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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10451

Jim Garrison

#172951

Overall Influence

#10452

Christine Jones

#31832

Overall Influence

Christine Jones is an American scenic designer on Broadway. Her best-known designs include Spring Awakening, American Idiot, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In 2010, she created an experimental, two-week project called Theatre for One in which one actor performs for one audience member. It was repeated in 2015. She is a professor at New York University and a lecturer at Princeton University.

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Daniel Charles

#110847

Overall Influence

1935 - 2008 (73 years)

Daniel Paul Charles was a French musician, musicologist and philosopher. He was born on 27 November 1935 in Oran and died on 21 August 2008 in Antibes . Biography He was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory of Music , he received the aggregation in philosophy in 1959 and a PhD under the direction of Mikel Dufrenne in 1977.

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David Harry Miller

#172977

Overall Influence

#10455

Jan Sokol

#102399

Overall Influence

1936 - 2021 (85 years)

Jan Sokol was a Czech philosopher, dissident, politician and translator. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 1998 under Prime Minister Josef Tošovský. From 1990 to 1992 he was Member of Parliament for Prague. From 2000 to 2007 he served as the first dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. Sokol ran for President of the Czech Republic in the 2003 election but lost to Václav Klaus.

#10456

Ronald D. Guttmann

#106324

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Ronald D. Guttmann MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1936 and received his post secondary school education at the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in 1958, and a B.S. and M.D. degree in 1961. He did his Medical Internship at the University of California San Francisco, military service in the USNR at the Tissue Bank , National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Medical Residency on the II & IV Medical Service at Boston City Hospital, and a Research & Clinical Fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 1969, he was ap...

#10457

Sam Singer

#97421

Overall Influence

1912 - 2001 (89 years)

Samuel Singer was an American animator and animation producer. He is best known as executive producer of The Adventures of Pow Wow, a cartoon which also later appeared as a segment in early episodes of Captain Kangaroo. He also directed The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican and produced Bucky and Pepito. Animation historian Jerry Beck has referred to Singer as "the Ed Wood of animation" for his low-budget and generally ill-reviewed cartoons.

#10458

David Sherry

#108867

Overall Influence

David M. Sherry is a philosopher and professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He teaches History of Philosophy, History of Logic, as well as Philosophy of Mathematics. He has published on Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of Science.

#10459

Margaret Peterson

#168852

Overall Influence

1902 - 1997 (95 years)

Margaret Peterson was an American painter of abstract art and known for creating a style that was highly influenced by the art of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Biography Peterson was born in Seattle, Washington. In the 1920s she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1926 with a Bachelor in Arts and soon joined its faculty of Fine Arts in 1928. The years between 1928 and 1950 were productive years for Peterson; this included a funded trip to Europe , several exhibitions, marriage to her husband, the Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan , and a year spent at Gree...

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Brad Hirschfield

#78793

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Brad Hirschfield is a rabbi, author, and president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership . Hirschfield was ranked three years in a row in Newsweek as one of America's "50 Most Influential Rabbis" and recognized as a leading “Preacher & Teacher” by Beliefnet.com.

#10461

Adrian Morris

#76762

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Adrian Grant Morris was an English painter. Early life Morris was born in London, England. He spent his childhood in rural Somerset before the family moved to the United States, where he attended the progressive Putney School in Vermont. There his precocious talent for painting, inspired by the surrealists in New York, was given full rein. On his return to the UK in 1947, after completion of National Service in the army and spells at art schools in London and Paris , he finished his art education at the Royal Academy Schools.

#10462

Paul Waley

#57839

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Paul Waley, a great-nephew of the scholar and translator Arthur Waley, is senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Leeds, and the author of books an articles on Tokyo and other topics in urban studies, the history of Japan and related fields.

#10463

Prabhu Dayal Nigam

#68618

Overall Influence

Prabhu Dayal Nigam is an Indian interventional cardiologist, medical academic and the founder of the department of cardiology at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. Holder of multiple master's degrees in medicine, he was a senior consultant of cardiology at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi.

