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List of the most influential people in History,

#6251

Julian Wright

#189490

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Julian Wright is Professor of History at Northumbria University. He was Head of Humanities from 2017 to 2022 and has been editor of French History and Secretary for Professional Engagement at the Royal Historical Society. He was previously a senior lecturer in history at the University of Durham and earlier a Junior Research Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.

#6252

Dino Cinel

#172119

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Dino Cinel was an Italian-American historian, priest and a Distinguished Professor of Italian-American Studies at College of Staten Island. He is known for evading prosecution and conviction of his self-made child sexual abuse material that he filmed and created at St. Rita's Parish in New Orleans while living there due to his ties to Harry Connick Sr., who was a St. Rita's parishioner at the time.

#6253

William D. Russell

William D. Russell

#189515

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

William Dean Russell is an American historian focusing on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement. Russell taught at Graceland University for forty-one years, retiring as a professor of history in 2007. He has been a civil rights activist since the 1960s, championing the causes of equality for all regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. A member of the Community of Christ, Russell is one of the activists and leaders credited with the church's progressive transformation in the latter half of the twentieth century.

#6254

Huang Fu-san

#188627

Overall Influence

Huang Fu-san is a Taiwanese historian. Career Huang Fu-san earned his master's degree specializing in the history of Taiwan from National Taiwan University, supervised by . With Huang's aid, Chen Chi-lu organized the first Seminars on Taiwan Studies at NTU from 1965 to 1967. The seminars were sponsored by the Harvard–Yenching Institute and ended when Huang won a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education to pursue a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. Huang completed his dissertation, The Role of the Female Workers in the Textile Industry during the British Industrial Revolution, in 1972, and returned to NTU as a lecturer on western history.

#6255

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

#190703

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe is a British political scientist, a military historian, and an expert on War Studies whose research interests include the contemporary history of war, the ethics of war, Cold War politics, terrorism, and Russian foreign policy. She is President of the British International Studies Association and she was Chair of the BISA from 2004 to 2006.

#6256

Lindsey Earner-Byrne

#107691

Overall Influence

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is the Professor of Irish Gender history at University College Cork, Ireland and author of Irish history books. Biography Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a historian focusing on modern Irish history. She was a lecturer in the School of History at University College Dublin. Her research has covered gender, health and welfare with a particular interest in sexual violence. Earner-Byrne became the SALI Chair of Irish Gender History at UCC in January 2021. Earner-Byrne is on the Board of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. She's a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

#6257

Karen L. Cox

#127727

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Karen L. Cox is a historian and professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who specializes in and has written extensively on Southern history. Cox received her Bachelors and Masters from UNC Greensboro and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.

#6258

Robin W. Kilson

#190826

Overall Influence

1953 - 2009 (56 years)

Robin W. Kilson was a professor of history. She was known for co-sponsoring the 1994 conference Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name 1894-1994 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Kilson was born on May 31, 1953, in Newton, Massachusetts. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts, Master's, and PhD from Harvard University. She taught at Bryn Mawr College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Mount Holyoke College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Northeastern University. In 1993 Kilson was a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.

#6259

Margaret Allen

#183008

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Margaret Allen is an Australian historian and women's studies researcher. She is professor emerita at the University of Adelaide. Early life and education Margaret Ellen Allen was born in 1947 in Adelaide, the fourth child of George William Allen and Marjorie Ada Allen . Her mother died suddenly in August 1948 and her father later married Helen Ladbury Allen .

#6260

Thomas G. Burton

#158533

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Thomas G. Burton is an American academic and author with an interest in Appalachian folk culture. Biography Burton was born on January 7, 1935, in Memphis, Tennessee. His first degree was a Bachelor of Arts from David Lipscomb College in 1956. He then received a Master of Arts in 1958 and a PhD in 1966, both from Vanderbilt University.

#6261

John J. Bukowczyk

#188754

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

John Joseph Bukowczyk is a professor of history at Wayne State University specializing in American immigration, history of American urban settlements and ethnic groups - in particular, Polish Americans.

