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,
#8101
Neville R. Rowell
#148568
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#8102
Fattaneh A. Tavassoli
#148578
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#8103
Claudia Haferlach
#148582
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#8104
Ernst Josef Rummeny
#148591
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#8105
Paul Vincent Holland
#148599
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#8106
Carl V. Leier
#148608
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#8107
John Leckie
#26386
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1949 - Present (77 years)
John William Leckie is an English record producer and recording engineer. His production credits include Magazine's Real Life ; XTC's White Music ; Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock and The Fall's This Nation's Saving Grace ; the Stone Roses' The Stone Roses ; the Verve's A Storm in Heaven ; Radiohead's The Bends ; Cast's All Change ; Muse's Origin of Symmetry ; and the Levellers' We the Collective .
Go to Profile#8108
Héctor-neri Castañeda
#148616
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#8109
Scott Dulchavsky
#59262
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Scott Dulchavsky is the Roy D. McClure Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Henry Ford Hospital and Professor of Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
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Edmond A. Murphy
#148629
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#8111
Scott Rivkees
#72455
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1956 - Present (70 years)
Scott Andrew Rivkees is an American physician-scientist and pediatric endocrinologist, who served as State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health of Florida from June 2019 to September 2021. The majority of Rivkees' tenure coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jan Henriksson
#148646
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1947 - Present (79 years)
#8113
Kathleen Martin Ginis
#141989
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Kathleen Anne Martin Ginis is a Canadian exercise behavioural scientist. She is a Full professor in the Department of Medicine and in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She also holds the Reichwald Family UBC Southern Medical Program Chair in Preventive Medicine.
Go to Profile#8114
Ross E. Rocklin
#148653
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#8115
David H. Ilson
#148673
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#8116
Alain Golay
#148676
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#8117
Søren Erik Pedersen
#148678
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#8118
Jeffrey S. Crawford
#148680
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#8119
Yves Fradet
#148683
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#8120
G. A. den Hartogh
#108170
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Govert A. den Hartogh is a Dutch moral, legal and political philosopher. He studied theology in Kampen and philosophy in Leiden and Oxford. He received his PhD in philosophy in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam . From 1974 on he worked at the University of Amsterdam as assistant and associate professor of ethics and jurisprudence in the Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Law, as an extra-ordinary professor of medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine, and as a full professor of ethics and its history in the Philosophy Department. In 1992 he took the initiative of founding the Nether...
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Albert F. Lobuglio
#148689
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#8122
Peg O'Connor
#120098
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Peg O'Connor, is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies as well as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her present research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics, and the philosophy of addiction. She also contributes to public discourse about her areas of interest through contributing to popular media, especially around philosophical issues surrounding addiction, and has actively spoken out about issues of gender equity facing the field of philosophy.
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George A. Steiner
#148700
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#8124
Martin A. Hainz
#72056
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1974 - Present (52 years)
Martin Andreas Hainz is an Austrian philologist, theorist and philosopher. He has taught at several universities in Europe and the United States, among them the universities of Vienna, Timișoara and Iaşi. He is a member of the Northeastern Language Association . His main interests are contemporary Austrian philosophy and literature.
Go to Profile#8125
Dan Buskila
#148715
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#8126
Ron Theodoor Van Domburg
#148735
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#8127
Kyogo Itoh
#148738
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#8128
Hamid. Krim
#148745
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#8129
Shamir R. Mehta
#148781
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#8130
Richard H. Haug
#148783
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#8131
Kevin D. Barron
#148787
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#8132
Andrew Emili
#148791
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#8133
Chang Kee-ryo
#37854
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1911 - 1995 (84 years)
Chang Kee-ryo was a surgeon, educator, and philanthropist of South Korea. He established Gospel Hospital, in Busan, Korea, in 1951, during the Korean War. In 1979, he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award "for his practical, personal Christian charity and in founding the Blue Cross Health Cooperative in Pusan".
Go to Profile#8134
Michael C. Sheppard
#148795
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#8135
Masood Akhtar
#148800
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#8136
Jan Conductor Wagner
#148804
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#8137
Bent Friis‐hansen
#148833
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#8138
Christopher Cherniak
#107312
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Christopher Cherniak is an American neuroscientist, a member of the University of Maryland Philosophy Department. Cherniak's research trajectory started in theory of knowledge and led into computational neuroanatomy and genomics. The underlying linkage between the areas concerns models of the agent: The work began with more realistic, bounded-resource models of rationality. From this epistemology in turn stemmed a research program concerning optimal-wiring models of global brain and genome anatomy, a structuralist approach.
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Graham L. Hill
#148866
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#8140
H. e. Junginger
#148873
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#8141
Susan M. Ott
#148921
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#8142
Tatsuya Morita
#148922
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#8143
Piet L. C. M. Van Riel
#148925
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#8144
María José Guerra Palmero
#94335
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1962 - Present (64 years)
María José Guerra Palmero is a Spanish philosopher, writer, and feminist theorist. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a professor in the area of moral philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands. Since 2017, she has been president of the . From July 2019 until May 25, 2020, she served as Minister of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the under Ángel Víctor Torres.
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Jack Copeland
#62131
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1942 - Present (84 years)
Jack Greene Copeland is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who has established procedures in heart transplantation including repeat heart transplantation, the implantation of total artificial hearts to bridge the time to heart transplant, innovations in left ventricular assist devices and the technique of "piggybacking" a second heart in a person, while leaving them the original.
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Katharina Sunnerhagen
#65772
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen is a physician, researcher and educator specialized in rehabilitation medicine. She is best known for her research in stroke rehabilitation. She is currently the Professor and Head of Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group at University of Gothenburg.
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Wolf-henning Prof. Dr. Boehncke
#148982
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#8148
Manjeri A. Venkatachalam
#148983
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#8149
Domenico Rubello
#148985
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#8150
A. Steiner Robert
#148986
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