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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Daniel Edward Forman
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Robert E. Carraway
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Steven J. Hoffman
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1986 - Present (40 years)
Steven Justin Hoffman is a Canadian health scientist. In 2016, he was appointed Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health. He also serves as the Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair In Global Governance & Legal Epidemiology at York University.
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Vincent Grégoire
#152843
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Stephen Peter Mcdonald
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Jacqueline E. Tate
#152981
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Steven M. Teutsch
#152985
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Tanenao Eto
#152989
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Ariel Hollinshead
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1929 - 2019 (90 years)
Ariel Cahill Hollinshead was an American cancer researcher and professor who spent her career at George Washington University. She was a pioneer in discovering tumor antigens and developing them as cancer vaccines.
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Shigeru Chiba
#153075
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William J. Schwartz
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1950 - Present (76 years)
William Joseph Schwartz is an American neurologist and scientist who serves as Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Education in the neurology department at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His work on the neurobiology of circadian timekeeping has focused on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus. Schwartz demonstrated that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is rhythmic in vivo using a 2-deoxyglucose radioactive marker for functional brain imaging. As of 2014, he is editor of the Journal of Biological Rhythms.
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John R. Yarnold
#153132
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Francesco Sardanelli
#153162
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Monica M. Farley
#153164
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Fionula Mary Brennan
#153170
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Giuseppe Querques
#153250
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Hidetoshi Yoshimura
#153329
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W. J. Mckenna
#153346
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Frédéric Sacher
#153369
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Joseph B. Martin
#153372
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Alberto J. Espay
#153392
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Alan Cowan
#153473
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Douglas R. Rosing
#153485
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Raoul Herbrecht
#153491
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Kazuhiko Yamamoto
#153527
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Laura Kristin Newby
#153530
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Mohsen Meydani
#153559
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Neal A. Halsey
#153601
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Bertram G. Katzung
#153619
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Justin Wilson
#70633
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1978 - 2015 (37 years)
Justin Boyd Wilson was a British professional open-wheel racing driver who competed in Formula One in , the Champ Car World Series from 2004 to 2007 and the IndyCar Series from 2008 to 2015. He won the first Formula Palmer Audi in 1998, the International Formula 3000 Championship with Nordic Racing in 2001, and co-won the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona for Michael Shank Racing.
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Steven Leigh Clark
#153656
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John T. Parissis
#153666
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Milan Radoje Uskokovic
#153714
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Paul W. Newacheck
#153719
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Lorenzo Ghiadoni
#153739
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Alessandra Ferrajoli
#153747
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Anne Moscona
#145887
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Anne Moscona is an American virologist and pediatrician. She is best known for identifying cell entry mechanisms for enveloped respiratory viruses, elucidating general infection mechanisms that apply to parainfluenza virus, Nipah virus, measles virus, and other viruses, and for applying this knowledge to identify antiviral strategies to prevent infection by viruses including SARS-CoV-2. She is frequently consulted as a medical expert during viral outbreaks, including epidemic and pandemic influenza. Since 2016, she has served as the Sherie L. Morrison Professor Microbiology & Immunology, Prof...
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David J. Jollow
#153849
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Nira Ben-jonathan
#153865
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Abdol-reza Hajipour
#153878
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Ioanna Tzoulaki
#148485
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Ioanna Tzoulaki is a professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. She investigates prognostic risk factors and models for chronic diseases and meta-epidemiology. In 2019 she received a Greek L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.
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A. Heather Eliassen
#153385
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A. Heather Eliassen is an American public health researcher who is a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research considers the epidemiology of breast cancer and the identification of modifiable risk factors to reduce breast cancer risk.
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Angela Harden
#153908
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Roberto Levi
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Marshall M. Parks
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Marshall J. Orloff
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James Arthur. Mortimer
#153979
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Saroj Saigal
#154027
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Laurence N. Kolonel
#154053
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Takeshi Sano
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