The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
#4401
Troy Donockley
#83110
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Troy Donockley is an English composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for his playing of Uilleann pipes. Having performed with many artists as a session player, he is most notable as a member of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which he has performed with since 2007 and joined as a full-time member in 2013.
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Charlie McCoy
#51133
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Charles Ray McCoy is a Grammy-winning American session musician, harmonica player, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Based in Nashville, McCoy's playing is heard on recordings by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Roy Orbison, Leon Russell, and Loretta Lynn. He has recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records. Thirteen of his singles have entered the Billboard country charts. He was a member of Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry. In 2007, McCoy was inducted into the International Musicians Hall of Fame as a part a group of session musicians dubbed "The Nashville A-Team".
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Pupi Avati
#69484
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati , is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, The House with Laughing Windows and Zeder .
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Gabriele Hegerl
#114114
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl is a German climatologist. She is a professor of climate system science at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. Prior to 2007 she held research positions at Texas A&M University and at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, during which time she was a co-ordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth and Fifth Assessment Report.
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Zühtü Müridoğlu
#91033
Overall Influence
1906 - 1992 (86 years)
Zühtü Müridoğlu was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first sculptors of the Republican generation. He attended the Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi, and was a student of İhsan Özsoy, there from 1924 to 1928. Graduating at the end of that period, he earned a scholarship to Europe and went to Paris, France. He studied art history at the Louvre and aesthetic lessons at Sorbonne. After returning to Turkey, he worked as a teacher from 1932 to 1936. He was one of the founders of the artists collective called D Grubu . In 1936, he worked at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum as a sculptor. In 1939, he taught at the Ankara Gazi Eğitim Enstisüsü, and later at the Fine Arts Institute in Istanbul.
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Jeremy Summerly
#89420
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School, Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir. After graduating with a first-class honours degree in music in 1982, he started work as a studio manager for BBC Radio, while pursuing postgraduate research in historical musicology at King's College London. Since 1991 he has been a presenter and reviewer for BBC's Radios 3 and 4, in particular for Radio 4's Front Row, and Radio 3's Record Review .
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Lee Chang-dong
#74227
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Lee Chang-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has directed six feature films: Green Fish , Peppermint Candy , Oasis , Secret Sunshine , Poetry , and Burning . Burning became the first Korean film to make it to the 91st Academy Awards' final nine-film shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film. Burning also won the Fipresci International Critics' Prize at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Best Foreign Language Film in Toronto Film Critics Association.
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Matteo Garrone
#73388
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d'Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, Terra di Mezzo in 1997.
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Kirk Franklin
#37533
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Kirk Dewayne Franklin is an American songwriter, choir director, gospel singer, and rapper. He is best known for leading urban contemporary gospel and Christian R&B ensembles such as The Family, God's Property, and One Nation Crew among many others. He has won numerous awards, including 19 Grammy Awards. Variety dubbed Franklin as a "Reigning King of Urban Gospel", and is one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
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Dorothy Elliott Leidner
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Overall Influence
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Max Huber
#70894
Overall Influence
1919 - 1992 (73 years)
Max Huber was an influential Swiss graphic designer. Biography Max Huber was born in Baar, Switzerland in 1919. He graduated from Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich under the name Hans Williman. In his formative years, he met Werner Bischof, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Carlo Vivarelli and Hans Falk.
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Robert Sherman
#55249
Overall Influence
1931 - 2023 (92 years)
Robert Sherman was an American radio broadcaster, author, music critic, and educator. He achieved success as a host of such radio programs as the folk music show Woody's Children, which started on WQXR and was later broadcast by WFUV, and classical music shows The Listening Room and Young Artists Showcase, which were broadcast by WQXR in New York City. As an author, he was a music critic and columnist for The New York Times for more than forty years as well as a writer of numerous books, including two bestsellers he co-authored with pianist and comedian Victor Borge. In May 2023, Sherman retired from radio.
