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,
#2401
Peter Berlit
#137110
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
#2402
Timo J. Erkinjuntti
#137152
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#2403
Christine Mannhalter
#91394
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Christine Mannhalter is an Austrian molecular biologist and hematologist who is a Professor of Molecular Diagnostics at the Medical University of Vienna. She has been a vice-president at the Austrian Science Fund since 2010 and took over its interim presidency in 2015.
Go to Profile#2404
Cuilin Zhang
#131895
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Cuilin Zhang is a Chinese-American epidemiologist and physician-scientist researching the roles of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and obesity and health consequences of these complications. Zhang is a senior investigator and acting chief of the epidemiology branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Go to Profile#2405
G. Davey Smith
#137186
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#2406
Julián Benito‐león
#137242
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#2407
Robert D. Timmerman
#137279
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#2408
Monique H. W. Frings‐dresen
#137281
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#2409
Andrew K. Poznanski
#137293
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#2410
Regina G. Ziegler
#70678
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Regina Gale Ziegler is an American biochemist and nutritional epidemiologist who researched dietary, nutritional, anthropometric, and hormonal determinants of cancer risk. She was a senior investigator in the National Cancer Institute's epidemiology and biostatistics program.
Go to Profile#2411
Ian C. T. Nisbet
#137418
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#2412
Victor Aboyans
#137432
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#2413
Daniël Van Steenberghe
#137498
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#2414
Velmurugu Ravindran
#137554
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#2415
Gerald M. Rosen
#137560
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#2416
Gary Gerstenblith
#137562
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#2417
Stirling Carpenter
#137582
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#2418
David Rae Harder
#137686
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#2419
Samuel Denmeade
#98350
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Samuel Ray Denmeade is a Professor of Oncology, Urology and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Over 10 of his published papers have each been cited over 100 times.
Go to Profile#2420
Angelo Auricchio
#137751
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#2421
Richard Neil Baumgartner
#137791
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#2422
Agnes Binagwaho
#94030
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Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan Politian, pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity . In 1996, she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in ...
Go to Profile#2423
Esther M. John
#137822
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#2424
Jens Volkmann
#137852
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#2425
Leif Tronstad
#137858
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#2426
Laura Rosella
#106465
Overall Influence
Laura C. A. Rosella is a Canadian epidemiologist who is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in the University of Toronto. She studies public health and the social determinants of health. Rosella holds a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics.
Go to Profile#2427
Joseph E. Bavaria
#137886
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#2428
Denis A. Evans
#137901
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#2429
Henry F. Mcfarland
#137903
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#2430
Taylor Wallace
#124007
Overall Influence
Taylor C. Wallace is an American food and nutrition scientist and media personality. Wallace is the principal consultant at the Think Healthy Group, an adjunct clinical associate professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University, and an adjunct associate professor in the Gerald J. And Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Wallace has previously served in senior staff positions at The National Osteoporosis Foundation, and Council for Responsible Nutrition. He serves as the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dietary S...
Go to Profile#2431
Darren K. Mcguire
#137922
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#2432
Kenneth Ouriel
#137938
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#2433
Stephen Lawn
#134263
Overall Influence
1966 - 2016 (50 years)
Stephen David Lawn was a Professor of Infectious diseases and Tropical medicine known for research on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Personal life Lawn was married to Professor Joy Lawn. They have a son, Tim, and a daughter, Joanna.
Go to Profile#2434
Mitchell Howard Rosner
#137984
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#2435
Deepak Agrawal
#122917
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Deepak Agrawal born 10 November 1970, is a professor neurosurgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is one of the top 10 surgeons in the neurosurgery. During his stint as chairman computarization, he reformed the ICT processes at AIIMS, New Delhi and also helped patients in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi to get a Unique Health Identification , which documents their journey in the hospital. He also pioneered stem cell research in spinal cord injury in India. Agrawal has pioneered DREZotomy technique for neuropathic pain in India and has refined the proce...
Go to Profile#2436
Edward L. Jr. Spitznagel
#138109
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#2437
C. T. Cent Tsai
#138121
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#2438
Abraham M. Y. Nomura
#138135
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#2439
Penny Asbell
#128412
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Penny A. Asbell is an American ophthalmologist. , she is the Barrett G. Haik Endowed Chair at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where she focuses her research on the treatment of dry eye syndrome.
Go to Profile#2440
Dr. Dietmar W. Siemann
#138140
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#2441
Robert A. Wolfe
#138156
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#2442
Vincenzo Savarino
#138163
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#2443
Régis Bataille
#138220
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#2444
Tjalf Ziemssen
#138222
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#2445
Steven C. Schachter
#138224
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#2446
Volker Johannes Schumpelick
#138244
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#2447
Pascale Allotey
#114875
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Pascale Allotey is a Ghanaian public health researcher and the Director of the World Health Organization SRH/HRP. Her research focuses on addressing equity, human rights, and social justice as these relate to health and disease, health systems, and global health research. She has held various technical advisory positions for the World Health Organization. Allotey serves on the Paris Institute for Advanced Study World Pandemic Research Network to understand the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governance of the World Health Summit and the international Advisory Board of the Lancet...
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Roger Kneebone
#110410
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Roger Lister Kneebone is British professor of surgical education at Imperial College London. A graduate of St Andrews and Manchester universities, he performed trauma procedures in the war zones of Southern Africa before working as a general practitioner in Wiltshire and after completing a PhD. Upon return, he became involved in medical education based around simulation and computer-based learning, challenging the "documentary framework". He co-founded the United Kingdom's only Masters in Education in Surgical Education.
Go to Profile#2449
Martin Trope
#138387
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#2450
James H. Moller
#138404
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