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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Jacques Trotel-klausz Remy
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Harisios K. Boudoulas
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Michael W. Fried
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William C. Bowman
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Catherine Cowie
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Catherine Christine Cowie is an American epidemiologist. She is a program director and senior advisor at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Education Cowie completed a master of public health from University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1979. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Michigan and worked as a research associate and graduate teaching assistant from 1981 to 1988. Her dissertation was titled Racial disparity in diabetic end-stage renal disease: trends in incidence, survival and possible explanatory factors. Victor M. Hawthorne was the chai...
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Steven Frederic Bolling
#151059
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Domenico Inzitari
#151156
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Fiorenzo Gaita
#151164
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I. Leonard Bernstein
#151173
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Thomas F. Pajak
#151209
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Jane Salvage
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Jane Salvage is a British nursing policy activist, teacher, and writer. She has been described as "a hugely influential nurse leader who has contributed to advancing nursing in a wide number of roles throughout her career".
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Jean‐paul Sculier
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William N. Hanafee
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Anthony Swerdlow
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Anthony J. Swerdlow is a British epidemiologist and head of the epidemiology section at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, London, England. Education and career Swerdlow trained at Cambridge University and Oxford University, and worked at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Community Medicine and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys early in his career. In 1987, he began working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he remained until joining the Institute of Cancer Research in 2000.
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James R. Jett
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Tudor Morley Griffith
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1951 - 2011 (60 years)
Tudor Morley Griffith was a British radiologist and professor of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the School of Medicine, Cardiff University. Early life and education Griffith was born in Gowerton, Wales. He attended Trinity College Cambridge as a 1969 Open Scholar, graduating with a double first in theoretical physics in 1972, and studying there in the Cavendish Laboratory until 1973. He later returned to Wales to read medicine, qualifying as a doctor from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1978, gaining his MRCP in 1981, before specializing in radiology and becoming FRCR in 1986.
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Jasper R. Daube
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Mitja J. Lainscak
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José S. Pulido
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Robert Hillman Fletcher
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D. A. Price Evans
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Charles A. Sklar
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Conor Patrick Delaney
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R.ichard P. Mattick
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Frank Woods
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1937 - 2016 (79 years)
Professor Hubert Frank Woods , known as Frank, was a British pharmacologist. He was appointed professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Sheffield in 1976. In 1989 he became Sir George Franklin professor of medicine and was made the University's director of the division of clinical sciences . He was dean of the faculty of medicine there from 1988 to 1998.
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Montserrat García-Closas
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1901 - Present (125 years)
Montserrat García-Closas, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., is a Spanish researcher and academic who is best known for her works on identifying cancer biomarkers and genetic susceptibility to cancer. Dr. García-Closas serves as the deputy director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics of the National Cancer Institute, as well as the Acting Chief of the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch of the DCEG.
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Douglas J. Mathisen
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Vera Maria Rogiers
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Vincent Meininger
#151996
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1946 - Present (80 years)
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Curt I. Civin
#152011
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L. J. Jaap Kappelle
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Myeong‐ki Hong
#152105
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George L. Jr. Jordan
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Jean‐pierre Bassand
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Sergio B. Stagno
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Johann Willeit
#152218
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Yves Najean
#152320
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Arne Björk
#152327
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Tatsurou Irimura
#152345
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Paul C. Hébert
#152375
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Lawrence K. Kvols
#152413
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Brant Todd Heniford
#152470
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Hilary Little
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Hilary Little is Professor of Addiction Science at St George's, University of London and the Institute of Psychiatry. Little's research has a focus on alcohol dependence including pharmacological treatments, influence of stress in alcohol dependence and the effects of chronic alcohol consumption on memory. Little is a member of the British Pharmacological Society, the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the Research Society on Alcoholism and a reviewing editor of the Addition Biology journal.
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Zeger Hens
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1972 - Present (54 years)
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Masao Endoh
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Pierre Pichot
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Charles N. Ellis
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E. T. Jr. Moran
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James E. Lowe
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David Goldstein
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