#6262

Raluca Radulescu

#168489

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Raluca L. Radulescu FLSW is professor of medieval literature at Bangor University. She is a specialist in Arthurian and non-Arthurian romances including Sir Thomas Malory and pious romances, medieval chronicles, political culture and gentry studies.

#6263

Kateřina Čapková

#190908

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Kateřina Čapková is a Czech historian and researcher at Institute of Contemporary History, Prague. She has taught at NYU Prague and Charles University. Her father was the Protestant theologian Petr Pokorný .

#6264

Dan Cassino

#177312

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Daniel Cassino is an American political scientist, historian, and poll analyzer. He is a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Cassino is married to sociologist scientist Yasemin Besen–Cassino and the two often collaborate on research projects.

#6265

Jonathan Steinberg

#190974

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Jonathan Steinburg may refer to:Yonatan Steinberg, an Israeli soldierJonathan Steinberg , an American historianJonathan E. Steinberg, an American screenwriterJonathan R. Steinberg, an American judge

#6266

Gregory Mixon

#142684

Overall Influence

Gregory Lamont Mixon is an American author and professor of history. He is the associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1989.

#6267

Bhim S. Dahiya

#129075

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Bhim Singh Dahiya is an Indian educationist, author and a politician. He was formerly Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University and member of Haryana Legislative Assembly, elected to the assembly from Rohat constituency. Having numerous books to his name, he wrote extensively on literary criticism, educational reforms and politics of Haryana.

#6268

Gro Hagemann

#138821

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Gro Hagemann is a Norwegian historian. She was born in Oslo and completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989 with the thesis Lavtlønnsyrker blir til. Kvinnearbeid og kjønnsskiller i søm og telekommunikasjon 1870–1940. She has been a professor at the University of Oslo since 1992. Hagemann is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and from 1990 to 1993 she chaired the Norwegian Historical Association. She was awarded the Gina Krog Prize in 2009.

#6269

Annick Horiuchi

#78687

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Annick Mito Horiuchi is a French historian of mathematics and historian of science. She is a professor at Paris Diderot University, where she is associated with the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale .

#6270

Tipene O'Regan

#185196

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Sir Stephen Gerard "Tipene" O'Regan is a New Zealand academic and company director. Biography Early life and career O'Regan is the son of surgeon Rolland O'Regan and Rena Ruiha . His mother was of the Ngāi Tahu tribe and was raised in Bluff. O'Regan was raised in Wellington. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington and teachers' college, then worked as a primary school teacher for two years. He returned to teachers' college as a lecturer in 1968 and remained in that role until 1983.

#6271

John Stevens

#102164

Overall Influence

1921 - 2002 (81 years)

John Edgar Stevens, was an English musicologist, literary scholar and historian, whose research focused on the words of medieval and Renaissance music. He was the Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1988.

#6272

R. A. Waldron

#185154

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (98 years)

Ronald Alan Waldron is an English medievalist, considered a pre-eminent expert in the field of early English literature. He wrote many books and was a lecturer at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and King's College London. He made an especial focus on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

#6273

Sun Liqun

#191036

Overall Influence

1950 - 2020 (70 years)

Sun Liqun was a Chinese historian who was a professor at Nankai University. Biography Sun was born in Tianjin, on April 15, 1950. In 1975, he graduated from Nankai University, where he majored in history. After graduation, he taught at the university. Since 2006, he regularly gave lectures on Chinese historical figures on the television programme Lecture Room shown on CCTV-10. He retired on September 1, 2015. He died of illness on February 10, 2020.

#6274

Kathleen DuVal

#180544

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Kathleen DuVal is an American historian, academic, and author. She is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. DuVal is most known for her work on early American history and is the author of the book Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. Her work revolves around Native Europeans, Americans, and Africans on the borderlands of North America and has been featured in newspapers including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

#6275

Christopher Cannon

#182794

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Christopher Cannon is a medievalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, previously Chair of Classics, and from 2020, Vice Dean for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His research and writings have focused on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, early Middle English, and elementary learning in the Middle Ages.

#6276

Graeme John Norman Gooday

#187470

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Graeme John Norman Gooday is a British historian and philosopher of science currently working as Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science, where he was Head of School between 2014 and 2019. His research encompasses the history and philosophy of technology: especially electrical technologies, telecommunications, and auditory technologies. He has published extensively on measurement, gender and technology, women in engineering, and histories of patenting.

