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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Richard Smith

#174691

Overall Influence

Richard Smith CBE FMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman. He is the director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative at Emory University , which together with the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has created 11 centres in low and middle income countries that work on non-communicable disease.

#13202

Errett Weir McDiarmid

Errett Weir McDiarmid

#126585

Overall Influence

1909 - 2000 (91 years)

Errett Weir McDiarmid was an American librarian and academic who was president of the American Library Association from 1948 to 1949. McDiarmid was born in West Virginia and received his bachelor's degree in 1929 from Texas Christian University and his master's degree in 1930, also from Texas Christian. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Library Science in 1931 from Emory University and his doctorate from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1934.

#13203

Kevin Fickenscher

#49948

Overall Influence

Kevin Fickenscher, M.D., CPE, FACPE, FAAFP currently serves as the president/CEO of CREO Strategic Solutions, LLC – a consulting, advisory and management services company involved in all aspects of the telecare field – from care delivery to both undergraduate and continuing education related to virtual care delivery. He is also extensively involved in leadership development for organizations of all sizes. CREO is an organization which provides a network of senior-level people resources with extensive backgrounds in all aspects of healthcare. He has also previously served as the director for he...

#13204

Robert Kotler

#82498

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Robert Kotler, M.D. FACS, born in 1942, is an American ear, nose, and throat surgeon. He has performed more than 10,000 major cosmetic procedures, with over 40 years in private practice, and was a featured surgeon in the first season of the E! cosmetic surgery series Dr. 90210.

#13205

Paul Rapoport

#177596

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Paul Rapoport is a Canadian musicologist, music critic, composer and professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Biography Rapoport was born in 1948 in Toronto, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at the University of Michigan in 1970 and his master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972 with a thesis on Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain a doctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four Symphonic Metamorphoses.

#13206

Barbara Balmer

#84241

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Barbara Balmer RSA was a Scottish artist and teacher. Biography Balmer was born in Birmingham and, between 1946 and 1951, studied art at Coventry School of Art and then at the Edinburgh College of Art. A travelling scholarship enabled Balmer to further her studies in France and Spain during 1951 and 1952. She also visited Italy with a group led by Douglas Percy Bliss. From 1970 to 1980, Balmer was a visiting lecturer at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Seven of her paintings were adapted as dust jackets for editions in the Virago Modern Classics series. A large mural by Balmer is situated in...

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Alan Jones

#159628

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Alan Jones is a film critic, broadcaster, and reporter primarily focused on movies in production, especially in the horror fantasy genre. His first assignment was on Star Wars in 1977, after which he became the London correspondent for Cinefantastique magazine from 1977 to 2002 and reviewed for the British magazine Starburst from 1980 until 2008. A film critic for Film Review and Radio Times, he has made contributions to the Radio Times Guide to Films, the Radio Times Guide to Science Fiction, and Halliwell's Film Guide. He has also been a film critic for BBC News 24, Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and Sky News programme Sunrise.

#13208

Herbert Scheinberg

#102193

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Israel Herbert Scheinberg was an American physician who specialized in Wilson's disease and other rare hereditary diseases. Scheinberg was born in Manhattan and attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York City; he won a place at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1940. He then attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1943. He undertook his medical internship at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, followed by time in the Army Medical Corps.

#13209

Cyril Chantler

#56257

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Sir Cyril Chantler is a British paediatric nephrologist. Chantler was notable for devising a method with Norman Veale of measuring glomerular function in children and later researched diet and growth failure in children with renal impairment. Chantler was most notable for holding an independent review of public health evidence for standardised tobacco packaging that later became known as the Chantler Review that led to standardised packaging for tobacco and cigarette packets.

#13210

Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy

#99962

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Douglas Kennedy is an American novelist. He is known for international bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, Leaving the World and The Moment. Biography Douglas Kennedy was born in New York City in 1955, the son of a commodities broker and a production assistant at NBC. He was educated at The Collegiate School and graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1976. He also spent a year studying at Trinity College Dublin. "I was a history major," Kennedy explained. "Retrospectively, I think the history major provides much better training for a novelist. So much of what I do in my own fiction is observational; is looking at behavior.

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Keith Lyons

#118494

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Keith Lyons was an educator and sport scientist who specialized in the observation and analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport. Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992 with the help of John Pugh, Peter Treadwell, David Cobner and Sean Power. He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009.

#13212

Krystyna Marek

#81888

Overall Influence

1914 - 1993 (79 years)

Krystyna Marek was a Swiss-Polish professor of international law. Edward Raczynski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government in exile, called her "one of the first Polish female diplomats."

#13213

Sediq Afghan

#27114

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sediq Afghan is an Afghan mathematician. He is the founder and head of the World Philosophical Math Research Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is also a political activist. He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul about Afghanistan- and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

#13214

Jean Clam

#146473

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jean Clam is a philosopher, sociologist and psychologist. He is Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique , Paris, presently affiliated to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His numerous researches deal mainly with sociology and psychology of intimacy, legal theory and general theory of the human and social sciences.

#13215

Roderick D. Bush

#141281

Overall Influence

1945 - 2013 (68 years)

Roderick Douglas Bush was an U.S. born sociologist, social activist, author, public intellectual author and academic primarily concerning the Civil rights movement . Biography Born on November 12, 1945, Bush grew up in the "Jim Crow" South before moving to Rochester, New York, as a child. As a teen, he attended Howard University and became involved in the Black Power Movement. He attended the University of Kansas, where he began his doctoral work. He left to become a full-time political activist only to return to academia in 1998. He earned his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 1992. He served as a faculty member at St.

