The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
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Marius Sala
#87101
Overall Influence
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
Marius Sala was a Romanian linguist, member of the Romanian Academy. His activity gained international academic recognition in the study of Romance languages. Professional activity Marius Sala received his PhD. in Philology in 1967 with the thesis "The Phonetics and Phonology of Judeo-Spanish" at University of Bucharest. He started his work in 1953 as a researcher at Romanian Academy's Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan-Al.Rosetti", an institution he presided from 1994 until 2017. Along with being a full member of Romanian Academy , he was also its vice-president from 2006 until 2014. Oth...
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Karyn Pugliese
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Overall Influence
Karyn Pugliese is a Canadian broadcast journalist and communications specialist, of Algonquin descent. She is member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation in Ontario. She is a Nieman Fellow, Class of 2020, Harvard University and has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists with a Charles Bury Award for her leadership supporting journalists and fighting for media rights. In 2018 the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented Pugliese with the organization's annual Gordon Sinclair Award for distinguished achievement in journalism at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
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Gary Lucas
#68251
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, songwriter, and composer who was a member of Captain Beefheart's band. He formed the band Gods and Monsters in 1989. Lucas has released more than 50 albums to date as a solo artist or band leader in a variety of genres, touring internationally.
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Kara Walker
#45388
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award. She has been the Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University since 2015.
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David Campbell
#28546
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
David Richard Campbell is a Canadian-American arranger, composer, and conductor. He has composed and arranged music for many films, including North Country , Brokeback Mountain , August: Osage County , Annie , Foxcatcher , Rock of Ages , Dreamgirls , and Joy . He has also worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums by artists of a wide range of genres, including The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Radiohead, Evanescence, Rush, Beyoncé, Muse, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Aerosmith, Garth Brooks, and various albums by his son Beck.
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Ian Hunter
#77833
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Ian Hunter is a visual effects artist. He won two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects for the 2014 film, Interstellar, at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015 and for the 2018 film, First Man, at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019.
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Anna Giacalone Ramat
#87676
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Anna Giacalone Ramat, born Anna Giacalone in Forlì, Italy, 17 June 1937, is an Italian linguist known for her work on grammaticalization and language acquisition. Biography Anna Giacalone graduated from the University of Florence in 1959, subsequently studying Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit and Germanic linguistics at the University of Würzburg and Saarland University, before taking up a position as teaching assistant and then assistant professor at the University of Cagliari. During the 1970s she held professorial positions at the University of Messina and the University of Milan; she ...
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Robert Lopez
#46482
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films Frozen, its sequel Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. He is one of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT". He additionally holds the distinctions of being the youngest person to win an EGOT, and winning the awards across the shortest period of time: he won all four in the span of ten years and completed the set at the age of 39.
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Leo Villareal
#31887
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Leo Villareal is an American artist. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays. He is living and working in New York City. Early life and education Villareal was born in 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in El Paso on both sides of the border. He graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in 1986. He received a BA degree in Sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, in the Interactive Telecommunications Program .
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Ernie Watts
#48425
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Ernest James Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's album The Grand Wazoo he played the "Mystery Horn", a straight-necked C melody saxophone. He played the notable saxophone riff on "The One You Love" by Glenn Frey.
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A. J. Aitken
#66363
Overall Influence
1921 - 1998 (77 years)
Adam Jack Aitken was a Scottish lexicographer and leading scholar of the Scots language. Education and military service Aitken was born on 19 June 1921 in Edinburgh, grew up in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and was educated at Lasswade High School. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Adam Aitken, a miner, and his first wife Alexandrina Sutherland, who died when Jack was about nine. He suffered neglect as a step-child, but his minister, Rev. Oliver Dryer, helped him to leave home at the age of sixteen. He was able to continue his education thanks to a school bursary. As the son of...
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Laura DeNardis
#30641
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Laura DeNardis is an American author and a scholar of Internet governance and technical infrastructure. She is the Professor and Endowed Chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown University. DeNardis is an affiliated Fellow of the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School and served as its executive director from 2008 to 2011. She previously served as a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. With a background in information technology engineering and a doctorate i...
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Sigala
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Overall Influence
1993 - Present (33 years)
Bruce Fielder , known professionally as Sigala, is an English DJ and record producer. He has had eight songs peak within the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, including his 2015 debut single "Easy Love", which samples "ABC" by the Jackson 5. He took on the stage name “Sigala”, after the family name of an old ancestor of his on his mother’s side.
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Jonathan Aronson
#80277
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jonathan Aronson is professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California as well as professor of international relations at USC. Aronson writes on issues related to international communication policy, globalization and international trade and trade negotiations. His current research focuses on ways in which communication and network developments related to privacy, equity, standard setting, competition policy, and international intellectual property shape the path of globalization. His most recent writings consider the impli...
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Rone Tempest
#62072
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Rone Tempest is a Salt Lake City, UT-based American author and investigative reporter. He won a 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Working for the Los Angeles Times, he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, for its coverage of the Old Fire, a wildfire in October 2003. He is a frequent contributor to the nonprofit Wyoming news site wyofile.com that he cofounded with Christopher Findlater in 2008. In 2018 he joined the board of the non-profit Utah Investigative Journalism Project for which he contributes occasional articles to the Salt Lake Tribune. He is t...
