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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10351

Alfredo Bengzon

#28691

Overall Influence

Alfredo Rafael Antonio Bengzon, also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, is a Filipino doctor, educator, and former public official. He is currently Vice President for the Professional Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, dean of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, dean emeritus of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and President and CEO of The Medical City.

#10352

Caroline S. Wagner

#72210

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Caroline S. Wagner is an American academic and author specializing in public policy related to science, technology, and innovation. As of 2011, Wagner holds the endowed chair in international affairs named for Milton A. Wolf and Roslyn Z. Wolf at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

#10353

Joseph Camilleri

#69314

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Joseph Camilleri is an Australian citizen of Maltese descent. He is a social scientist and philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised and interested in international relations. Life Camilleri was born in 1944 into a Maltese family residing in Egypt. His family moved to Australia when he was still very young. He studied at Melbourne University, Australia, from where he acquired his Bachelor of Arts, at Monash University, also in Melbourne, from where he acquire his Masters' degree, and at London University, England, where he became Doctor of Philosophy. Between 1967 and 1968 Camilleri was Teaching Fellow at Monash University.

#10354

Anita Goel

#19748

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Anita Goel is an American physicist, physician, and scientist in the emerging field of Nanobiophysics. At the Nanobiosym Research Institute , Goel examines the physics of life and the way nanomotors read and write information into DNA.

#10355

Tomoaki Kato

#20457

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

is a pioneer in multiple-organ transplantation, pediatric and adult liver transplantation. Kato is Surgical Director of Adult and Pediatric Liver and Intestinal Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and is a professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Kato is also known for unique and innovative surgeries for adults and children, including a six-organ transplant; a procedure called APOLT that resuscitates a failing liver by attaching a partial donor liver, making immunosuppressant drugs unnecessary; and the firs...

#10356

Anders Tegnell

#29056

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist. Tegnell had key roles in the Swedish response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic. During the Covid pandemic in 2020, he became a divisive figure in Sweden and internationally due to his and the Public Health Agency of Sweden's opposition to lockdowns, travel restrictions and face masks for general use, which were widely adopted in most countries to curb the spread of the virus, as well as for his ...

#10357

Horst Bickel

#66049

Overall Influence

1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Horst Bickel was a German medical doctor. With Guido Fanconi, he characterized Glycogen storage disease type XI in 1949. He was also involved in the development of treatments for phenylketonuria. In 1951, Bickel, Evelyn Hickmans and John Gerrard were persuaded by a persistent mother to help her daughter, Sheila, who was suffering from phenylketonuria. They created a diet that was low in phenylalanine and the daughter's condition improved.

#10358

Dimitri Krainc

#171760

Overall Influence

Dimitri Krainc is the Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor and Chairman of the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Director of the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his research and clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he served on faculty until relocating to Northwestern in 2013. He was awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award and outstanding investigator award from NIH, and is President-elect of the American Neurological Association. Krainc was electe...

#10359

Ian Bogost

#141329

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, most known for the game Cow Clicker. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies.

#10360

Angela Cheung

#170926

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Angela Man-Wei Cheung is a Canadian internal medicine specialist. At the University of Toronto, she is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, the KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine, and a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Cheung also established the University of Toronto Center for Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment and the Osteoporosis Program at the University Health Network.

#10361

Paolo Fabbri

#95071

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Paolo Fabbri, born 15 October 1948, is an Italian musicologist and academic. In 1989 he was awarded the Dent Medal. He is best known for his extensive publications on the life and works of Gioachino Rossini, and for a biography of composer Claudio Monteverdi which was first published in the Italian language in Turin in 1985 and later published by Cambridge University Press using an English language translation by Tim Carter in 1994. He is also the author of Il secolo cantante: Per una storia del libretto d'opera nel Seicento . For many years he has been a Professor of Music History and Musical Aesthetics at the University of Ferrara.

#10362

Peter G. Traber

#36991

Overall Influence

Peter George Traber is an American pharmaceutical company executive. He is the Chief Medical Officer for Selecta Biosciences. https://selectabio.com/ He has been the president and chief executive officer of Baylor College of Medicine and the John and Clara Whitmore Professor of Medicine. Traber succeeded Ralph Feigin to become the fourth president of BCM in March 2003, and was president until November 2008. Prior to joining Baylor, he served as Senior Vice President for Clinical Development & Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to that, Traber held positions ...

