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List of the most influential people in Communications,

#3601

Scott Jarvis

#83365

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Scott Jarvis is an American linguist. He is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, United States. His research focuses on second language acquisition more broadly, with a special focus on lexical diversity.

#3602

Bernard Edwards

#43996

Overall Influence

1952 - 1996 (44 years)

Bernard Edwards was an American bass player and record producer, known primarily for his work in disco music with guitarist Nile Rodgers, with whom he co-founded Chic. In 2017, Edwards was selected as the 53rd greatest bassist of all time by Bass Player magazine.

#3603

David Tudor

#48344

Overall Influence

1926 - 1996 (70 years)

David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the first American performance of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950, and a European tour in 1954 greatly enhanced his reputation. Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated his Klavierstück VI to Tudor. Tudor also gave early performances of works by Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and La...

#3604

Bill Conti

#57148

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

William Conti is an American composer and conductor, best known for his film scores, including Rocky , The Karate Kid , For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty , and The Right Stuff, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky and for the title song of For Your Eyes Only. He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times.

#3605

Jerome Richardson

#76816

Overall Influence

1920 - 2000 (80 years)

Jerome Richardson was an American jazz musician and woodwind player. He played the soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, soprano clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, piccolo, western concert flute, soprano flute, alto flute, tenor flute, and bass flute. He played with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Kenny Burrell, and later with Earl Hines' small band.

#3606

Sylvia Harris

#84605

Overall Influence

1953 - 2011 (58 years)

Sylvia Harris was an African-American graphic designer and design strategist. She has been considered a pioneer in the field of social impact design. In honor of her memory the American Institute of Graphic Arts created the Sylvia Harris Citizen Design Award, which honors a professional designer who has created a project that enhances public life.

#3607

Mark Osborne

#78937

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director, writer, producer and animator. Biography Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Osborne grew up in Woodstock, Vermont until at age 14 he moved to Flemington, New Jersey and graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in 1988. He began his career by studying Foundation Art at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in June 1992. His thesis film, Greener, won numerous awards and was screened at more than 40 film festivals worldwide. He has...

#3608

Alexander M. Schenker

#57562

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Alexander M. Schenker was an American Slavist of Polish descent, professor of Slavic linguistics at Yale University, and the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies for his contributions to the field of Polish studies, as well for the general contributions to the development of the field of Slavic studies in the United States.

#3609

Françoys Bernier

#62938

Overall Influence

1927 - 1993 (66 years)

Françoys Joseph Arthur Maurice Bernier was a Canadian pianist, conductor, radio producer, arts administrator, and music educator. He served as the music director of the Montreal Festivals from 1956 to 1960 and was an active conductor and a producer for CBC Radio during the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the General Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec from 1960 to 1966 and then the orchestra's Music Director from 1966 to 1968. He was also active as a teacher of conducting at a number of universities, notably serving as the first director of the Music Department at the University of ...

#3610

Taylor Hawkins

#28956

Overall Influence

1972 - 2022 (50 years)

Oliver Taylor Hawkins was an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters, with whom he recorded eight studio albums between 1999 and 2021. Before joining the band in 1997, he was a touring drummer for Sass Jordan and Alanis Morissette, as well as the drummer of the progressive experimental band Sylvia.

#3611

Damiano Damiani

Damiano Damiani

#68281

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors".

#3612

J. H. Kwabena Nketia

#40240

Overall Influence

1921 - 2019 (98 years)

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world", with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit.

#3613

Wolfgang Unger

#53777

Overall Influence

1948 - 2004 (56 years)

Wolfgang Unger was a German conductor, especially a choral conductor, and an academic in Halle and Leipzig. He founded several choirs and focused on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. Like Bach, he directed the music at the University of Leipzig, called Leipziger Universitätsmusik.

#3614

Kevin McNally

#68778

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kevin Robert McNally, often credited as Kevin R. McNally, is an English actor and writer. He began his acting career in the BBC TV adaptation of I, Claudius , but is best known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

#3615

Melvil Poupaud

#93075

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Melvil Matthias Julien Poupaud is a French actor. Early life Poupaud was born in Paris, the son of Michel Poupaud and publicist Chantal Poupaud. He has an elder brother, Yarol, who is a musician. Career Poupaud made his film debut at the age of 10 in Raúl Ruiz's City of Pirates , whom he met through his mother. He subsequently appeared in nine more of Ruiz's films, including The Insomniac on the Bridge , Treasure Island , Genealogies of a Crime , Time Regained and Love Torn in a Dream . For his roles in Jacques Doillon's The 15 Year Old Girl and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's Normal People Are...

