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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Gerard Hornstra
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Carl J. Witkop
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Donald Raymond Buhler
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Roger Henriksson,
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Harold W. Jaffe
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Theoklis E. Zaoutis
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Ernst Mutschler
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Robert S. B. Beanlands
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Ji‐guang Wang
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Bruce A. Sullenger
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Bruce Alan Sullenger is the Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery at the Duke University School of Medicine, the Founding Director of the Duke Translational Research Institute which he led from 2006-2016, and the Associate Director for Translation in the Duke Cancer Institute .
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Gillian Abel
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Gillian Abel is a New Zealand public health researcher and as of 2021 head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago in Christchurch. Education After a receiving a diploma from Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, Abel moved to New Zealand in 1997 to work at the University of Otago. She graduated from Otago in 2010 with a PhD titled "Decriminalisation: A harm minimisation and human rights approach to regulating sex work".
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Shuk‐mei Ho
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Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini
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Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini is a behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist and a leading expert in frontotemporal dementia. She directs the ALBA Lab of the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center. She is also the co-director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center.
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Didier Bouhassira
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Paolo Barone
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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G. Richard Iii Locke
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Bruce A. Yankner
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Eldon A. Shaffer
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Caroline Colijn
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Caroline Colijn is a Canadian mathematician and epidemiologist. She holds a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection and Public Health at Simon Fraser University . Early life and education Colijn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia before enrolling at York University for her Master's degree in environmental studies and the University of Waterloo for her PhD. She completed her post-doctoral training with Michael Mackey at McGill University and later studied epidemiology with Megan Murray at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Heal...
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Graham Frcp Jackson
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Michael L. Steer
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Su Ih-jen
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Su Ih-jen is a Taiwanese medical researcher and distinguished investigator and was the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. Career Su received his MD degree from National Taiwan University Medical School in 1976, and a PhD in pathology in 1987. His research focus is on virus and virus-associated human cancers. He co-authored SARS in Taiwan: an overview and lessons learned, published by The International Journal of Infectious Diseases, which aimed to describe the epidemiology of SARS in Taiwan between March and July 2003, along with the public health response.
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Raymond G. Hoffmann
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Adriano Decarli
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Roberto De Franchis
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Abraham T. K. Cockett
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Klaus Klaushofer
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H. Alan Crockard
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Anders Hjern
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Willem J. Remme
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Claudia Haferlach
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Karl Lauterbach
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach is a German scientist, physician, and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , who has served as Federal Minister of Health since 8 December 2021. He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne . Since the 2005 German federal election, he has been a member of the Bundestag .
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David H. Ilson
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Dan Buskila
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Ron Theodoor Van Domburg
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Kyogo Itoh
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Shamir R. Mehta
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Graham L. Hill
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Michael Paul Frenneaux
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Anna Coutsoudis
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Anna Coutsoudis is a South African public health scientist and academic who has conducted research on HIV and nutrition, specializing in the benefits of breastfeeding. An elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, she is a founder member and chair of iThemba Lethu, an organization for children with HIV, which provides a community-based breast milk bank.
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Y S Bakhle
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1936 - Present (90 years)
Yeshwant S. Bakhle , is a British pharmacologist. Bakhle studied chemistry, with supplementary chemical pharmacology, in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, later obtaining both a DPhil and, in 1993, a DSc there.
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J. M. Van Der Ree
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A. Steiner Robert
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Jack Donald Hardcastle
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Thomas Quertermous
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Richard M. Eglen
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Theodore Eliades
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1965 - Present (61 years)
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Richard James Cote
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Falk Schwendicke
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Patrick Robberecht
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