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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12101

Lou Lumenick

#95411

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Louis J. Lumenick is an American film critic. He was the chief film critic and film editor for the New York Post where he reviewed films from 1999 until his retirement in 2016. He is currently researching the history of theatrical motion pictures on television.

#12102

Milena Králíčková

#114238

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Milena Králíčková is a Czech physician and university professor, specializing in histology and embryology. Since February 2022, she has served as the Rector of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, making her the first woman to hold this position.

#12103

Adriane Rini

#70047

Overall Influence

Adriane Allison Rini is an academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research interests include Aristotelian logic, modal logic, and the history of logic. Academic career Rini earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997, with the thesis Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic supervised by Gareth Matthews.

#12104

Rudolf Hausner

#35652

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" . Early life Of Jewish origins, Hausner's father was a commercial employee, and he worked as a Sunday painter, which made his son enthusiastic about art since early on. From 1923 to 1925 he attended the Schubert Realschule , then the Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in Vienna, until 1931. Hausner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931 until 1936, with Carl Fahringer and Karl Sterrer.

#12105

George Montgomery

#156100

Overall Influence

1905 - 1993 (88 years)

George Lightbody Montgomery CBE FRSE TD was a 20th-century Scottish pathologist and medical author, holding multiple senior positions in the Scottish medical profession. Life He was born on 3 November 1905 in Glasgow the son of Jeanie Lightbody and John Montgomery. He attended Hillhead High School then studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with an MB ChB in 1928. In 1931 he began lecturing in clinical pathology at the University of St Andrews, also gaining a doctorate there in 1937. In 1937 he moved home to Glasgow as a lecturer in pathology and pathologist to several hos...

#12106

Adetokunbo Lucas

#71052

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Adetokunbo Oluwole Lucas was a Nigerian doctor who was considered a global leader in tropical diseases. Born in Lagos, he was educated in the United Kingdom and commenced his professional career in Nigeria. Lucas received the Prince Mahidol Award in 1999 for his support of strategic research on the tropical diseases. He served for ten years as the Director of Special Programmes for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases based at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He was Adjunct Professor of International Health Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health.

#12107

Judy Green

#87364

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Judith Green is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies women in mathematics. She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics; she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the American Association of University Professors.

#12108

Steve Irwin

#130643

Overall Influence

1962 - 2006 (44 years)

Stephen Robert Irwin , known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist. Irwin grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles and was educated regarding them by his father, Bob. He achieved international fame in the late 1990s from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series that he co-hosted with his wife, Terri. The couple also hosted the series Croc Files, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, and New Breed Vets. They also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Steve's parents in Beerwah, Queensland.

#12109

Tara N. Palmore

#97139

Overall Influence

Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections. As of 2021 she was the hospital epidemiologist at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

#12110

Robert A. Schwartz

Robert A. Schwartz

#13728

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Robert Allen Schwartz is an American physician, biomedical researcher, university professor, and government official. He is Professor and Head of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration, and serves on the Rutgers University Board of Trustees. He has made seminal contributions to medicine, including the discovery of AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma and Schwartz–Burgess syndrome.

#12111

Anna-Louise Milne

#62852

Overall Influence

Anna-Louise Milne is a specialist of twentieth century Parisian history and culture. In particular she has been a leading commentator on the writer Jean Paulhan and the Nouvelle Revue Française, an important literary review of the 1930s and 1940s. She has published widely on French history and culture. She currently lectures at the University of London Institute in Paris .

#12112

Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine

#109096

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Florence Pat Haseltine is a U.S. physician, biophysicist, reproductive endocrinologist, journal editor, novelist, inventor, and advocate for women's health. She has been diagnosed with dyslexia. She built a diverse career in medicine. An associate professor at Yale University, her work specializes in obstetrics and gynecology as well as women's rights and gender bias in medicine. While at Yale, Haseltine established the embryology laboratory, which was one of the early labs to have a successful IVF baby. The Microscope used in the laboratory is now in Historical Collections of the National M...

#12113

Amin Husain

#171011

Overall Influence

Amin Husain is a Palestinian-American activist and adjunct professor. He is the lead organizer of Decolonize This Place and the MTL+ co-founder whose organization is founded on five main issues: Free Palestine, Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Global Wage Workers, and de-gentrification. He is part of the part-time faculty at New York University and focuses on resistance and liberation and postcolonial theory in his teaching. He is a founding member of Global Ultra Luxury Faction; founding member and managing editor of the magazine Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy; founding member of the collective MTL; and founding member of NYC Solidarity with Palestine.

#12114

Catherine Brekus

#57962

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Catherine Anne Brekus is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School. Brekus' work is centered on American religious history, especially the religious history of women, focusing on the evangelical Protestant tradition.

