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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.

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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8701

Frederick W. L. Kerr

#154693

Overall Influence

#8702

Narinder Rawal

#154700

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#8703

Elizabeth Anne Montgomery

#154704

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#8704

Babak J. Mehrara

#154713

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#8705

Michael Pidd

#154717

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#8706

Williams F. Benedict

#154736

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#8707

Bruno Giardina

#154768

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#8708

R. Heiner Schirmer

#112507

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Rolf Heiner Schirmer was a German physician and biochemist. From 1980 to 2007 he was a professor of biochemistry in the medical faculty of Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, and became a professor emeritus.

#8709

David J. Driscoll

#154776

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#8710

Serena Nik-Zainal

#82123

Overall Influence

Serena Nik-Zainal is a British-Malaysian clinician who is a consultant in clinical genetics and Cancer Research UK advanced clinician scientist at the University of Cambridge. She makes use of genomics for clinical applications. She was awarded the Crick Lecture by the Royal Society in 2021. Serena Nik-Zainal was also recognized as one of the 100 Influential Women in Oncology by OncoDaily.

#8711

William L. Reilly

#106579

Overall Influence

1916 - 2009 (93 years)

William L. Reilly, S.J., was an American Jesuit and academic. He was the longest-serving president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. His twelve-year term lasted from 1964 to 1976. Biography

#8712

Eni G. Njoku

#154800

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#8713

Gerald Durrell

#33525

Overall Influence

1925 - 1995 (70 years)

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. He wrote approximately forty books, mainly about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals . Those memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into two television series and one television film . He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.

#8714

Edward J. Mascha

#154804

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#8715

Stephen I. Wasserman

#154808

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#8716

Christiaan H. Bangma

#154814

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#8717

Richard F. Harvey

#154817

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#8718

Trần Văn Khê

#46763

Overall Influence

1921 - 2015 (94 years)

Trần Văn Khê was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist . His La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology.

#8719

Jean‐paul Galmiche

#154830

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#8720

Günter Mayer

#117342

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Günter Mayer was a German cultural academic and musicologist. Activities Born in Berlin, Mayer dealt with aesthetics, music aesthetics and music sociology, general theory of culture and art, media theory and media aesthetics. From 1980 to 1994 he was professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was the editor of the collected works of Hanns Eisler, published in three volumes, and the planned historical-critical complete edition of Eisler's works. Mayer was a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus and the journal The Argument and si...

#8721

Leon S. Robertson

#67472

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Leon S. Robertson is a retired injury epidemiologist. From 1978 to 1998, Robertson occupied various positions in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. He previously served on the faculties of Harvard University Medical School and Wake Forest University . He was also Senior Behavioral Scientist in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety .

#8722

Alberto Zanella

#154874

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#8723

Michael Tymianski

#154884

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#8724

Richard A. Gillis

#154899

Overall Influence

#8725

Donald J. Sherrard

#154913

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#8726

Douglas Scott Reintgen

#154929

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#8727

Gillian Leng

#44353

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Gillian Catherine Leng, Lady Cosford CBE is a British health administrator, academic, visiting professor at King's College London and the former Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence , where she was responsible for several programmes and guidelines including the guidelines on COVID-19. In 2023 she was elected president-elect of the Royal Society of Medicine .

#8728

Rex Reed

#39181

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Rex Taylor Reed is an American film critic, journalist, and media personality. Raised throughout the Southern United States and educated at Louisiana State University, Reed moved to New York City in the early 1960s to begin his career, writing about popular culture, art, and celebrities for a number of newspapers and magazines. He became a public figure in his own right, making regular appearances on television and occasionally acting in films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

#8729

Helmer Ringgren

#53961

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Karl Vilhelm Helmer Ringgren , was a Swedish theologian. He became Associate Professor in Religion at Uppsala University, 1947–59, and Acting Professor of Old Testament exegesis at the Åbo Akademi University, 1947–56, the professor of Old Testament exegesis at the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, 1960–62, professor of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, 1962–64, and then Old Testament exegesis at Uppsala University, 1964-83. Ringgren died on March 26, 2012.

#8730

Tomoo Kosuge

#154938

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#8731

Graeme Clark

#26191

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Graeme Milbourne Clark AC is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. Worked in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later marketed by Cochlear Limited.

#8732

Uladzimir Konan

#94754

Overall Influence

1934 - 2011 (77 years)

Uladzimir Konan was a Belarusian philosopher. He was born in the Hrodna region of Belarus. He graduated from Belarusian State University's History faculty and worked with the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences.

#8733

Kunio Hiwada

#154959

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#8734

Moses Robert Kamya

#154974

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#8735

Hugues Dufourt

#103701

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28, 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory.

#8736

Ulf H. Haglund

#155008

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#8737

Susanne Becken

#155038

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

#8738

Eva Verona

#92095

Overall Influence

1905 - 1996 (91 years)

Eva Verona was the most eminent Croatian librarian and information scientist and is well known among information scientists around the world. She was born in Trieste in 1905. Her early childhood was spent in Vienna and eventually moved to Zagreb, Croatia where she attended grammar school. She graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics from Zagreb University in 1928 and was immediately employed in the National and University Library in Zagreb. She worked in different departments of the Library as her career progressed. She reorganized the natural sciences section in the classified catalogue and also worked on the foreign periodicals collection.

#8739

Louis C. Argenta

#155044

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#8740

Nick G. Kingsbury

#155049

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#8741

Jean-Paul Martinon

#137122

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jean-Paul Martinon is an American philosopher. Martinon is currently Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Life and education Martinon was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied international relations at the Institute of Higher International Studies where he obtained an MA in 1988. He obtained his PhD at the University of Reading in 2001. Martinon was appointed a lecturer at Goldsmiths College in 2001, becoming Reader in 2013.

#8742

Charles G. Plopper

#155071

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#8743

Martine Vrijheid

#155078

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

#8744

Max Kishor Bulsara

#155090

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#8745

Alfred Königsrainer

#155128

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#8746

Qais Al-awqati

#155171

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#8747

Reijo Sakari Tilvis

#155187

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#8748

Ben Scheres

#102058

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Bernardus Johannes Godefridus Scheres Scheres is a Dutch developmental biologist. He is Professor of Plant Developmental Biology at Wageningen University. Scheres studied phytopathology at Wageningen University, where he received his doctorate in 1990. After a post-doctoral period at the Laboratory of Genetics in Ghent, he became a lecturer at the University of Utrecht, where he became Professor of Plant Developmental Biology in 1999 and Professor of Molecular Genetics in 2005.

#8749

Kadija Perreault

#155196

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#8750

Mark Lawrence Urken

#155209

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