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,
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Darryle D. Schoepp
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Derek M. D. Raghavan
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Jack L. Cronenwett
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Roger M. Kurlan
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Lauren Wise
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Lauren Anne Wise is a Canadian-American epidemiologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. Education Lauren Wise completed a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude at Bowdoin College with a double major in biochemistry and women's studies in 1996. She earned a Master of Science with a concentration in reproductive epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2000. She completed a Doctor of Science in epidemiology with a minor in biostatistics from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2004. Her dissertation examined r...
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Alberto Albanese
#146128
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Philip J. Mc Garry
#146169
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Walter L. Henry
#146173
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Harry E. Rubash
#146184
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Kevin B. Weiss
#146372
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Richard Martin Satava
#146375
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Patricia Anne Cleary
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Thereasea Elder
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1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Thereasea Delerine "T. D." Elder was the first African American public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Early life and education Elder was born Charlotte, North Carolina. She was the sixth child of Booker T. and Odessa Clark. Her father worked as a porter and her mother did domestic work in homes. Elder described her childhood as wonderful, and that her family taught her the value of education and religious faith, which have guided her life and career. From a young age Elder knew what she wanted to do, as a result, when she was a student at West Charlotte High School, Elder began working with Charlotte Memorial Hospital.
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Andrej Tarkowski
#146439
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David Magnus
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David Magnus is the Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and professor of pediatrics at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and the co-chair of the Ethics Committee at Stanford Hospital.
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Alan Richard Hinman
#146519
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Michael Anthony Pogrel
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Reremoana Theodore
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George J. Hruza
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George J. Hruza is an American dermatologist and medical author affiliated with St. Louis University School of Medicine as a clinical professor with over 40 years in the medical field including serving on dermatology boards across the United States. He recently received the American Academy of Dermatology Association Advocate of the Year award for 2022.
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William Giannobile
#146603
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William Giannobile is the Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the A. Lee Loomis, Jr. Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity.
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Trevor J. Powles
#146624
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Carlo Catassi
#146680
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Steve B. Jiang
#146773
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Yves Chilliard
#146777
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E. William Hancock
#146785
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Earl E. Carstens
#146890
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Michele Brignole
#146953
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Jamie Howard Price
#146957
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Elaine Ron
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1943 - 2010 (67 years)
Elaine Straus Ron was an American epidemiologist specializing in radiation and thyroid cancer. She was a senior investigator in the radiation epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. Ron was an advocate for women in science.
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Erik Asmussen
#146985
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George L. Drusano
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1949 - Present (77 years)
George Louis Drusano is an American physician and medical researcher. Drusano attended Loyola High School in Baltimore and studied physics at Boston College with a bachelor's degree in 1971. He then studied medicine at the University of Maryland with an M.D. in 1975. After a chief residency at the University of Maryland Hospital, he became a professor of medicine there. From 1992 to 2011 he was a professor at the Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he was the director of clinical pharmacology. Since 2011 he is the director of the University of Florida's Institute for Therapeutic Innovation.
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Gastone G. Celesia
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Deborah J. Cook
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Deborah J. Cook is a Canadian critical care physician. She is a Canada Research Chair of Research Transfer in Intensive Care at McMaster University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Early life and education Cook was born on October 5, 1960 in Dundas, Ontario. She completed her undergraduate medical degree and internal medicine training at McMaster University, then pursued an advanced fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford University. She returned to McMaster to complete her Master's degree in design, measurement, and evaluation, before joining the faculty in 1990.
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Kenneth Olden
#147046
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Joel G. Breman
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Jacques J. M. J. M. Van Dongen
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Iekuni Ichikawa
#147172
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Francis Wilson Price
#147208
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Alisa M. Goldstein
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Alisa Miriam Goldstein is an American genetic epidemiologist who researches the genetic and environmental causes of cancer. She is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Life Goldstein received a Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988. Her dissertation was titled, A genetic epidemiologic investigation of breast cancer in families with bilateral breast cancer. Robert Haile was her doctoral advisor. Goldstein completed a fellowship in the National Institutes of Health InterInstitute Medical Genetics Program, and is board certified i...
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E. Richard Stiehm
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Charles F. Frey
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Richard J. Gryglewski
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W. Ian McDonald
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1933 - 2006 (73 years)
William Ian McDonald was a New Zealand neurologist and academic. Having taught and practiced in New Zealand and the United States, he was Professor of Neurology at the Institute of Neurology of the University of London, England, from 1974 to 1998. He was the world leading authority on multiple sclerosis in the second half of the twentieth-century: the McDonald criteria used to diagnose MS are named after him. He earned Bachelors of Medical Science at the University of Otago in Dunedin , MBChB with Distinction and PhD . MBChB is a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees a degree awarded after 5 years of what is analogous to a combined undergraduate-graduate course of study.
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Alan B. Jr. Fleischer
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Antonello Bonci
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Antonello Bonci is an Italian-American neurologist and a neuropsychopharmacologist specialized in the long-term effects of drug exposure on the brain. In August 2019, he became president of Global Institutes on Addictions Miami. Bonci was previously the scientific director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
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John Dunning Boice
#147373
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Sune Rosell
#147398
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1932 - Present (94 years)
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Marja. A. Boermeester
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Geoffrey Watkinson
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Richard S. Cooper
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Richard Stanley Cooper is an American cardiologist and epidemiologist who is Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine. He is known for researching hypertension and other cardiac diseases in individuals of African ancestry.
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