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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Alain Fourquet
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Irene Sprague Davis
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Paolo Pederzoli
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Peter K. Henke
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Angela Colantonio
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Angela Colantonio is a Canadian occupational scientist whose work involves improving screening, managing and treating people with traumatic brain injury, with a focus on people belonging to underserved populations. Colantonio is a professor of occupational science and occupational therapy at the University of Toronto, where she leads the Acquired Brain Injury Research Lab, and has a cross-appointment with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is also the director of the University of Toronto's Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, and a senior scientist at the University Health Network's KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
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Karl‐ulrich Bartz‐schmidt
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William Bernard Weglicki
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Birgitta Strandvik
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1938 - Present (88 years)
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Edward G. Shaw
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Wilson Glenn Mccluggage
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Åke Andrén‐sandberg
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Morris N. Kotler
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Louise Kenny
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Louise Clare Kenny is a British physician who is Professor and Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Liverpool. She was elected an Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours.
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Stuart H. M. Butchart
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Saroja Bharati
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Clinton D. Kilts
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Masanori Shimoyama
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D. Brian Morgan
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Steven H. Belle
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Prescott G. Woodruff
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Thomas Alexander Miller
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Carl Goresky
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1932 - 1996 (64 years)
Carl Arthur Goresky, OC was a Canadian physician and scientist at the Montreal General Hospital. His theoretical treatment of the transport of substances through intact organs, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis, led the basis for the understanding of events within the microvasculature.
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Hitonobu Tomoike
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Franklin B. Zimmerman
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1923 - Present (103 years)
Franklin Bershir Zimmerman is an American musicologist and conductor who has published extensively in the field of Baroque music, and particularly on the English composer, Henry Purcell. He is most known for his complete catalogue of Purcell's works, considered "one of the most crucial contributions to Purcell research". Each work in the catalogue is given a "Z number" which derives from Zimmerman's surname.
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Pierre Tattevin
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1968 - Present (58 years)
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Ken-ichi Kosaka
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Türker Armaner
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Türker Armaner is an Istanbul-based writer, philosopher, and translator. He studied at the universities of Hacettepe, Boğaziçi, and Bergen and took his PhD degree in 2002 at Paris 8 University His first story was published on Hayalet Gemi in 1995. His first book, Kıyısız , was published in 1997, his second book, Taş Hücre , in 2000, his third book, Dalgakıran , in 2003, his novel, Tahta Saplı Bıçak in 2007 and his last book, a philosophical inquiry, Tarih ve Temsil in 2014. He is currently teaching at the Department of Philosophy at Galatasaray University, Istanbul, as an associate professor.
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Nicolaas I.l.j. Bohnen
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Mario Manfredi
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Alain Verloès
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Catherine D. DeAngelis
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1940 - Present (86 years)
Catherine D. DeAngelis is the first woman and the first pediatrician to become editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association . She has also edited several additional medical journals. Before assuming the editor's position at JAMA in 2000, DeAngelis was a professor and Vice Dean of Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Wayne A. Wiegand
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Wayne August Wiegand is an American library historian, author, and academic. Wiegand retired as F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University in 2010.
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Bradley T. Thach
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Dominique L. P. Baeten
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Olga Jonasson
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1934 - 2006 (72 years)
Olga Jonasson, MD, FACS was an American transplant surgeon. She performed the first kidney transplant in the state of Illinois. She was also the first woman to be appointed head of an academic department of surgery at a coeducational school of medicine and the first woman to be appointed chief of surgery of a major medical center.
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Jeffrey Drebin
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Jeffrey Drebin is a surgeon and scientist. He serves as the Department of Surgery Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Biography Drebin earned his MD and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School, before completing his general surgery residency, and surgical oncology fellowship, at Johns Hopkins Medical School. His Ph.D. research, performed with Mark Greene and Robert Weinberg, involved the creation of monoclonal antibodies targeting the Her2/neu protein and demonstrating in preclinical models that such antibodies could inhibit cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo. This work was focused on targeted c...
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Avery D. Weisman
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Audrius Beinorius
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Audrius Beinorius is a Lithuanian philosopher, orientalist , translator, Habilitated Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1988, he finished landscape management studies at the Academy of Agriculture. Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages
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Elizabeth Osborne
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1936 - Present (90 years)
Elizabeth Osborne is an American painter who lives and works in Philadelphia. Working primarily in oil paint and watercolor, her paintings are known to bridge ideas about formalist concerns, particularly luminosity with her explorations of nature, atmosphere and vistas. Beginning with figurative paintings in the 1960s and '70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums. Her experimental assemblage paintings that incorporated objects began an inquiry into psychological content that she continued in a series of self-portraits and a long-running series of solitary female nudes and portraits.
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Neil Scott Mcnutt
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Naguib A. Samaan
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Arthur H. Jr. Aufses
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Donald Lawrence Wickerham
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Stacy Alan Brethauer
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Hiroaki Matsubara
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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M. Anthony Schork
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Eli Schwartz
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Eliezer Schwartz MD, DTMH is an Israeli physician, known for his speciality in tropical diseases and travel medicine. He is a founding member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and served as chair of its Professional Education Committee. Schwartz is currently president of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society as well as the Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases . At clinical practice, he is head of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at the Sheba Medical Center. He is also a professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv ...
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Joseph Lucius Jorizzo
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Anthony Adams
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1940 - 2021 (81 years)
Anthony J. Adams was an Australian-American optometrist. He was an emeritus professor of optometry and vision science at the UC Berkeley School of Optometry, where he also served as dean from 1992 to 2001.
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Henrim. Bounameaux
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