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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10001

Michael J. Bronson

#31749

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Michael J. Bronson, M.D., is an American orthopaedic surgeon, Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside, and Chief of Joint Replacement Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and the author of extensive advances in the development of minimally invasive surgical instruments to advance unicondylar partial knee replacement, including the Vision Total Hip System, a widely used hip replacement system that avoids the use of cement.

#10002

Ibrahim Gashi

#41029

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Ibrahim Gashi is a Kosovar Albanian academic. He is a professor at the University of Pristina, and was a rector there between 2012 and 2014. Early life Ibrahim Gashi studied at the University of Pristina, and began working there as an assistant after his masters thesis defense between 1994 and 1998. He worked as a lecturer between 1998 and 2004 in the Department of History. In 2003 he earned a doctorate in political history of the Balkans in a three-year study program at the Institute for East European Studies of the University of Graz. In 2004 he was elected assistant professor in the Depart...

#10003

Gelareh Zadeh

#102148

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Gelareh Zadeh is an Iranian-Canadian physician who is a professor and the Wilkins Family Chair in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. She is a neurosurgeon-scientist at Toronto Western Hospital. In 2020, Zadeh became the first woman to be elected Chair of the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto.

#10004

Jonathan Beller

#40393

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honors.

#10005

Barry S. Brook

#72412

Overall Influence

1918 - 1997 (79 years)

Barry Shelley Brook was an American musicologist. Education & academia Brook received his master's degree from Columbia University, where he studied with Paul Henry Lang, Erich Hertzmann , Hugh Ross, and Roger Sessions, in 1942; he received the doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1959. He became a fellow at City College of New York and continued at Queens College . He founded the graduate program in music in 1967; he served as the program's Executive Officer until his retirement in 1989 from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

#10006

Richard Brody

#43719

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Richard Brody is an American film critic who has written for The New Yorker since 1999. Background Brody grew up in Roslyn, New York. He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist. Brody attended Princeton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980. He first became interested in films after seeing Jean-Luc Godard's seminal French New Wave film Breathless during his freshman year at Princeton.

#10007

Kamran Abbasi

#168264

Overall Influence

#10008

James Lenman

#155972

Overall Influence

James W. Lenman is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his expertise on ethics. Lenman is a former president of the British Society for Ethical Theory .

#10009

Gerry Stimson

#130472

Overall Influence

Gerry Stimson is a British public health social scientist, emeritus professor at Imperial College London from 2004, and an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2017. Stimson has over 220 scientific publications mainly on social and health aspects of illicit drug use, including HIV infection. He has sat on numerous editorial boards including AIDS, Addiction, and European Addiction Research, and with Tim Rhodes he was the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Drug Policy from 2000 to 2016. He is one of the global leaders for research on and ...

#10010

Günter Katzenberger

#120961

Overall Influence

1937 - 2020 (83 years)

Günter Katzenberger was a German musician, musicologist, conductor, and university faculty, professor for Historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover as well as a non fiction writer and publisher.

#10011

Ivan Hodovský

#147103

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Ivan Hodovský was a Czech Marxist and former director of the Department of scientific atheism of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno. He graduated in 1956 in Blansko and then learn history and philosophy at the Masaryk University. In 1976 he became a candidate of sciences, associate professor in 1986.

#10012

Roger Steare

#102283

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Roger Steare is a British ethicist and corporate philosopher. Career Steare's early career included roles as a social worker and banker, and ten years as chief executive of a recruitment company. He is now Honorary Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, and Corporate Philosopher in Residence at the Cass Business School in London. He teaches on the Executive MBA Programs as well as consulting with external corporate clients through Cass Executive Education.

#10013

Khurshid Ahmad

#62500

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Khurshīd Ahmad , is a Pakistani economist, philosopher, politician, and an Islamic activist who helped to develop Islamic economic jurisprudence as an academic discipline and one of the co-founders of The Islamic Foundation in Leicester, UK.

#10014

James S. Goodwin

#168343

Overall Influence

#10015

Susan Shur-Fen Gau

#91506

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Susan Shur-Fen Gau , also known as Susan Gau, Shur-Fen Gau, Gau Shur-Fen and in Chinese:高淑芬, is a Taiwanese psychiatrist and academic with specialized in psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, preventive medicine, occupational therapy, and brain and mind sciences.