#10464

Miles Richmond

#60694

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Miles Peter Richmond was a British artist. Born Peter Richmond, in Isleworth, Middlesex, he added the name Miles in the 1980s, and became generally known as such. From 1940 to 1943 he attended Kingston School of Art, and then, as a conscientious objector during World War Two, he worked on the land. This caused a rift with his father, an Admiralty engineer, and was thought by his intimates to account, at least in part, for the palpable emotional depth and passion of his paintings.

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Kenji Tokitsu

#27248

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

is a Japanese author and practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Tokitsu has also written a scholarly work about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. He holds doctorates in sociology and in Japanese language and civilization.

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Yelena Malysheva

#39715

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Yelena Vasilyevna Malysheva is a Russian physician, internist, cardiologist, teacher, and television host. She has been educating Russians on healthy lifestyles for two decades. She hosts the TV programs Zdorovye and Zhit zdorovo! , which air on Channel One. She is currently a professor at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry.

#10467

Gabriel Zada

#137417

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Gabriel Zada is Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California. He is known for his expertise in brain tumor and pituitary tumor surgery and as an innovator in minimally invasive cranial surgery. Zada is the director of the USC Brain Tumor Center, USC Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Program and USC Radiosurgery Center. He is also an NIH-funded principal investigator at the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute. He specializes in endoscopic and minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques. During his career, he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on various neurosurgical topics, and holds numerous U.S.

#10468

Charlotte Haug

#78460

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Charlotte Haug is a Norwegian physician and editor, former editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. Haug graduated as dr.med. in infection immunology from the University of Oslo in 1999, and eventually as Master of Science in health research from Stanford University. She edited the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association from 2002 to 2015.

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Andrew Read

#119942

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Professor Andrew P. Read is a British medical geneticist. Read studied organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Once he had obtained his doctorate, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and at the University of Warwick.

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Benjamin Breyer

#132253

Overall Influence

Benjamin N. Breyer is an American urologic surgeon. As a Professor of Urology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, he specializes in complex urethral and penile reconstruction, male incontinence, male fistula, surgical treatment for erectile dysfunction.

#10471

Raman Bedi

#79973

Overall Influence

Raman Bedi is Professor of Transcultural Oral Health at King's College London and was the Chief Dental Officer of England from 2002 to 2005. He is Chairman of the Global Child Dental Fund, having established the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce, and continues to practise.

#10472

Manfred Hermann Schmid

#153052

Overall Influence

1947 - 2021 (74 years)

Manfred Hermann Schmid was a German musicologist and Mozart expert. Life Schmid was born in Ottobeuren into a musical family . Schmid decided after his Abitur first to study violin at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg with the , before studying musicology, philosophy and history of art at the universities of Salzburg, Freiburg and Munich. He studied musicology with Gerhard Croll, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Thrasybulos Georgiades, whose last doctoral student was Schmid. In 1975 Schmid was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on "Mozart and the Salzburg tradition".

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Christa Peters-Lidard

#99580

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Christa Peters-Lidard is an American hydrologist known for her work on integrating land surface modeling and data assimilation, particularly with remotely sensed measurements of precipitation. Early life Peters-Lidard grew up in Chesterfield County, Virginia where she was fascinated about nature, learned that she was good at math, and that she liked earth science. As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech she worked on a project on aquifers and groundwater flow at the United States Geological Survey and at that point she realized that she wanted to be an earth scientist at National Aeronautics and ...

#10474

Zhou Guoping

#89854

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Zhou Guoping , is a modern Chinese author, poet, scholar, translator, philosopher, and research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As of 2017, Zhou has published more than 20 books, some being issued in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea. Most of his works are among the best sellers of their own genre.

