ellis Smith is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Early life Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Scottish parents Brenda Ann Urquhart, and father, William John Ellis, whom he never met. Smith was brought up in the Wester Hailes area of the city, where he was encouraged by his stepfather, George Smith, an avid jazz fan and drummer in the Gene Krupa style, to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of twelve. When he was thirteen he attended a weekly jazz workshop under the direction of Gordon Cruikshank. He met pathologist and pianist Vincenzo Crucioli, who became a mentor.
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Mark Feldman
#121630
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist. Biography Feldman worked in Chicago from 1973–1980, in Nashville, Tennessee from 1980–1986, in New York City and Western Europe from 1986. He has performed with John Zorn, John Abercrombie, The Masada String Trio, Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, and Billy Hart.
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Ian Parrott
#121135
Overall Influence
1916 - 2012 (96 years)
Ian Parrott was a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions included the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem Luxor, and commissions by the BBC and Yale University, and for many leading British musicians. In 1958 his cor anglais concerto was first performed at Cheltenham Festival, and in 1963 his cello concerto was given by William Pleeth and the Hallé Orchestra – both concertos were conducted by Sir John Barbirolli.
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Colin Horsley
#170392
Overall Influence
1920 - 2012 (92 years)
Colin Robert Horsley was a New Zealand classical pianist and teacher who was based in the United Kingdom all his working life. He had a significant artistic association with the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
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Tiberiu Olah
#140106
Overall Influence
1928 - 2002 (74 years)
Tiberiu Olah or Tibor Oláh was a Romanian-Hungarian composer, teacher and musicologist. Biography Tiberiu Olah was born in Arpad, Bihor, and began his studies at the Cluj Conservatory in 1946. From 1949-54 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1958 he took a position as a lecturer and later as a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory. Notable students include Doina Rotaru, Costin Miereanu, Horațiu Rădulescu and Christian Wilhelm Berger.
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Peter Grant
#173152
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
Peter Grant is an English singer of easy listening and jazz music. Life and career Peter Grant began singing at the age of six and played at working men's clubs from the age of 12. He grew up in Guiseley, north-west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, and was a pupil at Guiseley High School.
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Clifford Jordan
#103592
Overall Influence
1931 - 1993 (62 years)
Clifford Laconia Jordan was an American jazz tenor saxophone player. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. He moved to New York City in 1957, after which he recorded three albums for Blue Note. He recorded with Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, and Kenny Dorham, among others. He was part of the Charles Mingus Sextet, with Eric Dolphy, during its 1964 European tour.
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Jas Waters
#112699
Overall Influence
1980 - 2020 (40 years)
Jas Waters , also known as Jas Fly, was an American screenwriter and journalist. She was a staff writer for the television series This Is Us and also wrote for The Breaks, Hood Adjacent with James Davis, and Kidding. Waters was a journalist in the hip hop industry, writing a digital column for Vibe Vixen in the early 2010s and starring in the reality show The Gossip Game. She advocated for the importance of black writers in the film and television industry. Waters was born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised by her grandmother in a senior home. After graduating from Evanston Township High School, she attended Columbia College Chicago.
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Paul Morris
#145106
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Paul Morris is an American musician best known as a keyboardist in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. He played keyboards on the Stranger in Us All album and co-wrote the song "Black Masquerade". Biography Paul Morris studied piano as a child in New York City. He studied under well-known jazz pianists, Lennie Tristano, Hal Galper, and Sal Mosca. He began his career playing with some local bands on Long Island named Vixen and Full House. He then played with Todd Wolfe in the band, Troy and the Tornados. Todd Wolf later became the guitarist for Sheryl Crow. In 1989 Paul got a call from rock drummer ...
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Wes Farrell
#93558
Overall Influence
1939 - 1996 (57 years)
Wes Farrell was an American musician, songwriter and record producer, who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. Career Farrell was born in New York, United States. Farrell's catalogue includes close to 500 songs that he wrote, produced and/or published. One of his earliest successes, Boys , appeared on the B-side of the Shirelles' 1960 number-one hit Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and in 1963 was covered by the Beatles for their debut album Please Please Me. Farrell's biggest chart hit as a composer – the McCoys' 1965 US number one Hang On Sloopy – remains one of the most performed songs in the history of popular music, according to the RIAA.
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Ronald Leonard
#172506
Overall Influence
Ronald Leonard is an American cellist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, principal cellist and teacher. He is currently on the faculties of the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School. He was a winner of the Walter Naumburg Competition while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole.
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Mark Baldwin
#98682
Overall Influence
Mark Lewis Baldwin is a computer game designer, most noted for his work on The Perfect General and Empire Deluxe. He has three games on Computer Gaming World's list of the best games of all time. He has formerly been involved with the management of several games companies, including Quantum Quality Productions, Moto1 where he was vice-president and White Wolf Productions where he was CEO.