#10016

Patrick Forrest

#114809

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest was a Scottish surgeon. After qualifying in medicine from the University of St Andrews and completing a Fellowship at the Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota, he took up surgical posts first in Glasgow, then in Wales, followed by a position as Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh.

#10017

Luciana Borio

#44800

Overall Influence

Luciana Borio is a Brazilian-American infectious disease physician and public health administrator. She is a vice president at In-Q-Tel. She previously served as director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness at the National Security Council, acting chief scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , assistant commissioner for counterterrorism policy of the FDA, and director of FDA's Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats. She is known for her work advancing clinical trials, the development of medical countermeasures for health emergencies, and the public health responses to ...

#10018

Mirt Komel

#77145

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Mirt Komel is a Slovenian philosopher, novelist, sociologist, playwright, essayist and translator. Komel is currently employed as assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana and researcher at the Center of Cultural and Religious Studies .

#10019

Karim Brohi

#124872

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Karim Hassan Brohi is a British surgeon who is currently the clinical director of the London Major Trauma Network, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital.

#10020

Pascal Madeleine

#114242

Overall Influence

Pascal Madeleine is a professor in sports science and ergonomics at the Department of Health Science and Technology at Aalborg University. Pascal Madeleine holds an Master of Science degree in Medical Technology and a DEA in bio-signal treatment from the Paul Sabatier University and the Paris 12 Val de Marne University.

#10021

Raghavan N. Iyer

#46530

Overall Influence

1930 - 1995 (65 years)

Raghavan Narasimhan Iyer was an Indian academic, political theorist and philosopher. Educated at Oxford, he was professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1965 to 1986, when he retired as professor emeritus. A founding member of the Santa Barbara branch of the United Lodge of Theosophists, he also co-founded the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara in 1976, and remained its president until 1986.

#10022

Stefan R. Bornstein

Stefan R. Bornstein

#60113

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Stefan R. Bornstein is the director of the Centre for Internal Medicine and the Medical Clinic and Policlinic III at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of the Technical University of Dresden as well as the medical faculty's vice dean of international affairs and development and a member of the supervisory board of the University Hospital of Dresden. Furthermore, he is chair and honorary consultant for diabetes and endocrinology at King's College London. Previously, Bornstein worked as assistant director and professor of endocrinology at the University Hospital of Düsseldorf, as unit ch...

#10023

Rio Preisner

#81414

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

Rio Preisner was a Czech poet, philosopher, translator, and scholar of Czech and German literature. Biography Rio Preisner was born in the eastern town of Mukačevo . In his childhood, he was exposed to a multicultural environment of Czech, Slovak, German, Ukrainian, Hungarian and Jewish communities. He spent his adolescence growing up in Prague under the shadow of the Nazi protectorate.

#10024

Leana Wen

#11422

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Leana Sheryle Wen is an American physician, author, professor, speaker, consultant, newspaper columnist and television commentator. She is former health commissioner for the city of Baltimore and former president of Planned Parenthood. She has written two books based on her experiences as a medical professional.

#10025

Ernst Hilmar

#131580

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Ernst Hilmar was an Austrian librarian, editor, and musicologist. Biography Hilmar was born in Graz and studied musicology at the University of Graz and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

#10026

Dandamis

#86943

Overall Influence

Dandamis was a philosopher, Brahmin, swami and a gymnosophist, whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila, when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as Mandanes. He was guru of Kalanos, the noted gymonsophist, who accompanied Alexander to Persis.

#10027

Kefah Mokbel

#30025

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Professor Kefah Mokbel FRCS is the lead consultant breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute of the Princess Grace Hospital, Professor of Breast Cancer Surgery at Brunel University London, an honorary consultant breast surgeon at St George's Hospital. Kefah Mokbel is the founder and current president of Breast Cancer Hope; a UK-based charity "dedicated to improving the quantity and quality of life in women diagnosed with breast cancer". He was appointed as a substantive consultant breast surgeon at St George's Hospital NHS trust in February 2001. He was named in Tatler magazine's Best Doctors Guide as one of the featured "Top Breast Surgeons" in 2006, 2007 and 2013.

#10028

Hans Blom

#136981

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Hans Willem Blom is a Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at Erasmus University. Previously he lectured at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Cambridge University. He edits Grotiana, a journal devoted to studies on the Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius.

