The Most Influential People Across History
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Daniel Silverman
#191311
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Daniel Doron Silverman is an American linguist and associate professor of linguistics at San José State University. He is known for his works on phonetics and phonology. Books In progress. Degenerative Phonology.2017. A Critical Introduction to Phonology: Functional and Usage-Based Perspectives . London: Bloomsbury Academic.2012. Neutralization . Cambridge University Press.2006. A Critical Introduction to Phonology: of Sound, Mind, and Body. London/New York: Continuum.1997. Phasing and Recoverability. New York: Garland.1984. Deaf Not Daft: a Reappraisal of Language for the Deaf. Edinburgh: Sc...
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Andrew Frierson
#183519
Overall Influence
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Andrew Benny Frierson was an American operatic baritone and music educator. He was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve success and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. In 2000 he was the recipient of the Legacy Award by the National Opera Association, an award given annually to recognize the contributions made by African-American artists to opera in America.
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Tibor Józef Pusztai
#187261
Overall Influence
1946 - 2016 (70 years)
Tibor Józef Pusztai was a Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He directed and performed with various orchestras around the world, winning multiple awards thanks to his performances and compositions. Tibor Pusztai died on January 10, 2016.
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Shin Il-ryong
#190895
Overall Influence
1948 - 2022 (74 years)
Cho Su-hyun was a South Korean actor and entrepreneur. He won a Blue Dragon Film Award in the category Best New Actor for his performance in the film Long Live the Island Frogs. Il-ryong died in May 2022, at the age of 73.
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Jason Nelson
#181919
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Bishop Jason Albert Nelson is an American urban contemporary gospel artist and musician. He started his music career, in 2005, with the release of, I Shall Live, by Jaelyn Son Records. His second album, Place of Worship, was released in 2008. The first album with a major label, Shifting the Atmosphere, with Verity Records, was released in 2012, and this charted on two Billboard charts The Billboard 200 and the Top Gospel Albums. His second album with a major label, Jesus Revealed, with RCA Inspiration, was released in 2015, which this charted on the two aforementioned charts.
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Gábor Máté
#184608
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Gábor Máté is a Hungarian actor and film director. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1976. Selected filmography External links
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Susumu Ogawa
#65476
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Susumu Ogawa is a professor of Innovation and Marketing, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan. He was a student of Eric von Hippel, and received a Ph.D. in management from Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1998. Since September 2016, he serves as a Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. His specialty is innovation and marketing.
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Bruce Wayne Hawkins
#191328
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
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Herbert Beattie
#188243
Overall Influence
1926 - 2019 (93 years)
Herbert Wilson Beattie was an American operatic bass and voice teacher. Early life and education Born in Chicago, Beattie studied vocal performance at Colorado College , Westminster Choir College , and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg . He also studied voice at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with John Wilcox and privately with Dick Marzolo in New York and Josef Krips in Buffalo.
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Rainer Küchl
#188104
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, 25 August 1950. Background He started to play the violin at the age of 11, and was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, at the age of 14, where he studied with Franz Samohyl. From 1971 to 2016 he was concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and also of the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera.
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Laura Anne Bossert
#189358
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Laura Anne Bossert is a violinist, violist, and pedagogue. She is a current faculty member at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Wellesley College and, during the summer, the Castleman Quartet Program. She is co-director and founder of LyricaFest in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Anna-Marie Globenski
#188435
Overall Influence
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Anna-Marie Globenski was a Canadian pianist and teacher who taught at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy from 1960 to 1963 and Université Laval for 30 years. She was an accompanist for the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, appeared on CBC Radio and CBC Television and recorded three pages of music from various composers. Globenski was a member of various juries and various music competitions in Canada and Europe. She established the Fonds Fondation Anna-Marie-Globenski in 2001. In early 2005, Laval's preparatory music school was named after Globenski to celebrate 30 years of her ...
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Julian Steckel
#190516
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Julian Steckel is a German cellist and academic teacher. Life Steckel was born in 1982 in Pirmasens as the son of piano teacher Vilja Steckel and violin teacher and conductor Helfried Steckel. He completed the Abitur at the old-language . At the age of five Steckel began studying cello to play with Ulrich Voss in Saarbrücken. Later he studied with Gustav Rivinius in Saarbrücken, Boris Pergamenschikow in Berlin, Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and Antje Weithaas in Berlin. After receiving prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" music competition, he was awarded a prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb of the Deutscher Musikrat in 2003.
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Richard Karpen
#182728
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Richard Karpen is an American composer of electronic and acoustic music. He is also known for developing computer applications for music and composition. Biography Born in New York City, Karpen studied composition with Georghe Costinescu and Charles Dodge. He received his doctorate in composition from Stanford University, where he also worked at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics . He joined the Composition faculty of the School of Music at the University of Washington in 1989. In 1994 he founded CARTAH, a center for computer-based research in the arts and humanities and ...
