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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12601

Apoorvanand

#59605

Overall Influence

Apoorvanand is professor at the Hindi Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi. He is also a regular columnist and political commentator. He is known for his frequent interventions in day-to-day politics. He claimed in his video that Delhi riots should be seen by lens of communal with all responsibility on Hindus criticizing Delhi CM over calling names of Hindu victims.

#12602

Ray Siemens

#174932

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ray Siemens is a professor in the faculty of humanities at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and former Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing. Siemens is a recipient of the Antonio Zampolli Prize, presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations for outstanding contributions to the field of Digital Humanities.

#12603

Lenny Moss

#107595

Overall Influence

Lenny Moss is a philosopher and a former biomedical scientist. He is presently an “Investigadore Visitantes” at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma De Mexico , Mexico City. He was previously a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

#12604

Tarun Weeramanthri

#134775

Overall Influence

Tarun Weeramanthri is an Australian public health doctor who is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia . He was the Chief Health Officer of the Northern Territory from 2004 to 2007, and Western Australia from 2008 to 2018.

#12605

John Milton Ward IV

#127234

Overall Influence

1917 - 2011 (94 years)

John Milton Ward IV was a musicologist and scholar of Renaissance music, world music and folk music. He was the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University from 1961 to 1985. Biography Ward's memories of growing up in Oakland included his father John Milton Ward II, a physician, treating survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Ward attended San Francisco Junior College, and then San Francisco State College. He received a Master of Music from the University of Washington in 1942, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1953 from New York University with a dissertation entitled The 'Vihuela de mano' and its Music .

#12606

John Phillips

#143282

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

William John Phillips MC was an English actor. He is known for the role of Chief Superintendent Robins in the television series Z-Cars and for his work as a Shakespearean stage actor. Early life Phillips was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1914, was educated at Oswestry and began his acting career at Birmingham Rep in the 1930s. During the Second World War, Phillips served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross.

#12607

Talja Blokland

#97778

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Talja V. Blokland is a Dutch and German social scientist and urban researcher. She studied sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a PhD student in social sciences at the Amsterdam School for Social Research from 1994 to 1997, and at the New School University in 1996. After her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at Yale University and Manchester University. She was appointed as part-time Gradus Hendriks Professor in Community Development at Erasmus University and became a senior researcher and program director at the OTB Institute for Urban, Housing and Mobility Studies at the Delft University of Technology.

#12608

Leonard Shlain

#55679

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Leonard Shlain was an American surgeon, writer, and inventor. He was chairperson of laparoscopic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and was an associate professor of surgery at University of California, San Francisco.

#12609

Dana L. Suskind

#68683

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dana L. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center ; director of UChicago Medicine's Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant program; and founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago.

#12610

Kate Lorig

#27511

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., is an American professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. She is known for her work on chronic disease and patient education, has published several books and peer-reviewed journal articles in those fields, and developed a peer-led self-management course for patients with chronic diseases. Lorig is herself a chronic disease patient, having been diagnosed with Gaucher's disease at the age of three.

#12611

Christopher H. van Dyck

#133737

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Christopher H. van Dyck , is the Founder and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit at Yale University School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neuroscience. His research uses brain imaging to learn about the progression of pathology in Alzheimer's disease, and to test potential new treatments for this disease.

#12612

Knut-Olaf Haustein

#173760

Overall Influence

1934 - 2006 (72 years)

Knut-Olaf Haustein was a German physician best known for his work studying the effects of tobacco smoking.

#12613

Alison Leary

#118396

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Alison Leary is a Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University. and a Senior Consultant, World Health Organization Human Resources for Health Group. She works on the modelling of private and public healthcare systems. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute.

#12614

Miriam Braverman

#143426

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Miriam Ruth Gutman Braverman was an American librarian. She attended library school at Pratt Institute. She was part of the socialist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she set up libraries in Freedom Schools in Mississippi, and she worked at the Brooklyn Public Library beginning in 1964. She was also one of the founders of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table, which was founded in 1969. She wrote a history of young adult services at three public libraries, titled Youth, Society and the Public Library . She was a leader in the fight which led to the American Library Association condemning the Vietnam War.