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Poul Bjørndahl Astrup

#57524

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Poul Bjørndahl Astrup was a Danish clinical chemist famous for inventing a CO2 electrode and co-inventing the concept of base excess. External links Astrup - blodgasser, syrer og baser Ugeskrift for Læger 2007;169:2896

#10476

Yulia Sineokaya

#133239

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Yulia Vadimovna Sineokaya is a Russian philosopher, specialising in the history of European and Russian philosophy. Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy , Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

#10477

Cora Sternberg

#82091

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Dr. Cora Sternberg is an American medical oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, serving as a member of the Genitourinary Oncology Program. Dr. Sternberg facilitates the continued growth and development of clinical and translational research programs in GU malignancies. Dr. Sternberg is an internationally respected leader in the field of medical oncology and urological malignancies and a recognized expert in the area of new drug development. She is known for her seminal contributions in bladder cancer, her strong track record of sustained genito-urinary oncol...

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Thomas Faunce

#116224

Overall Influence

1958 - 2019 (61 years)

Thomas Faunce was a professor at the Australian National University , Canberra, Australia. He practiced both law and medicine, and his professorship was a joint one, being in both the ANU College of Law and Medical School. His research spanned across health law, bioethics, the regulatory governance of pharmaceutical industry and artificial photosynthesis in addressing environment sustainability issues. He was awarded research funding from the Australian Research Council for several Discovery Projects, and in 2009 was awarded a Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public hea...

#10479

Gary James Jason

#167704

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Gary James Jason is an American philosopher. He is well known for his work in argumentation theory, propaganda theory, mathematical logic and informal logic, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of texts on critical thinking and logic, among other books.

#10480

Pamela Huby

#157652

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Pamela Margaret Huby was a British philosopher and emeritus reader in philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Born in Dulwich, she was educated at James Allen's Girls' School and then won a senior scholarship in Classics to Lady Margaret Hall Oxford University. She was then an assistant lecturer in Classics at Reading and after a year returned to Oxford to lecture at St Anne's College where she switched to the field of ancient Greek philosophy, moving to Liverpool two years later.

#10481

Dannie Abse

#14489

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Early years Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales, as the younger brother of the politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse. Unusually for a middle-class Jewish boy, Dannie Abse attended St Illtyd's College, a working-class Catholic school in Splott. Abse studied medicine, first at the University of Wales College of Medicine and then at Westminster Hospital Medical School and King's College London.

#10482

Rita Mae Brown

#61157

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Rita Mae Brown is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.

#10483

Giacomo Scarpelli

Giacomo Scarpelli

#159467

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Giacomo Scarpelli , son of Furio Scarpelli, is an Italian scholar in History of Philosophy and screenwriter. Early life Scarpelli was born in Rome, Italy. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Florence, and carried out further research and studies in England and the United States.

#10484

Eivind Engebretsen

#113112

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Eivind Engebretsen is a Norwegian researcher in the medical humanities. He is a full professor of interdisciplinary health science at the Institute of Health and Society at the University of Oslo. From 2023, he is appointed as Dean of the Circle U. European University Alliance and has the overall academic responsibility for Circle U.'s educational program.

#10485

Anthony Newcomb

#60865

Overall Influence

1941 - 2018 (77 years)

Anthony Newcomb was an American musicologist. He was born in New York City and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He then studied with Gustav Leonhardt in the Netherlands while on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received an MFA and Ph.D from Princeton University in 1969.

#10486

Teresa Brennan

#89360

Overall Influence

1952 - 2003 (51 years)

Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist best known for her posthumous book, The Transmission of Affect . Before her death, Brennan was Schmidt Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University, where she founded a PhD program for Public Intellectuals.

#10487

James T. Goodrich

#31719

Overall Influence

1946 - 2020 (74 years)

James Tait Goodrich was an American neurosurgeon. He was the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System and Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and gained worldwide recognition for performing multiple successful separations of conjoined twins. He assisted in two craniopagus separations with Dr. Alferayan A in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the first one done May 5, 2014 and the second one done February 14, 2016 . Both pairs were successfully separated and are do...

