The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#3351
Teo Macero
#50129
Overall Influence
1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and record producer. He was a producer at Columbia Records for twenty years. Macero produced Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and Dave Brubeck's Time Out, two of the best-selling and most influential jazz albums of all time. Although the extent of his role has been disputed, he also has been associated with the production of Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling record. Macero was known for his innovative use of editing and tape manipulation unprecedented in jazz and proving influential on subsequent fusion, experi...
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Lucille Tenazas
#87526
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Lucille Tenazas is a graphic designer, educator, and the founder of Tenazas Design. Her work consists of layered imagery and typography, focusing on the importance of language. She was born in Manila, Philippines, yet has spent a large portion of her life practicing in the United States.
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Victoria de los Ángeles
#73345
Overall Influence
1923 - 2005 (82 years)
Victoria de los Ángeles López García was a Catalan Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.
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Denise Welch
#74042
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Jacqueline Denise Welch is an English actress, television personality, writer and broadcaster. Her roles include Natalie Barnes in Coronation Street , Steph Haydock in Waterloo Road , and Trish Minniver in Hollyoaks . Welch also appears as a regular panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women .
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Jila Ghomeshi
#81259
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Jila Ghomeshi is a Persian-Canadian linguist. She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Diane Massam. She is currently a professor of linguistics at the University of Manitoba, where she has been since 1998.
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George Tscherny
#43866
Overall Influence
1924 - Present (102 years)
George Tscherny was a Hungarian-born American graphic designer and educator. Tscherny received the highest honors among graphic designers. He was awarded the AIGA Medal in 1988, celebrated in the annual Masters Series in 1992 at the School of Visual Arts, and inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1997. He worked in a number of areas ranging from U.S. postage to identity programs for large corporations and institutions.
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Keith Olsen
#36143
Overall Influence
1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Keith Alan Olsen was an American record producer and sound engineer, who worked with Magnum, Rick Springfield, Fleetwood Mac, Ozzy Osbourne, the Grateful Dead, Whitesnake, Pat Benatar, Heart, Santana, Saga, Foreigner, Scorpions, Journey, The Babys, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joe Walsh, 38 Special, and Eric Burdon & the Animals, among others.
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Beenie Man
#40844
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Moses Anthony Davis , better known by his stage name as Beenie Man, is a Jamaican dancehall deejay. Biography Davis was born in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1973. He was involved in the music industry from a young age, started toasting at the age of five, and was encouraged by his uncle Sydney Knowles, who played drums for Jimmy Cliff. He won the Tastee Talent contest in 1981, and Radio DJ Barry G introduced him to local sound system operators, who helped to establish the popularity of the young deejay, who became known as Beenie Man. He recorded his debut single, "Too Fancy", with r...
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Doc Severinsen
#49813
Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Early life Severinsen was born in Arlington, Oregon, to Minnie Mae and Carl Severinsen . He was nicknamed Doc after his father, the only dentist in Arlington, who was born in Germany to a Danish father and a Swiss mother. Severinsen's father played violin and wanted him to play it as well, but Severinsen wanted to play trombone. Because his arms were not long enough for trombone, and the small Arlington music store had none available, he settled for the cornet.
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Michael Harris
#64738
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Michael Terry Harris is a Canadian investigative journalist, radio personality, documentary filmmaker, novelist, iPolitics columnist and the author of nine books. Born in Toronto, Ontario, to Audrey McDonald and James McDonald, Harris is a graduate of York University in Toronto, and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar . His work has sparked four Royal Commissions of Inquiry.
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Labi Siffre
#65478
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Claudius Afolabi Siffre , better known as Labi Siffre , is a British singer, songwriter and poet. Siffre released six albums between 1970 and 1975, and four between 1988 and 1998. His best known compositions include "It Must Be Love" which reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart in 1971 , "Crying Laughing Loving Lying", and " So Strong"—an anti-apartheid song inspired by a television documentary in which white soldiers in South Africa were filmed shooting at black civilians in the street—which hit number 4 on the UK chart. The latter song won Siffre the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Music...