#12615

Concepción Quiñones de Longo

#95123

Overall Influence

Concepción Quiñones de Longo is a Puerto Rican pediatrician and government official. She was the interim Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico in March 2020 and had previously served as the undersecretary of Rafael Rodríguez Mercado. Quiñones de Longo is a former faculty member of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.

#12616

David Nicholl

#36955

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

David Nicholl is a neurologist, human rights activist, fundraiser for Amnesty International, and online columnist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. In March 2006 he initiated a letter in the medical journal The Lancet, signed by more than 250 medical experts, urging the United States to stop force-feeding at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and close down the prison camp. He is also a principal author of a reference work on neurological conditions

#12617

Paolo Flores d'Arcais

#75856

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Paolo Flores d'Arcais is an Italian philosopher and journalist, editor of the magazine MicroMega. He contributes to Il Fatto Quotidiano, El País, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Gazeta Wyborcza.

#12618

Roberto De Simone

Roberto De Simone

#123900

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Roberto De Simone is an Italian stage director, playwright, composer and ethnomusicologist. Life and career Born in Naples, after graduating in piano and composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory De Simone started an intense concert activity, performing as an harpsichordist in the Domenico Scarlatti Orchestra. At the same time he started being active as an ethnomusical researcher and essayist, mainly focused on the southern Italy folk music of oral tradition, with also some interest in tarantism and funeral laments. In the second half of the 1960s he met some musicians who shared w...

#12619

Daniel E. Freeman

#66244

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Daniel Evan Freeman is an American musicologist who specializes in European art music of the eighteenth century, in particular the musical culture of eighteenth-century Prague and the Bohemian lands. He is also active as a pianist and music editor.

#12620

Torgny T:son Segerstedt

Torgny T:son Segerstedt

#64996

Overall Influence

1908 - 1999 (91 years)

Torgny T. Segerstedt was a Swedish philosopher and sociologist. Biography Torgny T. Segerstedt was born at Mellerud, in Holm parish, Älvsborg County, Sweden. He was the son of Torgny Segerstedt , scholar of comparative religion who taught at Lund University and publicist remembered especially for his uncompromising anti-Nazi stance. He grew up in Stockholm and from 1917, when his father became editor of Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, in Gothenburg.

#12621

Zbigniew Szafrański

#61443

Overall Influence

Zbigniew E. Szafrański is a Polish Egyptologist. Life Zbigniew Szafrański is the director of the Polish archeological mission to Egypt that has been working at Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple since 1961. He is known as the founder of the Polish school of Mediterranean Archaeology. He is a faculty member at the University of Warsaw, Department of History, and is deputy chief of the Mediterranean Archaeology Center. He has published numerous papers and writes on Egyptian history for popular magazines.

#12622

Christine Montross

#104414

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Christine Elaine Montross is an American medical doctor and writer. First a published poet and a high school teacher, she later took up medical studies, and became an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Alpert Medical School. She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.

#12623

Nadine Caron

#75801

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Nadine Rena Caron FACS, FRCSC, , is a Canadian surgeon. She is the first Canadian female general surgeon of First Nations descent , as well as the first female First Nations student to graduate from University of British Columbia's medical school.

#12624

Raymond Heimbecker

#141058

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Raymond O. Heimbecker, was a Canadian cardiovascular surgeon who performed the world’s first complete heart valve transplant in 1962, and Canada’s first modern heart transplant in 1981 with anti-rejection drugs to prolong the patient's survival.

#12625

Evan Adams

#85717

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Evan Tlesla Adams is an Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film Smoke Signals and Seymour Polatkin in the 2002 film The Business of Fancydancing.

