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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12201

Christopher Robe

#130784

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Christopher Robé is a professor in film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University. He has published Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture., which resituates such well-known auteurs like Sergei Eisenstein and Jean Renoir in an American political context.,. It also argues that the 1930s proved a vital moment in time regarding the emergence of Left Film Theory,.

#12202

Iván Erőd

#169282

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Iván Erőd was a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. Educated in Budapest, he emigrated to Austria in 1956, where he studied at the Vienna Music Academy. He was successful as a pianist and composer of operas, chamber music and much more, with elements from serialism, Hungarian folk music and jazz. He first was a professor of music theory and composition at the University of Music in Graz , then a professor of composition at the Vienna Music Academy from 1989.

#12203

Harry Botterell

#74788

Overall Influence

1906 - 1997 (91 years)

Edmund Harry Botterell, was a Canadian neurosurgeon and academic administrator. From 1936 to 1939, he taught neurophysiology at the University of Toronto, and was an attending surgeon of Neurosurgery at the Toronto General Hospital, becoming Head from 1953 to 1962. From 1962 to 1970, he was the Dean of School of Medicine at Queen's University. He was Vice Principal of Faculty of Health Sciences from 1968 to 1971.

#12204

Rita Steblin

#23263

Overall Influence

1951 - 2019 (68 years)

Rita Katherine Steblin was a musicologist, specializing in archival work combining music history, iconography and genealogical research. Steblin was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; she died in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Sergei and Renata Steblin, a co-founder of Richmond Baptist Church.

#12205

Rashida Richardson

#81649

Overall Influence

Rashida Richardson is a visiting scholar at Rutgers Law School and the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and the Law and an attorney advisor to the Federal Trade Commission. She is also an assistant professor of law and political science at the Northeastern University School of Law and the Northeastern University Department of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.

#12206

Dianne Willcocks

#70615

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Dianne Marie Willcocks CBE DL was the Vice-Chancellor of York St John University until retirement in April 2010 and is a former Deputy Principal of Sheffield Hallam University. Biography She received a Dip.M from Ealing College of Higher Education in 1966, and a BSc in Human Sciences from the University of Surrey in 1976.

#12207

Simone Heilgendorff

#179266

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Simone Heilgendorff is a German musicologist, violist as well as dramaturge and curator. Life Heilgendorff studied musicology, philosophy and psychology and viola in Freiburg im Breisgau, Zurich, and in Berlin. In June 2019, she was habilitated in musicology at the University of Salzburg. Since 1993, she has held positions at colleges and universities, including a university professorship in applied musicology at the University of Klagenfurt from 2007 to 2013. From 2013 to 2016, she was head of the international research project "New Music Festivals as Agorai – Their Formation and Impact on Warsaw Autumn, , and Wien Modern after 1980", funded by the Austrian Science Fund .

#12208

Jack Kelly

#86761

Overall Influence

1927 - 1992 (65 years)

John Augustus Kelly Jr. , known professionally as Jack Kelly, was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the television series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962.

#12209

Anders Persson

#123661

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Anders Persson is an Professor and the Director of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden, and Linköping University Hospital. He was recruited by Linköping University in 2002 to start the center. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. from Linköping University in Medical Imaging. He received the Lennart Nilsson Award for scientific photography from the Karolinska Institute in 2008 "for the development of new imaging technologies and methods, which are extremely useful in health care and medical research".

#12210

Horst Klinkmann

Horst Klinkmann

#88092

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Horst Klinkmann is a German professor for Internal medicine and Nephrology . A principal focus of his research is in the area of major medical implants. Between 1990 and 1992 he served, in succession to Werner Scheler, as the final president of the German Academy of Sciences.

#12211

Rosandra N. Kaplan

#40390

Overall Influence

Rosandra N. Kaplan is an American pediatric oncologist and scientist specialized in translational and clinical research on the mechanisms of cancer spread. She is a principal investigator and head of the tumor microenvironment and metastasis branch at the National Cancer Institute.

#12212

Tarek Loubani

#77507

Overall Influence

Tarek Loubani is a Canadian doctor and humanitarian. He runs the Glia Project, which seeks to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and developed a low-cost stethoscope in 2015. He serves as Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and works in emergency rooms.