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Howard Williams
#88051
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
William Howard Williams is a British conductor, whose international career has ranged from opera and ballet to orchestral and choral work. He conducts throughout Europe, and has especial links with Hungary since his appointment in 1989 as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Tina Charles
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Tina Charles is an English singer who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s. Her most successful single was the UK no. 1 hit "I Love to Love " in 1976. Early life Charles was born Tina Hoskins in Whitechapel, London, to Charles Hoskins, who worked in a box-making factory in Bow and his wife Hilda. She recovered from meningitis as a newborn. She has a brother, Warren, who was her tour manager during the height of her career.
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Jon Faddis
#70527
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator, renowned for both his playing and for his expertise in the field of music education. Upon his first appearance on the scene, he became known for his ability to closely mirror the sound of trumpet icon Dizzy Gillespie, who was his mentor along with pianist Stan Kenton and trumpeter Bill Catalano.
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Dick Wagner
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Overall Influence
1942 - 2014 (72 years)
Richard Allen Wagner was an American rock guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and Kiss. He also fronted his own Michigan-based bands, the Frost and the Bossmen.
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Giedrė Lukšaitė-Mrázková
#105496
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Giedrė Lukšaitė-Mrázková is a Lithuanian–Czech harpsichordist and organist. Lukšaitė was born to the family of educator and cultural historian Meilė Lukšienė in Kaunas, Lithuania. She studied organ and piano at the Musical Academy in Vilnius, and at the P. I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow. She completed study at the Musical College of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1974. Her professor was organist Jiří Rheinberger. After that she studied harpsichord with Zuzana Růžičková.
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Raymond Hickey
#96244
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Raymond Hickey is an Irish linguist specialising in the English language in Ireland, especially in the capital Dublin, working within the sociolinguistic paradigm of language variation and change. Hickey has also worked on the Irish language, specifically the phonology of the modern language. For both Irish and English in Ireland he has carried out extensive fieldwork for over three decades.
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Don Alias
#69501
Overall Influence
1939 - 2006 (67 years)
Charles "Don" Alias was an American jazz percussionist. Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums. He was, however, a capable drum kit performer: for example, Alias played drums on the song "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" from trumpeter Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew when neither Lenny White nor Jack DeJohnette was able to play the marching band-inspired rhythm requested by Davis.
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Anton Harber
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Anton Harber is a South African journalist. He is executive director of the Campaign for Free Expression, director of the Henry Nxumalo Foundation an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the co-editor or author of five books.
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Tommy Flanagan
#75075
Overall Influence
1930 - 2001 (71 years)
Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' album Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including Giant Steps of John Coltrane, continued well into 1962, when he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and music...
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Steve Gregory
#87239
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Stephen Gregory is an English jazz saxophonist and composer. He plays tenor, alto, soprano and baritone saxophone as well as the flute. Biography and career Gregory was born in London. At St. Paul's School, he learned guitar and piano and played clarinet in the school orchestra. He turned down a place at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama to become a professional musician. Soon he was playing with the Alan Price Set and was in demand for session work, playing for people like Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Fleetwood Mac and others. Alongside Bud Beadle, he provided the saxophone for the 1969 hit "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones.
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Elena Berezovich
#89046
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Elena Lvovna Berezovich is a Russian linguist known for her work in onomastics, etymology, and ethnolinguistics. She is currently a professor at the Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics of the Ural Federal University . Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences , corresponding member of the RAS .
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Travis Smith
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Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Travis Smith is an American graphic artist best known for designing heavy metal album art. He has been called "renowned" by Alternative Press and "unquestionably one of the most talented graphic artists in metal today" by Chronicles of Chaos. Smith has done work for many established rock and metal bands, including Death, Devin Townsend, Katatonia, Nevermore, Opeth, Anathema, CKY, Soilwork, King Diamond, Novembre, Avenged Sevenfold, Strapping Young Lad, Persefone, Riverside and Overkill.
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Edward Stankiewicz
#79712
Overall Influence
1920 - 2013 (93 years)
Edward Stankiewicz was the B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut from 1971 until he retired in 1991. Early life Stankiewicz was born in Warsaw to a Jewish family in 1920. He survived the Holocaust, and immigrated to the United States after being freed from Buchenwald concentration camp. Stankiewicz developed a love for Italian when he transited through the country after World War II.