#3616

Jennings Bryant

#42295

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Jennings Bryant was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at The University of Alabama . Prior to his retirement in 2010, he was Communication and Information Sciences Distinguished Research Professor, holder of the Reagan Endowed Chair of Broadcasting, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at UA. Jennings Bryant was married to Sara Poteat Bryant for 43 years. He and Sara were the parents of three children. The Bryants lived on a family farm in the Mountain Valley Rural Agricultural Historical District in Glenwood, North Carolina.

#3617

J Dilla

#38137

Overall Influence

1974 - 2006 (32 years)

James Dewitt Yancey , better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer, drummer, rapper, and songwriter. He emerged during the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, as a member of the group Slum Village. He was also a member of the Soulquarians, a musical collective active during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

#3618

Anna-Brita Stenström

#102430

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Anna-Brita Stenström is a linguist whose areas of research include corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. She has initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language: The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language , Ungdomsspråk och språkkontakt i Norden , and Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente . She is Professor Emerita of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

#3619

Chris Stainton

#58756

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Christopher Robert "Chris" Stainton is an English session musician, keyboard player, bassist and songwriter, who first gained recognition with Joe Cocker in the late 1960s. In addition to his collaboration with Cocker, Stainton is best known for his work with Eric Clapton, The Who, Andy Fairweather Low and Bryan Ferry.

#3620

Stanley Turrentine

#67899

Overall Influence

1934 - 2000 (66 years)

Stanley William Turrentine was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s. He was described by critic Steve Huey as "renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone [and] earthy grounding in the blues." In the 1960s Turrentine was married to organist Shirley Scott, with whom he frequently recorded, and he was the younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, with whom he also recorded.

#3621

Bill Condon

#38411

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

William Condon is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and Beauty and the Beast. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters and Chicago, winning for the former.

#3622

Ian Wright

#102951

Overall Influence

Ian Wright was born in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. He studied mathematics at the University of Aberdeen before embarking on a career in music. His main interest outside music is travelling, especially when it involves walking and cycling.

#3623

Barbara Hendricks

#57357

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Barbara Hendricks is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citizen.

#3624

Jerry Bock

#66877

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Jerrold Lewis Bock was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Sheldon Harnick.

#3625

Thomas Newman

#55320

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including The Player , The Shawshank Redemption , The Horse Whisperer , American Beauty and The Green Mile , Pay It Forward , In the Bedroom , Road to Perdition and White Oleander , Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory , Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events , Cinderella Man , WALL-E , the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre , 1917 , and Elemental . He also composed the music for the 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America.

#3626

Nina Grønnum

#78865

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Nina Grønnum is a Danish retired phonetician and associate professor emeritus from the University of Copenhagen. She is best known for her work on the pronunciation of Danish and especially her many studies on Danish intonation and prosody. She went by her married name Nina Thorsen or Nina Grønnum Thorsen until the 1980s.

#3627

Fredrik Otto Lindeman

#87381

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Fredrik Otto Lindeman is a Norwegian linguist. He is professor emeritus in historical linguistics at University of Oslo. Lindeman works mainly with Indo-European languages. He has given his name to Lindeman's law, an Indo-European sound law concerning Sievers’ law.

#3628

Jørgen Rischel

#55666

Overall Influence

1934 - 2007 (73 years)

Jørgen Rischel was a Danish linguist who worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics, especially phonetics, phonology, lexicography and documentation of endangered languages. Childhood As the third of four sons of Lutheran pastor Ejner Rischel, Rischel's early interest in other cultures was stimulated by a gifted primary school teacher in the Kullerup Public School on Fyn. From the age of 11 he attended the Nyborg Realskole , where he developed interests in chemistry, biochemistry and ornithology. In the garden of the Kullerup rectory he carefully recorded in musical notation th...

#3629

Erich Leinsdorf

#59965

Overall Influence

1912 - 1993 (81 years)

Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.

