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#9401

Brian Lewis Ragsdale

#192014

Overall Influence

Brian L. Ragsdale is program director of the M.S. Clinical Psychology program in the School of Psychology at Walden University. An MA and PhD graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Brian has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 14 years, covering psychology, social sciences, and education. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and an in-demand conference speaker. Academic Website Recent work: Practicing Listening and Mindfulness in Reducing Health Disparities

#9402

Charles Harpole

#56473

Overall Influence

Charles Henry Harpole is a šcholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker. He received his doctorate from New York University and has taught at the University of Georgia, New York University, the New School, Southern Illinois University, the University of Texas at Dallas, Ohio State University, the University of Central Florida, and Mahidol University.

#9403

Jeff Wilson

#94710

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Jeff Wilson is an American academic and serial startup entrepreneur. The pseudonym Professor Dumpster is based upon his role as part of 'The Dumpster Project', an educational and minimalist living experiment that transformed a trash dumpster into a fully sustainable home. Wilson lived in the dumpster over the course of the yearlong project.

#9404

Peter Davis

#174176

Overall Influence

Peter A. Davis is an American theatre scholar. Education Peter Davis attended Bowdoin College, Stanford University and the University of Southern California, where he received an M.A. in Drama in 1977. He earned his PhD in Communication-Drama, also from USC, in 1981.

#9405

McKay McKinnon

#20027

Overall Influence

McKay McKinnon is an Americann physician specializing in plastic surgery. He works at Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and the French-Vietnam Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

#9406

Masoud Hedayatifard

#119148

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Masoud Hedayatifard , born in Babol, , Iran, is a specialist in fishery science and industries. Since 1997, he is a faculty member of the Islamic Azad University. Hedayatifard has published more than 215 scientific articles on aquatic areas in English and Persian and some of them have been re-indexed in ISI journals, ScienceAlert, ISC journals, academic journals, and SID Journals.

#9407

Vernon D. Johnson

#192039

Overall Influence

Vernon D. Johnson was a professor of Political Science at Western Washington University from 1986-2021. He served as the Program Director for the Munro Institute for Civic Education for 6 years and was the founding editor in chief of the African Journal of Governance and Development for 7 years. Academic Website

#9408

Ulrich Gabler

#189848

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Ulrich Gabler was a German shipbuilding engineer, who specialized in the design and development of diesel-powered submarines. During World War II he served as chief engineer in the U-boat force on and , then under the command of Reinhard Suhren. Suhren had recommended Gabler for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a request that was turned down and Gabler received the German Cross in Gold on 15 October 1942. Following his war patrols on U-564 he worked on the design and development of the U-boat classes XXII, XVII A and XXVI.

#9409

Rebecca Cummins

#161200

Overall Influence

Rebecca Cummins is a photographer and multi-media artist living in Seattle, Washington. She was awarded the Chancellor's Award from the University of Technology, Sydney and the outstanding University 2003 PhD dissertation titled Necro-Techno: Examples from an Archeology of Media. She is a professor of art at the University of Washington.

#9410

Deryck J. van Rensburg

#180807

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Deryck J. van Rensburg is a South African, British and U.S. business executive and academic. He is the dean of the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University. Early life Van Rensburg was born circa 1960 in South Africa. He graduated from Rhodes University and the University of South Africa, where he earned bachelor's degrees. He earned a master of business administration from the University of Bath followed by a doctor of business administration from the University of Manchester.

#9411

Carlotta de Bevilacqua

#191061

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Carlotta de Bevilacqua is an Italian architect, designer and entrepreneur. She is currently President and CEO of Artemide and President of Danese Milano. Biography Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, she is mainly known for her research in contemporary lighting design.

#9412

John Andrews

#190046

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

John Malcolm Andrews is an English author on antiques, journalist and crime writer, engineering businessman and author – as John Malcolm – of the Tim Simpson series of art crime novels, author as John Andrews of the first Price Guide to Antique Furniture and Managing Editor of Antique Collecting magazine.

#9413

Yoichi Ochiai

#177599

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Yoichi Ochiai is a Japanese academic and media artist. He has a doctorate from the University of Tokyo. He is also an associate professor at the University of Tsukuba Library, as well as an Information and Media Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Digital Nature Development and Research. Specially-appointed professor at Digital Hollywood University, visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts and Kyoto City University of Arts, Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art.