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Floyd Cramer
#56426
Overall Influence
1933 - 1997 (64 years)
Floyd Cramer was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic "half step" attacks. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His signature playing style was a cornerstone of the pop-oriented "Nashville sound" of the 1950s and 1960s. Cramer's "slip-note" or "bent-note" style, in which a passing note slides almost instantly into or away from a chordal note, influenced a generation of pianists. His sound became popular to the degree that he stepped out of his role as a sideman and began touring as a solo act. In 1960, his piano i...
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Swapan Chaudhuri
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Overall Influence
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri , is an Indian tabla player. He has accompanied several musicians of Indian classical music, including, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pandit Bhimshen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj., Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and many more. He also taught his sons tabla. Guru- Santosh Biswas
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Bruce Arnold
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Bruce Arnold is an American jazz guitarist, composer, educator, and author. Early life and education Born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Aronold took accordion lessons and discovered guitar when he saw the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. He attended the University of South Dakota but switched to the Berklee College of Music in 1976. He took private lessons from Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Banacos.
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Milena Doleželová-Velingerová
#48434
Overall Influence
1932 - 2012 (80 years)
Milena Doleželová-Velingerová was a renowned Czech sinologist at the University of Toronto. Milena Doleželová-Velingerová received her M.A. degree from the Charles University in Prague in 1955 and her Ph.D. degree from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1964.
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Teena Marie
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Overall Influence
1956 - 2010 (54 years)
Mary Christine Brockert , known professionally as Teena Marie, was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer. She was known by her childhood nickname Tina before taking the stage name Teena Marie and later acquired the nickname Lady T, given to her by her collaborator and friend Rick James.
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Michael Finnissy
#78160
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Michael Peter Finnissy is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy". Although he rejects the label, he is often regarded as the foremost composer of the New Complexity movement.
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Masami Okui
#84540
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She is especially well known for her songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tales of Eternia The Animation, Slayers, Sorcerer Hunters, Di Gi Charat, Magic User's Club, Jungle de Ikou!, Akihabara Dennou Gumi, Ray the Animation, He Is My Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. She has performed material for more than 50 singles and 20 albums to date . Okui hosts @Tunes...
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Leo Wetzels
#102031
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Willem Leo Marie Wetzels is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Directeur de recherche at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie , CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris. He is Editor-in-Chief of Probus International, the Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics.
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Mark Elder
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Sir Mark Philip Elder is a British conductor. He is currently music director of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England. Life and career Elder was born in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of a dentist. He played the bassoon when in primary school, and at Bryanston School, Dorset, where he was one of the foremost musicians of his generation. He attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge as a choral scholar, where he studied music. He later became a protégé of Sir Edward Downes and gained experience conducting Verdi operas in Australia, at the Sydney Opera House.
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Lidiia Hryhorchuk
#86969
Overall Influence
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Lidiia Mikhailovna Hryhorchuk was a Ukrainian linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology. She was a junior researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1956 to 1972 before becoming a senior researcher between 1999 and 2002. Hryhorchuk was a professor of philology at the University of Lviv, her alma mater, and at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. She was elected to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1992 and was appointed a Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science ...
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Mose Allison
#67835
Overall Influence
1927 - 2016 (89 years)
Mose John Allison Jr. was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter. He became notable for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz, both singing and playing piano. After moving to New York in 1956, he worked primarily in jazz settings, playing with jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Al Cohn, and Zoot Sims, along with producing numerous recordings.
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Julee Cruise
#70659
Overall Influence
1956 - 2022 (66 years)
Julee Ann Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums beginning with 1989's Floating into the Night.
