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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10201

Roger Härtl

#50181

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Roger Härtl is an American neurological surgeon at Weill-Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is the Director of Spinal Surgery at the Weill Cornell Brain & Spine Center. Härtl has been named by Becker's Spine Review as one of the Top 50 Spine Surgeons in the United States as well as one of the Top 10 Spine and Neurosurgeon Leaders at Non-Profit Hospitals. He was named one of New York's Top Doctors by New York Magazine after he saved the life of New York firefighter Eugene Stolowski.

#10202

Rachel M. Werner

#133109

Overall Influence

Rachel Michele Werner is an American physician-economist. She is the first woman and first physician-economist executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. In 2018, Werner was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine for her investigation into the unintended consequences of quality improvement incentives.

#10203

Peter Mansoor

#25804

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Peter R. Mansoor is a retired United States Army officer, military historian, and commentator on national security affairs in the media. He is known primarily as the executive officer to General David Petraeus during the Iraq War, particularly the Iraq War troop surge of 2007. He is a professor at the Ohio State University, where he holds the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History.

#10204

Margaret Allen

#25244

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Margaret Allen is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and an academic at the Benaroya Research Institute. She was the first woman to perform a heart transplant and is a former president of the United Network for Organ Sharing.

#10205

Gerard Timoner III

Gerard Timoner III

#76434

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Gerard Francisco Parco Timoner III is a Filipino Catholic priest who serves as the 88th Master of the Order of Preachers, better known as the Dominicans, since 13 July 2019, the first Asian to hold the position.

#10206

John Peter Portelli

#107965

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

John Peter Portelli is a professor, poet and novelist from Malta who resides in Toronto, Canada. Life John P. Portelli was born in Malta where, after completing a B.A. , he taught history and modern languages at a secondary school and philosophy at a sixth form. In 1977 he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and commenced his studies at McGill University from where he obtained an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Currently he is a professor in the Department of Social Justice Education, and the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE, University of Toronto. He is a member of the Centre for Leadership and Diversity and a fellow a St.

#10207

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#169126

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is a philosopher. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Oxford, where he has the title of Professor of Metaphysics, and a Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College. Rodriguez-Pereyra has previously been a Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Lecturer at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, and Professor at the University of Nottingham and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

#10208

Joy Johnson

#13555

Overall Influence

Joy Louise Johnson is the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. A health scientist and researcher in gender and health, she became the first woman to be appointed Vice-President Research at Simon Fraser in 2014.

#10209

Richard Gilbertson

#88508

Overall Influence

Professor Richard James Gilbertson is a paediatric oncology clinician scientist and a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge. He is the Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology, and Director of the CRUK Cambridge Major Centre and the Children's Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence.

#10210

Robert Campbell Roberts

#142894

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Robert Campbell Roberts is an American philosopher and distinguished professor emeritus of ethics at Baylor University. Previously he was a professor of philosophy and psychological studies at Wheaton College.

#10211

Howard Koh

#44824

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Howard Kyongju Koh is the former United States Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009.

#10212

Vineet Chopra

#75189

Overall Influence

Vineet Inder Chopra is an Indian–American hospitalist. Since 2021, Chopra has served as chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Deputy Editor for the Annals of Internal Medicine journal. Prior to this, he was an associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the VA Ann Arbor Health System.

#10213

Christian Biet

#75745

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Christian Biet was a French professor of theatrical studies. His main work focused on the aesthetics of theatre. Biography Biet was born into a family of teachers. After his secondary studies and khâgne at the Lycée Condorcet, he worked as an auditor at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. Alongside his close friends, Jean-Luc Rispali and Jean-Paul Brighelli, Biet succeeded with his aggregation in 1975. In 1982, they published a series of historical works for Lagarde et Michard. They collaborated on other works regarding Alexandre Dumas and surrealism.

#10214

Albert J. Raboteau

#18574

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Albert Jordy "Al" Raboteau II was an American scholar of African and African-American religions. Since 1982, he had been affiliated with Princeton University, where he was Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion.

#10215

Dora Elvira García González

#131888

Overall Influence

Dora Elvira García González is a Mexican professor and researcher with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies as well as director of the humanities school of the Mexico City Campus. Her research work has been recognized by Level II membership in the Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

#10216

Jože Trontelj

#140122

Overall Influence

1939 - 2013 (74 years)

Jože Trontelj was a Slovenian physician, doctor of neurosciences, and bioethicist. From 2008 to 2013, he was the President of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He authored or co-authored over 150 papers in journals, over 30 book chapters and 3 books, mainly on electromyography and physiological basis of neurological disorders, and over 70 publications on bioethical issues.

#10217

Scott McCloud

#42902

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: Understanding Comics , Reinventing Comics , and Making Comics , all of which also use the medium of comics.

#10218

Laura Bush

#22646

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Laura Lane Bush is the wife of George W. Bush and served as the first lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Bush previously served as the first lady of Texas from 1995 to 2000. She is also the daughter-in-law of former president George H. W. Bush.