#9414

Robin Witt

#105996

Overall Influence

Robin Witt is an American theater director. She is an ensemble member at both the Griffin Theatre and Steep Theatre Company in Chicago. Witt's notable productions include Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom at A Red Orchid Theatre, Dennis Kelly's Love and Money, Simon Stephens' Wastwater, Motortown, Pornography, and Harper Regan at Steep Theatre, as well as Ena Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep , Terence Rattigan's Flare Path and Edna Ferber and George Kaufman's Stage Door with the Griffin Theatre.

#9415

Samantha Womack

Samantha Womack

#170836

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack initially planned a career in singing and she represented the United Kingdom in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest. Her song for the contest, "A Message to Your Heart", was released as her first single in April 1991 and reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart.

#9416

Daniel L. Ritchie

#187319

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Daniel L. Ritchie is the Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Denver, a former CEO of major communication corporations, and a Harvard alumnus. He hails from China Grove, North Carolina and has moved around the country from coast to coast before eventually settling in Denver, Colorado.

#9417

Charles Wood

#189934

Overall Influence

1914 - 2004 (90 years)

Charles R. Wood was an American amusement park developer and philanthropist in Upstate New York. Biography Wood was born in Lockport, New York, in 1914. After seeing the amusement park Knott's Berry Farm in southern California he was inspired in 1954 to open his own park in Queensbury, New York, which he named Storytown USA. In order to do this, he needed some loans from local banks. With $500 in his pocket at the time, he walked into a bank, applied for the necessary loans, and was denied. To this, he replied to the bank manager "One day sir, I will be able to buy and sell you." Success fol...

#9418

Tom Oliver

#107411

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Tom Oliver is a British-born Australian retired actor who started his career in theatre in his native country, before emigrating to Australia. Oliver, a staple of the small screen since the early 1960s, is best known for his TV soap opera roles, most especially Neighbours as Lou Carpenter, a role he played for 25 years. The character was known for his constant sparring with Harold Bishop, and his trademark dirty laugh, which he previously utilised in an earlier role on TV soapNumber 96 as Jack Sellers. Oliver has stated that it was inspired by the comic actor Sid James.

#9419

Lee Gray

#127873

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lee Gray was a rock and roll American disc-jockey in the New York area then moving to Cleveland. Early live Shortly after he was born, his parents, Jack and Alma Darling, divorced and his mother moved to Chicago. Lee spent the majority of his childhood traveling back and forth from Oklahoma City to Chicago, on his own, to spend time with each parent. He also spent a lot of time with his grandmother on the Cherokee Indian Reservation when visits were inconvenient for his parents. This schedule caused him to attend many schools before graduating High School in 1953.

#9420

Audwin B. Fletcher

#192091

Overall Influence

A 30-year employee of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Professor of nursing at UMMC for 24 years. Fletcher previously served as the School of Nursing’s Director for Multicultural Affairs. In 2020, Fletcher received the Presidential Award of Honor from 100 Black Men of Jackson, Mississippi, an organization that he was involved in for more than 15 years. Fletcher has published extensively, in journals such as Nursing Clinics of North America and the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

#9421

Sheu Tian-ming

#161899

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Sheu Tian-ming is currently the dean of the College of Education at National Taiwan Normal University, NTNU, and the professor in the Department of Education and the Graduate Institute of Educational Policy and Administration, NTNU. His fields of interest include school finance, education policy analysis, education reform, and indigenous education.

#9422

Jerome R. Cox Jr.

#191570

Overall Influence

1925 - 2023 (98 years)

Jerome Rockhold Cox Jr. was an American computer pioneer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Cox contributed significantly to the areas of biomedical computing, multimedia communications, and computer networking. Cox was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis and senior professor emeritus of Computer Science at Washington University , as well as Founder and President of Blendics, Inc., and Q-Net Security Inc. . In 1998, Cox collaborated with colleagues Jonathan S. Turner and Guru Parulkar in founding Growth Networks .