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Mr Hudson
#69380
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Benjamin Hudson McIldowie , better known by his stage name Mr Hudson, is an English musician from Birmingham, England. First rising to prominence in 2006 with Mr Hudson and the Library, Hudson later embarked on a solo career in 2008, when he signed a record deal with American musician Kanye West's GOOD Music label. He was subsequently featured as a prominent composer on West's 808s & Heartbreak . Hudson later appeared on American rapper Jay-Z’s top 10 single "Young Forever", from The Blueprint 3 . He would find more solo success on his 2009 album, Straight No Chaser, which spawned the hit sing...
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Philip Resnik
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Overall Influence
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Pete Docter
#39292
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Peter Hans Docter is an American filmmaker and animator. He is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios. He is best known for directing the animated feature films Monsters, Inc. , Up , Inside Out , and Soul , and being a key figure and collaborator at Pixar. He has been nominated for nine Oscars and has won three for Best Animated Feature—for Up, Inside Out and Soul—making him the first person in history to win the category three times. He has also been nominated for nine Annie Awards , a BAFTA Children's Film Award and a Hochi Film Award. He has described himself as a "geeky kid...
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Craige Roberts
#96456
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Craige Roberts is an American linguist, known for her work on pragmatics and formal semantics. Education and career Roberts earned her A.B. at Indiana University in 1979. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1987, under the supervision of Barbara Partee. She is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Linguistics of Ohio State University.
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K. J. Yesudas
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades. He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan . Yesudas holds the record for singing 11 songs in different languages in a single day.
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Yuri Rozhdestvensky
#45087
Overall Influence
1926 - 1999 (73 years)
Yuri Rozhdestvensky - Russian rhetorician, educator, linguist and philosopher. Rozhdestvensky started his scholarly career from writing on Chinese grammar; his second Ph.D. involved the study and comparison of 2,000 grammars and established several language universals; he then moved on to comparative study of Chinese, Indian, Arabic and European rhetorical traditions, and then to the study of general laws of culture. Rozhdestvensky's influence continues to be powerful. In his lifetime, he directed 112 dissertations. His students now teach culture, media ecology, linguistics and communicat...
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Patrice Oppliger
#81502
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Patrice A. Oppliger , is the assistant professor of communication at Boston University College of Communication. Oppliger has written extensively about the impact of popular culture on student's high school years, and has been consulted by the media on the subject. Interviewed by CNN about cyberbullying, Oppliger discussed the film "Mean Girls", which is based on the book "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman. Oppliger accused the film of "glamorizing bad behavior", she went on to say that, "The book is a helpful guide to relationships between girls; the movie, on the other hand, showe...
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Brownie McGhee
#61945
Overall Influence
1915 - 1996 (81 years)
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. At about the age of four he contracted polio, which incapacitated his right leg. His brother Granville "Stick" McGhee, who also later became a musician and composed the famous song "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-o-Dee," was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. Their father, George McGhee, was a factory worker, known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing.
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Marc-André Hamelin
#86550
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ , is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still young. He studied at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert and then at Temple University in Philadelphia with Harvey Wedeen.
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Carlo Verdone
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Carlo Gregorio Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. Verdone is best known for his comedic roles in Italian classics, which he also wrote and directed. His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, Un sacco bello , Bianco, rosso e Verdone and Borotalco . Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it; some examples are Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrata , Il mio miglior nemico and Io, loro e Lara .
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Meyrick Alexander
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Meyrick Alexander is an English bassoonist. He is one of the UK's best known bassoonists and bassoon teachers. As a performer, Alexander was Principal Bassoon of the Philharmonia Orchestra for 30 years, and currently plays principal with the London Chamber Orchestra.
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Ronnie Montrose
#50089
Overall Influence
1947 - 2012 (65 years)
Ronald Douglas Montrose was an American guitarist who founded and led the rock bands Montrose and Gamma. He also performed and did session work with a variety of musicians, including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Beaver & Krause, Boz Scaggs, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, The Beau Brummels, Dan Hartman, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Marc Bonilla and Sammy Hagar.
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Sergiu Celibidache
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Overall Influence
1912 - 1996 (84 years)
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and several other European orchestras. Later in life, he taught at Mainz University in Germany and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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