The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Medical,
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Karien Stronks
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Tahmeed Ahmed
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Tahmeed Ahmed is a Bangladeshi Scientist with a particular research focus on Gastroenterology, Public Health Nutrition, and Global Health. He is a physician by training with specialization in treating patients with cholera and diarrheal diseases as well as maternal and childhood malnutrition. He has been serving as the Executive Director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh since February 1, 2021. He is the first Bangladeshi to serve in the role.
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Luca Gianni
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1951 - Present (74 years)
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Richard John Heald
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Walter J. Stark
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Martin Wilhelmus Antonius Verstegen
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Stephanie J. London
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Stephanie J. London is an American epidemiologist and physician-scientist specializing in environmental health, respiratory diseases, and genetic susceptibility. She is the deputy chief of the epidemiology branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Kim Nguyen Chi
#133021
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Adrian O’dowd
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Robert B. Diasio
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Walter (buzz) F. Stewart
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Dennis H. Wright
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Gerald P. Rodnan
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Thomas M. Wheeler
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Scott Dulchavsky
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Scott Dulchavsky is the Roy D. McClure Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Henry Ford Hospital and Professor of Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
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Wolfgang Grodd
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1942 - Present (83 years)
Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Grodd is a German neuroradiologist and professor emeritus of the University hospital at the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production, and cognitive processing, cerebellum, thalamus, and basal ganglia. Currently, Wolfgang Grodd is a research scientist at the Department of the High-Field MR at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
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Olivier Chosidow
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Edward Iii Ellis
#133377
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Kazuhisa Takahashi
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Sharon Alroy-Preis
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1974 - Present (51 years)
Sharon Alroy-Preis is the head of public health services at the Israeli Health Ministry, and is Israel's chief epidemiologist. Education Alroy-Preis holds a doctorate in medicine from the Technion and a master's degree from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice .
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Jeffrey Ern Saffitz
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Kenneth A. Foon
#133589
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Timothy M. Uyeki
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Louis B. Hersh
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Walter E. Berdon
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Frank Oliver Nestle
#133772
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Hatem Alkadhi
#133790
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Maharaj K. Ticku
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Stephen B. Thacker
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David Dowdy
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David Wesley Dowdy is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. He is the B. Frank and Kathleen Polk Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Early life and education Dowdy earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1999 before enrolling at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his Master's degree, PhD, and Medical degree. He completed his PhD under the guidance of Richard Chaisson, a tuberculosis and HIV expert, who encouraged him to study epidemiological modeling of tuberculosis.
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John J. Mcneil
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Alan Keith Maynard
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Nadeem R. Abu‐rustum
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Lori J. Pierce
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Lori Jo Pierce is an American radiation oncologist and 57th President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is a Full Professor and Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the use of radiotherapy in the multi-modality treatment of breast cancer, with emphasis on intensity modulated radiotherapy in node positive breast cancer, the use of radiosensitizing agents, and the outcomes of women treated with radiation for breast cancer who are carriers of a BRCA1/2 breast cancer susceptibility gene.
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Alessandro Menotti
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David T. Durack
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Mohammad Ali Mansournia
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Karl Prof Dr Werdan
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Margarita Dubocovich
#133300
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Margarita L. Dubocovich, Ph.D., FACNP, FASPET is an Argentine neuropharmacologist currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor at University of Buffalo, State University of New York. Dr. Margarita Dubocovich is a prominent neuropharmacologist and distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is best known for her groundbreaking research on the regulation of circadian rhythms and the role of melatonin receptors in the brain.
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Masataka Sata
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Milton L. Scott
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Hisataka Moriwaki
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Lisa Maher
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Lisa Maher is Professor and head of Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology, at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, at the University of New South Wales and was made Member of the Order of Australia in 2015. She was awarded an Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship, in Public Health from the NHMRC, in 2014. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Erkki A. Vartiainen
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Michael I. D’angelica
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Mitchell F. Brin
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Michael D. Ezekowitz
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Yehuda Patt
#134275
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Yehuda Patt is a liver cancer specialist, gastrointestinal oncologist, and Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico, and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was previously at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center between the years 1975- 2003. He is the author of various papers pertaining to cancer and their effects on people, and has been cited numerous times for his writings and analyses.
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Paul E. De Jong
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Massimo Giuseppe Colombo
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