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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11101

Carlos Goñi Zubieta

#173005

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Carlos Goñi Zubieta is a Spanish philosopher, writer and teacher. He has a doctor's degree in philosophy from Universidad de Barcelona. Zubieta is married to Pilar Guembe, with whom he has two children, Adrián and Paula. With Pilar, Guembe has written books on child education, such as Educar entre los dos , Educar sin castigar , Aprender de los hijos and No me ralles . He was awarded the Premio de Ensayo Becerro de Bengoa in 2010, and the Premi de Filosofía Arnau de Vilanova in 2005.

#11102

Colin Young

#85549

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Colin Young was a British film educator, chairman of the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, founder of the film program at Rice University, Houston, Texas, and the first director of the British National Film and Television School. He was awarded a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honor of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, in 1993.

#11103

Alex Michalos

#170779

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Alexandros Charles Michalos is a Canadian political scientist and philosopher known for his work in quality of life research. He is professor emeritus of political science and former chancellor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he served as the founding director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation. Before joining the University of Northern British Columbia, he taught at the University of Guelph from 1966 to 1994. He served as senior research advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, and continues to serve as a member of their Canadian Research Advisory Group.

#11104

John Charvet

#89211

Overall Influence

John Charvet is a British political theorist, and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. His interests are in political theory, contractarianism and international relations. Books The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Critique of Freedom and Equality Feminism The Idea of an Ethical Community The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order The Nature and Limits of Human Equality

#11105

Riad Barmada

#24224

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Riad Barmada , a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Barmada was the head of orthopedics at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1984 to 1998 and served as the president of the Illinois Orthopedic Society and president of the Chicago Committee on Trauma.

#11106

Richard Lee

#135455

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Richard Lee is a cardiac surgeon in St. Louis, Missouri, who helped pioneer a staged Hybrid Maze, a procedure for atrial fibrillation or AFIB. combining surgery and catheter based approaches. He was the vice chair of surgery at Saint Louis University and co-director of the Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care at Saint Louis University Hospital.

#11107

Denis Williams

#30193

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Denis Williams was a Guyanese painter, author and archaeologist. Biography Dr. Denis Joseph Ivan Williams, C.C.H., Hon. D. Lit., M.A., called by his friends "Sonny" Williams, was born in Georgetown, Guyana, where he received his early education; he was granted a Cambridge Junior School Certificate in 1940 and a Cambridge Senior School Certificate in 1941. His promise as a painter won him a two-year British Council Scholarship to the Camberwell School of Art in London in 1946. He lived in London for the next 10 years, during which he taught fine art as a lecturer at the Central School of Art and visiting tutor at the Slade School of Art.

#11108

Fintan Cullen

#92048

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Fintan Cullen in Dublin, is an Irish academic, educator and writer. Cullen is a professor at the University of Nottingham. National Portrait Gallery Exhibit He and Roy Foster co-created the exhibit Conquering England: Ireland in Victorian England, which was in the National Portrait Gallery in London from 9 March 2005 to 19 June 2005. They also co-wrote a book that accompanied the exhibit. The name comes from G. B. Shaw's mordant observation that "England had conquered Ireland, so there was nothing for it but to come over and conquer England."

#11109

Darrell Hamamoto

#38214

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Darrell Y. Hamamoto is an American writer, academic, and specialist in U.S. media and ethnic studies. He was a scholar of Asian American media and professor for almost 23 years at the University of California, Davis before retiring in 2018.

#11110

Brian P. Monahan

Brian P. Monahan

#18325

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Brian Patrick Monahan is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the National Naval Medical Center. He is a Master of The American College of Physicians and a Member of the Academy of Medicine.

#11111

Martin Schechter

#74306

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Martin T. Schechter is a Canadian epidemiologist recognized for contributions to research about HIV prevention and treatments, addiction research, and Indigenous health research. He is a professor and was the founding director of the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia . Schechter received his Order of British Columbia in 1994 alongside BC's first Nobel Prize laureate Michael Smith and noted Indigenous artist Bill Reid. In 2022, Schechter was named as a Member of the Order of Canada.