#6277

Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie

#146824

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Irene Tordoff Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, DBE , known as Rennie Fritchie, is a British crossbench peer. Life/career Irene Tordoff Fennell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Frederick Fennell, was educated at Ribston Hall Grammar School for Girls in Gloucester and has had a long career specialising in training and development. Now described as a "portfolio" worker, she has held various positions including Commissioner for Public Appointments from 1999 to 2005, and President of the Pennell Initiative for Women's Health in Later Life.

#6278

Leslie Dossey

#190455

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Leslie Dossey is a historian specialising in late antique north Africa. She is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. Education Dossey received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Christians and Romans: Aspiration, Assimilation, and Conflict in the North African Countryside.

#6279

Jordi Guixé i Coromines

#191116

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Jordi Guixé i Coromines is a historian, founder director of the European Observatory on Memories of the University of Barcelona Solidarity's Foundation and an associate professor. With a Ph.D. in Contemporary History from both the University of Barcelona and the University of Paris III , he is currently a member of several research groups, such as the Institut des Sciences Politique du Socials of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique , Centre d'Estudis de les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica of the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona , the Group of Research on Memory and Society at...

#6280

Elisa Camiscioli

#191121

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Elisa Camiscioli is an American historian specialized in immigration to and from France, sex trafficking, and race and sexual politics in modern France and its empire. In 2008, she became an associate professor of history at Binghamton University. She authored Camiscioli was co-editor of the Journal of Women's History from 2015 to 2020.

#6281

Elisabeth Hoemberg

#173700

Overall Influence

1909 - 1994 (85 years)

Elisabeth Kandal Montague Hoemberg, was a Canadian historian and writer. She married a German professor in 1938 and wrote about her experiences in Münster during the Second World War and the aftermath.

#6282

Philippa Mary Hoskin

#189818

Overall Influence

Philippa Mary Hoskin is a British historian of the English Middle Ages, who specializes in the religious, legal and administrative history of the English Church. She is the Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

#6283

James McElvenny

#186338

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

James McElvenny is an Australian linguist and intellectual historian based in Germany, known for his work on the history modern linguistics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has directed research into the theoretical underpinnings of formal linguistics, and has published extensively on the history of typology and language documentation, in particular as it relates to the tradition of linguistic scholarship established by Wilhelm von Humboldt. In this connection, he has worked extensively on Georg von der Gabelentz. He has also published on early twentieth-century language study in ...

#6284

Sarah Pearsall

#191143

Overall Influence

Sarah Marjorie Savage Pearsall is an American historian specialized in the history of North America between 1500 and c. 1800. She is a professor and director of undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

#6285

Kazimierz Kozica

#189828

Overall Influence

1965 - 2019 (54 years)

Kazimierz Kozica was a Polish historian of cartography, map expert , teacher, curator. President of the Friends of the Royal Castle in Warsaw Association Career Graduated in Wrocław in 1990 with a master's thesis on Population distribution and population density of the Wrocław Province 1: 200,000 [2 maps] written under the supervision of Władysław Pawlak., after which began teaching at the Department of Cartography of the Geographical Institute at the University of Wrocław, initially as an assistant, then as an adjunkt. In 1998 he completed his D.Phil. degree with a thesis 'The Existence of M...

#6286

Igor Vishnevetsky

Igor Vishnevetsky

#177384

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Igor Georgievich Vishnevetsky is a Russian-born poet, novelist, screenwriter, and editor. He has been a contributor and editor in numerous literary journals, anthologies, and scholarly periodicals since the 1980s. Some of his work has been published in English, including a translated version of his first novel, Leningrad .

#6287

Anna Brickhouse

#183692

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Anna Brickhouse is an American historian, author, and professor. She currently teaches at the University of Virginia, where she also serves as the Director of American Studies. In 2015 Brickhouse won Early American Literature's inaugural book prize for her work The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945.

