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List of the most influential female people in Philosophy,

#2201

Sari Feldman

#93602

Overall Influence

Sari Feldman is an American librarian. Sari was president of the American Library Association from 2015 to 2016. During her presidency, she launched the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign that increased funding support for libraries and sought to advance information policy.

#2202

Arlene Zallman

#185124

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Arlene Zallman was an American composer and music educator. Life Zallman was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music. She received a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and George Crumb. In 1959 she received a two-year Fulbright Scholarship to Florence, Italy, to study with Luigi Dallapiccola. She held positions on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University and then became a professor of composition at Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1976.

#2203

Hanne Albert

#173854

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Hanne Albert is a Danish physiotherapist with a Ph.D. in medical science. Her main research interest is in lower back pain and pelvic girdle pain. Albert's studies have revealed that bone œdema could be caused by a bacterial infection and treated with antibiotics.

#2204

Stephanie Amiel

#54663

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Stephanie Anne Amiel, Lady Alberti, is a British physician and academic, specialising in type 1 diabetes. Since 1995, she has been the R. D. Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London and a consultant at King's College Hospital.

#2205

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar

#187202

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar was a Spanish historian, researcher and academic. She arrived in Mexico in 1939, after the National victory in Spain.

#2206

Puri Soltani

#192044

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Puri Soltani was an academic who was a "pioneer of Iranian librarianship". Soltani was born in Hamadan. Her father, a prominent constitutionalist lawyer, died while she was a child. Her husband, the poet and newspaper editor, Morteza Keyvan, was executed three months after their wedding, prompting Soltani to leave Iran for several years. After returning to Iran, Soltani founded multiple library organizations, expanded the library system of the University of Tehran, and oversaw the digitization of Iranian national documents. Soltani is credited with modernizing libraries and information science in Iran.

#2207

Liselle Terret

#189226

Overall Influence

Liselle Terret is a co-programme leader and a senior lecturer at the University of East London. She has more than twenty years of experience within the field as a teacher, facilitator and manager of Applied Theatre related projects within and outside of the UK working with a diverse selection of groups.

#2208

Anne Rasmussen

#120117

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Anne K. Rasmussen is an American educator and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the US and Islamic ritual and performance. She has been the director of the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble since 1994. Rasmussen was named the William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 2014.

#2209

Judith Stamper

#106974

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Judith Stamper is an English former television presenter, journalist and academic. Early life Stamper was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. She attended Cockermouth Grammar School . She graduated in English in 1975 from St David's University College, Lampeter . She gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from University College, Cardiff.

#2210

Mabel Bianco

#71298

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Mabel Bianco is an Argentine physician who has devoted her career to fighting for women's access to improved health services and sex education. In 1989, she established the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women , and has continued to serve as its president. She has been an activist in Latin America and the world, introducing policies addressing breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights and gender reform in the UN.

#2211

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham

#173683

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician and researcher. She is the vice president for research at the University of Michigan, and William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health.

#2212

Jasmine Zapata

#100578

Overall Influence

Jasmine Y. Zapata is an American physician and epidemiologist. She is the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Her career includes work as a pediatrician, public health researcher, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, author, and her support for youth empowerment with a variety of initiatives.

#2213

Lee Eun-sook

#187348

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Lee Eun-sook is a South Korean surgical oncologist with expertise in breast cancer at National Cancer Center and previously served as its president from 2017 to 2020. Lee was the first woman to lead the center since its creation in 2000. She was an ex officio president of the NCC Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy and NCC Foundation's board. She has also served as the secretary-general of Asian National Cancer Centers Alliance from the beginning of her presidency.

#2214

Marie Bernard

#73364

Overall Influence

Marie A. Bernard, M.D. is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health . Prior to this, she was the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging at the NIH, where she oversaw approximately $3.1 billion in research focused on aging and Alzheimer's disease. Bernard co-leads the NIH UNITE initiative, launched in 2021 to end structural racism in biomedicine. She co-chairs the Inclusion Governance Committee, which promotes inclusion in clinical research by sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and age. She also co-chairs two of the Department of Health and H...

#2215

Diana Egerton-Warburton

#183593

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Diana Egerton-Warburton is an Australian medical professional, specialising in emergency medicine. Egerton-Warburton serves as the director of Emergency Medicine Research at Monash Medical Centre and Medical Co-chair at Monash University of the Monash Emergency Research Collaborative .

#2216

Ana Vásquez-Bronfman

#179152

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Ana Vásquez-Bronfman was a Chilean Jewish sociologist and writer. Exiled from the country during the dictatorship in 1973, she relocated to Paris, where she worked as a professor and researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research. Much of her literary work centered on the cultural heritage of Jews in predominantly Catholic Latin America, the effects of military dictatorship on human rights and racial prejudices and exile. Her research evaluated the psycho-sociology of children and women's sexuality. She won a National Book prize in Chile for her fiction and a bronze medal from the ...

#2217

Tetyana Yablonska

#56615

Overall Influence

1917 - 2005 (88 years)

Tetyana Nylivna Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures were devoted to the work and life of Ukrainian people . She moved to general images of nature, delivering a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms .