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Geneva Overholser
#68422
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Geneva Overholser is a journalism consultant and adviser. A former editor of the Des Moines Register now living in New York City, Overholser speaks and writes about the future of journalism. She advises numerous organizations, including the Trust Project, Report for America, SciLine, the Democracy Fund and the Public Face of Science project at the Academy of American Arts and Sciences. She serves on the boards of the Rita Allen Foundation, Northwestern University in Qatar and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Foundation.
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Mary Bucholtz
#52098
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Mary Bucholtz is professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. Bucholtz's work focuses largely on language use in the United States, and specifically on issues of language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; and Mexican and Chicano Spanish.
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Arnold Steinhardt
#47845
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Arnold Steinhardt is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet. Steinhardt made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Ivan Galamian and later in Switzerland with Joseph Szigeti and Toscha Seidel. In 1958 he won the Leventritt International Violin competition and consequently was invited by George Szell to take second chair in the Cleveland Orchestra's first violin section . He was later appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and University of Maryland.
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A'Lelia Bundles
#50438
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
A'Lelia Perry Bundles is an American journalist, news producer and author, known for her 2001 biography of her great-great-grandmother Madam C. J. Walker. Family and early life A'Lelia Bundles grew up in Indianapolis in a family of civic minded business executives. She was named after her great-grandmother A'Lelia Walker , a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and daughter of entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker. Bundles' mother, A'Lelia Mae Perry Bundles , vice president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company and active in local and state Democratic politics, also served as a member...
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Mario Davidovsky
#68504
Overall Influence
1934 - 2019 (85 years)
Mario Davidovsky was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape.
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Homer Mensch
#64116
Overall Influence
1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Homer Mensch was a prominent classical bassist who was a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Pops, and the NBC Symphony. Mensch held faculty positions at Yale University, at the Manhattan School of Music , the Juilliard School , the Mannes College of Music, Rutgers University, Dalcroze School, Queens College, and Catholic University. He taught upwards of 45 students a week from beginners, to conservatory students, to professionals both in the classical and jazz fields.
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Marta Dynel
#81235
Overall Influence
Marta Dynel is a Polish linguist and professor at Łódź University, Poland. She is known for her works on pragmatics and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Lingua. Career Marta Dynel received her PhD from Łódź University, followed by habilitation in 2012 and a full professor degree in 2022. She is affiliated with the University of Łódź and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, holding two research fellow positions. Since the beginning of her academic career, she has studied humour, irony, impoliteness and deception from both theoretical and empirical angles, based on film discourse and s...
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Peter Mullan
#51126
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe , The Claim , and all three series of the BBC comedy series Mum, in which he starred as Michael.
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Laura Brown
#60028
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Laura Brown is an Australian fashion journalist. She is a former editor-in-chief of InStyle magazine and former Features/Special Projects and executive director of Harper's Bazaar magazine. She graduated from Charles Sturt University, where she received a B.A. in arts and communications.
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Max H. Bazerman
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Max Hal Bazerman is an author and researcher whose work focuses on negotiation, behavioral economics, and ethics. In his most recent book, Better, Not Perfect, Bazerman provides insight into how individuals can make better decisions for themselves and for the world. In their 2020 book The Power of Experiments, Bazerman and Michael Luca describe how technology companies and other organizations are increasingly relying on randomized control trials to test their ideas, generating both benefits and costs for society at large. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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Arienne Dwyer
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Overall Influence
Early and personal life Arienne Dwyer is the daughter of flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, and a descendant of women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony. Career Arienne Dwyer has been a professor of Linguistic Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas since 2001. She is also an affiliate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. In 2010 she co-founded KU's Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities., and co-directed it until 2018.
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James Burton
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
James Edward Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 , Burton has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Critic Mark Deming writes that "Burton has a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest guitar pickers in either country or rock ... Burton is one of the best guitar players to ever touch a fretboard." He is ranked number 24 in Rolling Stone list of 250 greatest guitarists of all time.
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José Luis González
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Overall Influence
1926 - Present (100 years)
José Luis González was a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, short story writer, university professor, and journalist who lived most of his life in exile in Mexico due to his pro-independence political views. He is considered to be one of the most important Puerto Rican authors of the 20th century, particularly for his book Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays, which was first published in Spanish in 1980.