#10363

Thomas L. Schwenk

#65192

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Thomas L. Schwenk retired August 31, 2021 as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, and vice president of health sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. He now holds the position of Dean Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno, as well as an appointment as Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Medical School.

#10364

Charles Hollenberg

#108947

Overall Influence

1930 - 2003 (73 years)

Charles H. Hollenberg was a Canadian physician, educator and researcher. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1955 from the University of Manitoba. In 1960, he joined the Department of Medicine at McGill University. From 1970 to 1981, he was the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital.

#10365

Dav Pilkey

#12538

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

David Murray "Dav" Pilkey Jr. is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series, Captain Underpants, and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two protagonists of the Captain Underpants series.

#10366

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin

#70048

Overall Influence

1909 - 2015 (106 years)

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin , also known as T.H. Tsien, was a Chinese-American bibliographer, librarian, and sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese literature and library science at the University of Chicago, and was also curator of its East Asian Library from 1949 to 1978. He is known for studies of the history of the Chinese book, Chinese bibliography, paleography, and science and technology, especially the history of paper and printing in China, notably Paper and Printing, Volume 5 Pt 1 of British biochemist and sinologist Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China. He is also known ...

#10367

Mahmoud Vahidnia

#106799

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (37 years)

Mahmoud Vahidnia is an Iranian philosopher and PhD candidate of philosophy at Shahid Beheshti University. Life Vahidnia received his BSc in mathematics from Sharif University of Technology and his MA in philosophy from Shahid Beheshti University. He won a gold medal at the Iranian Mathematical Olympiad in 2007. He is also a winner of the silver medal in national computer Olympiad in Iran. Although some media reported he was the "international mathematics Olympiad winner", he didn't compete at any international mathematics Olympiads.

#10368

Pam Cook

#52324

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton. She was educated at Sir William Perkins's School, Chertsey, Surrey and Birmingham University, where she was taught by Stuart Hall, Richard Hoggart, Malcolm Bradbury, and David Lodge. Along with Laura Mulvey and Claire Johnston, she was a pioneer of 1970s Anglo-American feminist film theory. Her collaboration with Claire Johnston on the work of Hollywood film director Dorothy Arzner provoked debate among feminist film scholars over the following decades.

#10369

Jean Mongrédien

#128907

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Jean Mongrédien, the son of , specializing in the seventeenth century, is a French musicologist. Biography A specialist of music of France of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and especially opera and religious music, since 2001 Mongrédien has been professor emeritus at Paris-Sorbonne University where he held the chair of history of music and was dean of the Department of Musicology.

#10370

Adina L. Roskies

#71318

Overall Influence

Adina L. Roskies is an American philosopher and the Helman Family Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College. She is known for her works on neuroethics, neuroscience of free will and epiphenomenalism. Roskies was Senior Editor of the journal Neuron.

#10371

Jennifer H. Martin

#141346

Overall Influence

Jennifer Helen Martin is an Australian clinical pharmacologist, physician and academic. She is chair of Clinical Pharmacology in the University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health, Director of the NHMRC funded Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence , and an elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Martin translates research into practice and policy. Her research involves the investigation of therapeutic drugs, from drug design and development, to clinical trials and studies to investigate how new drugs perform in the g...

#10372

Jacqueline Noonan

#13083

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Jacqueline Anne Noonan was an American pediatric cardiologist best known for her characterization of a genetic disorder now called Noonan syndrome. She was also the original describer of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

#10373

Satyavrata Tirtha

#50003

Overall Influence

Satyavrata Tirtha was a Hindu philosopher, yogi, mystic, scholar and saint. He served as the pontiff of Shri Uttaradi Math from 1635–1638. He was the 18th in succession from Madhvacharya. Satyavrata Tirtha ruled the pontificate with a remarkable distinction. His life was a saga of supreme spiritual achievements. He is a yogi of remarkable spiritual powers and a philosopher of wide fame.

