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,
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Jürgen Kurt Rockstroh
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Freek D. Van Der Meer
#152152
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#8453
George M. Farrow
#152159
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Maamar Bettayeb
#77094
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Maamar Bettayeb is a control theorist, educator and inventor. He is the author of publications on understanding the singular value decomposition and model order reduction. Bettayeb is also a promoter of scientific research.
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Richard Paul Cambria
#152186
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Michael J. Levy
#152191
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Francesco Panza
#152199
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Larry Robert Kaiser
#152207
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Rajendra Prasad
#22777
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Rajendra Prasad is a chest physician and professor of Pulmonary Medicine based in Lucknow. He is an MBBS and MD from King George's Medical College which was then under University of Lucknow. After some time he joined same institution as faculty member and later became head of department of Pulmonary Medicine department of King George's Medical University. He also worked as director of U.P. Rural Institute of Medical Sciences and Research and Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute . Now he is working as Director Medical Education and Professor & Head of Department, Pulmonary Medicine of Era Univer...
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G. Michael Deeb
#63860
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
G. Michael Deeb is a Lebanese-American cardiothoracic surgeon. He serves as a Herbert Sloan Collegiate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Multidisciplinary Aortic Clinic at the University of Michigan. He has published 143 articles in journals and books and lectures both nationally and internationally on topics such as valve implantation and cardiac valve implantation.
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Alan J. Garber
#152222
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Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen
#152223
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Erik Wilander
#152249
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Nikolaos Margioris
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1913 - 1993 (80 years)
Nikolaos Margioris was a Greek esoteric philosopher, and author. He taught for many decades various metaphysical and philosophical subjects. He wrote also many practical and philosophical books. Biography Nikolaos Margioris was born in the island of Samos on 15 December 1913. He moved to Alexandria, Egypt at a very young age. He fought in World War Two and in the Greek Civil War. He fought in World War II as a reserve officer, where he was seriously injured in El Alamein and in Rimini. For his services to the country he was honored with many medals as well as with the veteran’s disability pension.
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Michael A. Vogelbaum
#152251
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Dean Schillinger
#137749
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Dean-David Schillinger is an American general internist and former Chief of the University of California San Francisco Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital . In 2006, he founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, whose mission is to advance health in poor communities. His research focuses on health communication for vulnerable populations, and the prevention and control of type 2 diabetes.
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Hamza Tzortzis
#52421
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is a British writer, philosopher, public speaker, researcher on Islam, and Muslim apologist. He is a British Muslim convert of Greek descent. He wrote The Divine Reality: God, Islam and The Mirage of Atheism.
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Stephen Daniel
#152299
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Stephen H. Daniel is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is known for his expertise on George Berkeley. Daniel is the senior editor of Berkeley Studies and was the president of International Berkeley Society between 2006 and 2015.
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Julio F. Turrens
#152314
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Carlos Alberto Pellegrini
#79765
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Carlos Alberto Pellegrini, M.D., F.A.C.S., is the former president of the American Surgical Association and the current Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Washington. He is the current president of the Society of Surgical Chairs, a regent of the American College of Surgeons, and a director of the American Board of Surgery.
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Yves Najean
#152320
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Arne Björk
#152327
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Tatsurou Irimura
#152345
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Hermann Stuppner
#152368
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Paul C. Hébert
#152375
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Sanford B. Krantz
#152380
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Li Ding
#127093
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Li Ding is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University. She is known for the development of multiple computational tools now commonly used in cancer biology research, including VarScan, HotSpot3D, and BreakDancer.
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William George Ondo
#152386
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Thomas M. Saba
#152391
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Michael J. G. Harrison
#152395
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Eugene F. Bernstein
#152397
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Marc J. N. C. Keirse
#152402
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#8483
Patrick A. Kupelian
#152403
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#8484
Ivan G. Bodis-wollner
#152405
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Lawrence K. Kvols
#152413
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#8486
Herman Kalman Gold
#152418
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#8487
Jérôme Pugin
#152431
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Tohru Masuyama
#152452
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O. J. Kronborg
#152457
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Jonathan H. Epstein
#152468
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William F. Hendry
#152473
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Dan Michael Cooper
#152482
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Hunter C. Champion
#152494
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Julian David Gillmore
#152503
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Wim Robberecht
#152506
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Benjamin Lee
#40976
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Benjamin Lee is a professor of anthropology and philosophy at The New School, where he also served as provost from 2006 until 2008. Lee's primary academic interests include contemporary China; the cultural dimensions of globalization, particularly the effects of global financial flows; and modern theories of language.
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Dino Amadori
#152524
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Masao Endoh
#152527
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Jannis Kountouras
#152566
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Jitsuo Higaki
#152571
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