#10219

Ralph Mobbs

#90637

Overall Influence

Ralph Mobbs is an Australian neurosurgeon who specialises in spinal surgery. He operates at Prince of Wales Private and Public Hospital. He sees patients at his clinic and at an additional clinic in Bowral.

#10220

David John Farmer

David John Farmer

#83882

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

David John Farmer is a professor emeritus of philosophy and public affairs in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is best known for his publications on post-traditional governance theory and practice – especially on macro public administration and public policy. He has also published on the philosophy and foundations of economics, on the metaphysics of time and on criminal justice policy and management. Post-traditional conceptual approaches analyzed in his writings include thinking as play, justice as seeking, practice as art, ...

#10221

Richard Leakey

#23737

Overall Influence

1944 - 2022 (78 years)

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey served in the powerful office of cabinet secretary and head of public service during the tail end of President Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi's government

#10222

Ophelia Deroy

#116177

Overall Influence

Ophelia Deroy is professor of Philosophy of Mind at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a member of the Graduate School in Systemic Neuroscience in Munich. She is the former deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London. She received the Prix de la Chancellerie des Universites de Paris in 2007.

#10223

Robert Brisart

#121384

Overall Influence

1953 - 2015 (62 years)

Robert Brisart , was a Belgian philosopher. He was professor at the University of Luxembourg, and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. His works mainly focused on Husserl's phenomenology. He also published on the comparison between analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

#10224

Francisco Dória

#97879

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Francisco Antônio de Moraes Accioli Dória is a Brazilian mathematician, philosopher, and genealogist. Francisco Antônio Dória received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, in 1968 and then got his doctorate from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics , advised by Leopoldo Nachbin in 1977. Dória worked for a while at the Physics Institute of UFRJ, and then left to become a Professor of the Foundations of Communications at the School of Communications, also at UFRJ. Dória held visiting positions at the University of Rochester , Stanford University , and the University of São Paulo .

#10225

Behnam Taebi

#96355

Overall Influence

Behnam Taebi is a Dutch-Iranian ethicist and academician who is known for his research at the interface of Ethics and Nuclear Energy. He is currently an Associate Professor in ethics of technology at Delft University of Technology, and Associate with the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. In 2016, Taebi has been appointed to the Young Academy at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#10226

Badri Nath Tandon

#49298

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Badri Nath Tandon was an Indian gastroenterologist, hepatologist, medical researcher and academic, and the Chairman and Senior Consultant of Gastroenterology, at Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute, Noida. He is a former Professor and Head of Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and a former Director and Senior Consultant of Hepatology and Gastroenterology at Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases, New Delhi. He is a recipient of several awards including Sasakawa WHO Health Prize and Jubilee Medal of the RAMS.

#10227

Melissa Haendel

Melissa Haendel

#112683

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Melissa Anne Haendel is an American bioinformaticist who is the Chief Research Informatics Officer of the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado as well as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and the Marsico Chair in Data Science. She serves as Director of the Center for Data to Health . Her research makes use of data to improve the discovery and diagnosis of diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Haendel joined with the National Institutes of Health to launch the National COVID Cohort Collaborative , which looks to identify the risk factors that can predict seve...

#10228

Wolfgang Auhagen

#130030

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Wolfgang Auhagen is a German musicologist. Life Born in Hamburg, Auhagen studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1973 until 1982. There he was awarded his doctorate with the thesis and in 1992 with a thesis on the subject Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur auditiven Tonalitätsbestimmung in Melodien habilited. He teaches at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2005 Auhagen has been a foreign member of the .

#10229

Caroline Alexander

#42467

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Caroline Alexander is a British author, classicist and filmmaker. She is the author of the best-selling The Endurance, and The Bounty, and other works of literary non-fiction, such as The Way to Xanadu and The War that Killed Achilles. In 2015, she published a new translation of Homer's Iliad.

#10230

Jung-Min Lee

#79492

Overall Influence

Jung-Min Lee is a South Korean-American medical oncologist and physician-scientist focused on the early clinical drug development and translational studies of targeted agents in BRCA mutation-associated breast or ovarian cancer, high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer. She is a NIH Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and principal investigator in the Women's Malignancies Branch at the National Cancer Institute.

#10231

Mor Naaman

#129814

Overall Influence

Mor Naaman is a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech. He is the founder of the Connective Media Hub and Director of the Connective Media degree program. Naaman is known for foundational work on tagging behavior on social networking sites, the use of sites such as Twitter as social awareness streams, and real-world identification from social network activity. His research in these areas has been cited over 12,000 times on Google Scholar.

#10232

Jules Hardy

#57911

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Jules Hardy was a Canadian neurosurgeon. Early life and education Born in Sorel, Quebec on July 16, 1932, Hardy graduated as a doctor of medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1956, followed then by postgraduate work at the Université de Montréal as well as at McGill University. In 1962, he received a specialist certification in neurosurgery from the Quebec College of Physicians.