#12626

Mary Chiarella

#81125

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Elizabeth Mary Chiarella AM is an Australian academic who specialises in issues relating to nursing, midwifery and the law. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, Australia and has been at the forefront of many regulatory changes to nursing practice and the nursing workforce and midwifery. These include the introduction of nurse practitioners into Australia, the move from a state based to a national regulatory system and, for midwifery, the introduction of the world's first Doctor of Midwifery and the establishment of the framework for state funded home birth midwifery in New South Wales , Australia.

#12627

Arnold Johnson

#116933

Overall Influence

1916 - 2006 (90 years)

Arnold Johnson, M.D., C.M., FRCPC, was a Canadian cardiologist and founder of the Department of Cardiology at McMaster University. He is most well known for performing the first heart catheterization procedure for congenital heart disease in Canada in 1946.

#12628

Ruth Sanger

#61052

Overall Influence

1918 - 2001 (83 years)

Ruth Ann Sanger was an Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist. She was known for her work on human red cell antigens and for the genetic mapping of the human X chromosome. She was Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine from 1973 to 1983.

#12629

André Schuiteman

#186141

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

André Schuiteman is a Dutch botanist in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, United Kingdom, where he is the Research Leader for Asia in Plant Identification and Naming. Schuitemania, a genus of orchid, was named in his honour.

#12630

Vicki Sauter

#59258

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Vicki Lynn Sauter is an American management scientist and systems engineer known for her books on decision support systems. She is a professor in the Information Systems and Technology Department at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

#12631

Marleen Temmerman

#114932

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynaecologist, professor and former Senator, currently heading the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. Biography Temmerman has worked in various locations around the world for the health and rights of women and children. Most of her work is in the academic and political international arena, particularly in collaboration with United Nations organizations, such as WHO and UNFPA, as well as the European Union, the African Union, national governments in Europe and Africa, as well as with media and civil society.

#12632

Daniel M. Neuman

#106175

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Daniel M. Neuman is the Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music and Interim Director of the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles and also a published author of 10 books, being held in 1,163 libraries, the highest book is in 728 libraries worldwide. He has also been active in multimedia development, having received several grants for developing the World Music Navigator, a computerized ethnographic atlas from the early 1990s.

#12633

Peter W. Marx

#136622

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Peter W. Marx is a German Theatre and Performance studies Scholar. He holds the Chair of Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Cologne where he functions also the director of its Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung.

#12634

Hilary D. Marston

#99233

Overall Influence

Hilary D. Marston is an American physician-scientist and global health policy advisor specializing in pandemic preparedness. She is the Chief Medical Officer of the Food and Drug Administration. Career Marston worked for McKinsey & Company and at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a program officer and special assistant. She then studied internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 2013, Marston joined National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . She has experience in outbreak response, including Zika virus and Ebola. Marston served as a medical officer and policy advisor for global health and pandemic preparedness at NIAID.

#12635

Adrienne Williams Scott

#166348

Overall Influence

Adrienne Williams Scott is an American ophthalmologist specialized in diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membranes, and macular degeneration. She is chief of the Wilmer Eye Institute in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. She is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#12636

Michelle van Ryn

#183279

Overall Influence

Michelle van Ryn is an American health researcher who is the Grace Phelps Distinguished Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her research considers the social determinants of health and equity in healthcare. She demonstrated that physicians' perceptions of patients was impacted by their socio-demographic status. She is the founder of Diversity Sciences, a consultancy company who provide evidence-based training for organizations looking to eliminate bias.

#12637

Qian Jiaqi

#72684

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Qian Jiaqi , also romanized as Jia-Qi Qian, was a Chinese nephrologist and professor at Renji Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He was the first clinical physician to perform hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis in China, and established a Kt/V value of at least 1.7 as the target for peritoneal dialysis.

#12638

Robert O. Work

#77010

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Orton Work is an American national security professional who served as the 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense for both the Obama and Trump administrations from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, Work was the United States Under Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2013, and before that served as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps; Work retired in 2001 and worked as a civilian at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the George Washington University in various positions relating to military and strategic study. From 2013 to 2014, he was the CEO of the Center for a New American Security .

