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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11651

Amy Brown

#33574

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Amy Brown is a Welsh psychologist. She is a Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University who specialises in maternal and child health, particularly nutrition. She campaigns to bring about better support for women who want to breastfeed and to improve the UK public's attitude towards breastfeeding in public.

#11652

Donald J. Harrington

#74011

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald J. Harrington, C.M. , is an American Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission who served as the fifteenth President of St. John's University in Queens, New York from 1989 until 2013. Before that post, he had been the President of Niagara University from 1984 to 1989.

#11653

Alan L. Gropman

Alan L. Gropman

#96315

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Alan Louis Gropman is an American retired military officer, college professor, and author. Gropman served 27 years on active duty in the United States Air Force, finishing his career as a colonel. After retiring from the Air Force, he became a professor of history and grand strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, an institution that is part of the National Defense University. He later became an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Over the years, Gropman has written four books and over 600 articles. He has also made six appearances on C-...

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Soumaya Mestiri

Soumaya Mestiri

#179234

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Soumaya Mestiri is a Tunisian philosopher. Life After her studies, she was a lecturer at the University Paris, where she supported a thesis in 2003 entitled "The Conception of the Person in the Philosophy of John Rawls: Trial of Reconstruction of the Theory of Justice as Equity," in front of a jury chaired by Emmanuel Picavet, and also including Catherine Audard and Monique Canto-Sperber. Next, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and, in 2005, returned to teach in Tunisia. She was a professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Tunis.

#11655

Tom Whyman

#107529

Overall Influence

Tom Whyman is an academic philosopher and writer. Whyman is a freelance writer and teaches philosophy part-time at the University of Durham. He has undertaken studies in the following fields: Frankfurt School critical theory, German idealism, Kierkegaard, and contemporary ethical naturalism.

#11656

C. Narayana Reddy

#65856

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Cingireddi Narayana Reddy , popularly known as CiNaRe, was an Indian Telugu-language poet, writer, and critic. He had produced over eighty literary works including poems, prose-plays, lyrical plays, translations, and ghazals. He was also a professor, film lyricist, actor, and Rajya Sabha politician. He also served as the Vice Chancellor of Telugu University.

#11657

Kevin Macdonald

Kevin Macdonald

#75086

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kevin Macdonald is a Scottish director. His films include One Day in September , a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void , the drama The Last King of Scotland , the political thriller State of Play , the Bob Marley documentary Marley , the post-apocalyptic drama How I Live Now , the thriller Black Sea , the Whitney Houston documentary Whitney , and the legal drama film The Mauritanian .

#11658

David J. Kramer

#183662

Overall Influence

#11659

Kum-Kum Bhavnani

#176541

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is an American university professor, filmmaker, and author. As of 2018, she is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Professor with Feminist Studies and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is Chair of the interdisciplinary program in Women, Culture, Development. She served as the Chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

#11660

Paul Nyirjesy

#149427

Overall Influence

Paul Nyirjesy is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and the director of Drexel Vaginitis Center. In 2016, Nyirjesy announced positive results from a clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Vaginitis.

#11661

Richard Idro

#176380

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Richard Iwa Idro is a Ugandan pediatric neurologist, researcher and academic, who serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

#11662

Luc Foisneau

#130871

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Luc Foisneau, born in Blois on 30 March 1963, is a French philosopher specialising in contemporary political thought and that of the Early Modern period. Director of research at CNRS, he is a member of the Centre Raymond Aron, and teaches at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

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David Tudehope

#183675

Overall Influence

David Ian Tudehope is an Australian physician, specialising in neonatology. Tudehope is credited with progressing neonatal research in Queensland in his roles as director of neonatology at the Mater Mothers' Hospital and as professor in neonatal paediatrics of the University of Queensland.

#11664

Sarah Haffner

#79199

Overall Influence

1940 - 2018 (78 years)

Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.

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Sebastian Shaw

#92067

Overall Influence

1905 - 1994 (89 years)

Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions.

#11666

Marcin Król

#82108

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Marcin Feliks Król was a Polish philosopher, historian of ideas, publicist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He was a democratic opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic. As a participant in the March events of 1968, Król was imprisoned in the same year for several months. He was a long-time contributing editor of the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Res Publica magazine. In 1975, Król was a signatory to the Letter of 59 against changes to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland.

#11667

Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn

#134159

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Rudolf Kelterborn was a Swiss musician and composer. Life Born in Basel, Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Boris Blacher, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner. In his own teaching career, Kelterborn has served as a lecturer and professor at a number of music colleges in Germany and in Switzerland, where he directed the Basel Music Academy from 1983 to 1994. Kelterborn also headed the music division of Swiss German radio from 1974 to 1980.

#11668

Oloph Bexell

#133296

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Oloph Eric Fingal Bexell is a Swedish priest and professor emeritus in church history at Uppsala University. Biography Oloph Bexell received his bachelor of theology in 1974 and was ordained in the Diocese of Växjö the same year. In 1988 he defended his thesis in practical theology, and was employed the same year by the Swedish Church Board for Teaching and Education. He later became a researcher in the history of Christianity at Uppsala University from 1989 to 1991. He received his docent certification in church and social sciences in 1990. From 1992 to 2000 Bexell worked as a university instructor in the subject.