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Diana McIntosh
#186764
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Diana Maud McIntosh was a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hailed by the Canadian Encyclopedia as "a champion of 20th-century Canadian music", she premiered piano works by such Canadian composers as Peter Allen , Norma Beecroft , Robert Daigneault , Alexina Louie , Marjan Mozetich , Boyd McDonald , Jean Papineau-Couture , Ann Southam , Robert Turner , and John Winiarz .
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Richard Beaudoin
#184297
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Richard Beaudoin is an American composer of contemporary music. His music and writings explore compositional uses of expressive timing, or microtiming. Life Beaudoin was born in North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from North Attleborough High School in 1993, studied privately with bassist Mibbit Threats, and enrolled at Amherst College in 1993 where he remained for three years, studying with Lewis Spratlan.
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Robert Wykes
#179821
Overall Influence
1926 - Present (100 years)
Robert A. Wykes was an American composer of contemporary classical music and flautist. He began studying the flute as a child, then served in World War II. He then attended the Eastman School of Music, obtaining a master's degree in music theory.
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Andrés Díaz
#125146
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Andrés Díaz is a Chilean cellist, who performs with the Díaz Trio, which includes his brother Roberto Díaz, a violist, and violinist Andrés Cárdenes, former concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He won the First Prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition.
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Tamara Nizhnikova
#182341
Overall Influence
1925 - 2018 (93 years)
Tamara Nikolayevna Nizhnikova was a Soviet and Belarusian opera singer. Born in Samara, Nizhnikova attended the Moscow Conservatory before joining what later became National Opera and Ballet of Belarus. Prior to her retirement in 1976, Nizhnikova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and named a People's Artist of the USSR. She later received the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and the Order of Francysk Skaryna.
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Elisabeth Carron
#185997
Overall Influence
1922 - 2016 (94 years)
Elisabeth Carron , was an American operatic soprano from Newark, New Jersey, who had an active international career from the 1940s through the 1980s. In 1954 she portrayed the Young Woman in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street. From 1988 to 1996 she taught on the voice faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
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Baadur Tsuladze
#187788
Overall Influence
1935 - 2018 (83 years)
Baadur Tsuladze was a Georgian actor, film director, writer and broadcaster. Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR . Biography In 1961, Tsuladze graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK . Actor and director of the film studio Kartuli Pilmi. He worked as the director of dubbing. President of the Screen Actors Guild of Georgia, Member of the Board of the Union of Cinematographers of Georgia. She teaches acting at the Institute of Theatre and Cinema of Shota Rustaveli.
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Joseph Bloch
#178191
Overall Influence
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Joseph Meyer Bloch was an American concert pianist and professor of piano literature at the Juilliard School in New York City. During a career at Juilliard that spanned five decades, Bloch's students included Emanuel Ax, Van Cliburn, Misha Dichter, Garrick Ohlsson, Jeffrey Siegel, Şahan Arzruni, and Jeffrey Swann. During his time at the school, with the exception of an attempted retirement in the 1980s, Bloch taught every piano student at Juilliard. While other Juilliard piano instructors taught prowess at the keyboard, Bloch focused on what The New York Times described as "the who, the why and the what-if" of the piano, not "the how-to".
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Anders Nilsson
#191162
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Anders Nilsson is a Swedish composer. He made his début as composer with the first part of the trilogy Trois Pièces pour grand orchestre in Copenhagen . He has composed orchestral music, including three symphonies, several concertos, and chamber music as well as three operas: the first opera Klassresan to his own libretto received its première in 2003 and the second, Zarah , was premièred in 2007 at the Folkoperan in Stockholm. Zarah was performed 52 times and was seen by more than 25,000 people . The third opera, ¨Kira - i huset där jag bor¨ was created in collaboration with Charlotte Engel...
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Rosemary Glyde
#190262
Overall Influence
1948 - 1994 (46 years)
Rosemary Glyde was an American violist and composer. Focusing on expanding the limited repertory for solo viola, she wrote and transcribed many works for that instrument, including Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata and Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites for viola. She founded the New York Viola Society in 1992.
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Nils Vigeland
#185797
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Nils Vigeland is an American composer and pianist. Career Vigeland made his professional debut as a pianist in 1969 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He later studied composition with Lukas Foss at Harvard College, graduating with a B.A. in 1972. He earned his Ph.D at The University at Buffalo where he studied composition with Morton Feldman and piano with Yvar Mikhashoff. After graduation, Vigeland toured for eight years with percussionist Jan Williams and flautist Eberhard Blum, performing extended length works for flute, percussion and piano that Feldman composed for them.
