The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,
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Jeremy C. T. Fairbank
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Alain Beaudet
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David M. Nanus
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Walt Crawford
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Walt Crawford is an American writer specializing in libraries. He is primarily concerned with technology-related issues in the library sector. He has also written extensively on open access, publishing detailed surveys of gold open access journals based on data in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
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George Alexander
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Frits Koning
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Monica M. Farley
#153164
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T. H. Lee
#153168
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Allen F. Dixson
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Steven N. Fishbane
#153191
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C. C. Wang
#153199
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Ayumi K. Shintani
#153214
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George Neil Jenkins
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1914 - 2007 (93 years)
George Neil Jenkins was Professor of Oral Physiology at the Dental School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne for most of his distinguished career. He concentrated his research on the prevention of tooth decay, becoming a world expert in oral hygiene. He was a lifelong humanist, and President of the North East Humanists group.
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Paul Marquis Quinton
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Giuseppe Querques
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Arndt Vogel
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Colin John Schwartz
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Matityahu M. Fridkin
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William James Hozack
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Pascual P. Parrilla
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Hidetoshi Yoshimura
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Jeffrey W. Olin
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Curtis A. Dickman
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W. J. Mckenna
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Gilbert Chu
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Gilbert Chu is an American biochemist. He is a Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School. Biography Chu graduated from Garden City High School in New York in 1963. He received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1967, a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1973, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1980.
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Robert Crumley Moore
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Jukka A. Takala
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Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa
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Johannes Fibiger
1867 - 1928 (61 years)
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish physician and professor of anatomical pathology at the University of Copenhagen. He was the recipient of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma". He demonstrated that the roundworm which he called Spiroptera carcinoma could cause stomach cancer in rats and mice. His experimental results were later proven to be a case of mistaken conclusion. Erling Norrby, who had served as the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor and Chairman of Virology at the Karolinska I...
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Colin W. Wrigley
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Robert I. Haddad
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Woon‐puay Koh
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Gerald Batist
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Charles Caldwell
1772 - 1853 (81 years)
Charles Caldwell was a noted 19th-century U.S. physician who is best known for starting what would become the University of Louisville School of Medicine and is one of the earliest proponents of Polygenism in the United States.
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Alan Cowan
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Martin A. Croce
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Douglas R. Rosing
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Raoul Herbrecht
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Gunnel Biberfeld
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Peter David Eckersall
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Ernst Richter
1808 - 1879 (71 years)
Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter , was a German musical theorist and composer, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that in 1843 he was appointed professor of harmony and counterpoint at the conservatorium of music, then newly founded by Felix Mendelssohn. On the death of Moritz Hauptmann on 3 January 1868, he was elected cantor of Thomasschule zu Leipzig, conducting the Thomanerchor, an office he retained until his death.
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Hilary Ranson
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#11993
Bernard Le Foll
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Gert H. Richardt
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Edward A. Copelan
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#11996
Roy Macbeth Pitkin
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Anna Glasier
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Annabelle "Anna" Frances Glasier OBE, FFSRH, FRCOG FRSE is an English physician in the field of reproductive medicine. Glasier is a world expert on emergency contraception, and her work has been instrumental in making it available in the UK and other countries without medical prescription
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Andreas Bockisch
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1950 - Present (76 years)
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Alistair Richard Fielder
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Frederick A. Schmitt
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