#12213

Enrique González Rojo Jr.

#152183

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Enrique González Rojo was a Mexican writer, philosopher and teacher. Biography González Rojo was the only son of the writer Enrique González Rojo. After the death of his father, he grew up at his grandfather Enrique González Martínez, and the family decided, that the name of his father should not get lost. In 1959, he obtained the teacher's degree and a doctorate in philosophy. He taught at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, as well as the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and the Un...

#12214

James Dunkerley

#80352

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sir James Chadwick Dunkerley OBE is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and the former Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London. He has written extensively on Bolivia, Central America, and elsewhere in Latin America and was the editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Further, he has been on the editorial boards of Government and Opposition and Norteamérica. He has served as Andrés Bello Professor of Latin American Culture and Civilization at New York University and is a Fell...

#12215

Alice Prochaska

#81104

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Alice Prochaska is a former archivist and librarian, who served as Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 2010 to 2017. Career Alice Prochaska studied at Somerville College in the University of Oxford and received BA and DPhil degrees in Modern History.

#12216

Georges Le Rider

#69780

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Georges Charles Le Rider was a French historian, librarian and administrator, a specialist in Greek numismatics, who headed the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. He had a filial relationship with Henri Arnold Seyrig who became and remained his mentor.

#12217

Nicanor Tiongson

#35530

Overall Influence

Nicanor G. Tiongson is a critic, creative writer and academic from the Philippines. He holds a Bachelor of Humanities degree from the Ateneo de Manila University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines. A founding member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, Tiongson is currently Professor Emeritus of Film and Audio-visual Communication at the College of Mass Communication in U.P. Diliman.

#12218

Mary Mahoney

#91123

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Mary Deirdre Mahoney was an Australian medical practitioner and academic. Early life and education Mary Deirdre Hirschfeld was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 14 June 1940. She was the eldest daughter of Irish nurse Brigid and surgeon Konrad Hirschfeld.

#12219

Arild Haaland

#119448

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Arild Peter Haaland was a Norwegian philosopher, literary historian, translator and non-fiction writer. He was born in Bergen. His thesis from 1956 was an analysis of the Nazism in Germany. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1979. He received the Fritt Ord Award in 1992. Haaland was portrayed by sculptor Arnold Haukeland, and by the painters Odd Nerdrum and Karl Erik Harr.

#12220

Anna Elisabeth Ljunggren

#173933

Overall Influence

1943 - 2010 (67 years)

Anna Elisabeth Ljunggren was a Norwegian physiotherapist. She took her physiotherapist training in 1964. She took the dr.philos. degree in 1977, as the first physiotherapist in Norway, at the University of Oslo. In 1991 she became the first assistant professor in physiotherapy in Norway, at the University of Bergen, and she was promoted to professor in 1995. She was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2009. She died in April 2010.

#12221

H. Gilbert Welch

#187327

Overall Influence

#12222

Will Brooker

#117625

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Will Brooker is a writer and academic, professor of film and cultural studies at Kingston University and an author of several books of cultural studies dealing with elements of modern pop culture and fandom, specifically Batman, Star Wars and Alice in Wonderland.

#12223

Elena Conis

#131319

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Elena Conis is an American writer and historian of medicine. Her work focuses on the history of medicine, public health, and the environment, with particular focuses on the history of vaccination, infectious diseases, and pesticides. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

#12224

Edward Brandt Jr.

#51379

Overall Influence

1933 - 2007 (74 years)

Edward Newman Brandt Jr. MD was an American physician, mathematician, and public health administrator. He was appointed acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1981 to 1982, and served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health from 1981 to 1984.

#12225

Ulrich Mahlknecht

#69071

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Ulrich Rudolph Mahlknecht is an internationally renowned German/Italian physician scientist. Scientific achievements Mahlknecht grew up in in South Tyrol, Italy. He studied medicine at the University of Bochum, the University of Birmingham, the Paris-Sud 11 University and the University of Tübingen, where he received his medical doctorate in 1995. He received his postgraduate medical training in internal medicine at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1996 until 1999 Ulrich Mahlknecht was a graduate student at the Picower Graduate School Of Molecular Medicine , where he was then employed as a postdoc and later as the Senior Scientist.