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Mako
#187942
Overall Influence
1986 - Present (40 years)
, better known by the mononym name Mako , is a Japanese voice actress, singer and a member of the band Bon-Bon Blanco, in which her prominent role is as the maraca player. She has also performed in a Japanese television drama called Meido in Akihabara. She is affiliated with I'm Enterprise. Her anime voice acting debut was in Kamichu! where, in the ending theme song, her character also plays the maracas. As Hinako Hiiragi in anime Chitose Get You!! she plays maracas again, in the ending theme .
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Nduduzo Makhathini
#186142
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Nduduzo Makhathini is a South African jazz musician from Umgungundlovu, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Coming from a musical family, his love for music began at an early age. Makhathini has performed with Zim Ngqawana, Simphiwe Dana, Feya Faku, and McCoy Mrubata. Nduduzo completed his Diploma in Jazz Piano at Durban University of Technology in 2005, and obtained a PHD in music from the University of Stellenbosch in 2023.
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Vera Papisova
#187363
Overall Influence
1990 - Present (36 years)
Vera Papisova is a Russian-American journalist. Papisova was the first ever digital wellness features editor at Teen Vogue, and covered drug education, gender, identity, mental health, sexual health, sexuality, trauma, and wellness.
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Vladimir Orloff
#191177
Overall Influence
1928 - 2019 (91 years)
Vladimir Orloff was a Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher. Born in Ukraine, Orloff graduated at the Bucharest Conservatory in 1947. In 1953, he received the first prize of the Bucharest international competition. In 1957—1964 he widely gave concerts in Romania and other countries. He won 1st prize at the Bucharest International Cello Competition before joining the Vienna Philharmonic in the mid-1960s as a principal cellist.
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Hiba Kawas
#187844
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Hiba Al Kawas is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic. BIography Hiba Al Kawas was born on 17 July 1972 in Sidon, Lebanon. Career Composer Hiba Al Kawas has recorded 21 works of her own composition with the Dnepropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra-Ukraine under the direction of Vyacheslav Blinov, and 10 works with the Kraków Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wojciech Czepiel. She has recorded 13 works with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the National Choir of Kiev conducted by Vladimir Sirenko. In 2000, participated as a composer in the Kraków ...
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Terri Lyne Carrington
#189390
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Terri Lyne Carrington is an American jazz drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many others. She toured with each of Hancock's musical configurations between 1997 and 2007.
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Zsigmond Szathmáry
#187371
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Zsigmond Szathmáry is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor. Life Szathmáry was born in Hódmezővásárhely, near Szeged. He studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest from 1958 to 1963. He pursued post-graduate instrumental education at first in Vienna with Alois Forer and—after he moved to Germany—from 1964 at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule with Helmut Walcha. Parallel to this he participated from 1964 to 1967 in the Cologne Courses for New Music, studying composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockha...
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Sonya Voumard
#187725
Overall Influence
Sonya Voumard is an Australian writer and lecturer who has taught non-fiction for many years at the University of Technology Sydney and most recently at Southern Cross University. Voumard has published one work of fiction , two book length works of non-fiction and several articles for Australian newspapers, magazines and literary journals. Prior to academia, Voumard spent over 20 years as a journalist working for major newspapers and magazines in Australia such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Voumard's academic articles have also been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review and Island...
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Phil Ford
#187520
Overall Influence
1919 - 2005 (86 years)
Phil Ford was a vaudeville performer, musician, and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. Life and career Ford was born in San Francisco, California, on June 21, 1919. He started in show business at the age of 12 and joined the Army during World War II.
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Susanne Lautenbacher
#191360
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Susanne Lautenbacher is a German violinist. She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund and later with Henryk Szeryng. She was a prizewinner in the early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition. On some early recordings her name appears as Suzanne or Susi.
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Frank Petzold
#187766
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Frank Petzold is a German composer, conductor and jazz pianist. A composer of operas and other stage works, he has worked at theatres, from 1994 as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Cottbus. He has lectured music theory and jazz piano at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität in Cottbus from 2001.
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Kalman Bloch
#181637
Overall Influence
1913 - 2009 (96 years)
Kalman Bloch was principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 40 years. Bloch studied with Simeon Bellison, a notable clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic. As recounted by Dorothy Lamb Crawford in her 2009 book "A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California," Bloch was hired at the age of 21 by then music director and recent Jewish emigre Otto Klemperer just before the onset of World War II.
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Mark Kligman
#182214
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Mark L. Kligman is the Mickey Katz Chair Professor of Jewish Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, a Chair position which was endowed by Katz's family in 2014. and also a published author of 5 books, the highest of which is in 150 libraries. He is also a board member of the Association for Jewish Studies and is the editor of the association's journal, Musica Judaica. He also authored a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts.
