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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Peter Vedsted
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Jay Ross Kaplan
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Graham G.c.m. Watt
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Peter M. Mauch
#163344
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Guerino Mazzola
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Guerino Bruno Mazzola is a Swiss mathematician, musicologist, and jazz pianist, as well as a writer. Education and career Mazzola obtained his PhD in mathematics at University of Zürich in 1971 under the supervision of Herbert Groß and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. In 1980, he habilitated in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory. In 2000, he was awarded the medal of the Mexican Mathematical Society. In 2003, he habilitated in Computational Science at the University of Zürich.
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Giovanni Staurenghi
#163377
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1960 - Present (66 years)
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Robert Merriam Rogers
#163384
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Remo Naccarato
#163392
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Robert F. Sturrock
#163394
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H. Grant Prentice
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Patricio López‐jaramillo
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Robert G. Lahita
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Robert George Lahita is an American physician, internist and rheumatologist, best known for his research into systemic lupus erythematosus. and other autoimmune diseases. He is the author of more than 16 books and 150 scientific publications in the field of autoimmunity and immuno-endocrinology and a media consultant on health-related issues. He currently serves as Director of the Institute of Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases at St. Joseph's Healthcare System, specializing in autoimmunity, rheumatology, and treatment of diseases of joints, muscle, bones and tendons including arthritis, ba...
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Richard A. Lange
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Leon w. Hoyer
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Stuart L. Silverman
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John A. Musick
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Howard M. Shulman
#163497
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Thomas M. Bashore
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Vincenzo G. Mirone
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John Anthony Thompson
#163510
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Rodger C. Haggitt
#163513
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Franco Bertoni
#163518
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Steen Elkjaer Husted
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Stanley Eveling
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1925 - 2008 (83 years)
Stanley Eveling, or Harry Stanley Eveling was an English playwright and academic, based in Scotland. Life Eveling was educated at Rutherford College and Samuel King's School. After serving as an officer with the Durham Light Infantry in the Far East at the end of the Second World War, he attended King's College, Durham University, where he was editor of King's Courier, the student newspaper. He then completed a postgraduate degree in philosophy at Oxford University. Eveling taught at the University of Aberdeen and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, before becoming a senior lecturer...
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Toshihiro Nukiwa
#163560
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Paolo Cappabianca
#163564
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
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John Niparko
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Overall Influence
1955 - 2016 (61 years)
John K. Niparko was an American surgeon, scientist and otolaryngologist who specialized in cochlear implants. Niparko edited and wrote several chapters of Cochlear Implants: Principles & Practices. Early life Niparko was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. In high school, he became interested in early inner-era implant devices. He attended the University of Michigan where he received his bachelor degree and medical degree. There, he completed his residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. He also completed a fellowship in neurotology, otology, and skull base surgery.
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Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Élisabeth Tournier-Lasserve is a French neurologist, medical geneticist, university professor and hospital practitioner in genetics. Together with three colleagues, she was the co-recipient of the Brain Prize in 2019, the world's largest brain research prize.
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Ira S. Ockene
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Witold Ruźyłło
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Richard H. Jr. Grimm
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Francesco Carinci
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Neal Stuart Penneys
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Peter J. Maddison
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Karel G. Terbrugge
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Claudine Junien
#163664
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Rudolf William Bilous
#163668
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Thomas P. Aufderheide
#163672
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Tiinamaija Tuomi
#163679
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Hans Glaumann
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Olivier R. C. Busch
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Marta Mosca
#163735
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Robert Mcculloch Herndon
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Gregory T. Maclennan
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Michel Baulac
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Sandra K. Willsie
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Reinder A. Feddes
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Gerhard Litscher
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1958 - Present (68 years)
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Daniel H. Teitelbaum
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David Kemp
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
David Thomas Kemp, FRS is a British physicist who is a professor working at the UCL Ear Institute in London. He was educated at King's College London . He discovered the phenomenon of otoacoustic emission in July 1978 while working at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. He founded a company that makes equipment to test for hearing defects by detecting otacoustic emission, which is absent in the ears of people suffering deafness caused by neural impairment. Because the method does not require any cooperation from the subject, it is valuable for detecting deafness in babies.
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