#12226

Dietmar Heidemann

#71961

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Dietmar Hermann Heidemann is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Luxembourg. He is best known for his research on Kant and German idealism. Heidemann is the editor-in-chief of Kant Yearbook.

#12227

Alexander Calandra

#15510

Overall Influence

1911 - 2006 (95 years)

Alexander Calandra was a scientist, educator, and author, perhaps best remembered for his short story, "Angels on a Pin ." Early life and education Calandra was born in Brooklyn, New York to Rosina Calandra and Lucio Calandra, immigrants from Sicily. Calandra received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1935. He taught there while pursuing his PhD at NYU, where he received an MA in 1938. and a PhD in chemistry in 1940.

#12228

Matire Harwood

#158561

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Matire Louise Ngarongoa Harwood is a New Zealand clinical researcher and trainee general practitioner. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland. Harwood was the 2017 New Zealand L'Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow. Her expertise is in Māori health, focussed on reducing health inequity by improving indigenous health and well-being.

#12229

Jonathan Riley

#171252

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jonathan Riley is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is known for his expertise on utilitarianism. Books Mill's On Liberty, Routledge, 1998, 2015Liberal Utilitarianism: Social Choice Theory and J.S. Mill's Philosophy, Cambridge, 1988

#12230

Lou Burnard

#50353

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Lou Burnard is an internationally recognised expert in digital humanities, particularly in the area of text encoding and digital libraries. He was assistant director of Oxford University Computing Services from 2001 to September 2010, when he officially retired from OUCS. Before that, he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years. He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s. He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development, as a consultant to the TEI Technical Council and as an elected TEI board member.

#12231

William J. Rogers

#187351

Overall Influence

#12232

Hrvoje Turković

#132982

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Hrvoje Turković is a Croatian film theorist, film critic and university professor. With 14 books and more than 700 articles on film, ranging from essayistic criticism to scientific works on film theory, Turković established himself as one of Croatia's most important critics and film scholars. He is a recipient of the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Film.

#12233

Anne C. Roberts

#79724

Overall Influence

Anne Christine Roberts is an American interventional radiologist who is credited with the invention of the Roberts Uterine Catheter , a catheter designed to facilitate navigation through the uterine arteries and currently used widely for uterine artery embolization procedures. She also served as president of the Society of Interventional Radiology and was the second woman to become president of the society.

#12234

Denis Parsons Burkitt

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#23318

Overall Influence

1911 - 1993 (82 years)

Denis Parsons Burkitt, MD, FRCS, FRS was an Irish surgeon who made significant advances in health, such as the etiology of a pediatric cancer, now called Burkitt's lymphoma, and the finding that rates of colorectal cancer are higher in those who eat limited dietary fibre.

#12235

Julia Crick

#82598

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Julia Catherine Crick, is a British historian, medievalist, and academic. She is Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at King's College London. Academic career Studying at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Crick completed the tripos in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1984.

#12236

Corinne Maury

#157193

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Corinne Maury is a French lecturer in film studies as well as a film director. Career Maury defended her doctoral thesis Habiter le monde : figures poétiques dans le cinéma du réel at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008.

#12237

Emilio del Valle Escalante

#164175

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Emilio del Valle Escalante, now known as Emil' Keme, is a Guatemalan/K'iche Maya professor and researcher in Indigenous literatures and cultures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written and edited books on his fields of expertise as well as various journal articles. He has also presented talks at other U.S. educational institutions.

#12238

Christine F. Baes

#185505

Overall Influence

Dr. Christine F. Baes is chair of the Department of Animal Biosciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She began her five-year term in the role in May 2023. She is also a professor and Canada Research Chair in Livestock Genomics at Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph.

#12239

Benjamin B. Dunlap

#51734

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Benjamin Bernard "Bernie" Dunlap is an American author and academic, who was the president of Wofford College from July 2000 to 2013. Early days and education A native of Columbia, South Carolina, with an affinity for extinction, Dunlap drowned and was resuscitated at the age of 13 and, amidst a succession of medical emergencies, had a near-fatal motorcycle accident when he was 33.