#10029

Givi Margvelashvili

Givi Margvelashvili

#124530

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

Giwi Margwelaschwili was a German-Georgian writer and philosopher. Born in Berlin to Georgian parents, he was raised as a German. After World War II, his father and he were abducted by the Soviet secret police. His father, Tite Margwelaschwili was executed and he was interned in the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp for 18 months and then, speaking neither Russian nor Georgian, he was released to Tbilisi, Georgia, where he had relatives. He learned both languages and studied English, working as a language teacher. He wrote novels and philosophy books in German. He returned to Germany and became a German citizen in 1994.

#10030

Jan Góra

#94034

Overall Influence

1948 - 2015 (67 years)

Jan Wojciech Góra OP was a Dominican, Roman Catholic Priest, Doctor of Theology, academic and chaplain. Since 1997, he had been the organiser of the Polish Youth Meeting Lednica 2000 at the Lednica Fields and the Primate Days in Prudnik dedicated to the cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. Animator for the academic chaplaincy centre "Respublica Dominicana" in Jamna. Author of numerous books and articles.

#10031

Danielle Cohen-Levinas

#120030

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Danielle Cohen-Levinas is a French philosopher, musicologist, and a specialist of Jewish philosophy. Biography A pianist by training and former graduate of the Conservatoire de Paris, Danielle Cohen-Levinas followed a double course in philosophy and musicology at the Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV and the Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She entered Radio France in 1982 where she worked as a radio producer until 2005.

#10032

Roger Parker

#15157

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Roger Parker is an English musicologist who was previously Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London. His work has centred on opera. Between 2006 and 2010, while Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, Parker presented four series of free public lectures, one example being "Verdi and Milan" in 2007 which is available on video.

#10033

Andrew Watt Kay

#69685

Overall Influence

1914 - 2011 (97 years)

Sir Andrew Watt Kay FRSE, FRCPSG, FRCSEd was a Scottish academic surgeon who was Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow from 1964 to 1981. He developed the augmented histamine test, which bore his name, and was widely used in the investigation and treatment of peptic ulcer disease. He was knighted for services to surgery. From 1972 to 1974 he served as president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

#10034

Leon Goldman

#40374

Overall Influence

1906 - 1997 (91 years)

Leon Goldman was an American dermatologist and a pioneer in laser medicine. His research areas included the application of lasers in dermatology, cancer photodynamic therapy and the use of organic dyes in PDT.

#10035

Erymneus

#112309

Overall Influence

Erymneus was a Peripatetic philosopher in Ancient Greece. Erymneus succeeded Diodorus of Tyre as scholarch of the Lyceum. Very little is known about him, and he is known only because he is mentioned by Athenaeus. He instructed Athenion, whose identity is obscure, in philosophy. He led the school while Apellicon of Teos was a member. The school had a renewed vitality under Erymneus.

#10036

Katie Trumpener

#101360

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Katie Trumpener is the Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Yale University. She won a Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, and Berlin Prize. Life She received a B.A. in English from the University of Alberta in 1982, an A.M. in English and American literature from Harvard University in 1983, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University in 1990. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale in 2002, Trumpener taught at the University of Chicago from 1990. At Yale, Trumpener has served as acting director of the Whitney Humanities Center and the director of graduate studies in comparative literature.

#10037

Steven Libutti

#43165

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Steven Kenneth Libutti, M.D., F.A.C.S. is an American surgeon and scientist. In January 2017, he became the third permanent Director of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and the Senior Vice President for Oncology Services for RWJBarnabas Health, the largest health system in New Jersey. He is a tenured Distinguished Professor of Surgery at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Libutti's work on the study of tumor angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment has led to novel approaches for the treatment of cancer.

#10038

Kelli D. Potter

#131840

Overall Influence

Kelli D. Potter is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University. Her areas of expertise include: philosophy of religion, Mormon studies, philosophy of gender, and philosophy of logic. Potter was a founding board member of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and founding editor of Element: The Journal for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, serving from 2000–2002. Potter also served on the editorial board of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 1999–2003.

#10039

Shiv R. Jhawar

#83730

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Shiv R. Jhawar is an Indian–American author, public speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the book Building a Noble World and has also published numerous political articles. He is the founder of Noble World Foundation, a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to promote the inner transformation of individuals through meditation. He is also outspoken about political reform and is known for his call to the United Nations to reform the UN Charter to allow for regional membership.

