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,
#2501
Adit A. Ginde
#139714
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John R. Fozard
#139765
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#2503
Stig Arild Slørdahl
#129817
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Stig Arild Slørdahl is Managing Director of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He has a background as a Norwegian professor of Medicine and specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He has been dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and attending physician at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim.
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Anthony M. Vintzileos
#139795
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#2505
Stephen MacMahon
#106371
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Stephen William MacMahon AO DSc FAA FMediSci FAHMS FACC is a British-Australian academic medical researcher, healthcare entrepreneur and founder of The George Institute for Global Health. He holds professorial academic appointments in medicine at UNSW Sydney and Imperial College London.
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Frank S. Chytil
#139834
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#2507
Bette Kay Kleinschmidt‐demasters
#139837
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#2508
Emma Hodcroft
#115633
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1986 - Present (40 years)
Emma Hodcroft is a British-American molecular epidemiologist at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on the phylogenetics of viruses and other pathogens, mapping the spread and evolution of different genetic variants. Hodcroft is a developer on the Nextstrain project, an open science project that tracks the transmission chains of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens. In 2020, she originated CoVariants.org, a project tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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Howard Frumkin
#139879
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1950 - Present (76 years)
#2510
Iris Zalaudek
#139899
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Alasdair Breckenridge
#88852
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1937 - 2019 (82 years)
Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge, was a Scottish pharmacologist. A native of Angus, Scotland, Breckenridge studied medicine at the University of St Andrews, at a time when the medical school of that university was based in the much larger city of Dundee.
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Karl Y. Bilimoria
#139958
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Richard Goldbloom
#79336
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1924 - 2021 (97 years)
Richard Ballon Goldbloom, was a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth chancellor of Dalhousie University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1945 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1949 from McGill University. He did his post-graduate medical education at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital Boston. From 1964 to 1967, he was an associate professor at McGill University and a physician at the Montreal Children's Hospital. From 1967 to 1985, he was the head of Dalhousie University's Department of Pediatrics.
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Alash'le Abimiku
#62944
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Alash'le Grace Abimiku is a Nigerian executive director of the International Research Centre of Excellence at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria and a professor of virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who takes interest in the prevention and treatment of HIV.
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David Hackam
#106160
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David J. Hackam is a surgeon-scientist. Hackam obtained his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University of Western Ontario, then earned a doctorate in cell biology from the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2002, and was named the Watson Family Professor of Surgery in 2010. Hackam left for the Robert Garrett Professorship of Pediatric Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2014. Hackam specializes in necrotizing enterocolitis.
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Marc S. Levine
#140043
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Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere
#97492
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Nancy Ann Monteiro-Riviere is an American toxicologist. She is a Regents Distinguished Research Scholar and University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University. Early life and education Monteiro-Riviere completed her Bachelor of Science degree in biology at Stonehill College in 1976. Upon graduating, she was accepting at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, but chose to attend Purdue University after they offered her a full scholarship. After graduating with her doctoral degree in 1981, Monteiro-Riviere became a post-doctoral fellow at the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.
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Harry J. De Koning
#140095
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Ellie J. C. Goldstein
#140114
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#2520
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi
#67998
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi is a Nigerian environmental biochemist, soil scientist and toxicologist. Her research interest focus on waste management, pollution prevention and phytoremediation, which involves the treatment of environmental problems through the use of local plants that mitigate the environmental problem without the need to excavate the contaminant material and dispose of it elsewhere. She is an expert in elimination of toxic heavy metal such as cadmium, copper, mercury, lead and arsenic from contaminated soil.
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Gary J. Fisher
#140141
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#2522
Susan Pond
#119705
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Susan Margaret Pond is an Australian scientist and technologist, active in business and academia, and recognised for her contributions to medicine, biotechnology, renewable energy and sustainability. She is the current president of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
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William A. Sibley
#140223
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Fiona J. Stanley
#140224
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Simon J. Brooker
#140251
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Salvatore Maria Aglioti
#140262
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1957 - Present (69 years)
#2527
Suzanne Chambers
#99925
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Suzanne Kathleen Chambers , is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health at Sydney's University of Technology. She specialises in psycho-oncology, and has received Queen's Birthday honours. Chambers has worked on psycho-oncology, prostate cancer, health economics and psychological interventions including the distress and adjustments after cancer.
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Jianwei Wang
#140391
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Dr. David Lagunoff
#140424
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Gbemisola Oke
#126774
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Gbemisola Oke is a Nigerian professor of Periodontology and Community Dentistry at University of Ibadan. She was Deputy Vice Chancellor between 2015 and 2017. She has also occupied administrative positions such as Dean, Faculty of Dentistry and Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Ibadan.
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Norio Taira
#140493
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Rolf Arno Stahel
#140515
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Kurt Straif,
#140523
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#2534
Gorka Orive
#140534
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1976 - Present (50 years)
#2535
Michael A. Choti
#140546
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Liz Corbett
#87740
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Elizabeth Lucy Corbett is a British epidemiologist who is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research investigates the regulation of tuberculosis in HIV prevalent populations and improving access to HIV self-testing.
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Konstanze Döhner
#140595
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Henning T. Mouridsen
#140599
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Yoshikazu Ugawa
#140626
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Anne M. Hagemeijer
#140636
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R. T. Johnson
#140663
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#2542
Antoine Flahault
#140711
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1960 - Present (66 years)
#2543
Stefan Kiechl
#140809
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#2544
Robert M. Nakamura
#140837
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Donald Singer
#82808
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Donald Robert James Singer was a British clinical pharmacologist who was the president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Biography He was born in Forres, Scotland and attended schools in Iraq, Bahrain, and Scotland. He died on 11 June 2022, at the age of 67.
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Janusz Kochanowski
#140961
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C. Cliffton Ling
#140973
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Olivier Civelli
#136568
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Olivier Civelli is a molecular biologist, a researcher in the field of neuropharmacology and an educator. He is the Eric L. and Lila D. Nelson Professor of Neuropharmacology at University of California, Irvine. He is also a Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at University of California, Irvine. He is most known for his work in advancing understanding of neurotransmission and his impact on drug discovery.
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Bahman Guyuron
#141030
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Nadine Elizabeth Foster
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