#2218

Christobel Saunders

#110348

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Christobel Mary Saunders is a British-Australian oncologist and breast cancer specialist, who holds the position of Winthrop Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Western Australia. Education and career Saunders completed her medical training at the University of London, taking her Bachelor of Science with Distinction in 1986. In 1987, she won a Royal Society of Medicine Travelling Scholarship, before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991. Her early career was spent at hospitals in London and south east England, including Newham and Whipps Cross Hospitals....

#2219

Anahera Morehu

#189305

Overall Influence

Anahera Morehu is a New Zealand public servant. As at 2023, she is the Chief Archivist of New Zealand and general manager of Archives New Zealand. She was appointed on 14 June 2023. She had previously been appointed as acting Chief Archivist from November 2022.

#2220

Suzanne Baker

#177783

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Suzanne Dale Baker is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist. In 1977, she became the first Australian woman to win an Academy Award, winning for the animated short film Leisure in the category Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

#2221

Judy Dlamini

#192101

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Judy Dlamini is a South African businesswoman and author who is the Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and the founding chairman of Mbekani Group. She served as chairperson of the board of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings from November 2007 until December 2015 while concurrently serving as non-executive director from July 2005 until December 2015. In 2020 the magazine Forbes called her one of Africas 50 most powerful women. In 2022, she was mentioned by Forbes as one of the 50 over 50 women leading the way throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

#2222

Harriet Louise Hardy

Harriet Louise Hardy

#83051

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Harriet Louise Hardy was an American pioneer in occupational medicine and the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School. Her main points of study were toxicology and environmental related illness. She died on October 13, 1993, of cancer of the immune system at Massachusetts General Hospital.

#2223

Tamara Minko

#109729

Overall Influence

Tamara Minko is a distinguished professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutics at Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. She has an H-index of 43 since 2016 and over 17,800 citations of her work.

#2224

Maria Mayerchyk

#104524

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Maria Mayerchyk is a Ukrainian feminist academic and the editor in chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies. She is noted for her analysis of feminism at the Euromaidan protests.

#2225

Gloria Werner

#135572

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Gloria Stolzoff Werner was an American librarian. She worked for forty years, from 1962 to 2002, as a librarian at the University of California, Los Angeles , including twelve years as University Librarian. She served a term as president of the Association of Research Libraries in 1997.

#2226

Cordelia Gundolf

#167912

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Cordelia Gundolf was an Italian Language educator in Australia, and an expert in Italian Literature, publishing a number of works on the topic. Background Born in Munich, Germany on 31 November 1917, Gundolf came from a famous literary family, being the daughter of Friedrich Gundolf and godchild of Melchior Lechter, a noted graphic artist. She originally worked in Rome as a translator. Gundolf's grandfather was Jewish; her mother was concerned this would make problems for the family following Adolf Hitler's accession to power in Germany, so she asked Albert Einstein, a family friend for advice.

#2227

Ana Amado

#190098

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Ana Amado was an Argentine journalist, filmmaker, academic and feminist. In Mexico while in exile, she produced films under the name Cristina Benítez. Amado grew up in rural Argentina and, after training to be a teacher, earned a degree in political science from the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero. During her schooling, she began to work as a television news producer and print journalist. Orphaned when she was young, she moved to Buenos Aires after her graduation and worked for several different television news stations. Traveling abroad with her job, she interviewed subjects like Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi.

#2228

Yocasta Brugal

#173994

Overall Influence

Yocasta Clara Brugal Mena is a Puerto Rican forensic pathologist and academic administrator. She is the president and dean of San Juan Bautista School of Medicine. Brugal leads the department of clinical pathology.

#2229

Sarah Rowland-Jones

#120675

Overall Influence

Sarah Rowland-Jones is a British physician who is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. She works on immune responses to HIV infection. She has focussed her research on problems caused by HIV in Africa, with a hope to create a successful HIV vaccine. She is the former president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

#2230

Siobhan Leachman

Siobhan Leachman

#123769

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Siobhan Leachman is a New Zealand citizen scientist, open knowledge advocate, and Wikimedian whose work focuses on natural history. Life and career Leachman is a lawyer by background and a self-described "stay-at-home mother of two". Bored after her children began attending kindergarten, she began her volunteer work at the instigation of her twin sister Victoria Leachman with the Smithsonian Transcription Center, transcribing diaries and field journals such as those of Vernon and Florence Bailey and categorising bumblebee collections of Arthur Wilson Stelfox. She moved on to volunteer project...

#2231

Rita Reed

#171777

Overall Influence

Rita Reed is an American photojournalist and professor. She is currently a University of Missouri journalism professor, where has held the O.O. McIntyre Professorship in 2014. She is also known as the author of Growing Up Gay: The Sorrows and Joys of Gay and Lesbian Adolescence.

#2232

Dena Grayson

#98362

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Dena Minning Grayson is an American medical doctor and researcher. In 2016, she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 9th congressional district.