#10374

Patrizia Farci

#135705

Overall Influence

Patrizia Farci is an Italian scientist and hepatologist. She is chief of the hepatic pathogenesis section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Farci conducts translational research in the field of liver diseases, particularly in the study of pathogenesis of acute and chronic viral hepatitis. She was previously a full professor of medicine and director of the liver unit and the postgraduate school of gastroenterology at the University of Cagliari.

#10375

Richard S. Taylor

#66338

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

#10376

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne

#34658

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Constantine Alexander Payne is an American and Greek film director, screenwriter and producer. He is noted for his satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and three Golden Globe Awards as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

#10377

Anna Popova

#27872

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anna Yuryevna Popova is a Russian physician and public health official. She is serving as head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, practically the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation since October 23, 2013. Acting State Advisor to the Russian Federation, Class 1 . Epidemiologist, hygienist, MD, professor.

#10378

Li Bulou

#29042

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Li Bulou is a Chinese translator and philosopher with a specialization in western philosophy and Marxism. He is also a member of the Academy of Social Sciences of Hubei, China. Li was previously a provincial official of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

#10379

Avula Parthasarathy

#109129

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Avula Parthasarathy, popularly known as Swamiji , is an Indian philosopher and exponent of Vedanta, one of the ancient philosophies of India. He translates the subtle philosophical themes into a practical technique of living. He has multiple degrees in literature, science and law, and completed a postgraduate degree in international law from London University. Renouncing a shipping business early in life, he has dedicated his life to study, research and propagation of Vedanta. His writings, discourses and seminars have featured in international press and television media. Business, sport and f...

#10380

Sandra Eades

#77674

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sandra Eades is a Noongar physician, researcher and professor, and the first Aboriginal medical practitioner to be awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2003. As of March 2020 she is Dean of Medicine at Curtin University.

#10381

Tarja Knuuttila

#131732

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Tarja Knuuttila is a Finnish philosopher of science. She is a professor of philosophy of science at the University of Vienna. Research Much of Knuuttila's research concerns the epistemology of scientific modelling, the relation of scientific models to the real world, and the connection between simplicity and generality of models, with varied fields of application including ecology, economics, and engineering. She is also the principal investigator of the Possible Life project of the European Research Council, which studies the philosophy of hypothetical types of biochemistry including syntheti...

#10382

George C. Christie

#74009

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

George C. Christie is the James B. Duke Emeritus Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, where he taught jurisprudence and tort law before retiring from teaching in 2013.

#10383

Peter St George-Hyslop

#84805

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Peter Henry St George-Hyslop, OC, FRS, FRSC, FRCPC, is a British and Canadian medical scientist, neurologist and molecular geneticist who is known for his research into neurodegenerative diseases. St George-Hyslop is one of the most cited authors in the field of Alzheimer's disease research. He has identified a number of key genes that are responsible for nerve cell degeneration and early-onset forms of Alzheimer's disease. These include the discovery of the presenilins , Nicastrin, and SORL1 genes. Presenilin mutations are the most common cause of familial Alzheimer's disease. St George-Hysl...

#10384

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

#125517

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian actor, philosopher, and writer. Biography Mehdi Belhaj Kacem was born in Paris on April 17, 1973. He lived in Tunisia until he was 13. He was nominated for the Prix Michel Simon Acteurs à l'Écran award for Best Actor for his part in the 2001 film Wild Innocence.

#10385

Robert Goldwyn

#49319

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Robert Malcolm Goldwyn was an American surgeon; an author, activist, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1972 to 1996. He was the editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years.

#10386

Sharon D. Welch

#104466

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sharon D. Welch is an academic scholar, social ethicist and author of six books on ethics, theology, politics, religion and spirituality. After having served as Provost and Professor of Religion for ten years, she is currently Affiliate Faculty member at Meadville Lombard Theological School.

#10387

Maik Hamburger

#102596

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Maik Hamburger was a German translator, writer and dramaturge, regarded as one of the leading Shakespeare scholars of his generation in the German-speaking world. Biography Early life Michael Pitt "Maik" Hamburger was born on 12 February 1931 in Shanghai, where his parents were living and working at the time. His father, Rudolf Hamburger , was a German architect originally from Lower Silesia who had probably been drawn to Shanghai by the spectacular building boom which the city was experiencing. His mother, born Ursula Kuczynski , had accompanied her husband to China. His maternal grandfather was economist and demographer Robert René Kuczynski.