#12639

Lars Georg Svensson

#52323

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lars Georg Svensson is a cardiac surgeon and the chairman of the heart and vascular institute at Cleveland Clinic. He is the Director of the Aorta Center, Director of the Marfan Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic, and is a professor of surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. He is also the Director of Quality Outcomes and Process Improvement for the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Affiliate Cardiac Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic.

#12640

Ian Gainsford

#80673

Overall Influence

1930 - 1997 (67 years)

Sir Ian Derek Gainsford is a British retired dentist and academic. He was dean of King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College London and vice-principal of King's College London . He is president of the Maccabaeans, a Zionist society.

#12641

James E. K. Hildreth

#77223

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

James Earl King Hildreth is an American immunologist and academic administrator. Hildreth is the 12th president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College. He is known for his work on HIV/AIDS and was the first African American to hold a full tenured professorship in basic research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Edward D. Miller calls Hildreth "one of the most influential HIV researchers in the world".

#12642

J. Glenn Morris

#149628

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

John Glenn Morris, Jr. is an American physician and epidemiologist. He is the founding and current director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute, an interdisciplinary research facility located within the University of Florida, having served since 2007.

#12643

Dominick Angiolillo

#101964

Overall Influence

Dominick J. Angiolillo is an Italian cardiologist. Angiolillo attended Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Medical School, where he met Attilio Maseri. Angiolillo specialized in cardiology at the Complutense University of Madrid, and completed further training with Carlos Macaya. Angiolillo joined the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville in 2004. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.

#12644

Akio Suzuki

#35152

Overall Influence

1929 - 2010 (81 years)

Akio Suzuki was a Japanese doctor, medical scientist, educator and president of Tokyo Medical and Dental University . He was best known as an expert on heart surgery. Early life Suzuki earned his medical degree from TMDU in 1956. His training continued as a surgical intern in Tokyo at the U.S. Army Hospital. He was a surgical resident at Albany Medical School in New York.

#12645

Pamela Rendi-Wagner

#130609

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Pamela Rendi-Wagner is an Austrian physician, environmentalist, feminist, trade unionist and politician who served as chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party between November 2018 and June 2023. She was the first woman to lead the SPÖ.

#12646

Francis H. Parker

#189581

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Francis Haywood Parker was an American philosopher and Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. Life He was born in Kuala Lumpur to Reverend Walter G. and Alma Shell Parker. He received his BA from the University of Evansville, his MA from Indiana University and his PhD from Harvard University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.

#12647

Leopold Nowak

#110407

Overall Influence

1904 - 1991 (87 years)

Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some of those works, most of which had been revised and edited many times.

#12648

Friedrich Ruttner

#31364

Overall Influence

1914 - 1998 (84 years)

Friedrich Ruttner was an Austrian SA-member, NSDAP member, SS-physician, neurologist, zoologist and bee expert. He became internationally known for his advances in honey bee breeding, instrumental insemination, classification of various subspecies and as a co-founder of Apidologie.

#12649

Heather Currie

#182042

Overall Influence

Heather Currie MBE is an associate specialist gynaecologist. Her work relates specifically to menopause and she is the founder of Menopause Matters, a web resource providing to the public up-to-date, accurate information about the health at the menopause, menopause at work menopausal symptoms and treatment options.

#12650

Siegfried Schmalzriedt

#167505

Overall Influence

1941 - 2008 (67 years)

Siegfried Schmalzriedt was a German musicologist, University lecturer and vice-rector of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Schmalzriedt studied musicology, Roman philology and comparative literature at the Universities of Tübingen, Paris and Bologna. He received his doctorate in 1969 in Tübingen with Walter Gerstenberg on the topic Heinrich Schütz und andere zeitgenössische Musiker in der Lehre Giovanni Gabrielis. From 1970 to 1976 he was assistant to Georg von Dadelsen at the musicology seminar. Until 1983 he was employed in Freiburg im Breisgau as a rese...

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