#3630

Jim Foglesong

#77509

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

James Staton Foglesong was an American country music producer and executive from the 1950s until the 1990s, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Biography Foglesong was born in Lundale, West Virginia. As a teenager, he sang on a local radio show and in quartets and trios into his young adult years. He began his career in the music industry at Columbia Records' label in 1951, transferring 78 RPM records into LP formats. Over the next 20 years, he worked for RCA-Victor until moving to Nashville in 1970 to head the A&R division at Dot Records. He was named president of Dot in 1973 — the only president...

#3631

Carlisle Floyd

#71515

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Carlisle Sessions Floyd was an American composer primarily known for his operas. These stage works, for which he wrote the librettos, typically engage with themes from the American South, particularly the Post-civil war South, the Great Depression and rural life. His best known opera, Susannah, is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary rural Tennessee, and written for a Southern dialect. It was premiered at Florida State University in 1955, with Phyllis Curtin in the title role. When it was staged at the New York City Opera the following year, the reception was initially mixed; some considered it a masterpiece, while others degraded it as a 'folk opera'.

#3632

Pierre Léon

#76588

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Pierre R. Léon was a French-Canadian linguist and writer. Life and career Léon was born in Ligré, Touraine, France on March 12, 1926. He received a PhD from the University of Besançon in 1960 and a Doctor of Arts from the Sorbonne in 1972, where he also worked as an assistant professor. He was a research professor at the University of Besançon and taught at the University of Pau. He went on to teach at Ohio University and then at the University of Toronto, gaining professor emeritus status there. He founded the academic journals Studia Phonetica, 3L and Information et Communication. At U of T, he founded and headed the laboratory of phonetics research in the department of French Studies.

#3633

Chief Keef

#40771

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (31 years)

Keith Farrelle Cozart , better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, he began his recording career as a teenager and first garnered regional attention and praise for his mixtapes in the early 2010s. His first local hit, "I Don't Like" was released in March 2012 and soon became his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, spawning a remixed version from high-profile hometown native Kanye West. A bidding war between major labels resulted in Cozart signing with Interscope Records. A follow-up sing...

#3634

Susan Rogers

#7140

Overall Influence

Susan Rogers is an American professor, sound engineer, and record producer best known for being Prince's staff engineer during his commercial peak , including on albums like Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign o' the Times, and The Black Album." During this time, Rogers laid the foundations for Prince's now-famous vault by beginning the process of collecting and cataloguing all his studio and live recordings. She has also worked as a sound engineer and record producer for other musical artists such as Barenaked Ladies , David Byrne, Robben Ford, Jeff Black, Rusted Root, Tricky, Michael Penn, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Tevin Campbell.

#3635

James MacMillan

#64498

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sir James Loy MacMillan, is a Catholic Scottish classical composer and conductor. Early life MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is James MacMillan, a carpenter, and his mother is Ellen MacMillan .

#3636

Don Murray

#55878

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Donald Patrick Murray is an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop , which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of Rain , Shake Hands with the Devil , One Foot in Hell , The Hoodlum Priest , Advise & Consent , Baby the Rain Must Fall , Conquest of the Planet of the Apes , Deadly Hero , and Peggy Sue Got Married .

#3637

Dean Parks

#28079

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Weldon Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. In 1980, he was a founding member of the Christian Jazz Fusion band Koinonia. Parks is best known for his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, and Bread. Notably, he played guitar on Steely Dan's Royal Scam track "Haitian Divorce". Parks is also a long-time collaborator on David Foster albums, such as Shadows...

#3638

Michael Harris

#56472

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Michael Harris is a Canadian poet and translator. His book Circus was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. He has taught at McGill University, Concordia University and Dawson College.

#3639

Wayne Coyne

#47650

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Wayne Michael Coyne is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips. Early life Coyne was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Thomas Coyne and Dolores "Dolly" Jackson. The fifth of six children of an Irish Catholic family, Coyne moved with his family from Pittsburgh's Troy Hill neighborhood to Oklahoma in early 1961. Coyne grew up in Oklahoma City. Coyne preferred listening to music and playing pickup football. He, his sister, and his brothers dubbed themselves "The Fearless Freaks" for their brutal backyard football games.

