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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Klaus Georg Parhofer
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Paul Mcmaster
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Kenneth H. Cowan
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Burkhard F. Lachmann
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Miles H. Irving
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Yi-rong Li
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Marianne Cardale de Schrimpff
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Marianne Vere Cardale de Schrimpff is a Colombian anthropologist, archaeologist, academic and writer. Biography Marianne Cardale obtained her master's degree at the University of Edinburgh in 1965 and her PhD in 1972 at the University of Oxford with a thesis named Techniques of Hand-weavíng and allied arts in Colombia. From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá.
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Gregory R. D. Evans
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Alan L. Buchman
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Robert Ivan Demars
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Gary M. Olson
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Gary M. Olson is an American professor and researcher, specializing in the fields of human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. He has published over 120 research articles and book chapters, and is one of the authors of Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet .
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David Scott Shepro
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Karin Kraft
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1952 - Present (74 years)
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Walter Feinberg
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José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
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1929 - 2014 (85 years)
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero was a Venezuelan writer, philologist and philosopher. A large part of his work was published under the pen-name Jonuel Brigue. After doctoring in Vienna in 1961 with a thesis entitled “The Socio-Psychological Foundations of Latin American Spanish,” Briceño Guerrero worked for decades as Professor of Philosophy and Classical languages at the Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida. In 1981 he was awarded the Venezuelan Premio Nacional de Ensayo, and in 1996 the Premio Nacional de Cultura . He is considered one of the most influential and original Latin-American thinkers, ...
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Michael Rawlins
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1941 - 2023 (82 years)
Sir Michael David Rawlins was a British clinical pharmacologist and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. During his medical career he chaired several executive agencies including the Committee on Safety of Medicines from 1993 to 1998, followed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for 14 years from its formation in 1999 and then the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for six years from 2014. From 2012 to 2014 he was president of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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Kenneth L. Casey
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Arthur J. Hartz
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Tor D. Scd Tosteson
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Donald J. Cohen
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1940 - 2001 (61 years)
Donald Jay Cohen was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and director of the Yale Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. According to the New York Times, he was "known for his scientific work, including fundamental contributions to the understanding of autism, Tourette's syndrome and other illnesses, and for his leadership in bringing together the biological and the psychological approaches to understanding psychiatric disorders in childhood"; his work "reshaped the field of child psychiatry". He was ...
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Robert A. O’reilly
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Joseph P. Costantino
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Gregory B. Bulkley
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Andreas Du Bois
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Katherine O'Brien
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Katherine "Kate" L. O'Brien is a Canadian American pediatric infectious disease physician, epidemiologist, and vaccinologist who specializes in the areas of pneumococcal epidemiology, pneumococcal vaccine trials and impact studies, and surveillance for pneumococcal disease. She is also known as an expert in infectious diseases in American Indian populations. O’Brien is currently the Director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals.
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Jeffrey m. Leiden
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Frederik A. Olesen
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Marc Haas
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Sunil Kripalani
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Antoine Hadengue
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Irene Petersen
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Maurizio Muscaritoli
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Wayne A. J. Morrison
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Joseph M. Zabramski
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Victor L. Serebruany
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Dan W. Brock
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Marc Tardieu
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P. Lund‐johansen
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Christy L. Ludlow
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Jane E. Freedman
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Donald W. Landry
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Ajit Lalvani
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Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec
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1921 - 2008 (87 years)
Mieczysław Albert Maria Krąpiec OP – a Polish Roman Catholic priest, philosopher , theologian, humanist and social scientist, the rector of Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski , the founder of the Lublin Philosophical School, the initiator and president of the scientific committee of Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii.
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Volker Musahl
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André La Gerche
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Wouter Wieling
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Julian T. Parer
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John Allen Mccutchan
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Nigel K. Spurr
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Philippe A. Halban
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