#12115

Laurence Dreyfus

#87050

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Laurence Dreyfus, FBA is an American musicologist and player of the viola da gamba who was University Lecturer and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Early life Dreyfus was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he attended Cherry Hill High School West. He earned a B.A. at Yeshiva University, studied cello under Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School, and earned his Ph.D. in musicology at Columbia University, where he studied with the distinguished Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. Commuting from New York, he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijk...

#12116

Michael Mackenzie

#113434

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Michael Mackenzie works in film, theatre and technology policy. He has directed two feature films, both theatrically released in Canada. His plays have been staged in Europe and North America and variously published in English, French, German and Hungarian. He has a Ph.D from L’Institut d'Histoire et Sociopolitique de Science, Université de Montréal. Past academic appointments include Visiting Fellow at Princeton University Professor of Humanities at Vanier College, and consultant at the United Nations.

#12117

Jamie Theakston

#65415

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

James Paul Theakston is an English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor. He has hosted several television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. He co-presented the Saturday morning BBC One children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999, and co-hosted the music programme Top of the Pops between 1998 and 2003. He currently co-hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart Radio.

#12118

Vladimir Kanjuh

#66590

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Vladimir Kanjuh is a professor of pathology and cardiovascular pathology at the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Investigation for 20 years.

#12119

Irving Bluestone

#39339

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Irving Julius Bluestone was an American trade union leader. He was the chief negotiator for almost a half a million workers at General Motors in the 1970s, and an advocate of worker participation in management. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herman and Rebecca Chasman Bluestone, Lithuanian Jewish emigrants.

#12120

Charlotte Clarke

#66470

Overall Influence

Charlotte Laura Clarke is the Professor of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research centres on the experiences of living with dementia. Early life and education Clarke qualified as a nurse in 1986 from what was then called Glasgow College of Technology and worked clinically for a number of years in the National Health Service before moving into roles that were more focused on education and research. She received a part-time PhD studentship from the Regional Health Authority and focused on the experiences of carers of people with dementia. Her doctoral thesis, award...

#12121

Georg Karl Pfahler

#47725

Overall Influence

1926 - 2002 (76 years)

Georg Karl Pfahler was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor, and one of the leading proponents of post-war art in Germany. Biography After enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg between 1948 and 1949, Pfahler pursued his artistic training at State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, which he attended until 1954. Although Pfahler had mainly worked in ceramics during his student days, as a freelance artist, he focused increasingly on painting. After his early "Metropolitan" pictures, Pfahler developed pictorial configurations around 1956, in which he experimented with the spatial effects of color in a manner reminiscent of the pointillist technique used by French Divisionists.

#12122

Kristi Sweet

#183776

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Kristi E. Sweet is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is known for her expertise on Kantian philosophy. Books Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History, Cambridge University Press, 2013,

#12123

Max Neuhaus

#115951

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Max Neuhaus was an American musician, composer and artist who was a noted interpreter of contemporary and experimental percussion music in the 1960s. He went on to create numerous permanent and short-term sound installations in the four decades that followed.

#12124

James Haar

#90928

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

James Haar was an American musicologist and W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in Renaissance music, he was the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1966 to 1969 and served as the president of American Musicological Society from 1976 to 1978. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.

#12125

Stefan Schwarz

#186801

Overall Influence

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Eugene Thomas Long

#179961

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Eugene Thomas Long III was an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the University of South Carolina. He was also president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#12127

Said Awad

#132668

Overall Influence

2000 - 2021 (21 years)

Dr. Said A. Awad, MD, BCh, FRCS, is Professor Emeritus of Urology at Dalhousie University Medical School, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Cairo, Egypt and obtained his MD from Cairo University in 1959.

#12128

Stig Arild Slørdahl

Stig Arild Slørdahl

#129817

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Stig Arild Slørdahl is Managing Director of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He has a background as a Norwegian professor of Medicine and specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He has been dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and attending physician at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim.

#12129

Odette Harris

#61755

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Odette Harris is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Director of the Brain Injury Program for the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Rehabilitation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

#12130

Anjan Chakravartty

#186856

Overall Influence

#12131

Julie Makani

#71151

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Julie Makani is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences . Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, she is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2011, she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.

#12132

Consuelo H. Wilkins

#144228

Overall Influence

Consuelo H. Wilkins is an American physician, biomedical researcher, and health equity expert. She is Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment at Meharry Medical College. She additionally serves as one of the principal investigators of the Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Science Award, Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Resear...

#12133

Étienne Balibar

#186883

Overall Influence

#12134

Erich Kukk

#119009

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

Erich Kukk was an Estonian phycologist and conservationist. Kukk is referred to as the Grand Old Man of Estonian Phycology. Early life Kukk was born in Misso Parish, and graduated from the University of Tartu in 1953.