#10040

Astrid Ensslin

#57410

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Astrid Christina Ensslin is a German digital culture scholar, and Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at the University of Regensburg. Ensslin is known for her work on digital fictions and video games, and her development of narratological theory to encompass digital narratives. Ensslin is known for her critical scholarship on digital fictions and video games, and her development of narratological theory to encompass digital narratives.

#10041

Peter Dorman

#40273

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Peter FitzGerald Dorman is an epigrapher, philologist, and Egyptologist. Recently a professor of history and archaeology at the American University of Beirut , he served as the 15th President of the university from 2008 to 2015. He spent most of his career as a professor and chair in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, and was director of Chicago House in Luxor, the Epigraphic Survey field project of the Oriental Institute. He is presently a professor emeritus of the University of Chicago.

#10042

Claire Katz

#138149

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Claire Elise Katz is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is known for her expertise on feminist theory, modern Jewish thought, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. Katz was appointed the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching in 2017 and awarded the American Philosophical Association's Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching in 2019.

#10043

William C. Gruber

#166577

Overall Influence

William C. Gruber is an American physician-scientist, pediatrician, and business executive. He is the senior vice president of Pfizer vaccine clinical research and development. Life Gruber completed a bachelor's degree in mathematical sciences at Rice University. He earned a M.D. at Baylor College of Medicine where he completed a residency in pediatric and infectious disease. His college roommate was immunologist Barney S. Graham.

#10044

Stephen Hinton

#79940

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Stephen Hinton is a British-American musicologist at Stanford University. A leading authority on the composer Kurt Weill, he has published widely on many aspects of modern German music history, with contributions to publications such as , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and Musikgeschichte. His most recent book, Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform , the first musicological study of Weill's complete stage works, received the 2013 Kurt Weill Book Prize for outstanding scholarship in music theater since 1900.

#10045

Edith Mitchell

#83138

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Edith Peterson Mitchell is a retired Brigadier general of the United States Air Force and an oncologist. She is clinical professor of medicine and medical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. In 2015, she became the president of the National Medical Association.

#10046

Robert D. Collins

#65714

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Robert Collins was an American physician and pathologist, who worked for his entire career at Vanderbilt University. Early life and education Robert Deaver Collins was born on October 28, 1928, in Davidson, Tennessee, to Winifred Collins and Claude Adolphus Collins. He was the older of their 2 sons. Dr. Collins attended Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Collins was trained in the specialty of Pathology under the tutelage of Dr. Ernest William Goodpasture. Before that, he had served as a house-officer in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital/Washington University Medical Center in St.

#10047

Bettina Bäumer

#65540

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Bettina Sharada Bäumer is an Austrian-born Indian scholar of religion. Bäumer has been described by Vandana Parthasarathy, writing in The Hindu, as a "renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism and a well-known figure in the field of inter-religious dialogue". She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art by Government of Austria in 2012 and Padma Shri by Government of India in 2015 for her contribution to Literature and Education. She was awarded the Ulrich Winkler Award for Comparative Theology and Study of Religions in 2023.

#10048

Roderick Beaton

#83747

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Roderick Macleod Beaton, FBA, FKC is a retired academic. He was Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1988 to 2018. Education Born in 1951, Beaton was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with an English literature degree in 1973. He remained there to complete his doctoral studies; his PhD was awarded in 1976 for his thesis "Myth and tradition in modern Greek folk poetry, a study of non-literate tradition, its technique and aims, in the context of lyric and ballad, rather than epic poetry."

#10049

Sverre Halvorsen

#164127

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Sverre Halvorsen was a Norwegian pediatrician. He was born in Bærum, but grew up in the manager's home at the Diakonhjemmet Hospital. He finished his secondary education in 1944 and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.med. degree in 1950. After graduating he served in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany and practised medicine for some years in the United States.

#10050

David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz

#86852

Overall Influence

1954 - 1992 (38 years)

David Michael Wojnarowicz Biography Wojnarowicz was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he and his two siblings and sometimes their mother were physically abused by their father, Ed Wojnarowicz. Ed, a Polish-American merchant marine from Detroit, had met and married Dolores McGuinness in Sydney, Australia, in 1948 when he was 26 and she was 16. After his parents' bitter divorce, Wojnarowicz and his siblings were kidnapped by their father and raised in Michigan and Long Island. After finding their young, Australian-born mother in a New York City phone book, they moved in with her. During his teenage years in Manhattan, Wojnarowicz worked as a street hustler around Times Square.

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