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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W. Ferguson Anderson
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Takashi Yoshida
#162752
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#3303
Göran Gb Berglund
#162768
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#3304
Said Awad
#132668
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2000 - 2021 (21 years)
Dr. Said A. Awad, MD, BCh, FRCS, is Professor Emeritus of Urology at Dalhousie University Medical School, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Cairo, Egypt and obtained his MD from Cairo University in 1959.
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Lawrence Sterling Honig
#162842
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Edward J. Holland
#162843
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#3307
Donald. R. Stanski
#162876
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#3308
Stephen J. Withrow
#162904
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#3309
Soichi Arai
#162919
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#3310
Gisela G. Dahlquist
#162929
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#3311
Garyy D. Webb
#163026
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#3312
Axel Le Cesne
#163104
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#3313
Pierre‐françois Plouin
#163119
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#3314
Jill M. Norris
#163151
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#3315
Frances M. Leslie
#163156
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#3316
Jacob (bob) M. Ten Cate
#163157
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Björn L. Rydevik
#163194
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#3318
Kimberly Sutton-tyrrell
#163198
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#3319
Emile Letournel
#163214
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Markus Antonius Kuczyk
#163265
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#3321
Kevin Kane Mccully
#163272
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#3322
Adriana C. Maggi
#163273
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#3323
Ronald Sam Harwerth
#163284
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#3324
Jakob Zinsstag
#163289
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#3325
Rhonda Rosengren
#163308
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Rhonda J Rosengren is a New Zealand toxicology academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After at Texas A&M University, Rosengren moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.
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Barbara S. Sternfeld
#163315
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#3327
Graham G.c.m. Watt
#163340
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#3328
Valerie Speirs
#145373
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Valerie Speirs is a Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research aims to identify biomarkers of breast cancer to inform diagnosis and treatment. Education Speirs studied zoology at the University of Aberdeen. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Glasgow. She worked with Ian Freshney on cell culture and became interested in how cell culture systems can be used to model disease.
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Giovanni Staurenghi
#163377
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1960 - Present (66 years)
#3330
Remo Naccarato
#163392
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#3331
Patricio López‐jaramillo
#163418
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Matthew C. Fisher
#163422
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Richard A. Lange
#163430
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#3334
Eugene J. Van Scott
#163526
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#3335
Ella M. Ayoub
#163538
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#3336
Paolo Cappabianca
#163564
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1953 - Present (73 years)
#3337
Witold Ruźyłło
#163603
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#3338
Tiziano Baccetti
#163638
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#3339
Nina Fefferman
#24105
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Nina H. Fefferman is an American evolutionary biologist, epidemiologist, and ecologist at the University of Tennessee for the Departments of Ecology and Evolution & Mathematics. Her research focuses on the mathematics of epidemiology, evolutionary & behavioral ecology, and conservation biology. She studies how individual behaviors can affect an entire population.
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Neal Stuart Penneys
#163642
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Michael Uder
#163693
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1966 - Present (60 years)
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Paul Colombani
#125309
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Paul Michael Colombani is an American pediatric surgeon. Colombani earned his medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed residencies specializing in general surgery and pediatric surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, respectively. He then joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty, where he taught as Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery. Colombani later earned a master's in business administration from Johns Hopkins University.
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Alain Fourquet
#163816
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John L. Keltner
#163857
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Akira Horita
#163879
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#3346
Denis 5. Lairon
#163982
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Clinton D. Kilts
#163999
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D. Brian Morgan
#164005
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Steven H. Belle
#164014
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Thomas Alexander Miller
#164034
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