#3640

Dora Bryan

#69241

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Dora May Broadbent, , known as Dora Bryan, was a British actress of stage, film and television. Early life Bryan was born in Southport, Lancashire. Her father was a salesman and she attended Hathershaw County Primary School in Oldham, Lancashire. Her career began in pantomime before the Second World War, during which she joined ENSA in Italy to entertain British troops.

#3641

Kirsti Koch Christensen

#56802

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Kirsti Koch Christensen is a Norwegian linguist that served as chancellor of the University of Bergen from 1999 to 2005. Kirsti Koch Christensen was born in Oslo. She received a master's degree in general linguistics from the University of Oslo in 1978. She has also studied at the University of Hawaii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University, and in Kobe, Japan. In 1991 Koch Christensen became a linguistics professor at the University of Bergen with special responsibility for Japanese. She had previously been an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Be...

#3642

Mira Nábělková

#79980

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mira Nábělková is a Slovak linguist. In 1975-1980, she studied Slovak and Russian philology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia. Since 1980, she worked in the Ľudovít Štúr Linguistics Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She defended her PhD dissertation Relational Adjectives in Slovak: Functional-Semantic Analysis of Desubstantive Derivates in 1989 . In 1991, she co-founded, and until 2000, organised the yearly international Colloquium of Young Linguists , a well-known and very popular event for Slovak, Czech and Polish university students of linguistics and young linguists.

#3643

Junko Itō

#42919

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Junko Itō is a Japanese-born American linguist. She is emerita research professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the daughter of mathematician Kiyoshi Itō. Education and research Itō received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1986 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the supervision of Alan Prince. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987 and remained there until her retirement in 2021. She served as chair of the department from 1999-2006.

#3644

Jiří Menzel

#66638

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Jiří Menzel was a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often combine a humanistic view of the world with sarcasm and provocative cinematography. Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.

#3645

Peter Bowles

#73300

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Peter Bowles was an English screen and stage actor. He gained prominence for television dramas such as Callan: A Magnum for Schneider and I, Claudius. He is however, best remembered for his roles in sitcoms and television comedy dramas, including: Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, To the Manor Born, The Bounder, The Irish R.M., Lytton's Diary, Executive Stress and Perfect Scoundrels.

#3646

Anton Gubankov

#54351

Overall Influence

1965 - 2016 (51 years)

Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov was a Russian journalist and civil servant. He worked as a television journalist until 2013. He served as the Director of the Department of Culture in the Russian Ministry of Defence from 2013 to 2016. In this role Gubankov popularised the term "polite people" referring to the unmarked Russian soldiers during the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. He died in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash when he was on his route to Syria with 63 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble with its director Valery Khalilov and 27 others which killed all 92 passenger...

#3647

Glenn Gregory

#63309

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Glenn Peter Gregory is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released several UK chart hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including “Temptation”, “Let Me Go”, “Come Live with Me”, “Crushed by the Wheels of Industry”, “Sunset Now”, “This Is Mine”, and “ Fascist Groove Thang”

#3648

Claus Ogerman

#73184

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Claus Ogerman was a German arranger, conductor, and composer best known for his work with Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, Michael Brecker, and Diana Krall. Life and work Born in Ratibor , Upper Silesia, Germany , Ogerman began his career with the piano. He was one of the most prolific 20th century arrangers and has worked in the top 40, rock, pop, jazz, R&B, soul, easy listening, Broadway and classical music fields. The exact number of recording artists for whom Ogerman has either arranged or conducted during his career has never been determined.

#3649

Jerry Taff

#67706

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Jerry Taff is an American former television anchorman for WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Early life Taff was raised in Lamesa, Texas. And he also lived in Anadarko, Oklahoma in the 1940s. His aunt and uncle had a small grocery store south of the school. Taff was a son of Doris and E.B.Teaff. He dropped this letter "e" from his surname around 1969. He worked in his grandparents' grocery store which was named Allen's Grocery. Jerry then worked as a bookkeeper at the Cameron Lumber Company, and served in the US Air Force. His family was living in Anadarko Oklahoma from 1942 to 1945, and then they moved to Texas.

#3650

Ljerko Spiller

#60398

Overall Influence

1908 - 2008 (100 years)

Ljerko Spiller was a Croat and Argentine violinist. Early life and education Spiller was born in Crikvenica to a Croatian Jewish family. After World War I Spiller moved with his family to Zagreb, where he studied violin at the Music School of Croatian Music Institute under Vaclav Huml.

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