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Yehuda Gilad
#72836
Overall Influence
Yehuda Gilad is a professor of clarinet at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School of Music. Education Born and raised in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. His former teachers include Mitchell Lurie, Herbert Zipper, and Giora Feidman. In addition, Mr. Gilad participated in numerous masterclasses with Sergiu Celibidache and Leonard Bernstein.
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Jean-Paul Jeannotte
#170616
Overall Influence
1926 - 2021 (95 years)
Jean-Paul Jeannotte was a Canadian operatic tenor, academic teacher, and opera administrator. He founded the Opéra de Montréal in 1979 and was its artistic director until 1989. Career Born in Rawdon, Jeannotte studied singing in Montreal, with Salvator Issaurel in 1944 and with Émile Gourthe the following two years. He then continued his studies in Paris, with d'Estainville Rousset from 1947 and Pierre Bernac from 1951 to 1953. He made his operatic debut in Cherbourg in 1947 as Vincent in Gounod's Mireille. He also appeared there as Piféar in Adam's Si j'étais roi. He performed as Bastien in...
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Deborah Bowman
#73985
Overall Influence
Deborah Bowman is a British academic, Professor of Ethics and Law at St George's, University of London. Bowman has written widely about medical ethics in both academic and popular publications, including the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Die Psychiatrie, International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine and JAMA. Bowman is the author and co-author of books, including a The Worried Student's Guide to Medical Ethics and Law, "Primary Care Ethics" and "Informed Consent" . She has contributed chapters to many books, including Kumar and Clark "Clinical Medicine" ,], "Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions", "Clinical Medicine for MRCP PACES: Vol.
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Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
#170317
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk is a Polish linguist and professor of English linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is the editor-in-chief of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. A festschrift in her honor titled Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk edited by Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, and Piotr Gąsiorowski was published in 2020 by Routledge.
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Noelle Barker
#175500
Overall Influence
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
Noelle Barker OBE was an English soprano singer and singing teacher. She was considered one of the most outstanding singing teachers of her generation. She taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Among her students was the soprano Sophie Karthäuser.
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M. Shadows
#59082
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Matthew Charles Sanders , known by his stage name M. Shadows, is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist and a founding member of heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. In 2017, Shadows was voted third in the list of Top 25 Greatest Modern Frontmen by Ultimate Guitar.
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Daisuke Namikawa
#156627
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
is a Japanese actor and singer associated with Stay Luck. He began acting as a child and is sometimes mistaken with Daisuke Hirakawa, as their names only differ by one character when written in kanji. Despite his wide range of roles, he usually plays young heroes, such as Mikage in 07-Ghost, Fay D. Flourite in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Jellal Fernandes and his counterpart Mystogan in Fairy Tail, Rokuro "Rock" Okajima in Black Lagoon, Jack The Ripper in Black Clover, Keita Ibuki in Black God, Goemon Ishikawa XIII in later instalments of Lupin the Third, and Yu Narukami in Persona 4. He has ...
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Ingeborg Reichelt
#156441
Overall Influence
1928 - 2022 (94 years)
Ingeborg Reichelt was a German soprano singer known for her interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography Reichelt was born in Frankfurt an der Oder studied in Dresden and at the Musikakademie in Hamburg . She also studied physiology. She graduated as a music teacher in 1950 and passed her concert exam as a pupil of Henny Wolff in 1953.
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Karthik Subbaraj
#73394
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Karthik Subbaraj is an Indian film director, writer and producer working mainly in Tamil cinema. Life and career Karthik did his schooling in SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Madurai after which he went on to study Mechatronics at Thiagarajar College of Engineering. During his college days he performed stage shows and skits. His father, Gajaraj, is an actor who has acted in many supporting roles in films like Mundasupatti and Kabali.
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Bill Boysen
#120713
Overall Influence
1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Bill Boysen was an American artist, specializing in the use of glass to produce three-dimensional artworks. Early life and education In the mid-1960s, Bill Boysen, professor emeritus from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, originated one of the first university-based blown glass programs in the United States. Both Boysen and glass artist Dale Chihuly studied under Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin. Littleton and Dominick Labino are widely credited with co-founding the studio glass movement in 1962 when they demonstrated glassblowing using "a small-scale glass furnace at th...
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Joseph Hermann
#108339
Overall Influence
Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is also the current President of the American Bandmasters Association.
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Giorgio Battistelli
#139757
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. A native of Albano Laziale , he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel. Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His opera CO2, based on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, premiered at La Scala in 2015.
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Udo Zimmermann
#122181
Overall Influence
1943 - 2021 (78 years)
Udo Zimmermann was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor. He worked as a professor of composition, founded a centre for contemporary music in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a European centre of the arts in Hellerau. His operas, especially Weiße Rose, on a topic he set to music twice, have been performed internationally, and recorded.
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