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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William M. Crist
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Douglas Allen Corley
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Reginald Carr
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Reginald Philip Carr is an English librarian, who was Bodley's Librarian from 1997 until his retirement in 2006. He is a member of the Christadelphian church. Life and writings Carr was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School before studying French and German at the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester . He worked as an Assistant Librarian in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester between 1970 and 1976, and was also Librarian-in-Charge of the School of Education Library at Manchester from 1972 to 1976. After two years as Sub-Librarian at th...
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Joseph T. Hanlon
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Marc Jean Struelens
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Bernd Carsten Stahl
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Molla Naima Taleghani
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Molla Naima Taleghani , also known as Orfi, was an Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian of the late Safavid era. Life His full name was Mohammad Naim ibn Muhammad Taqi, and he was from Taleqan, about 50 km west of Tehran. Known as Molla Naima, he was prominent in the late Safavid era. He lived during the reign of king Sultan Husayn , and saw the attack and subsequent ruining of the Safavid capital of Isfahan by the Afghans, a catastrophic incident in Iranian history. Molla Naima had to take refuge in Qom. Little more is known on the life of Molla Naima.
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Karl‐martin Koch
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Charles L. Christian
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Stephen Robert Hahn
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Saverio Stranges
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1971 - Present (55 years)
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Per Sigvald Bakke
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Bartosz Brożek
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1977 - Present (49 years)
Bartosz Paweł Brożek is a Polish philosopher and jurist whose main research interests are in philosophy of law, philosophy of science, logic and cognitive science. He is currently professor of jurisprudence at the Jagiellonian University and vice dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration, as well as a director of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Kraków. Author or co-author of more than 20 book monographs and more than 70 scientific papers. He holds PhDs in both law and philosophy , habilitation in law and the title of full professor .
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Richard J. Martin
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Albert L. Rubin
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Irena Hajnsek
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Irena Hajnsek is a Professor of Earth Obsertvation and Remote Sensing at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and German Aerospace Center e.V. Microwaves & Radar Institute, Wessling, Germany. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to synthetic aperture radar imaging using airborne sensors and satellite missions.
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Marco Vinceti
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Malcolm Potts
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1935 - Present (91 years)
David Malcolm Potts, FRCOG, FREng is an American human reproductive scientist and emeritus Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability at the School of Public Health.
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Maurice B. Pensaert
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Bo Hedblad
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Roger P. A’hern
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William John Louis
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Richard E. Montague
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Dieter B. Schmidt
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Hiroshi Nakajima
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Keith James
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Francesco Maria Veronese
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Harold Ross Roberts
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Kern Wildenthal
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Kern Wildenthal is an American academic and president of the Children's Medical Center Foundation in Dallas, Texas. He also holds honorary appointments as President Emeritus and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he served as president from 1986 to 2008.
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Mony J. De Leon
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Anthony P. Adamis
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Glenn Flores
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Hartmut Schick
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Hartmut Schick is a German musicologist and since 2001 professor at the Institute for Musicology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Life Born in Herrenberg, Schick grew up mainly in Schwäbisch Hall, and from 1981 studied 16 semesters musicology, history and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, and from 1983 under Ludwig Finscher in Heidelberg. In 1989, he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis entitled Studien zu Dvoráks Streichquartetten.
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Guido Germano
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Klaus Seppi
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Klaus Thurau
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Laurence Joseph Wheat
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Cyrus E. Rubin
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Evan Y. Snyder
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Nobuo Aoki
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Katsuyuki Aozasa
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Richard G. Weleber
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Lynn McDonald
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Marilyn R. McDonald is an American academic and social worker. She works as a senior scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a consultant for the United Nations.
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Craig D. Logsdon
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Arthur Isaac Eidelman
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Cuilin Zhang
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Cuilin Zhang is a Chinese-American epidemiologist and physician-scientist researching the roles of genetic and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and obesity and health consequences of these complications. Zhang is a senior investigator and acting chief of the epidemiology branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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Sotiris Tsiodras
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Sotiris Tsiodras is a Greek internal medicine physician, specializing in infectiology , in charge of Greece's management of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 crisis. Early years and education Tsiodras was born on 13 October 1965 in Sydney, Australia, into an immigrant family originating from Neohori, Argolis. After the family moved back to Greece, he enrolled into the Ioannina medical school and then transferred to the University of Athens from which he graduated in March 1991 as a pathologist.
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Mikiko Sodeoka
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Konstantinos Nikolaos Syrigos
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Hartry H. Field
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