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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John Victor Parry
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Eva Marie Lonn
#159942
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Chih‐ping Chen
#159975
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#3204
Paul S. Lietman
#160019
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#3205
Jean Claude Mbanya
#148047
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Jean Claude Mbanya is a Cameroonian professor of medicine and endocrinology. He is the Dean Doctoral School of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences at the University of Yaoundé 1. He is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences and the Royal College of Physicians. He was a former President and currently the honorary leader of the International Diabetes Federation .
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Christopher Shaw
#123337
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Christopher Edward Dennistoun Shaw MBChB, MD, FRACP, FRCP , FMedSci, FANA is Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He is also Head of the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Director of the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at King's College London and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist and Neurogeneticist at King's College Hospital. His major research interest is in the genetic, molecular and cellular basis of motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .
Go to Profile#3207
Albert R. Hollenbeck
#160078
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#3208
Dineo Khabele
#148056
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Dineo Khabele is an American obstetrician who is Mitchell and Elaine Yanow Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2019 Khabele was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Go to Profile#3209
Jaime J. Kulisevsky
#160159
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Peter G. Cordeiro
#160182
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Naohiro Inohara
#160186
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David O. Okonkwo
#160288
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Flavio Coceani
#160333
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#3214
Lewis S. Nelson
#160341
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Mariusz Papp
#160390
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#3216
Judith A. James
#160402
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Guido M. Dalbagni
#160428
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#3218
Vered Stearns
#160441
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#3219
Helen Skouteris
#160476
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Kevin M. De Cock
#160498
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#3221
Dimitrios T.h. Kremastinos
#160514
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#3222
Robert L. Hanson
#160517
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William G. Shafer
#160533
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Michael J. Marks
#160562
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Robert J. Ferrante
#160581
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#3226
Ronald Levy
#53725
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1941 - Present (85 years)
Ronald Levy is an American medical doctor and scientist at Stanford University. He specializes in lymphoma, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease. His research investigates how the immune system can be harnessed to fight lymphoma. His work has led to the concept that antibodies can be used as personalized anticancer drugs and to the development of an antibody-based drug, Rituxan, that is widely used to treat lymphoma.
Go to Profile#3227
Philippe M. Morel
#160609
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#3228
Richard Ian Ogilvie
#160693
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#3229
Richard J. Mcmanus
#160699
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#3230
Malden C. Nesheim
#160704
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#3231
Michel Millodot
#160827
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1938 - Present (88 years)
#3232
Gary L. Grunkemeier
#160850
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Warren Winkelstein
#160916
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Bernard Amor
#160940
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Mario S. Verani
#160944
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Michael Floyd Sorrell
#160947
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Joaquín Sánchez‐sotelo
#160975
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Christopher H. Crane
#160989
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Billie Kenneth Koe
#161048
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Wilbur A. Franklin
#161055
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Brian Berman
#161073
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Ian M. Graham
#161076
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#3243
Ahmed Hamed Kissebah
#161099
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#3244
Gregory Alan Otterson
#161119
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#3245
Ethan A. Halm
#161129
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#3246
Larry Larue Ewing
#161223
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#3247
Gary A. Levy
#161268
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#3248
Susan Neuhaus
#143952
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Susan Josephine Neuhaus is an Australian general surgeon and surgical oncologist with specialty interests in melanoma and sarcoma surgery. Neuhaus was one of three finalists for the South Australian nomination for Australian of the Year in 2012.
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Andrew H. Henderson
#161402
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John L. Decker
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