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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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,
#7301
Teruo Omae
#140358
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#7302
Jianwei Wang
#140391
Overall Influence
#7303
Melissa Wake
#140201
Overall Influence
Melissa Anne Wake MBChB MD FRACP FAHMS is a New Zealand paediatrician and Scientific Director of the Generation Victoria initiative, aiming to create very large, parallel whole-of-state birth and parent cohorts in Victoria, Australia, for Open Science discovery and interventional research. She is Group Leader of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute’s Prevention Innovation Research Group and holds Professorial positions with the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland .
Go to Profile#7304
Saúl Antonio Tovar
#140399
Overall Influence
1938 - 2006 (68 years)
Saúl Antonio Tovar was a philosopher and humanist from Argentina. He studied philosophy at the National University of Córdoba where he became a doctor in 1970. External links
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Dr. David Lagunoff
#140424
Overall Influence
#7306
Ove Lundgren
#140427
Overall Influence
#7307
Martha L. Daviglus
#140450
Overall Influence
#7308
Michael J. Reardon
#140457
Overall Influence
#7309
Clemens Prof. Dr. Sorg
#140464
Overall Influence
#7310
Assen V. Jablensky
#140476
Overall Influence
#7311
J. I. Lieberman
#140480
Overall Influence
#7312
Norio Taira
#140493
Overall Influence
#7313
Mary Eugenia Rinella
#140494
Overall Influence
#7314
John Nicholas Wood
#140499
Overall Influence
#7315
S. Shiva Shankaran
#140500
Overall Influence
#7316
Rolf Arno Stahel
#140515
Overall Influence
#7317
Doff B. Mcelhinney
#140526
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#7318
Michael A. Choti
#140546
Overall Influence
#7319
John S. Greenspan
#140569
Overall Influence
#7320
Stefan Kunze
#94969
Overall Influence
1933 - 1992 (59 years)
Stefan Kunze was a German musicologist. Life Born in Athens, Kunze, son of the classical archaeologist Emil Kunze, studied musicology from 1952 with his godfather Thrasybulos Georgiades in Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, besides classical philology, flute and conducting, the latter with Kurt Eichhorn. In 1961 he received his doctorate in Munich with the thesis Die Kanzonen und Sonaten G. Gabrielis, in 1970 he was habilitated in Munich. From 1973 until his death he was Professor of Musicology at the University of Bern. The focus of his research...
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Aladdin Malikov
#112397
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Aladdin Malikov is a teacher, Azerbaijanian religion philosopher, Assistant to the President of ANAS. Who works primarily in the fields of philosophy, logic, epistemology, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, orientalist, and translator. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Metafizika, Doctor of Philosophy, associate professor.
Go to Profile#7322
Peter C. Taylor
#140594
Overall Influence
#7323
Konstanze Döhner
#140595
Overall Influence
#7324
Henning T. Mouridsen
#140599
Overall Influence
#7325
Lisa Lix
#126508
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Lisa Marie Lix is a Canadian health scientist and biostatistician at the University of Manitoba, where she holds a Canada Research Chair. Topics in her research have included cohort studies and the analysis of variance as well as bowel disease and disease-related bone fracture risk.
Go to Profile#7326
Judy H. Cho
#140635
Overall Influence
#7327
Malek Hosseini
#98791
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Malek Hosseini is an Iranian philosopher and a former professor of philosophy at the Iranian Research Institute of Philosophy and the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran. He is known for his expertise on Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought and his Persian translations of Wittgenstein's works . Hosseini is a recipient of Iran's Book of the Season Award for his book Wittgenstein und Weisheit.
Go to Profile#7328
Jan A. Hillert
#140653
Overall Influence
#7329
Ruth Lynfield
#140657
Overall Influence
#7330
Alston Callahan
#52206
Overall Influence
1911 - 2005 (94 years)
Alston Callahan was a prominent American medical doctor who practiced ophthalmology. A pioneer in the field of reconstructive eye surgery, he established the Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama and also served as the first Chairman of the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Alabama School of Medicine.
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A. T. Thorstensson
#140671
Overall Influence
#7332
Harvey Jay Cohen
#140720
Overall Influence
#7333
Susan Buchbinder
#100212
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Susan Buchbinder is an American physician who is best known for her work in HIV prevention and as a researcher in the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. In 2011, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Go to Profile#7334
Ernst‐otto Riecken
#140734
Overall Influence
#7335
Bente Pakkenberg
#140741
Overall Influence
1949 - 2023 (74 years)
#7336
Carlo Renato Capella
#140746
Overall Influence
#7337
Dai Jinhua
#53092
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Dai Jinhua is a Chinese feminist cultural critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture, film studies, and gender studies.
Go to Profile#7338
David Carter
#79678
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Sir David Craig Carter is a surgeon who was Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 1996–2000. Early life and education David Craig Carter was born on 1 September 1940 to Mary Florence and Horace Ramsay Carter. He attended Cockermouth Grammar School, and went on to study medicine at the University of St Andrews, graduating with an MB ChB in 1964 and continuing on to receive his MD.
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Roland Otto Buhl
#140771
Overall Influence
#7340
Lois Salamonsen
#136319
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Lois Adrienne Salamonsen is an expert in uterine and endometrium biology. Her research focuses on the mechanisms underlying endometrial remodelling. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
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Stefan Kiechl
#140809
Overall Influence
#7342
Marwan Noel Sabbagh
#140816
Overall Influence
#7343
Robert M. Nakamura
#140837
Overall Influence
#7344
Josef Prof Dr Dr Krieglstein
#140839
Overall Influence
#7345
David Rodowick
#103107
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
David Norman Rodowick is an American philosopher, artist, and curator. He is best known for his contributions to cinema and media studies, visual cultural studies, critical theory, and aesthetics and the philosophy of art. He became a French citizen in 2002 though retains dual citizenship with the United States.
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Javid J. Moslehi
#140880
Overall Influence
#7347
Richard T. De George
#117425
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Richard Thomas De George is an American philosopher and University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, of Russian and East European Studies, and of Business Administration, and Co-Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .
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Raju S. K. Chaganti
#140903
Overall Influence
#7349
M. Amin Arnaout
#140933
Overall Influence
#7350
Herbert Ballentine Carter
#140940
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