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Jimmy Cleveland
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2008 (82 years)
James Milton Cleveland was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee. Cleveland was signed by EmArcy Records in 1955. Cleveland was married to jazz vocalist Janet Thurlow. He died on August 23, 2008, in Lynwood, California, at the age of 82. He was buried beside his wife at Riverside National Cemetery.
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Bill Burr
#45569
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
William Frederick Burr is an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and podcaster. He has released multiple stand-up comedy specials, including You People Are All the Same , I'm Sorry You Feel That Way , Walk Your Way Out , and Paper Tiger . He received a Grammy Award nomination for Paper Tiger, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the dark comedy series Immoral Compass . In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him at No. 17 on their list of the "50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time".
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Jeffrey Anderson
#94329
Overall Influence
1928 - 2014 (86 years)
Jeffrey William Anderson was a Canadian music critic, journalist, and television and radio producer. Background Born in Winnipeg, Anderson was the son of English-born composer W. H. Anderson and the brother of soprano and actress Evelyne Anderson. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1951 from the University of Winnipeg and a Master of Philosophy in history from the University of London in 1960. Although not a musician by profession, he studied both the organ and piano with H. Hugh Bancroft and is recognized as an authority on British composers.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
#45395
Overall Influence
1948 - 1997 (49 years)
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali — a form of Sufi devotional music. Often called the "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali" , he is considered by The New York Times to be the greatest qawwali singer of his generation. He was described as the fourth greatest singer of all time by LA Weekly in 2016. He was known for his vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours. Khan is widely credited with introducing qawwali music to international audiences. He was also a master in Hindustani classi...
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Sivaji Ganesan
#30631
Overall Influence
1928 - 2001 (73 years)
Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ganesan is acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian actors of all time and among the most imitated one by other actors. He was known for his versatility and the variety of roles he depicted on screen, which gave him also the Tamil nickname Nadigar Thilagam . In a career that spanned close to five decades, he had acted in 288 films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Sivaji Ga...
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Todd Boyd
#15905
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Todd Boyd, aka "Notorious Ph.D.", is the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race & Popular Culture and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Boyd is a media commentator, author, producer, consultant and scholar. He is considered an expert on American popular culture and is known for his pioneering work on cinema, media, hip hop culture, fashion, art and sports. Boyd received his PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa in 1991 and began his professorial career at USC in the fall of 1992.
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Michael Stohl
#43060
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Michael Stohl is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He researches organizational and political communication with special focus on terrorism, human rights and global relations. He has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio, NBC, and CBS for stories on terrorism and human rights. He has been critical of the George W. Bush administration's understanding of terrorism networks during the War on Terrorism.
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Whitney Crothers Dilley
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Whitney Crothers Dilley is an American professor of comparative literature and cinema studies. She is best known as the author of the 2007 monograph The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen, published by Wallflower Press, and distributed in the United States by Columbia University Press.
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Lindsey Stirling
#43559
Overall Influence
1986 - Present (40 years)
Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, songwriter, and dancer. She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007.
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Robin Gianattassio-Malle
#68537
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Robin Gianattassio-Malle is an American journalist and producer specializing in the use of aural and visual media and is founder and executive director of Blue Egg Media, established in 2008. Gianattassio-Malle lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former Director of The Center for Word, Text and Image, she is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the California College of the Arts , where she teaches courses using interview as a medium for the Upper Division Interdisciplinary Department as well as the V...
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Jean–marc Dewaele
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Overall Influence
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Bernard Miles
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Overall Influence
1907 - 1991 (84 years)
Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in London in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the City of London since the 17th century.
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Pete Brewton
#34088
Overall Influence
Pete Brewton teaches journalism and law at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Brewton is best known for an investigative journalism series he wrote for the Houston Post that were the basis of a book, The Mafia, CIA and George Bush. He is a journalist with 15 years reporting experience at the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Post. He practiced law in Houston for five years.
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Richard Brooks
#70089
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Richard Brooks is a British investigative journalist and former tax inspector. He writes principally for Private Eye, is the author of books on accountancy and tax avoidance, and was a 16-year senior corporate tax inspector for HMRC. He is the joint winner of two Paul Foot Awards, an annual award for investigative or campaigning journalism.
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Robert B. Semple Jr.
#36792
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Robert B. Semple Jr. is the associate editor of The New York Times editorial page, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Semple was raised in Michigan and educated at Andover, and Yale University, where he was Chairman of the Yale Daily News and was elected to Elihu, a senior society. Semple subsequently received an M.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961.
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Leo Brouwer
#68125
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council. Family He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona y Casado. His great-uncle, Ernesto Lecuona, composed "La Malagueña" and his second cousin, Margarita Lecuona, composed "Babalú", which was popularized by Cuban musician and actor Desi Arnaz.