#12135

Perri Klass

#43935

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Perri Klass is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patients, and children and literacy. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction novels, stories, essays, and journalism. Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national childhood literacy program that works through doctors and nurses to encourage parents to read aloud to young children, and to give them the books they need to do it.

#12136

Dimitar Dimitrov

#177951

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dimitar Dimitrov is a Macedonian politician , scientist , writer. Dimitrov was the Minister of Culture and the Minister of Education of the Republic of Macedonia, the Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Russia and Belarus.

#12137

Emily Erbelding

Emily Erbelding

#106597

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Emily J. Erbelding is an American physician-scientist. She is the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . Erbelding was previously deputy director of the Division of AIDS at NIAID. She was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as director of clinical services for the Baltimore City Health Department STD/HIV program.

#12138

James Langabeer

#138448

Overall Influence

James R. Langabeer II is an American decision scientist, academic, and entrepreneur known for his theories on strategy and decision-making. He is the Robert H. Graham Professor of Entrepreneurial Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , and maintains faculty appointments in the department of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry.

#12139

Jim Samson

#132783

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Thomas James Samson, FBA , commonly known as Jim Samson, is a musicologist, music critic and retired academic. Educated at Queen's University Belfast and University College, Cardiff , he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of Leicester in 1972. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1973 as a lecturer; promotions followed, to reader in 1987 and Professor of Musicology in 1992. In 1994, he was appointed Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and was then Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002 and 2011.

#12140

Stefan Kutzsche

#172776

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stefan Kutzsche is a Norwegian paediatrician, anaesthesiologist, ethicist, and educationalist in the health professions. Education and career He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Hamburg in 1983 and obtained a dr.med. degree in neonatology from the University of Oslo in 2002, an MHA in health administration and health economics from the University of Oslo and an MSc in health professions education from the University of Maastricht . He is double board certified in paediatrics and anaesthesiology. In 2013 he completed a certificate in paediatric bioethics at the Children's M...

#12141

Jane Wynne

#79884

Overall Influence

1944 - 2009 (65 years)

Jane Margery Wynne FRCP was an English community paediatrician. An authority on child abuse and handicap, she lectured at the University of Leeds and ran courses teaching paediatricians to identify signs of abuse.

#12142

Saibal Chatterjee

#76241

Overall Influence

Saibal Chatterjee is an Indian film critic, editor and documentary screenwriter. He was a columnist at BBC News, Business Standard, Hindustan Times and The Financial Express. He has also written for The Telegraph, The Times of India, and Outlook. In addition, he has served as the editor of TV World; and a consultant to Zee Premiere. He presently reviews films for NDTV. He's a founder member of the Film Critics Circle of India and was a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica's Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. He has served on the team as well as jury of a variety of international film festivals.

#12143

Mark H. Buzby

#58353

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mark Howard Buzby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as the Administrator of the United States Maritime Administration. He retired from the Navy in 2013 and joined Carnival Cruise Line's Safety & Reliability Review Board. Buzby was nominated to be MARAD Administrator in June 2017 by President Donald Trump, and confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017. He resigned from the post on January 11, 2021, along with Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, to protest the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

#12144

Peter Jones

#87231

Overall Influence

1920 - 2000 (80 years)

Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster. Early life and early career Peter Jones, born in Wem, Shropshire, was educated at Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College, making his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory theatre in East Anglia. In 1942 he acted on the West End stage in The Doctor's Dilemma and in 1942 he made an uncredited film appearance in Fanny by Gaslight. An early film credit was as a Xenobian trade delegate in Chance of a Lifetime .

#12145

James Felt

#175679

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

James Felt was an American philosopher and John Nobili Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santa Clara. He was a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#12146

Willard Rhodes

#87344

Overall Influence

1901 - 1992 (91 years)

Willard Rhodes was an American ethnomusicologist. He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952. Rhodes grew up in Dunkirk, Ohio and received A.B. and Bachelor of Music degrees from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1929. In France, he studied with Nadia Boulanger. From 1937 to 1969, he served as a professor at Columbia University, where he founded the graduate program in ethnomusicology, and co-founded the Society for Ethnomusicology, serving as that organization's first president.

#12147

Daniel Ott

#177576

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Daniel Ott is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of the Arts and with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and sp...

#12148

Homer Tien

#115382

Overall Influence

Homer Chin-nan Tien is a Canadian trauma surgeon and the president and CEO of Ornge, an air ambulance non-profit based on Ontario. He also holds the rank of colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services, associate professorship at the University of Toronto, and was the former director of Trauma Services at Sunnybrook's Tory Regional Trauma Centre. He is the first to hold the Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research.

#12149

Michael Wagner

#186957

Overall Influence

#12150

David Berger

#157942

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David Berger is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus. Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, a criticism of Chabad messianism.

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