#11112

Lisbeth Klastrup

#124892

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Lisbeth Klastrup is a Danish scholar of digital and social media. Although her early research was on hypertext fiction, she is now best known for her research on transmedial worlds, social media and death.

#11113

Sandra B. Rosenthal

#172744

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Sandra Brener Rosenthal is an American philosopher and former Provost Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. She is a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#11114

Anne Schuchat

#26758

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anne Schuchat is an American medical doctor. She is a former rear admiral and assistant surgeon general in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She also served as the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . In May 2021, Schuchat stepped down from her post.

#11115

Keryn Williams

#115715

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Professor Keryn Anne Williams is an Australian medical scientist who works in the field of ophthalmology. She was a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. Her research interests include clinical and experimental corneal transplantation, ocular inflammation, ocular immunology and eye banking.

#11116

Nirali N. Shah

#129141

Overall Influence

Nirali N. Shah is an American physician-scientist and pediatric hematologist-oncologist, serving as head of the hematologic malignancies section of the pediatric oncology branch at the National Cancer Institute. She researches the translation of immunotherapeutic approaches to treat high-risk hematologic malignancies in children, adolescents and young adults.

#11117

Marylyn Addo

#57682

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Marylyn Martina Addo is a German infectiologist who is a Professor and the German Center for Infection Research Head of Infectious Disease at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Addo has developed and tested vaccinations that protect people from Ebola virus disease and the MERS coronavirus EMC/2012. She is currently developing a viral vector based COVID-19 vaccine.

#11118

George E. Moore

#105771

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

George Eugene Moore was an American doctor and cancer researcher notable for his discovery of the link between chewing tobacco and mouth cancer. He was head of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. He was the author of two books and more than 700 papers.

#11119

Bas Haring

#51646

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sebastiaan Haring is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public understanding of science" since 2007. He also hosted his own philosophical TV program for Dutch public broadcasting.

#11120

Robert W. Porter

#120138

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Robert Porter was a neurosurgeon in California. Porter was a founding member of the Brain Research Institute. He became Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine in 1969, and was Professor Emeritus there.

#11121

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

#150580

Overall Influence

1909 - 1996 (87 years)

Judith Eisenstein was an author, musicologist, composer, theologian and the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America . Life The bat mitzvah was created to address Judaism's gender imbalance and is the female equivalent of a boy's bar mitzvah, signifying entrance into religious majority. Judith, the eldest of four daughters born to Lena and Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan , was the first person to celebrate a bat mitzvah publicly in America, which she did on March 18, 1922, aged 12, at her father’s synagogue the Society for the Advancement of Judaism in New York City.

#11122

Innes Asher

#152373

Overall Influence

Monica Innes Asher is a New Zealand paediatrician. She is professor of paediatrics at the University of Auckland. Early life Asher studied at the Auckland Medical School . She also undertook postgraduate study in Paediatrics in Auckland, Whakatane, Ruatoki and at the Montreal Children’s Hospital for three years .

#11123

Thorsten Quandt

#134174

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Thorsten Quandt is the professor of online communication at the University of Münster, Germany. He has a particular interest in online communication, journalism and digital media. He authored more than 200 scientific articles and several books, including Participatory Journalism, which was influential in establishing the citizen journalism model. He has edited numerous books, primarily in the field of online communication and digital media, including The Video Game Debate. His work was awarded with several scientific prizes, including international Top Paper Awards, the dissertation award of ...

#11124

Rudolf Flotzinger

#141694

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Rudolf Flotzinger is an Austrian musicologist. Career Born in Vorchdorf , Flotzinger graduated from the where he was a student from 1951 to 1958. He then pursued concurrent studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna . At the Academy of Fine Arts he studied music composition with Karl Schiske, and at the University of Vienna he studied musicology with Erich Schenk and Walter Graf.