#10388

Feng Shi

#172309

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

#10389

Helen Danesh-Meyer

#35277

Overall Influence

Helen Victoria Danesh-Meyer is a New Zealand ophthalmology academic, and as of 2018 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Otago followed by a 2004 MD titled 'The evaluation of diagnostic procedures, visual outcome and optic nerve morphology in giant cell arteritis' and a 2013 PhD titled 'Evaluation of optic nerve morphology in non-glaucomatous optic neuropathies with quantitative optic nerve imaging modalities' at the University of Auckland, Danesh-Meyer joined the staff at Auckland, rising to full professor.

#10390

Petr Skrabanek

#45069

Overall Influence

1940 - 1994 (54 years)

Petr Skrabanek was a doctor, physician, professor of medicine, and author of several books and many articles. Skrabanek was described by Ben Goldacre as "a lifelong champion of clear thinking, scepticism, and critical appraisal", and expressed vocal criticism of what he dubbed "cacademics", "quackupuncturists" and "nonsensus-consensus". Skrabanek was a polymath, loving jazz, history, literature and playing the piano. He spoke several languages thanks to which he was able to deeply study Joyce's last work - the avant-garde novel Finnegans Wake.

#10391

Manuel Cruz Rodríguez

#156681

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Manuel Cruz Rodríguez is a Spanish philosopher and politician who served as the 60th President of the Senate from May to December 2019. Prior to this, between 2016 and 2019, Cruz served as member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Barcelona. He is a member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia.

#10392

Ewa Mazierska

#38936

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Ewa Mazierska is a reader in Contemporary Cinema, in the Department of Humanities of the University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include various articles in Polish and English and a number of monographs. She also co-edited Relocating Britishness .

#10393

Donald Jensen

#61070

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Donald Jensen is an American hepatitis C researcher and clinician, and Richard B. Capps Chair Emeritus, Rush University Medical Center. He attended high school in Springfield, IL, and was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He attained his MD degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and completed an internal medicine residency and chief medical resident at Rush University. He was subsequently a liver research fellow at King's College Hospital in London, UK, before returning to Rush as a faculty member. In 1999, he was appointed as the Richard B. Capps Professor of Medicine and chief of the section of hepatology.

#10394

Kinky Friedman

#51997

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

#10395

Moshe Many

#13159

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Moshe Many was an Israeli urologist who was President of Tel Aviv University from 1983 to 1991, and President of Ashkelon Academic College from 2002 to 2012. Biography Moshe was born in Hebron to Israel and Simcha Mani, of the well-established Mani family. His great-grandfather was Rabbi Eliyahu Mani, the renown scholar who led the Jewish community of Hebron for 40 years. His father was Dr. Israel Mani, who served as a judge. The family survived the 1929 Hebron massacre when he was a child.

#10396

Maurice Manning

#172391

Overall Influence

#10397

Robert Whyte

#42706

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Robert Whyte is an Australian writer. He was a founding co-owner and director of the Brisbane-based multimedia firm ToadShow. After 2012 he participated in the Australian Government's new species exploration program Bush Blitz. His works include The Creek in Our Back Yard: a practical guide to creek restoration and A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia for CSIRO Publishing 2017.

#10398

Keith Bowman

#108489

Overall Influence

Keith John Bowman is a materials scientist and dean of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County College of Engineering and Information Technology, working to advance research benefiting society and elevating student educational success. He is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. Bowman has worked extensively to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion across engineering disciplines and the science, technology, engineering, and math pipeline. He is a member of 500 Queer Scientists. He is internationally recognized for his research on the property anisotropy and preferred orientation i...

#10399

Stefan Schulz

#172415

Overall Influence

#10400

Kelly McQueen

#42372

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Kathryn Ann Kelly "Kelly" McQueen is an American anesthesiologist and global health expert. She currently practices anesthesiology at the UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and serves as the chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public health.

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