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David Hay

#149283

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Sir David Russell Hay was a New Zealand cardiologist and anti-smoking campaigner. Biography Born in Christchurch, Hay was one of four children of philanthropist Sir James Hay, including his identical twin brother Sir Hamish Hay and older sister Dame Laurie Salas. Educated at St Andrew's College, he spent 1945 at Canterbury University College, before going on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1951.

#11670

Nancy H. Nielsen

#96113

Overall Influence

Nancy H. Nielsen is an American physician. She is the senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. In 2009, Nielsen was recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine for her medical advocacy work.

#11671

Susumu Kagawa

#73691

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

was a Japanese urologist and a co-author of 41 peer-reviewed articles all of which can be found on Web of Science and PubMed. He was also a President of the University of Tokushima.

#11672

Sue Hill

#53070

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dame Susan Lesley Hill has been the Chief Scientific Officer for England since October 2002. Professional and academic background Hill's professional background is as a healthcare scientist in the National Health Service specialising in respiratory medicine. She gained a PhD in Respiratory Sciences having undertaken a programme of basic science research into the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease at the University of Birmingham. She spent three decades at what is now University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and as an academic at the University of Birmingham Medical School. Sh...

#11673

Linda Stone

#64610

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Linda Stone is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998. Stone also coined "email apnea" in 2008 which means "a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email."

#11674

Lene Auestad

#83425

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Lene Auestad is an author and a philosopher from the University of Oslo. She has written on the themes of prejudice, social exclusion and minority rights, and has contributed to public debates on hate speech.

#11675

Aleksandr Adabashyan

Aleksandr Adabashyan

#150199

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan is Soviet and Russian film writer, artist, director and actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR . Honored Artist of Russia . Biography Born in Moscow into a russified Armenian family of Artyom Adabashyan, an official at the Ministry of Construction Industry, and Valentina Barkhudarova, a teacher of German language. According to Aleksandr, he was raised inside the Russian culture, he doesn't speak Armenian language and he visited Yerevan only twice in his life. In 1962 he enrolled in the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, and in 1964 he went to serve in the army.

#11676

Daniel Mojon

#59090

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Daniel Mojon is a Swiss ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon who is considered to be the inventor of minimally invasive strabismus surgery , a method of surgically correcting squinting that uses only very small incisions of two to three millimeters and is supposed to lead to quicker rehabilitation and wound healing. Daniel Mojon is president of the program committee of the Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology .

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Edward Tobinick

#87042

Overall Influence

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Stephen A. Douglas

#183766

Overall Influence

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Craig Hanks

#135823

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

James Craig Hanks is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and philosophy of technology. Hanks has been the Chair of Philosophy at Texas State University since 2014.

#11680

Jürg Baur

#132264

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Jürg Baur was a German composer whose works include Incontri and Mutazioni. Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years. Baur was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

#11681

Josep Montserrat i Torrents

#56026

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Josep Montserrat i Torrents , better known as José Montserrat Torrents in the Spanish-speaking world, is a Spanish writer, philosopher, historian and Coptic scholar. Biography J. Montserrat was born in 1932, in Barcelona. His education took place in Barcelona, Rome, Munster, Paris, and Benares. Due to his activism and writings in the Catalan Press regarding the Second Vatican Council he was censured in the newspapers from 1966 to 1977. A teacher since 1954, the government denied him the "certificate of political good behavior" due to his anti-Francoist activism, and he was thus unable to continue in that profession.

#11682

Zoltan Torey

#152462

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Zoltan Torey who was born in Hungary on 21 November 1929 and died in 2014 is a Hungarian-Australian psychologist, writer and philosopher. He is known for his theories on consciousness. He left Hungary when he was 18 years old and came to Australia in 1949. Later he became blind in an industrial accident and forced to leave his studies to become a dentist. Next phase of his life started after earning a degree in Clinical Psychology. He not only worked as a practitioner in Clinical Psychology but also wrote three books; one of them more autobiographical and the others on what is known as hard ...

#11683

Daria Chubata

#91825

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Daria Dmytrivna Chubata is a Ukrainian physician, author, and social activist. She became a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in 2003, and twice served as a member of the Ternopil Oblast Council . In 1980, she was awarded the Distinguished Healthcare Worker of the USSR.

#11684

Dave A. Chokshi

#53192

Overall Influence

Dave Ashok Chokshi is an American physician and former public health official who served as the 43rd health commissioner of New York City. He was the first health commissioner of Asian descent. Chokshi previously served as the inaugural chief population health officer for NYC Health + Hospitals and as a White House fellow in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Currently he is a practicing physician at Bellevue Hospital and the inaugural Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, part of the City College of New York.

