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 Philosophy,
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T. H. Lee
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Allen F. Dixson
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Steven N. Fishbane
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C. C. Wang
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Ayumi K. Shintani
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George Neil Jenkins
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1914 - 2007 (93 years)
George Neil Jenkins was Professor of Oral Physiology at the Dental School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne for most of his distinguished career. He concentrated his research on the prevention of tooth decay, becoming a world expert in oral hygiene. He was a lifelong humanist, and President of the North East Humanists group.
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Paul Marquis Quinton
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Giuseppe Querques
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Arndt Vogel
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Colin John Schwartz
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Matityahu M. Fridkin
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William James Hozack
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Pascual P. Parrilla
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Hidetoshi Yoshimura
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Jeffrey W. Olin
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Curtis A. Dickman
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W. J. Mckenna
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Gilbert Chu
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Gilbert Chu is an American biochemist. He is a Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School. Biography Chu graduated from Garden City High School in New York in 1963. He received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1967, a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1973, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1980.
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Robert Crumley Moore
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Jukka A. Takala
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Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa
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Colin W. Wrigley
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Robert I. Haddad
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Woon‐puay Koh
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Gerald Batist
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Alan Cowan
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Martin A. Croce
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Douglas R. Rosing
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Raoul Herbrecht
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Gunnel Biberfeld
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Peter David Eckersall
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Hilary Ranson
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Bernard Le Foll
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Gert H. Richardt
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Edward A. Copelan
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Roy Macbeth Pitkin
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Anna Glasier
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Annabelle "Anna" Frances Glasier OBE, FFSRH, FRCOG FRSE is an English physician in the field of reproductive medicine. Glasier is a world expert on emergency contraception, and her work has been instrumental in making it available in the UK and other countries without medical prescription
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Andreas Bockisch
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1950 - Present (76 years)
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Alistair Richard Fielder
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Frederick A. Schmitt
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Michael. D. Joner
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Lanny J. Rosenwasser
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Richard Alan John. Knowles
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Neal A. Halsey
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Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff
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1912 - 1996 (84 years)
Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff was a German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist. He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculat...
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Turan M. Itil
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L. E. Eckardt
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Stephen H. Zinner
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Anthony W. C. Chow
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Gert U. Auer
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