#6288

Mollie C. Davis

#183034

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

Mollie C. Davis was an American activist and academic. She was active in both the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her activism led her into the push to develop women's studies programs. She was one of the founders of the Southern Caucus of Women in History, later known as the Southern Association for Women Historians, in 1970, serving as its president from 1971 to 1973. In 1973, she served as co-chair of the Conference Group on Women's History and from 1983 to 1985 was co-chair of the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession, both of the precursor organizations of the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

#6289

Magnús Már Lárusson

#115632

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

Magnús Már Lárusson was an Icelandic theologian and historian. He was born in Copenhagen. After finishing school in 1937 he studied theology and graduated from the University of Iceland in 1941. Between 1942 and 1949 he was a priest and schoolteacher, but was also employed at the University of Iceland in 1947. He became a professor of theology in 1953 and professor of history in 1968. From 1969 to 1973 he served as rector.

#6290

Alice Garner

#187154

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Alice Miriam Olivia Garner is an Australian actor, author, musician, teacher and historian. She is the daughter of Australian novelist and screenwriter Helen Garner and playwright, historian and actor Bill Garner.

#6291

Andrew E. Masich

#190811

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Andrew Edward Masich is the President and CEO of the Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Masich was previously Chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission .

#6292

Carolle J. Carter

#181489

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Carolle J. Kitchens, who writes as Carolle J. Carter, is an American historian who has written on German espionage in Ireland during World War II and on American liaison with Chinese communists in 1944–47 . She has taught at Menlo College and Foothill Community College in California as well as San Jose State University and San Jose City College.

#6293

Dominique Sourdel

#129829

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Dominique Sourdel was a French historian who specialized in Medieval Islam. He was professor of the Paris-Sorbonne University. Books L'Islam , PUF, Que sais-je? nº355, 2002, 21ª ed. aggiornataLe vizirat abbasside de 749 à 936 , Damas, PIFD, 1959La civilisation de l'islam classique, Arthaud « Les Grandes Civilisations », I ediz. 1968, con Janine SourdelL'État impérial des califes abbassides, PUF, "Islamiques", 1999Histoire des arabes , PUF, « Que sais-je? », nº 1627, 2003L'islam médiéval , PUF, "Quadrige", 2005Vocabulaire de l'islam , PUF, « Que sais-je? » nº3653, 2002 con Janine SourdelCertificats de pèlerinage d'époque ayyoubide.

#6294

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

#166232

Overall Influence

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is an Iranian-born Canadian scholar, editor, author, professor, and program director. He is a professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and he serves as the Director of Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Tavakoli-Targhi's areas of research include Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Gender Studies, modernity, nationalism, Orientalism, and occidentalism.

#6295

Richard Allen

#178955

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Richard Alexander Allen was a historian and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He sat as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1982 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.

#6296

Frank E. Grizzard Jr.

#190967

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Frank E. Grizzard Jr., is an American historian, writer, and documentary editor. He was born in 1954 in Emporia, Virginia, graduating from Greensville County High School in 1971. He earned B.A. degrees in history and religious studies from the Virginia Commonwealth University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation, History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817, consisting of a lengthy narrative and more than 1,750 documents chronicling the construction of Thomas Jefferson's architectural masterpiece,...

#6297

Laura Robson

#191319

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Laura Robson is a historian and professor at Penn State. Her work focuses on the modern history of the Middle East. Works

#6298

Tony Barrand

#154247

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Anthony Grant Barrand was a British-born American folk singer and academic. He was a Professor of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, where his courses included "Stalking the Wild Mind: The Psychology and Folklore of Extra-Sensory Perception and Psychic Phenomena", "English Ritual Dance and Drama", and "Folk Songs as Social History".

#6299

Leon of Pella

#85235

Overall Influence

Leon of Pella or Leo the Egyptian was a historian, priest and theologian. He wrote the book On the Gods in Egypt , based on an apocryphal letter of Alexander the Great to his mother Olympias. He was a contemporary of Euhemerus and explained similarly the human origin of the gods.

#6300

Lucien Jerphagnon

#61279

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Lucien Jerphagnon was a French scholar, historian and philosopher specialized in Greek and Roman philosophy. Biography Lucien Jerphagnon is the son of Émile Jerphagnon, a regional engineer of French Ministry of National Education and Madame Jerphagnon, born Jeanne Lallemand.

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