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,
#2651
Marc Twagirumukiza
#130805
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Marc Twagirumukiza is a Belgian physician and a senior clinical researcher in the fields of clinical pharmacology, cardiovascular and hypertension research, epidemiology, electronic health records, real world data / real world evidence and semantic web technology in health sciences. He is chair of the World Wide Web Consortium Healthcare Schema Vocabulary Community Group.
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Jozef J. Janssens
#143604
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#2653
Samuel A. Deadwyler
#143642
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#2654
Maria Cristina Leske
#143648
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#2655
Kenneth P. Minneman
#143662
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#2656
Harvey Checkoway
#143686
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#2657
David Lee Epstein
#143692
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#2658
Irving H. Zucker
#143696
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#2659
Giuseppe Plazzi
#143700
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
#2660
Richard C. Pötter
#143754
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#2661
Alastair J. J. Wood
#143771
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#2662
Daniel Cherqui,
#143775
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#2663
Eli Chester Ridgway
#143782
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#2664
Jacob Rajfer
#143839
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#2665
Margaret A. Honein
#143851
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#2666
Selman Uranues
#122106
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Selman Uranues is an Austrian physician and professor of surgery at the Medical University of Graz. He is known for his work in the fields of minimally invasive surgery, spleen-, gastrointestinal- and acute surgery and visceral traumatology.
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Robert H. Steffen
#143870
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#2668
Allan B. Lumsden
#143874
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#2669
Robert Joseph Willis
#143909
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#2670
Angelos E. Halaris
#143911
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#2671
Hisao Asamura
#143940
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#2672
Esther A. Oliva
#143965
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#2673
Michael Eliasziw
#143970
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#2674
Shumpei Sakakibara
#143982
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#2675
Gareth Sanger
#143013
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Gareth J. Sanger is a British pharmacologist. Sanger was a research fellow at King's College Hospital Medical School from 1977 to 1990. He then spent a period in the pharmacological industry, before being appointed, in 2009, Professor of Neuropharmacology, at Queen Mary University of London.
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George J. Grabner
#144009
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#2677
Ruben I. Kuzniecky
#144096
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#2678
Samuel G. Taylor
#144124
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#2679
Charles E. Horton
#144137
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#2680
Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque
#97081
Overall Influence
Jennifer Y. Webster-Cyriaque is an American dentist and immunologist specializing in the oral microbiome, salivary gland disease in patients with HIV, and cancer-causing viruses. She became the deputy director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in November 2020. Webster-Cyriaque was a faculty member at UNC Adams School of Dentistry and the UNC School of Medicine for 21 years.
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Patrick J. Mulrow
#144199
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#2682
Dennis M. Krikler
#144213
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#2683
Jonathan R. Warren
#144226
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#2684
Simon Horenblas
#144237
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#2685
Leopoldo Raij
#144327
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#2686
R. Alexandra (sandra) Goldbohm
#144338
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#2687
D. W. T. Crompton
#144349
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#2688
Renata Cífková
#144364
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#2689
Lars Ragnar Lundell
#144390
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#2690
Ryszard Jerzy Gryglewski
#144404
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#2691
Wladimir Wertelecki
#91335
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Wladimir Wertelecki is a Pediatrician and Medical Geneticist who in 1974 established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at the new South Alabama University College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. Since 1996 and following his retirement as Chairman and Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, and Pathology, he has continued his investigations of developmental anomalies and their prevention as a Project Scientist at the Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego. Since 1996, his research has focused mainly on alcohol and ionizing radiation impacts on congenital anomalies.
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Richard Cruess
#105359
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
Richard Leigh Cruess, is a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon and academic. Born in London, Ontario, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1951 and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1955. From 1955 to 1962, he did his internship and residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. From 1957 to 1959, he served with the Navy Medical Corps of U.S. Naval Reserve with a rank of Lieutenant.
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Niels Ehlers
#144612
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#2694
Allen M. Putterman
#144673
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#2695
Hans‐georg Borst
#144688
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#2696
Francisco Lopez‐jimenez
#144704
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#2697
Andrew J. Weiland
#144726
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#2698
Ronald A. Lubet
#144742
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#2699
Paul D. Kligfield
#144765
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#2700
Philip S. Barie
#144767
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