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,
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Michael X. Repka
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Douglas Allen Corley
#154107
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Douglas John Lanska
#154116
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#3004
Saverio Stranges
#154190
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1971 - Present (55 years)
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Peter A. Brennan
#154233
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Michael R. Hanley
#154295
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Stephen Christopher Bishop
#154301
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William John Louis
#154358
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Salem Chouaib
#154413
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Cecile Hoover Edwards
#120708
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1926 - 2005 (79 years)
Cecile Hoover Edwards was an American nutritional researcher whose career focused on improving the nutrition and well-being of disadvantaged people. Her scientific focus was on finding low-cost foods with an optimal amino acid composition, with a special interest in methionine metabolism. She was also a university administrator, serving as dean of several schools within Howard University between 1974 and 1990.
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Elizabeth B. Waters
#154531
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#3012
Sunil Kapila
#144022
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Sunil D. Kapila is an orthodontist and dental academic. Kapila was trained as a dentist at the University of Nairobi, and completed a master's degree in orthodontics at the University of Oklahoma, funded partly via the Fulbright Program, then earned his doctorate in oral biology at the University of California, San Francisco. He then joined the UCSF faculty and was eventually appointed Eugene E. West Endowed Chair of Orthodontics. Kapila was named Robert W. Browne Endowed Professor of Dentistry at the University of Michigan in 2004. In 2013, while at Michigan, Kapila was granted fellowship b...
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Marie McCormick
#115485
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Marie Clare McCormick is an American pediatrician and Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. She also holds an appointment as professor of pediatrics in the Harvard Medical School. In addition, she is the senior associate for academic affairs in the department of neonatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research primarily focused on epidemiology and health services, particularly in relation to infant mortality and the outcom...
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William Iii Slikker
#154599
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Michael Jeffrey Aminoff
#136763
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1941 - Present (85 years)
Michael Jeffrey Aminoff is a clinical neurologist and neurophysiologist whose later clinical work focused on treating Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders. He retired in 2022 and lives in San Francisco, California.
Go to Profile#3016
Arthur Isaac Eidelman
#154619
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Jason Grebely
#154660
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#3018
Sharadchandra D. Deodhar
#154690
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Konstantinos Nikolaos Syrigos
#154691
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Christiaan H. Bangma
#154814
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Jean‐paul Galmiche
#154830
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Jacco Wallinga
#154862
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Richard A. Gillis
#154899
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Peter J. Reeds
#154951
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Gerrit Isenberg
#154970
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#3026
Ulf H. Haglund
#155008
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#3027
Viktoras Kulvinskas
#100243
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1939 - Present (87 years)
#3028
Naomi Fukagawa
#123266
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Naomi Kay Fukagawa is an American nutrition scientist. She is a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont , and the director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland.
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Takaaki Aoyagi
#155085
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Fevzi Aksoy
#125895
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1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Fevzi Aksoy was a Turkish sports writer, medical doctor, neurologist and academic. He graduated from Pertevniyal High School in 1947. He continued his education at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1953. He received the title of "Associate Professor" in 1968 and "Professor" in 1982. He worked on EEG and epilepsy in Germany between 1960 and 1967.
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Alfred Königsrainer
#155128
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Office on Smoking
#155129
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Timothy J. Regan
#155149
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Donald R. Jasinski
#155256
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Richard Julian Jones
#155285
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Erica Golemis
#150783
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Erica A. Golemis is an American oncologist. She is the William Wikoff Smith Chair in Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, as well as deputy chief science officer and co-leader of the molecular therapeutics program.
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Dimitri T. Azar
#155375
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Michael Freissmuth
#155377
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Robin Haring
#155397
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1982 - Present (44 years)
Robin Haring is a German epidemiologist, author and Professor of Public Health. In 2014, Robin Haring was appointed as full professor at the European University of Applied Sciences and in 2016, as adjunct professor at Monash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
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Gary Taubes
#155407
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Theresa A. Mcdonagh
#155417
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Charles N. Gillis
#155430
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#3043
Tian Wei
#133937
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Tian Wei is a Chinese surgeon and professor and doctoral supervisor at Peking University and Tsinghua University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and serves as the president and deputy party chief of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital.
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Daryl J. Hoban
#155439
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Harvey J. Iii Clewell
#155456
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Sibylle Koletzko
#155468
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James Douglas Sargent
#155513
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Terry D. Oberley
#155574
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Manuel D. Cerqueira
#155637
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Albert Joseph Feilzer
#155671
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