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Johnny Thunders
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Overall Influence
1952 - 1991 (39 years)
John Anthony Genzale , known professionally as Johnny Thunders, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of New York Dolls. He later played with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist.
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Robert Blackburn
#44952
Overall Influence
1920 - 2003 (83 years)
Robert Hamilton Blackburn was an African-American artist, teacher, and master printmaker. Early life and education Blackburn was born in Summit, New Jersey, to Janet Chambers and Robert Archeball Blackburn, who were from Jamaica, and he grew up in Harlem, where his family moved when he was seven years old. Shortly after moving, his parents separated and the family underwent difficult financial times. Blackburn's mother encouraged his artistic talents, but his father discouraged him. At the age of 13, he began attending classes at the Harlem Arts Community Center operated by the Works Progress...
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Nikolai B. Popov
#73121
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Nikolai Boris Popov is a translator. Life Popove graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova, and Paul Celan. On May 13, 2012, he fell into a crevasse while skiing near Whistler but was unscathed.
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Paolo Sorrentino
#50326
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento.
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Sabatino Moscati
#38894
Overall Influence
1922 - 1997 (75 years)
Sabatino Moscati was an Italian archaeologist and linguist known for his work on Phoenician and Punic civilizations. In 1954 he became Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Rome where he established the Institute of Studies of the Near East.
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Ronald Neame
#71953
Overall Influence
1911 - 2010 (99 years)
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects. During a partnership with director David Lean, he produced Brief Encounter , Great Expectations , and Oliver Twist , receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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Overall Influence
Yoni Appelbaum, an American historian and journalist, is Senior Editor for politics at The Atlantic. Appelbaum was previously a columnist for the publication. Early life and education Appelbaum is the son of Diana Muir Karter and Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum. He was born in 1979 or 1980. He has two siblings: Binyamin Appelbaum and Avigail Appelbaum. His grandfather is nuclear engineer Peter Karter. His aunt is entrepreneur Trish Karter. He was raised in Newton, Massachusetts and is a graduate of the Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Appelbaum holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Columbia University , and a Ph.D.
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Wau Holland
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Overall Influence
1951 - 2001 (50 years)
Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club , one of the world's oldest hacking clubs. Career From 1979 onwards, Holland supported the film historian Hans-Michael Bock with the development of the filmographic database CineGraph - a lexicon for German-language films, which appeared as a loose-leaf collection from 1984. In 1981, Holland co-founded the Chaos Computer Club .
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Lisa Beznosiuk
#97159
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Lisa Beznosiuk is an English flautist of Ukrainian and Irish descent, specializing in period performance of baroque and classical music on historical flutes. Biography and career Lisa Beznosiuk trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London, England. She studied modern flute with Kathryn Lukas and wooden flute with Stephen Preston, which developed her interest in early period instruments. She made her solo London debut in 1983. She has been a member of period-instrument orchestras The English Concert, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Baroque Soloists, The Academy of Ancient Music, the London Classical Players and New London Consort.
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Pierre Pica
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Pierre Pica , is a research associate at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Associated Professor with the Brain Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, he is a specialist in theoretical linguistics and more specifically of comparative syntax.
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Stephen Duffy
#48823
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member, vocalist, bassist, and then drummer of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother Nick. He has also co-written with Robbie Williams and Steven Page.
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David Bedford
#63738
Overall Influence
1937 - 2011 (74 years)
David Vickerman Bedford was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer.
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Sandra Dee
#53134
Overall Influence
1942 - 2005 (63 years)
Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as one of the year's most promising newcomers for her performance in Robert Wise's Until They Sail . She became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget , which made her a household name.
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David Denison
#87695
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
David Michael Benjamin Denison is a British linguist whose work focuses on the history of the English language. Biography He was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics and then Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, completing the latter tripos with an upper second-class degree in 1973. He earned his doctorate at Lincoln College, Oxford on "Aspects of the History of English Group-Verbs, with Particular Attention to the Syntax of the Ormulum". He was Smith Professor of English Language & Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester from 2008. Since March 2015 he has been Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics.
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George Young
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Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
George Ernest Young is an American jazz saxophonist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. After leading his own band in the late 1950s, Young became a New York City session and studio musician in the 1960s and joined several line-ups including Mike Mainieri's jazz-rock big band White Elephant Orchestra, as well as later joining the Saturday Night Live Band.