#2233

Mary E. Williamson

#67550

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Mary E. Williamson was an American aviator who served as a WASP during World War II. She was also a communications professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Early life, education and military service Mary E. Williamson was born on April 24, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Elmer C. Williamson and Ruth Peterman Williamson. Mary was an only child, whom her mother Ruth raised on her own. The two remained very close throughout her life.

#2234

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila

#62645

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Virpi Hämeen-Anttila is a Finnish writer, translator, and researcher. She was the recipient of the Eino Leino Prize in 2002 along with her husband Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, for their work in translating and promoting multicultural literature. In addition to being a best-selling novelist, she is a translator and non-fiction writer. She also teaches Sanskrit and the history of Indian art at Helsinki University.

#2235

Lydia Jennings

#137184

Overall Influence

Lydia L. Jennings is a Native American soil microbiologist and environmental scientist. Her research interests are soil health, environmental remediation, indigenous science, mining policy, and environmental data ownership by tribal nations. She works with organizations initiatives that support Indigenous geoscientists and the integration of geoscience with Indigenous knowledge. Her work is featured in the 2020 documentary Run to Be Visible, produced by Patagonia.

#2236

Rebeca Quintáns

#157042

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Rebeca Quintáns López is a Spanish journalist, research writer and teacher. Biography Rebeca Quintáns graduated in Spanish Philology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. She got a doctorate in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis about the speech of Juan Carlos I.

#2237

Myrna Báez

#64885

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

#2238

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul

#189280

Overall Influence

Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul is a German-New Zealand design academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a 2001 PhD thesis titled 'Myth, symbol, ornament: The loss of meaning in transition' at the University of Auckland, she moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor. Notable students include Lana Lopesi.

#2239

Catherine Neill

#110638

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Catherine Annie Neill was a British pediatric cardiologist who spent the majority of her career at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, where she worked alongside Helen B. Taussig. Her primary interest was congenital heart defects; she discovered one type of defect, scimitar syndrome, in 1960.

#2240

Mariam Budia

#162073

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Mariam Budia Spanish writer, researcher, and playwright. Biography Mariam Budia has a doctorate in Spanish Studies in the "Theory, History and Practice of Drama" from the University of Alcalá. She graduated in Drama at the Royal Superior Drama School, RESAD, and has diplomas of honor in Music from the La Rioja Professional Music Conservatory.

#2241

Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood

#75266

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (31 years)

Emily Temple-Wood is an American physician and Wikipedia editor who goes by the name of Keilana on the site. She is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women in science. She was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award, by Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on June 24, 2016. Temple-Wood graduated from Loyola University Chicago and Midwestern University. She practices medicine in Chicago.

#2242

Jane Winters

#169966

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Life and career Jane Winters was born in 1970. She trained as a medieval historian and completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368.

#2243

Elizabeth Bartlet

#68117

Overall Influence

1948 - 2005 (57 years)

Mary Elizabeth Caroline Bartlet was a Canadian-born musicologist known for her scholarship on French music, and particularly opera, in the 18th and 19th centuries. She also produced pioneering critical editionss of the scores for Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Rameau's Platée. At the time of her death, she was a professor of music at Duke University and a director of the American Musicological Society.

#2244

Ana Hatherly

#102731

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Ana Hatherly was a Portuguese academic, poet, visual artist, essayist, filmmaker, painter, and writer. She was considered one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and experimental literature movement in Portugal.

#2245

Gail Tremblay

#77939

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Gail Tremblay was an American writer and artist from Washington State. She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries. She received a Washington State Governor's Arts and Heritage Award in 2001.

#2246

Maite Carranza

#153206

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz del Castellar is a Spanish writer and educator, mainly writing in Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Crítica Serra d'Or, TP de Oro award, Premio Ondas award, and the Spanish National Prize for Children's and Juvenile Literature.

#2247

Maria Bezobrazova

Maria Bezobrazova

1857 - 1914 (57 years)

Maria Vladimirovna Bezobrazova was a philosopher, historiographer, educator, journalist and women's rights activist from the Russian Empire. She was "the first among Russian women to receive training in philosophy".

#2248

Oliva Sabuco

1562 - 1622 (60 years)

Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera was a Spanish writer in holistic medical philosophy in the late 16th – early 17th century. She was interested in the interaction between the physical and psychological phenomena; therefore she wrote a collection of medical and psychological treatises that target human nature and explain the effects of emotions on the body and soul. She analyzed theoretical claims of ancient philosophers and wrote an early theory of what is now considered applied psychology.

#2249

Damaris Cudworth Masham

1659 - 1708 (49 years)

Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham was an English writer, philosopher, theologian, and advocate for women's education who is often characterized as a proto-feminist. She overcame some weakness of eyesight and lack of access to formal higher education to win high regard among eminent thinkers of her time. With an extensive correspondence, she published two works, A Discourse Concerning the Love of God and Thoughts in reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life . She is particularly noted for her long, mutually-influential friendship with the philosopher John Locke.

#2250

Katharine Gilbert

1886 - 1952 (66 years)

Katharine Everett Gilbert , an American philosopher who studied aesthetics, was one of the first women to be president of the American Philosophical Society. She was also the first female professor at Duke University and, during her lifetime, the only female chairman of a liberal arts department.

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