#10488

Charles Francis Brittain

#145242

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Charles Francis Brittain is an American philosopher currently the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters at Cornell University. He specializes in ancient philosophy, specifically Hellenistic philosophy. His work lies within the Platonic tradition and draws on texts from Cicero, Augustine, and Simplicius.

#10489

Shelby Kutty

#100997

Overall Influence

Shelby Kutty is an Indian-born American cardiologist, a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds the Helen B. Taussig endowed professorship at Johns Hopkins and is Director of the Helen B. Taussig Heart Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to this, he held the title of assistant dean for research and development and vice chair of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine.

#10490

Fumiko Hori

#74268

Overall Influence

1918 - 2019 (101 years)

was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style. Biography Hori was born to a scholarly family in Hirakawacho, in Tokyo, Japan, in 1918. In 1940, she graduated from Women's School of Fine Arts . She trained in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style. In 1952, she won the Uemura Shōen Award, given to outstanding Japanese female painters.

#10491

Yvonne Maldonado

#21584

Overall Influence

Yvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado is an American physician, pediatrician, and Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University, with a focus on Infectious Diseases. She founded Stanford's pediatric HIV Clinic and now serves as Stanford University School of Medicine's Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity.

#10492

Jonathan Drezner

#140528

Overall Influence

Jonathan A. Drezner is an American sport and exercise medicine physician, currently editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In both clinical practice and research he has a strong interest in sports cardiology. He is a first author for the International Guidelines for Electrocardiography Interpretation in athletes and was the 19th President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in 2012.

#10493

Robert Lepenies

#111961

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Robert Lepenies is a German political scientist and economist, currently employed as the president of the Karlshochschule International University. Life Lepenies studied politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Oxford, UK, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 2008. He completed his master's degree in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics in 2014. He went on to the Hertie School of Governance Berlin and received his PhD in Political Science with a thesis entitled "Losers in Trade: Economics and Normative Justifications."

#10494

Chester Wickwire

#78211

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Chester "Chet" L. Wickwire was the American chaplain emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University. He was a prominent fighter for civil rights and an international peace activist. Reverend Wickwire was remembered as a "consummate humanist" after his death.

#10495

Constance Tom Noguchi

#136504

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Constance Tom Noguchi is a research physicist, Chief of the Molecular Cell Biology Section, and Dean of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences Graduate School at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health . Noguchi studies the underlying genetics, metabolism, and treatment of sickle cell disease and of erythropoietin and its effects on metabolism.

#10496

Lidia Rudnicka

#77490

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Lidia Rudnicka is a Polish-American dermatologist with contributions to the field of scleroderma research, hair diseases and melanoma prevention. Rudnicka was the chairman of the Department of Dermatology CSK MSWiA in Warsaw, Poland . She is currently chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Medical University of Warsaw. She is president of the Polish Dermatological Society, first president of the International Society of Trichoscopy, regional editor for the International Journal of Trichology, and associate editor of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.

#10497

Roz Chast

#15464

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Roz Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1978, she has published more than 800 cartoons in The New Yorker. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.

#10498

Peggy Piesche

#81691

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Peggy Piesche is a German literary and cultural scientist, works in adult education and works as a consultant for diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality in the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung . Peggy Piesche is one of the most famous voices of Black women in Germany. Her identities also include lesbian.

#10499

Aleksa Buha

#58560

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Aleksa Buha is a Bosnian Serb philosopher and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. During the 1990s, he was the minister of foreign affairs of Republika Srpska. Buha is also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska.

#10500

Martha Gulati

#79874

Overall Influence

Martha Gulati is the past Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona, Phoenix. She previously held the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the Ohio State University. Gulati is the Chair of the National Chest Pain Guidelines. She is the author of the popular science book Saving Women’s Heart and Editor-in-Chief of materials for the American College of Cardiology programme CardioSmart.

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