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John Giblin
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Overall Influence
1952 - 2023 (71 years)
John Giblin was a Scottish musician who worked as an acoustic and electric bass player spanning jazz, classical, rock, folk, and avant-garde music. Career Best known as a studio musician, recording film scores and contemporary music, Giblin also performed live and recorded with Peter Gabriel, John Martyn, Elkie Brooks, Annie Lennox, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Phil Collins, Empire with Peter Banks, Fish, rock/pop band Simple Minds,and has been closely associated with artists ranging from Kate Bush, Jon Anderson , to jazz fusion group Brand X, and with the avant-garde recordings by Scott Walker...
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Matthew Fisher
#71982
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Matthew Charles Fisher is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", for which he subsequently won a songwriting credit. In his later life he became a computer programmer, having qualified from Cambridge University.
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Marcella Detroit
#58051
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Marcella Levy , known professionally as Marcy Levy and Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit "Lay Down Sally" and released her debut studio album Marcella in 1982. She joined Shakespears Sister in 1988 with ex-Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey. Their first two studio albums, Sacred Heart , and Hormonally Yours , both reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. Detroit sang the lead vocals on their biggest hit, "Stay", which spent eight consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1992. Detroit left the band in 1993 and had a UK top 20 hit with "I Believe" in 1994.
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Roger Avary
#48134
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Roger Roberts Avary is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, Lucky Day, and wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill and Beowulf.
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Nico Muhly
#63877
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Nico Asher Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles and has had two operas commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Since 2006, he has released nine studio albums, many of which are collaborative, including 2017's Planetarium with Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner & James McAlister. He is a member of the Icelandic music collective and record label Bedroom Community.
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Fred Durst
#14414
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
William Frederick Durst is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and director. He is the frontman and lyricist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has released nine studio albums.
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Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
#45973
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy is a British academic. He is professor of communications and of post-Cold War German history at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge and has previously been a professor at Keele University and Brunel University. He is considered an expert on political propaganda, particularly Nazi propaganda.
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John F. Callahan
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
John F. Callahan is the literary executor for Ralph Ellison, and was the editor for his posthumously-released novel Juneteenth. In addition to his work with Ellison, Callahan has written or edited numerous volumes related to African-American literature, with a particular emphasis on 20th century literature. Some of Callahan's other works include In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in 20th Century Black Fiction, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook, and The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and History in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Callahan also edited Ellison's short st...
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Qian Nairong
#79010
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Qian Nairong is a Chinese linguist. He received a master's degree in Chinese from Fudan University in 1981. He is a professor and the head of the Chinese Department at Shanghai University. He is a researcher and advocate of Shanghainese, a dialect of Wu Chinese.
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Francisco A. Marcos-Marín
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Francisco Adolfo Marcos-Marín is a Spanish linguist, an emeritus professor of Linguistics and Translation at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previously he was professore ordinario per chiara fama in the Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', catedrático de Lingüística General at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and catedrático de Historia del Español at the Universidad de Valladolid. He is a Corresponding Fellow of Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and Academia Argentina de Letras, and an Honorary Citizen of San Antonio, Texas.
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Gabrielle
#61360
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Louise Gabrielle Bobb , known professionally as Gabrielle, is a British singer and songwriter. Bobb was born in Hackney, London. She released her debut single, "Dreams", in 1993, and it topped the UK Singles Chart the same year. Her other singles include "Going Nowhere", "Give Me a Little More Time", "Walk On By", and "If You Ever" – a duet with East 17.
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David Cross
#69183
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
David Cross is an English electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972 to 1974. Cross appears on their studio albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black , as well as “Providence”, a live track on Red , in addition to numerous concert recordings that have been released by Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label in the decades since, including USA and The Night Watch .
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McG
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Joseph McGinty Nichol , known professionally as McG, is an American director, producer, and former record producer. McG began his career in the music industry, directing music videos and producing various albums. He later rose to prominence with his debut theatrically released narrative feature, Charlie's Angels, which had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a directorial debut at the time. Since then, he has directed several other films, including Terminator Salvation, This Means War, and The Babysitter. On television, McG co-created Fastlane with John McNamara and executive produced The...
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Riz Ortolani
#90854
Overall Influence
1926 - 2014 (88 years)
Riziero Ortolani was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. He scored over 200 films and television programs between 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over fifty years.
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James Moody
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2010 (85 years)
James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles. The annual James Moody Jazz Festival is held in Newark, New Jersey.
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Edward Yang
#42773
Overall Influence
1947 - 2007 (60 years)
Edward Yang was a Taiwanese filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a pioneer in the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. Yang was regarded as one of the leading filmmakers of Taiwanese cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi.
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Masaaki Suzuki
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Masaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and music director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
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Damien Chazelle
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Overall Influence
1985 - Present (41 years)
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for directing the films Whiplash , La La Land , First Man and Babylon . For Whiplash, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. His biggest commercial success came with La La Land, which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning six including Best Director, making him the youngest person to win the award at age 32. He has also directed two episodes of the Netflix limited series The Eddy .
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Yuli Turovsky
#93111
Overall Influence
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Yuli Turovsky OC CQ was a Soviet-born Canadian cellist, conductor and music educator. His name is mostly associated with the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, which he founded in 1983 and led until his death 30 years later.
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