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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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,
#2701
David S. Mandell
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Dick K. F. Meijer
#144809
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Andrew Herxheimer
#144811
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#2704
Kafait U. Mali̇k
#144825
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John Francis Mccabe
#144865
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Ramon Avenida De La Cacabelos
#144872
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#2707
Roger Malcolm Greenhalgh
#144891
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Nigel J. M. Birdsall
#144906
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#2709
Donald Selwyn Davies
#144911
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Markku Järvinen*,†
#144938
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Michael L. J. Apuzzo
#144988
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Sarah S. Long
#144997
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Jean‐louis Mas
#145040
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Michael Monuteaux
#145063
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1974 - Present (52 years)
Michael Carl Monuteaux is a senior epidemiologist and biostatistician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in research on the prevention of violent injuries, especially those resulting from the use of firearms. He graduated from Boston University and Harvard School of Public Health.
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Paul S. Pagel
#145080
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Ali Akbar Asadi‐pooya
#145107
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Roger Sinclair Kirby
#145125
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#2718
Wafaie Fawzi
#139928
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Wafaei Fawzi is a Sudanese-American epidemiomologist currently the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health and the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population.
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Alberto Julio Kaumann
#145162
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Brian G. Barratt‐boyes
#145170
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Shirley A. A. Beresford
#145183
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#2722
Dean Schillinger
#137749
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Dean-David Schillinger is an American general internist and former Chief of the University of California San Francisco Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital . In 2006, he founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, whose mission is to advance health in poor communities. His research focuses on health communication for vulnerable populations, and the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes.
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Jan De Maeseneer
#76764
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Jan De Maeseneer is a Belgian family physician and has been Head of the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care of Ghent University . In 1977, De Maeseneer graduated as a medical doctor at Ghent University and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg . In 1981, he started working as a part-time assistant at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care at Ghent University. In 1989 he obtained a PhD. with the thesis The functioning of 94 GP trainers at the State University of Ghent: an explorative research. His resear...
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John R. Huguenard
#145237
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C. Mary Schooling
#145269
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Eiichi Tahara
#145308
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Laurent Beaugerie
#145324
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Jon J. P. Warner
#145338
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Paul J. Lijnen
#145358
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Beverly H. Koller
#145367
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#2731
Tetsuya Mizoue
#145414
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#2732
Allison Milner
#128665
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1983 - 2019 (36 years)
Allison Joy Milner was a social epidemiologist specializing in workplace mental health. Milner was Deputy Head of the Disability and Health Unit at the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. She earned a doctor of philosophy from the Griffith University's Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention in Brisbane and a masters of epidemiology from the University of Melbourne.
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Katie L. Stone
#145449
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Kenji Ikeda
#145469
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M.‐j. Vidailhet
#145473
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Ruth Bonita
#145507
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Robert M. Filler
#145528
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Joacim Rocklöv
#145533
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1979 - Present (47 years)
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Mary Reilly
#119755
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Mary M. Reilly FRCP is an Irish neurologist who works at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She studies peripheral neuropathy. She is the President of the Association of British Neurologists.
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James K. Hammitt
#145548
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Lance L. Simpson
#145584
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Peter Brian Bach
#145650
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Oliver Soehnlein
#145702
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Cun‐yu Wang
#145716
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M. Sharif Monga
#145760
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Fabian Kiessling
#114673
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1972 - Present (54 years)
Fabian Kiessling is a German radiologist, university lecturer and author as well as a scientist in the field of molecular imaging. Academic career Fabian Kiessling was born Mannheim and graduated high school in 1992 in Heidelberg and studied medicine at Heidelberg University. After his elective period at the district hospital in Schwetzingen, he completed his studies with the second state examination and was awarded his doctorate in 2001 in Internal Medicine.
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Denis Querleu
#145778
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Henrik Møller
#145820
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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David W. Fraser
#115735
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1944 - Present (82 years)
David W. Fraser is a researcher, educational leader and epidemiologist, working from 1971 to 1982 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also served as President of Swarthmore College from 1982 to 1991.
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Kelley Lee
#131842
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Kelley Lee is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance and Professor of Global Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She has studied the impact of globalisation on public health, with a particular focus on the tobacco industry. During the COVID-19 pandemic Lee initiated and led the Pandemics and Borders Project to understand effective ways to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through the effective use of travel measures.
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