#9423

Robert Taylor

#144864

Overall Influence

1944 - 2014 (70 years)

Robert Taylor was an American Primetime Emmy Award-winning animator, writer, producer and film director. Taylor's credits include such films and television series as The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The Flintstone Kids, It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, Challenge of the GoBots, Challenge of the Superfriends, Bonkers, Goof Troop, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, TaleSpin and Heidi's Song.

#9424

Vijay K. Goel

#192107

Overall Influence

Vijay K. Goel is an American engineer, currently the Distinguished University Professor and McMaster-Gardner Endowed Chair at University of Toledo.

#9425

Fujio Ishihara

#160580

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Fujio Ishihara is a former professor of electronics at Tamagawa University, and a Japanese science fiction author. He graduated Waseda University with a degree in electronics. He made his science fiction debut in 1965. During the 1970s and 1980s he has been an active hard SF advocate. In the first half of the 1980s, he coined the term "Kōseiki Sekai" , defined as the sphere with a diameter of 100 light years . He also edited Kōseiki Seihyō , the star catalogue of Light Century Universe . Also he is known for bibliographies of Japanese science fiction.

#9426

Marcin Giżycki

#188986

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Marcin Giżycki was a Polish film and art historian, critic, and filmmaker. He was a professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw , a Senior Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design , and an Artistic Director of the ANIMATOR International Animated Film Festival Animator in Poznań, Poland . He has authored eight books, co-edited two others, contributed photographs to four books by Agnieszka Taborska, and published around 400 articles on film and art in Polish and foreign publications. In 2016, he received the Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Animat...

#9427

Abraham Aronow

#154344

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Abraham "Abe" Aronow is an American physician and photographer best known for his monochrome portraits of prominent photographers. Biography Abraham Aronow was born in Brooklyn, New York City and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from James Hillhouse High School, received his BS at MIT, and his MD at Harvard Medical School. He served as an intern at New York's Bellevue Hospital, and as a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service for two years. In 1969 he testified before the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, recommending the establishment of F...

#9428

Spiridon Reveliotis

#192160

Overall Influence

Spiridon Reveliotis is an engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to discrete event systems for resource allocation.

#9429

Shruti Naik

#126730

Overall Influence

Shruti Naik is an Indian American scientist who is an associate professor of biological sciences at the NYU Langone Medical Center. In 2020 Naik was named a Packard Fellow for her research into the molecular mechanisms that underpin the function of tissue stem cells. She was awarded the 2018 regional Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists and the International Takeda Innovator in Regeneration Award. She has also received the NIH Directors Innovator Award and been named a Pew Stewart Scholar in 2020.

#9430

Pok Chi Lau

#172975

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Pok Chi Lau is an accredited Asian American photographer that was born in Hong Kong on April 21, 1950. He was the fifth of seven children born to his mother Kam Chu Kwang and his father On Lau. He relocated to Canada in 1969 at the age of 19. Lau is a professional photographer who focuses on Chinese diaspora in countries around the world. Currently, Lau works as an associate professor in the Design Department of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas.

#9431

Mark Walsh

#66954

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Mark Walsh is a former English professional darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments. He reached No. 6 in the PDC Order of Merit. Walsh reached his first major televised final in 2005, when he was beaten by Phil Taylor in the UK Open.

#9432

Vladimir Andreyev

Vladimir Andreyev

#189080

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Vladimir Alekseyevich Andreyev was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director, and pedagogue. Laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR . People's Artist of the USSR . Academician of the Academy of Humanities . Full member of the International Theater Academy .

#9433

Ramón Griffero

#57101

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ramón Griffero Sánchez is a Chilean playwright and theater director, one of the most prominent in his country. He is considered an emblematic figure of the national theater during the 1980s; his earliest productions are associated with cultural and political resistance to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

#9434

Stephen A. Schrum

#152600

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Stephen Alan Schrum is a theatre director and associate professor of Theater Arts at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. His most current research area being "The Perception of Presence in Virtual Performance". Schrum has created work on online based performance in virtual worlds, play writing and he has published a variety of books on theatre. Schrum currently teaches courses based on theatre and technology. Alongside lecturing over the past years Schrum has worked for Association for Theatre in Higher Education delivering conferences and workshops based on the topic Theatre and Technology.