#11125

Chloe Orkin

#102336

Overall Influence

Chloe Meave Orkin is a British physician and Professor of HIV/AIDS medicine at Queen Mary University of London. She works as a consultant at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. She is an internationally renowned expert in HIV therapeutics and led the first phase III clinical trial of injectable anti-retrovirals. She is immediate past Chair of the British HIV Association, where she championed the Undetectable=Untransmittable campaign within the United Kingdom. She is president elect of the Medical Women's Federation. Orkin is gay and was on the Top 100 Lesbian influencer lists in both the UK and in the US in 2020.

#11126

Creswell Eastman

Creswell Eastman

#98057

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Creswell John Eastman is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at Sydney University Medical School, Principal of the Sydney Thyroid Clinic and Consultant Emeritus to the Westmead Hospital. Eastman is an endocrinologist and has directed or conducted research and public health projects into elimination of iodine deficiency disorders in Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, several Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, China and Tibet and Australia. For his work in remote areas of China, he has been dubbed the "man who saved a million brains".

#11127

Wolfgang von Leyden

#127195

Overall Influence

1911 - 2004 (93 years)

Wolfgang Marius von Leyden was a German political philosopher who edited the letters of the 17th century empiricist, John Locke. He was born in Berlin on 28 December 1911, and was a grandson of Ernst Viktor von Leyden. He received a broad humanistic education, studying at German and Italian universities. When in Italy, in 1939, he found himself stateless, possibly because of his Jewish descent, or possibly because of being confused with his brother, who was an alleged member of the communist party in Germany. Just before the second World War broke out he managed, assisted by an Englishman h...

#11128

Helga Hörz

#118775

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Helga Hörz is a German Marxist philosopher and women's rights activist. Before 1990 she was a university teacher of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She was persuaded to retire on health grounds in October 1990, but in the words of one headline writer slightly less than twenty years later, this has left her "winding down, but not muzzled" .

#11129

Stephen H. Watson

#142708

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stephen H. Watson is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his works on aesthetics, the history of philosophy and recent continental philosophy.

#11130

Eta Tyrmand

#140160

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand was a Belarusian composer. Life and career Eta Tyrmand was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in choral performance in 1938, and from the Belarusian State Conservatory in classical piano and composition in 1952. She located in Minsk in 1939, and during World War II lived in Frunze. She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians.

#11131

Jill Marsden

#114486

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jill Marsden is a scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Marsden, from Nottingham, took her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Essex. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Bolton.

#11132

V. Mohan Reddy

#16621

Overall Influence

Vadiyala Mohan Reddy is an Indian professor at UCSF Medical Center in the United States. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070228142022/http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Vadiyala_Reddy/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/09/ucsf-lures-top-pediatric-heart-surgeon-stanford.html

#11133

Lesley Rees

#37824

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Dame Lesley Howard Rees DBE Rees was educated at Pate's Grammar School for Girls, Cheltenham. Rees studied at Bart’s and qualified in 1965. She went on to specialise in clinical endocrinology and was appointed Professor of Chemical Endocrinology in 1980. She also became the University of London's public orator, the first science graduate to hold this post. She has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and in 1980 delivered the Goulstonian lecture of the Royal College of Physicians.

#11134

Eula Bingham

#47981

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Eula Bingham was an American scientist, best known as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. During her tenure as the head of OSHA, she eliminated more than 1,000 pedantic regulations and shifted the agency's focus to health and safety risks, establishing strict standards for workers' rights to know about their exposure to hazardous substances.