#11685

Sharon Goldfeld

#114113

Overall Influence

Sharon Goldfeld is a paediatrician and public health physician, who is Director of the Centre for Community and Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital, Co-Group Leader of the Policy and Equity Research Group, and Theme Director, Population Health, at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

#11686

Cigall Kadoch

#115217

Overall Influence

Cigall Kadoch is an American biochemist and cancer biologist who is Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research is focused in chromatin regulation and how changes in cellular structure can lead to human diseases, such as Cancer, Neurodevelopmental disorders, and others. She is internationally recognized for her work on the mammalian SWI/SNF complex, a large molecular machine known as a Chromatin remodeling complex. She was named as one of the world's leading sc...

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Shinjini Bhatnagar

#71230

Overall Influence

Shinjini Bhatnagar is an Indian pediatric gastroenterologist. She is elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences. Her research was recognised by the World Health Organization , and at 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition. She was awarded the Dr. ST Achar Gold Medal Award for Research in Child Health, and Hotam Tomar Gold Medal in recognition of her research in Pediatric Gastroenterology.

#11688

Mark LeBar

#178018

Overall Influence

Mark LeBar is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Florida State University. He is known for his works on moral philosophy and is the editor of Social Theory and Practice since 2015.

#11689

Sean P. F. Hughes

Sean P. F. Hughes

#71363

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Sean Patrick Francis Hughes is emeritus professor of orthopaedic surgery at Imperial College London where he was previously professor of orthopaedic surgery and head of the department of surgery, anaesthetics and intensive care. Earlier in his career he had been professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

#11690

J. Colin Partridge

#161592

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Colin Partridge is an American pediatrician and neonatologist, and an expert on neonatal intensive care, perinatal brain imaging, international medical education and neonatal medical ethics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco and held the Academy Chair in Pediatric Education, an endowed chair at the same university, from 2007 to 2013. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 6,700 times in scientific publications, and his h-index is 37.

#11691

P. Allen Smith

#48529

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Paul Allen Smith, Jr. is an American television host, garden designer, conservationist, and lifestyle expert. He is the host of three television programs. P. Allen Smith's Garden Home and P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table are distributed to public television by American Public Television. His 30-minute show Garden Style is syndicated by The Television Syndication Company. Smith is one of America's most recognized gardening and design experts, providing ideas and guidance through multiple media venues. He is the author of the Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random Hous...

#11692

Nuri Ja'far

#93066

Overall Influence

1914 - 1991 (77 years)

Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi , better known as Nuri Ja'far , was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author. He wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and literature. After graduating from the Higher Teachers' House in Baghdad, he went to the United States, and received a master's degree from Ohio University in 1948 and a doctorate in philosophy from the same university in the following year. He was a student of John Dewey and majored in neuropsychology.

#11693

Gerald Bruns

#167921

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Gerald Bruns is an American literary scholar and philosopher and William P. & Hazel B. White Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Notre Dame. Books Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language, Yale University Press, 1974Inventions: Writing, Textuality, and Understanding in Literary History, Yale, 1982Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern, Yale, 1992Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory, Northwestern University Press, 1999What Are Poets For? An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, University of Iowa Press, 2012On Ceasing to be Human, ...

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Kantilal L. Kalani

#154411

Overall Influence

1930 - 1998 (68 years)

Kantilal L. Kalani was an Indian philosopher and writer in Gujarati literature. He is best known for translating the Tirukkural into Gujarati. Biography Kantilal Kalani worked with the United States Information Service as head of the Department of Gujarati for 25 years. He wrote over 65 books in Gujarati on philosophy and spiritual knowledge. In 1971, he translated the ancient Tamil moral literature of the Tirukkural into Gujarati, which was published in Bombay.

#11695

J. Michael Wilson

#183914

Overall Influence

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Nahid Bhadelia

#66266

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Nahid Bhadelia is an American infectious-diseases physician, founding director of Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research , an associate director at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University, and an associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor for Global COVID-19 Response on the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

#11697

Janet Carr

#63110

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Janet Howard Carr was an Australian physiotherapist and academic whose research focused on stroke rehabilitation. She was a professor at the University of Sydney and published numerous textbooks. Childhood Janet Carr was born in 1933 to Howard and Gladys Carr. Carr is one of three children to Howard and Gladys Carr, and grew up on their sheep-grazing property at Kerr's Creek, 25 kilometres from Orange, New South Wales. She walked across paddocks to attend classes in a one-room one-teacher school, Kinross Wolaroi School, before going to board at PLC , in Orange. Being raised in the bush gave J...

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Paul Saka

#127538

Overall Influence

Paul Saka is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is known for his works on philosophy of language. Books How to Think about Meaning, Springer

#11699

James Calder

#119186

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

James David Forbes Calder is a British orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sporting injuries. He has built a reputation for treating foot and ankle injuries in top international athletes - soccer players from the English Premier League and European clubs including Paris St Germain, AC Milan, Barcelona FC, Real Madrid, Olympique de Marseille FC in addition to rugby players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, GB Olympic teams, England and Indian cricket teams and UK Athletics.

#11700

Ravi Kalhan

#81931

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ravi Kalhan is the director of the Asthma and COPD Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Education Kalhan received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Brown University. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and his Master of Science in clinical investigation from Northwestern University. He completed his internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Northwestern.

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