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Vladimir Blok
#189162
Overall Influence
1932 - 1996 (64 years)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Blok was a Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator of the works of Prokofiev, of Udmurt ethnicity.V.M. Blok is to be distinguished from the Russian theatre critic Vladimir Borisovich Blok
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Thomas Duis
#181544
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Thomas Duis is a German pianist. Duis studied with Kurt Gerecke in Wiesbaden, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and Fanny Waterman in Leeds. He was the top-ranking pianist at the 1986 Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv , and was awarded 2nd prize at the 1986 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and 3rd prizes at the 1985 Sydney Competition and the 1987 ARD Competition in Munich. Duis had his discographical debut for EMI, and has performed internationally since.
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Alan Baer
#175749
Overall Influence
Alan Baer is an American tuba player who is Principal Tuba for the New York Philharmonic. He has also been principal tuba with several other orchestras including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, he has performed and recorded with the Cleveland Orchestra led by Vladimir Ashkenazy, performances with the Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a featured soloist, touring several countries in ...
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Petras Kunca
#179999
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Petras Kunca is a Lithuanian violinist, awarded the National Prize of Lithuania and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. For 31 years he performed with the Vilnius Quartet. In 1965 Kunca graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory. He took further courses on violin and chamber music in Hungary , Finland , Spain , Sweden , Denmark , Austria .
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Agustin Anievas
#188708
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Agustin Anievas is an American pianist, specializing in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Anievas made his world professional debut in 1944, the first child to give a piano recital at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, and at 18 made his New York debut with the Little Orchestra Society. In 1953 he appeared on the CBS television network's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, playing Chopin's "Heroic" Polonaise in A-flat, Op. 53. As a student of Eduard Steuermann and Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School, he earned his B.S. and M.S. in 1958. He was the winner o...
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Helen Huang
#188848
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Helen Huang is a classical pianist. She began studying piano in 1987, performing and touring with major symphony orchestras. Musical career Huang was born in Ibaraki, Japan, of Taiwanese parents. Her family moved to the United States in 1985 and Huang began her piano study in 1987. She attended the Manhattan School of Music, and then the Juilliard School, where she studied with the Israeli pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky, graduating in 2004.
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Fred Foster
#185525
Overall Influence
1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Fred Luther Foster was an American record producer, songwriter, and music business executive who founded Monument Records. As a record producer he was most closely associated with Roy Orbison, and was also involved in the early careers of Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. Foster suggested to Kris Kristofferson the title and theme of "Me and Bobby McGee", which became a hit for Kristofferson, Roger Miller, and Janis Joplin, and for which Foster received a co-writing credit.
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Budimir Metalnikov
#186614
Overall Influence
1925 - 2001 (76 years)
Budimir Alekseyevich Metalnikov was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. Early years Metalnikov was born in Moscow into an educated Russian family of chemical engineers. His father Aleksei Petrovich Metalnikov came from peasants. He was working as the chief engineer at the Apatit enterprise when he was arrested in 1937. Budimir's mother Zinaida Georgiyevna Metalnikova was also arrested shortly after. The 12-year-old Budimir and his 3-year-old sister Marina were taken to the NKVD reception center for children of enemies of the people situated in the Danilov Monastery. The child...
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Bernhard Wulff
#187175
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Bernhard Wulff is a German composer, conductor, percussionist and musicologist. Wulff studied conducting, composition and percussion in Hamburg, Freiburg, Basel and Siena and is professor for percussion instruments at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
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Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
#185907
Overall Influence
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is a Nigerian university professor whose work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts; African refugees, gender and politics; democracy; and African politics. She has published multiple books on women's issues in Africa, an editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and the Journal of International Politics and Development.
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Heather O'Donnell
#180783
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Heather O'Donnell is an American classical pianist and psychologist living in Düsseldorf, Germany. Life O'Donnell was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1973. She began studying piano at the age of five, her most influential teachers were Charles Milgrim, Stephen Drury and Peter Serkin. She also worked closely with Yvonne Loriod, Emanuel Ax, and Claude Helffer. O'Donnell studied at New England Conservatory and Mannes College of Music, and took several courses in Philosophy and Literature at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University, and was the teaching assistant of philosopher Pau...
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Kaisa Melanton
#170343
Overall Influence
1920 - 2012 (92 years)
Kaisa Brita Melanton née Björklund was a pioneering Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for the large, post-modernist works she created for local authorities, theatres and churches. She employed a variety of techniques including embroidery and weaving. From 1969 to 1979, she served as head of the textile department at Konstfack, the Swedish University of Arts, Crafts and Design, and in 1974 was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
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