#9435

José Luis Gómez Martínez

#43741

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

José Luis Gómez Martínez is a professor emeritus of Spanish at the University of Georgia. Essayist and literary critic, his research into the theory of the essay, along with his work on Hispanic thought and Latin American fiction helped push literary boundaries and open up new lines of thinking within and outside of academia. During his professional career José Luis Gómez won several awards for his scholarly contributions, including the prestigious Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship , the Albert Christ-Janer Award , named Professor of the Year by the AATSP-GA , the 1989 Sturgis Leavitt Prize.

#9436

Lou Bellamy

#191473

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Lou Bellamy is an American stage director, actor, producer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the founder and artistic director, Emeritus of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. He taught at the University of Minnesota from 1979 until his retirement as an associate professor in 2011.

#9437

Guido Aristarco

#170773

Overall Influence

1918 - 1996 (78 years)

Guido Aristarco was an Italian film critic and author. Biography Born in Fossacesia, Chieti, at very young age Aristarco debuted as a film critic for the newspapers La Gazzetta di Mantova and Il Corriere Padano and then for the magazine Cinema.

#9438

Amy McCullough

#192228

Overall Influence

#9439

Ameen Albert Rihani

Ameen Albert Rihani

#129220

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ameen Albert Rihani is a university professor, scholar and administrator. He is a professor of Arab American literature at Notre Dame University - Louiaze. He was the Vice President of Academic Affairs since 1997. In 2013 he became advisor to the President of NDU and the Secretary General of the Institute of Lebanese Thought.

#9440

Paul-Louis Roubert

#166635

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Paul-Louis Roubert is an associate researcher at the Laboratoire d'histoire visuelle contemporaine, senior lecturer in photography at Paris 8 University and, since December 2010, president of the Société française de photographie.

#9441

Ronnie Baxter

#34657

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ronnie Baxter is an English former professional darts player who competed in Professional Darts Corporation events. He used the nickname "The Rocket" for his matches. Baxter was known for his fast robotic throwing action. He currently resides in his hometown Blackpool. Baxter is widely regarded as one of the best players never to have won a major TV title. He is still active on the exhibition circuit.

#9442

Dennis Smith

#69131

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dennis Smith is a former English professional darts player who played in Professional Darts Corporation events. He was a stalwart on the PDC circuit, having played there since 1994, but has yet to capture a major title to add to his collection of Open wins. Smith has a very unusual throwing action, turning the dart into a 'flight first' position before returning it to a 'point first' position, rolling his eyes and then throwing. He has a unique, measured action learning his trade under the tutelage of Bob Anderson.

#9443

Frank Register

#192263

Overall Influence

Frank Register is an American engineer, currently the Herring Professor at University of Texas at Austin.

#9444

Steve Brown

#93465

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Stephen Brown is an English professional darts player who competes in the Professional Darts Corporation events. Career He has competed on the PDC Pro Tour since 2006, regularly reaching the last 64 of events. His best performances came in the 2007 Windy City Open in Chicago and the 2007 UK Open Irish Regional where he reached the quarter-finals. He also made it to the last 16 of the 2007 Peachtree Open and 2007 Hayling Island PDPA Players Championship.

#9445

Lara Jackson

#96689

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Lara Marie Jackson is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle. She swam for the University of Arizona from 2005 to 2009 where she was a 9-time NCAA champion. She is the former American record-holder in both the 50-yard freestyle, and the long course 50-meter freestyle.

#9446

John Walker

#178595

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

John Charles Walker is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. His film Strand: Under the Dark Cloth won the Genie Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990, and he won Gemini Awards in 1992 for Leningradskaya: The Hand of Stalin and 1996 for Utshimassits: Place of the Boss.

#9447

Frank Harmon

#122352

Overall Influence

#9448

Sarah F Clatterbuck Soper

#192301

Overall Influence

#9449

Subra Suresh

#192324

Overall Influence

#9450

Anahera Morehu

#189305

Overall Influence

Anahera Morehu is a New Zealand public servant. As at 2023, she is the Chief Archivist of New Zealand and general manager of Archives New Zealand. She was appointed on 14 June 2023. She had previously been appointed as acting Chief Archivist from November 2022.

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