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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David G. Lewallen
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S. Wayne Martin
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Lee Limbird
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Lee Limbird is a pharmacologist, Dean of the School of Natural Science, Mathematics and Business & Professor in the Department of Life and Physical Sciences at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Joel Gelfand
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Joel M. Gelfand is an American dermatologist and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the James J. Leyden Professor in Clinical Investigation, the Vice Chair of Clinical Research, the director of the Psoriasis and Phototherapy Treatment Center, and the medical director of the Clinical Studies Unit in the Department of Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies systemic comorbidities of psoriasis and much of his research has centered on the connection between cardiovascular diseas...
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Douglas W. Losordo
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Leszek Wojtczak
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Nancy Zahniser
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1948 - 2016 (68 years)
Nancy Rutledge Zahniser was an American pharmacologist, best known for her work involving the mechanism of dopaminergic pathways and chemical modifications of them. Although born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Zahniser grew up in Chillicothe, Ohio and subsequently enrolled at the College of Wooster, where she obtained a degree in chemistry. After completing her degree, Zahniser spent some time in India where she met her first husband Mark Zahniser; she later returned to the United States to attend the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, where she earned her PhD in pharmacology in 1977. Zahn...
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Lionel Fry
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William L. Dewey
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Alan Guyatt Parks
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Walter j. Paulus
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Francesco Cosentino
#134648
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1963 - Present (62 years)
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Donald Calne
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1936 - Present (89 years)
Donald Brian Calne, , is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher. Biography Born in London, England, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Oxford. He worked in England and at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland until 1980. From 1981 to 2001, he was the Director of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre at the University of British Columbia and a professor of neurology. He is a member of the National Parkinson Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board.
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Marcello Costa
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1940 - Present (85 years)
Marcello Costa is an Italian-born Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate. He specializes in the structure and functions of the enteric nervous system. He taught in Turin, Melbourne, and Helsinki before moving to Adelaide in 1975 where he was a foundation lecturer at the Flinders Medical School, building the new discipline of neuroscience at the college. He was at Flinders University where he held the title of Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Neurophysiology in the Department of Physiology. In 2021 Marcello retired from his position at Flinders Univers...
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Maria Makrides
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Maria Makrides is an Australian professor at the University of Adelaide who works on improving women and babies nutritional health. In 2019 she was made a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. She is a professor of human nutrition at the Adelaide Medical School, and a theme leader for the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute Women's and Children's Hospital.
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Christina Louise Power
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Nikolaos Scarmeas
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Bianca Weinstock-Guttman
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Bianca Weinstock-Guttman is an American neurologist. She is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo. Early life and education Weinstock-Guttman completed her medical degree at the University of Bucharest in 1983 and her internship at Meir Hospital and Tel Aviv University.
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Judy Yee
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Judy Yee is an American radiologist. She is the University Chair of Radiology at Montefiore and professor of radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Early life and education Yee was born in Manhattan, New York along with four siblings. She attended the Bronx High School of Science and Barnard College where she majored in biology before earning her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following this, she completed an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan and her radiology residency at Jacobi Medical Center.
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Kathleen Rasmussen
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Kathleen Maher Rasmussen is an American nutritionist. She is the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Professor of Maternal and Child Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Rasmussen studies the relationship between maternal nutrition and short- and long-term health outcomes for women and their children.
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Rohin Francis
#107681
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Rohin Francis is a British cardiologist, writer, comedian, and creator of the YouTube channel Medlife Crisis. He is working toward a PhD on imaging techniques for acute myocardial infarction. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Francis has created content that has looked to educate the public about medicine.
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Frédéric Y. Bois
#65803
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1958 - Present (67 years)
Frédéric Yves Bois is a French biological scientist working in toxicology and bioinformatics. He is currently Senior Scientific Advisor at Simcyp, a Certara-owned company. Biography Frédéric Bois was born in Limoges, France, in 1958. He obtained his Pharm.D. from the and his Ph.D. from the University of Metz . Most of his Ph.D. thesis, on the use of physiologically based pharmacokinetic models and stochastic carcinogenesis models for risk assessment, was developed at the Harvard University Energy and Environmental Policy Center . His post-doctoral research was performed at UCSF and UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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Curtis J. Donskey
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Alan Rozanski
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Ken Harvey
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Kenneth John Harvey AM is an Australian public health doctor, currently Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare in Bond University. Described by The Age as an "anti-quackery crusader", Harvey is an advocate of evidence-based medicine and a critic of pharmaceutical marketing and unproven diet products. He is the president of Friends of Science in Medicine. In 2017, Harvey was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for his "significant service to community health and the pharmaceutical industry”.
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Lynda Lisabeth
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Lynda D. Lisabeth is an American epidemiologist who is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Her research considers the epidemiology of stroke in the United States, and she has worked with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on the advancement of stroke research.
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Hans R. Mühlemann
#135116
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Isabelle Arnulf
#135151
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1962 - Present (63 years)
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Hubert Jakob Stein
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Thomas Anthony D’amico
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Gavin Y. Oudit
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Gavin Yadram Oudit is a Canadian cardiologist and clinician-scientist. As a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Heart Failure at the University of Alberta, Oudit also serves as Director of the Heart Function Clinic and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.
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Kathie-Ann Joseph
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1970 - Present (55 years)
Kathie-Ann Joseph is a surgeon and researcher at New York University Langone Health where she specializes in breast surgery and oncology surgery. Joseph is also the chief of breast surgery at Bellevue Medical Center, where she was recognized in 2015 as Bellevue's Physician of the Year. Joseph works to reduce disparities in cancer care in order to improve health care for individuals in need. Specifically, Joseph focuses on developing programs that will help African-American women to address their needs in breast cancer prevention and care. She is also studying the effects of a cell surface r...
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Maria Delivoria‐papadopoulos
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Norman A. Jaffe
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Wilma Fowler Bergfeld
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Robert Howard Webb
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Tord Berglundh
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1954 - Present (71 years)
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Eileen M. Bulger
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Eileen M. Bulger MD, FACS is the Chief of Trauma at Harborview Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at University of Washington. Education Bulger graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1992. Afterward, she completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Washington, where she remained to complete a fellowship in critical care medicine. Bulger is double board certified in surgery and surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery.
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Ruth Ann Marrie
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Charles Michael Court-brown
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Brien Anthony Holden
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Christa Elisabeth Müller
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John P. Allegrante
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John Philip Allegrante is an American applied behavioral scientist and academic. He is the Charles Irwin Lambert Professor of Health Behavior and Education at Teachers College, the graduate school of education, health, and psychology at Columbia University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1979.
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Stefano Cascinu
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1959 - Present (66 years)
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Anthony Worsley
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Werner G. Reutter
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Benjamin G. Druss
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F. Merlin Bumpus
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Michael Israel Shevell
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Charles Richard Conti
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