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.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Medical,
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Dieter Horstkotte
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Sari L. Reisner
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Howard Waitzkin
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Harriet MacMillan
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Harriet Louise MacMillan is a Canadian pediatrician, psychiatrist, and scientist. As a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University, she was also elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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Prof. P. R. Lichtlen
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Maarten A. D. H. Schalekamp
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Suthat Fucharoen
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Giuseppe D’amico
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Robert G. Ojemann
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Nikolaos Pandis
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Rachel Whitmer
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Rachel A. Whitmer is an epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis. Whitmer is a professor in the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences and chief of the UC Davis Division of Epidemiology. She also works with Kaiser Permanente. Whitmer received her undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her PhD from UC Davis.
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Jolien W. Roos‐hesselink
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Gerry Stimson
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Gerry Stimson is a British public health social scientist, emeritus professor at Imperial College London from 2004, and an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2017. Stimson has over 220 scientific publications mainly on social and health aspects of illicit drug use, including HIV infection. He has sat on numerous editorial boards including AIDS, Addiction, and European Addiction Research, and with Tim Rhodes he was the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Drug Policy from 2000 to 2016. He is one of the global leaders for research on and ...
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William Maixner
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Catherine Troisi
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Catherine Lynne Troisi is an American epidemiologist specializing in leadership studies and infectious diseases including HIV and hepatitis. She is an associate professor in the divisions of management, policy, and community health and epidemiology at UTHealth School of Public Health and Director of Workforce Development for the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute.
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Herbert C. Chen
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Peter Oscar Jr Kwiterovich
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David Schottenfeld
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Bonnie Sloane
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Bonnie Fiedorek Sloane is a distinguished professor at Wayne State University known for her research on cancer. In 2021 she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Y. Claire Wang
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Y. Claire Wang is an associate professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on obesity prevention strategies and techniques, such as soda taxes, and how effective they may be in reducing the economic costs of obesity.
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Youcef M. Rustum
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Janet Elizabeth Cade
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Roell A. Coutinho
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Martinus Richter
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Martinus Richter is a German orthopaedic surgeon, and Associate Professor at the Hannover Medical School and Head of the Department for Foot and Ankle Surgery Nuremberg and Rummelsberg at the Hospital Rummelsberg and Sana-Hospital Nuremberg.
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David Boulware
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David Boulware is a professor of medicine and a practicing infectious disease physician at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is a member of the graduate faculty for the University of Minnesota School of Public Health Epidemiology PhD program and for the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology graduate program. Boulware was the first Lois & Richard King Distinguished Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. Boulware is an active medical researcher engaged in clinical trials in infectious diseases.
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Frank Herbert Attix
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Dennis Bruce Egli
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Joe V. M.d. M.p.h. Selby
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Hiroshi Hosoda
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Stefano Zaffagnini
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Paul Edmond O'brien
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Robert E. Kleiger
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John D. Nelson
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George Michael Hall
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Emmett T. Jr. Cunningham
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Serge Erlinger
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Stefan Sleijfer
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John Greenwood
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Dr John Edward Greenwood is an English-Australian surgeon. He has been head of the burns service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital since 2001. He was the South Australian Australian of the Year for 2016.
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Susumu Prof Okabe
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Jean-pierre Dallongeville
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Paul Khavari
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Paul A. Khavari is the Carl J. Herzog Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Program in Epithelial Biology. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Hartmut Derendorf
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1953 - 2020 (67 years)
Hartmut Derendorf was a German-American pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist, a distinguished emeritus professor of pharmaceutics at University of Florida. A significant figure in his field, Derendorf published over 20 papers each with over 100 citations.
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Stefan Agewall
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Jean‐yves Douillard
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Morton A. Bosniak
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Einar K. Rofstad
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Kenneth A. Kudsk
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Alan Frazer
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Mostafa Qorbani
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Germaine M. Buck Louis
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Germaine M. Buck Louis is the Dean of the George Mason University College of Health and Human Services, a professor in Mason’s Department of Global and Community Health, and a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist. Prior to her appointment as dean at George Mason in 2017, she was the founding Director for the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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