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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Philippe Beutels
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Francisco Canals Vidal
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1922 - 2009 (87 years)
Francisco Canals Vidal was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, academic and lay Catholic activist. The longtime chair of Catedra de Metafísica of the Barcelona University, he is recognized mostly as one of the most distinguished contemporary Thomists and leader of the so-called Barcelona Thomist school; his scientific focus was mostly on metaphysics of cognition. As a theologian he specialized in theology of history and Josephology, as lay Catholic he contributed to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Historian of ideas and partially political theorist himself, he remained related to the Ca...
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Prof. P. O. Madsen
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Herbert Barton Grossman
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Harvey Dillon
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Harvey Albert Dillon is an Australian expert in auditory science and linguistics. Dillon did research for many years at the Australian National Acoustic Laboratories , where he was appointed Director in 2000. From 1991 to 2007, Dillon was also a deputy director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovations. While at NAL, Dillon created, jointly with Denis Byrne, the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement questionnaire for guiding improvements in hearing ability. In 2016, while Director at NAL, Dillon was awarded the Aram Glorig Award ‘for lifelong dedicati...
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Bennett M. Shapiro
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David Patrick Ryan
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Richard P. Macdermott
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Robert Hume
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Michael B. Reid
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Mojca Kumerdej
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Mojca Kumerdej is a Slovene writer, philosopher and critic. She works as the cultural chronicler for the daily newspaper Delo. Biography Kumerdej graduated in philosophy and sociology of culture from the University of Ljubljana. Her debut novel Krst nad Triglavom is a parody and a witty and ironical revision of one of Slovene literary history's most important works, the epic poem Krst pri Savici by France Prešeren. Her next two published books, Fragma and Temna snov, are collections of short stories. Her stories have been translated into many languages and have been published in various Slo...
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Terence M. Mayhew
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Michael K. Brawer
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Jonathan B. Rothbard
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Vidar Hansson
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1944 - Present (82 years)
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William Denovan
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William Denovan was a Scottish philosopher with an interest in theophysics and physics. One of the earliest occurrences of the term multiverse used in reference to the physical world is due to Denovan, in a letter to Scientific American in 1873.
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Lars‐erik Rutqvist
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James Metcalfe
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C. Warren Olanow
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T. William Shields
#155871
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François J. P. Lemaire
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Mary Reilly
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Mary M. Reilly FRCP is an Irish neurologist who works at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She studies peripheral neuropathy. She is the President of the Association of British Neurologists.
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Masato Kusunoki
#155939
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Hirotaro Narabayashi
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Cheryl A.. Conover
#155956
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Bryan G. Norton
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1944 - Present (82 years)
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Jens Ulrich Werner
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André Louis Blum
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Charles Edgar Ganote
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Homer A. Boushey
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Tim Hunter
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Timothy B. Hunter, better known as Tim Hunter, is an American radiologist and amateur astronomer, who was the president of the International Dark-Sky Association. Education and profession Hunter received his M.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968. He teaches as a professor of radiology and orthopaedic surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He also earned a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1980 and M.S. in astronomy from Swinburne University of Technology in 2006.
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Fereydoun Davatchi
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Fereydoun Davatchi is the director of Rheumatology Research Center in Tehran University of Medical sciences. Davatchi studied medicine in France and received d'Etat Diploma in Rheumatology from Paris University. He is currently full professor of medicine in Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He established modern Rheumatology in Iran and trained most of the Iranian Rheumatologists who are working and researching Rheumatology in medical universities of Iran.
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Theodore B. Van Itallie
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Felix Anton Largiadèr
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Reiner-michael Kroppenstedt
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Magdy K. Younes
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M. J. G. Farthing
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Marcos Soares Tatagiba
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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John R. T. Monson
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Desiderio Passali
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Desiderio Passali is an Italian doctor and ear, nose and throat professor at the ENT Department of Siena University. Passali worked for 40 years in ENT departments of various University hospitals, in Italy, and established ENT departments in Rome, Siena and L'Aquila he headed for 45 years, and where many physicians and students studied otolaryngology and audiology. His clinical, surgical and scientific main interest centered on rhinology, inflammatory ear diseases, pediatric otolaryngoloy, allergy, equilibrium.
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Volodymyr Yermolenko
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1980 - Present (46 years)
Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies , candidate of philosophical sciences , and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize and of the Petro Mohyla Award .
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Richard J. Paulson
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Jennifer K. Peat
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Jean Emond
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Jean C. Emond is the current Thomas S. Zimmer Professor of Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is also a Vice Chair in the Department of Surgery and the Chief of Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Emond completed both his undergraduate and medical training at the University of Chicago.
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Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck
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Vicente Vicente
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Margaret M. Mcqueen
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Glenn Thurston Iii. Stebbins
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Makoto Igarashi
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José J. Escarce
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