#12240

Faye McMillan

#101139

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Faye Beverley McMillan is a Wiradjuri yinna from Trangie NSW. She is an Australian academic and pharmacist known for her work on improving Indigenous healthcare. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity , as well as being a Senior Fellow with Advance HE. She is a founding member of Indigenous Allied Health Australia and was a board member of IAHA from 2009-2017 . She joined UTS in 2022 with over 20 years of experience in the Higher Education Sector and over 30 years in the health sector.

#12241

Ricardo Ramina

#32202

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ricardo Ramina is a notable Brazilian neurosurgeon and university Professor. Ramina is well known around the world for his expertise in the treatment of complex neurosurgical problems such as Vestibular schwannomas, skull base tumors, glomus jugulare, Meningiomas and Aneurysms.

#12242

Steven A. Narod

#187466

Overall Influence

#12243

Rafael Núñez Florencio

#153041

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Rafael Núñez Florencio is a Spanish historian, philosopher, and critic. Works El terrorismo anarquista 1888–1909 Utopistas y autoritarios en 1900 El ejército español en el desastre de 1898 Tal como éramos: España hace un siglo Sol y sangre. La Imagen de España en el mundo Con la salsa de su hambre. Los extranjeros ante la mesa hispana Hollada piel de toro: del sentimiento de la naturaleza a la construcción nacional del paisaje Tierra y Libertad. Cien años de anarquismo en España, edited by Julián Casanova Ruiz El peso del pesimismo. Del 98 al desencanto

#12244

Curtis Price

#56255

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE was the Warden of New College, Oxford, between October 2009 and September 2016. He was previously principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as the warden of New College at the end of August 2016.

#12245

Jacqueline Eubanks

#174359

Overall Influence

1938 - 1992 (54 years)

Jacqueline Eubanks was an activist and reference librarian at Brooklyn College who advocated for alternative publishing venues and who spoke out about institutional marginalization and discrimination. Eubanks was an active member of the American Library Association and a founding member of the ALA Social Responsibilities Roundtable. As a proponent of alternative press and radical, counter-mainstream publications, Eubanks founded Alternatives in Print that served to document books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other materials not easily found in other indices. The initial reception to Altern...

#12246

Alain Badiou

#187505

Overall Influence

#12247

Suzanne Rutland

#62025

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Suzanne Dorothy Rutland OAM is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney. She was previously Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, at Sydney University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, serving in that position for 11 years. She specializes in the history of Australian Jews and religious education. Her work Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia was first published in 1988 with further editions in 1997 and 2001. Her work The Jews in Australia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. Her book co-written with journali...

#12248

Utako Okamoto

#15059

Overall Influence

1918 - 2016 (98 years)

Utako Okamoto was a Japanese medical doctor working as a medical scientist who discovered tranexamic acid in the 1950s in her quest to find a drug that would treat bleeding after childbirth . After publishing results in 1962 she became a chair at Kobe Gakuin University, where she worked from 1966 until her retirement in 1990. Okamoto's career was hampered by a very male dominated environment. During her lifetime she was unable to persuade obstetricians at Kobe to trial the antifibrinolytic agent, which had become a drug on the WHO list of essential medicines in 2009. She lived to see the 2010 ...

#12249

Ned Abraham

#138278

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ned Abraham was an Associate Professor of surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and is a general & colorectal surgeon, a clinical academic and a retired Australian Army Reserve Officer. He has spoken at multiple national and international meetings in four continents and his published articles in general, colorectal and academic surgery have been cited in the medical literature close to two thousand times. He continues to practice surgery in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.

#12250

Thomas Cecil Gray

#40145

Overall Influence

1913 - 2008 (95 years)

Thomas Cecil Gray CBE KCSG was a pioneering English anaesthetist. Early life Gray was born in Liverpool in 1913. The only son of Thomas and Ethel Gray of Thornton, he was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. At the age of 18, he joined the order of monks at the Benedictine college of Ampleforth, but after two months it became clear that this was not the vocation for him and he returned to Liverpool to pursue medicine, qualifying in 1937.

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