#11135

Jennifer Thorne

#107454

Overall Influence

Jennifer Elizabeth Thorne is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist. She is the Cross Family Professor of Ophthalmology and a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Education Thorne graduated in 1991 with a bachelor of science, magna cum laude, at College of William & Mary. She completed a doctor of medicine at University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1996. She was an intern in medicine at University of Maryland, Baltimore from 1996 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she was a resident at Scheie Eye Institute. She was the chief resident from 1999 to 2000. Thorne completed a doctor of philosophy in epidemiology in 2006 from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#11136

Vijay Pratap Singh

#179130

Overall Influence

#11137

Ron Amundson

#78717

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Ronald Amundson is an American philosopher currently Professor Emeritus at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, retired since 2012, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#11138

John A. Rich

#50698

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Early life Rich, originally from Queens, New York City, received an A.B. in 1980 from Dartmouth College his M.D. in 1984 from Duke University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. in 1990 from the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

#11139

Matthias Schmidt

#144727

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Matthias Schmidt is a German musicologist. Career Born in Cologne, Schmidt studied musicology, Germanistic, history of art and philosophy in the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Vienna. He received his doctorate at the FU Berlin and habilitated at the University of Salzburg. Schmidt was a research assistant at the Arnold Schönberg-Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the scholarships in Austria, Italy and several times in the USA. Schmidt has spent many years of teaching at universities in Austria, Switzerland, Germany an...

#11140

David Stratton

#66824

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

David James Stratton is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer. Life and career Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where he was taken to the local cinemas regularly and saw a diverse range of films. He attended Chafyn Grove School from 1948 to 1953 as a boarder. He saw his first foreign film at Bath in 1955—Italian romantic comedy Bread, Love and Dreams. That was soon f...

#11141

Hani Gabra

#108160

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hani Gabra PhD FRCPE FRCP is a British oncologist and Professor Emeritus in Medical Oncology at Imperial College London. Career Hani Gabra is a British academic medial oncologist and drug developer. He is Founder, board member and Chief Scientific Officer of Papyrus Therapeutics Inc., an emerging biotech company focussed on extra-cellular tumour suppressor therapies for cancer. He is also Professor Emeritus in Medical Oncology at Imperial College London and adjunct professor at the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers at the University of Bergen in Norway.

#11142

Andrea Gropman

#176471

Overall Influence

Andrea L. Gropman is an American pediatric neurologist specializing in neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurogenetics. She is a professor of pediatrics and neurology at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Gropman is chief of neurogenetics and neurodevelopmental pediatrics and an attending neurologist at Children's National Hospital.

#11143

Yan Xiao

#179179

Overall Influence

#11144

Warren Boroson

#109329

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Warren Gilbert Boroson was an American author and journalist. He began his career in print journalism, and was best known as managing editor of Fact in 1964, when the magazine ran a controversial survey of psychiatrists on presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's mental fitness for office, which led to a lawsuit and revised ethical guidelines against psychological professionals diagnosing individuals they had not personally evaluated. He subsequently worked as an educator and writer of books about business and personal finance.

#11145

Lorraine Lipscombe

#168291

Overall Influence

Lorraine L. Lipscombe is a Canadian endocrinologist. In 2021, Lipscombe was appointed the director of the University of Toronto's Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. Early life and education Born and raised in Montreal, Lipscombe completed her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at Concordia University where she helped complete research on how hormones affect maternal behaviour in rats. She then completed her medical degree at McGill University in 1998 before enrolling at the University of Toronto for Internal Medicine and Endocrinology residency training, followed by a Master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology, Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation.

#11146

Genevieve Lloyd

#179207

Overall Influence

#11147

Luanne Metz

#149662

Overall Influence

Luanne Metz is a Canadian politician and clinical neurologist and researcher. She was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Varsity in the 2023 Alberta general election. She is known for her work in the field of multiple sclerosis and has been recognized globally as an expert in the field.

#11148

Thomas Tüting

#171690

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Thomas Tüting is a German dermatologist and researcher at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He is the clinical director of dermatology and the head of the Laboratory of Experimental Dermatology. His research interests include the identification and characterization of factors responsible for cancer progression and metastasis and resistance to cancer immunotherapy.

#11149

Suzanne Knoebel

#109237

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Suzanne Knoebel was an American internationally known cardiologist, a member of the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty, a visiting fellow at the National Institutes of Health, and the first female president of the American College of Cardiology . She was especially known for her interests in academic research, education, and patient care.

#11150

Kenji Ikeda

#179249

Overall Influence

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