#10233

Nenad Sestan

#97592

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nenad Šestan is Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience and professor of comparative medicine, genetics and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1995 and his PhD from Yale School of Medicine in 1999.

#10234

Shlomi Constantini

Shlomi Constantini

#69773

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Shlomi Constantini, M.D., M.Sc., is the head of the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Dana Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel. A full clinical professor at Tel Aviv University, he is also the director of the Gilbert International Neurofibromatosis Center. Constantini first trained in Hadassah Medial Center, Jerusalem and sub-specialized in pediatric neurosurgery in New York University with Fred Epstein.

#10235

Lisa Schwartz

#168220

Overall Influence

1963 - 2018 (55 years)

Lisa M. Schwartz was a Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She was the co-Director of the Center for Medicine and the Media, and ran courses for health journalists on how to report medical research. She created the Drug Facts Box to discuss the benefits and harms of prescription drugs and the National Cancer Institute Know Your Chances site to communicate cancer risks.

#10236

Adrian Kantrowitz

#10041

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, 1967. The infant lived for only six hours. At a press conference afterwards, Kantrowitz emphasized that he considered the operation to have been a failure.

#10237

William Sethares

#69898

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

William A. Sethares is an American music theorist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. In music, he has contributed to the theory of Dynamic Tonality and provided a formalization of consonance.

#10238

Amita Aggarwal

#24515

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Amita Aggarwal is an Indian clinical immunologist, rheumatologist and a Professor and Head at the Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology of the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Known for her studies in autoimmune rheumatic diseases, Aggarwal is a recipient of the Shakuntala Amir Chand Award of the Indian Council of Medical Research and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her...

#10239

Melina Kibbe

#91851

Overall Influence

Melina R. Kibbe is an American clinician and researcher in the field of vascular surgery. She currently serves as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She previously held the Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professorship and Chair of the Department of Surgery at UNC School of Medicine.

#10240

Aleksander Koj

#56444

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Aleksander Koj was a Polish physician and scientist, a member of Polish Academy of Learning and Polish Academy of Sciences, honorary doctor of Cleveland University and University of Hartford. He was a rector of Jagiellonian University for three cadences: 1987–1990, 1993–1996 and 1996–1999.

#10241

Masud Husain Khan

#24561

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Masud Husain Khan was an Indian linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi.

#10242

David T. Lowenthal

#170818

Overall Influence

#10243

Elayne Rapping

#105489

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Elayne Antler Rapping was an American critic and analyst of popular culture and social issues. She authored several books covering topics such as media theory, popular culture, women's issues, and the portrayal of the legal system on television. As a regular contributor to such publications as The Nation, The Progressive, and The New York Times, she wrote on a wide variety of cultural issues including film and movie reviews.

#10244

Brian Jarman

#59128

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Sir Brian Jarman is a retired English physician and academic. He was professor of primary health care from 1983 to 1998 at Imperial College School of Medicine and president of the British Medical Association from 2003 to 2004.

#10245

Lily Garafulic

#47977

Overall Influence

1914 - 2012 (98 years)

Lily Garafulic Yankovic was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944. Career Lily Garafulic began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez. In 1944, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to New York City, where she studied at the New School of Social Research and worked with the engraver and printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.

#10246

Eileen Southern

#21936

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Eileen Jackson Southern was an American musicologist, researcher, author, and teacher. Southern's research focused on black American musical styles, musicians, and composers; she also published on early music.

#10247

Susan Shell

#151492

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Susan Meld Shell is an American philosopher and Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston College. She is known for her research on Kantian philosophy. Books Kant and the Limits of Autonomy The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Susan Shell and Robert K. Faulkner Kant's 'Observations' and 'Remarks': A Critical Guide, edited by Susan Shell and Richard Velkley .

#10248

Holly Lawford-Smith

#108093

Overall Influence

Holly Lawford-Smith is a philosopher, scholar, researcher, author and Associate Professor in Political Philosophy, University of Melbourne. Biography Lawford-Smith was born in Taupō, New Zealand and completed her BA and MA at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She completed a PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra in 2010. She then completed post-doctoral scholarships at Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics CAPPE, Charles Sturt University and then with the School of Philosophy at ANU . Lawford-Smith then started a permanent job as a lecturer in Philos...

#10249

Jonathan Friedland

Jonathan Friedland

#110531

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Professor Jonathan Samuel Friedland is a British physician and medical researcher who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Infectious Diseases at St George's, University of London. Early life and education Jonathan Friedland is the son of Albert and Rosalind Friedland. He was educated at St Paul's School, London before going on to study medicine at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge and King's College Hospital. His junior medical training posts were at The Royal Brompton Hospital, The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Friedland c...

#10250

Lawrence Weed

#29221

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Lawrence Leonard Weed was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records.

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