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Don Cherry
#62132
Overall Influence
1936 - 1995 (59 years)
Donald Eugene Cherry was an American jazz trumpeter. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation . Cherry also collaborated separately with musicians such as John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Sun Ra, Ed Blackwell, the New York Contemporary Five, and Albert Ayler.
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Luis Alberto Spinetta
#52096
Overall Influence
1950 - 2012 (62 years)
Luis Alberto Spinetta , nicknamed "El Flaco" , was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer, writer and poet. One of the most influential rock musicians of Argentina, he is regarded as one of the founders of Argentine rock, considered the first incarnation of Spanish-language rock. Born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano, he was the founder of iconic rock bands including Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, and Spinetta y Los Socios del Desierto. In Argentina January 23rd is celebrated as "Día Nacional del Músico" in honor of Spinetta's birth
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Penny Marshall
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Overall Influence
1943 - 2018 (75 years)
Carole Penny Marshall was an American actress, director and producer. She is known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley , receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.
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Milt Hinton
#66852
Overall Influence
1910 - 2000 (90 years)
Milton John Hinton was an American double bassist and photographer. Regarded as the Dean of American jazz bass players, his nicknames included "Sporty" from his years in Chicago, "Fump" from his time on the road with Cab Calloway, and "The Judge" from the 1950s and beyond. Hinton's recording career lasted over 60 years, mostly in jazz but also with a variety of other genres as a prolific session musician.
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Fred Mills
#61329
Overall Influence
1935 - 2009 (74 years)
William Frederick Mills was a Canadian trumpeter and educator best known for his work with the Canadian Brass quintet from 1972 to 1996. He also served as a professor for the University of Georgia from 1996 until 2009.
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Terry Bozzio
#42743
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Persons. Bozzio has been a prolific sideman, playing on numerous releases by other artists since the mid-1970s. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1997.
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James Mangold
#37980
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
James Allen Mangold is an American filmmaker. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy , and is best known for the films Cop Land , Girl, Interrupted , Identity , Walk the Line , 3:10 to Yuma , and two Wolverine films in the X-Men franchise with The Wolverine and Logan , the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the sports drama film Ford v Ferrari , which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and directed and co-wrote Indiana Jo...
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Elisa Pérez Vera
#27534
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Elisa Pérez Vera is a Spanish jurist, a professor of Private International Law at the National University of Distance Education and magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Spain from 2001 to 2012. In 1982 she was appointed Rector of the UNED, becoming the first woman rector at a Spanish public university. The UNED has instituted the Elisa Pérez Vera Award to recognize research work on gender or feminism.
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John Robinson
#25186
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
John Frederick Robinson , known professionally as JR, is an American drummer and session musician who has been called "one of the most recorded drummers in history". He is known for his work with producer Quincy Jones, including Michael Jackson's multi-platinum Off the Wall album and the charity single "We Are the World". JR's drum fill kicks off Jackson's chart topper "Rock with You", and his drum solo opens the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life to begin the number 1 song "Higher Love".
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Aldo Ciccolini
#84562
Overall Influence
1925 - 2015 (90 years)
Aldo Ciccolini was an Italian pianist who became a naturalized French citizen in 1971. Biography Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, whose family bore the title of Marquis in the city of Macerata, worked as a typographer. Aldo Ciccolini took his first lessons with Maria Vigliarolo d'Ovidio, and entered Naples Conservatory in 1934 at the age of 9, with special permission of the director, Francesco Cilea. There he studied piano with Paolo Denza, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and harmony and counterpoint with Achille Longo.
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Joan Donaldson
#83874
Overall Influence
1946 - 2006 (60 years)
Joan Marsha Donaldson was a Canadian journalist, and was the founding head of CBC Newsworld . She came to Newsworld from CBC's main network. Biography Born in Toronto, Donaldson first joined the CBC in 1967 as an editor with National Radio News. During her time with CBC Radio, she served as Senior Editor of The World at Six, Sunday Morning Magazine and various news specials. She reported from Viet Nam during the war, and later produced Michael Maclear's Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, a series of documentary films on the conflict. In 1971, Donaldson went to CBC Winnipeg as the producer of...
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