#13216

Randor Guy

#107903

Overall Influence

1937 - 2023 (86 years)

Madabhushi Rangadorai , better known by his pen name Randor Guy , was an Indian lawyer, columnist and film and legal historian associated with the English language newspaper The Hindu. He was also the official editor of the weekly column "Blast from the Past" that appeared in The Hindufor many years; in this series Randor Guy wrote about not so well known details about the Tamil movies and the personalities , produced since mid 1930s to late 1960s.

#13217

Aida Huseynova

#105229

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Aida Huseynova was a musicologist, pianist, and ethnomusicologist from Azerbaijan. She spent the last decade and a half of her career teaching in the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University--Bloomington and serving as an arts consultant for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, the Mike Morris Dance group, and other ensembles and initiatives.

#13218

Elliot Schrage

#173805

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Elliot J. Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive. Until June 2018, he was vice president of global communications, marketing, and public policy at Facebook, where he directed the company's government affairs and public relations efforts. He then served as vice president of special projects at Facebook.

#13219

Joachim Bauer

#8530

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Joachim Bauer is a German medical doctor with education in internal medicine, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. He teaches as a professor at the University of Freiburg. Bauer is the author of several scientific non-fiction books.

#13220

Boyo Ockinga

#92584

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Boyo Ockinga is an Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

#13221

Anatoly Pokrovsky

Anatoly Pokrovsky

#85573

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky was a Russian vascular surgeon. Positions Chief of Vascular Surgery Department at Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery of Russian Academy of Medical SciencesHead of the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of Russian Medical Academy for Post-Graduate EducationChief editor of "Angiology and vascular surgery" monthly journal President of Russian Association of Angiologists and Vascular SurgeonsPresident of European Society for Vascular Surgery Honorary member of American Association for Vascular Surgery

#13222

Kentaro Iwata

#46579

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kentaro Iwata is a Japanese physician, professor and infectious diseases expert at Kobe University. Career After his graduation from the Shimane Medical University in 1997, Iwata became a medical intern worked at . In the next year, he became a medical intern worked at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital of Columbia University.

#13223

William Petrek

#191700

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

William Joseph Petrek was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He was the President of The American International University in London, England. He was also a former provost of Hofstra University.

#13224

Dieter Koch-Weser

#99244

Overall Influence

1916 - 2015 (99 years)

Dieter Koch-Weser was a German-American physician and social medicine and HIV/AIDS researcher based in the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He was a long-time advocate of Dr. Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of Reverence for Life and a supporter of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. He was medically noted for his HIV/AIDS research in Peru and authorization of a book on the heterosexual transmission of AIDS. In public health and healthcare, he had long advocated "a shift from treating illness to preventing it."

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Peter Byrne

#150609

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Peter James Byrne was an English actor and director. He was born in West Ham, Essex; his father was a musician. He was educated at grammar school and trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Stage School. He made his name by playing George Dixon's son-in-law Andy Crawford in the long-running BBC Television serial Dixon of Dock Green for twenty years from 1955. He was Director of Productions for the Bournemouth Theatre Company .

#13226

James Mahoney

#181947

Overall Influence

1957 - 2020 (63 years)

James A. "Charlie" Mahoney was an American pulmonologist and internist. He was head of the intensive care unit and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Early life and education James A. Mahoney was born in either 1957 or 1958 to Leila and Oscar Mahoney. His father was a member of the United States Air Force. Mahoney was raised in military housing in Bermuda and the South Shore in Nassau County, New York. He had 4 siblings. As a child, a family friend nicknamed him Charlie. He began working with his older brother at the age of 8. They worked at a laundromat, German delicatessen, and a lunch counter.

#13227

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt

#124098

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Karl-Heinz Reinfandt was a German musicologist and music educator. Life Born in Danzig, Reinfandt studied music and the German language from 1953 to 1955 at the University of Flensburg. He then worked at various primary and secondary schools as well as secondary modern schools in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1958 he began studying again, this time school and church music at the Hamburg Academy of Music and the subjects musicology, literature and educational science at the universities in Hamburg and Kiel, which he completed in 1966 with a doctorate . From 1963 to 1968, he again served as a student ...

#13228

Donald Landes

#191705

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

#13229

Caroline Maun

#181077

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Caroline C. Maun is a professor, author, poet, lyricist, and musician. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Other areas of research include modernism, American Literature, African-American literature, and Internet Writing.

#13230

Gillian Jagger

#183281

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gillian Jagger was a British multimedia sculptor and installation artist, based in the Hudson Valley of the United States. She is known for her plaster castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City in the 1960s, during which time she was "erroneously being identified as a Pop artist". In her work Jagger "[appropriates] materials from nature", and incorporates tracings, rubbingss, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.

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Starr Hoffman

#191716

Overall Influence

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Catherine Nakalembe

#128341

Overall Influence

Catherine Nakalembe is an Ugandan remote sensing scientist and an associate research professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Geographical Sciences and the NASA Harvest Africa program Director. Her research includes drought, agriculture and food security.

#13233

Flavia Senkubuge

#68599

Overall Influence

Flavia Senkubuge is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. At age 39, she was the college's youngest ever president and the first Black woman to hold the position.

#13234

Pierre Citron

#56799

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Pierre Citron was a French musicologist and university professor, a specialist of novelist Jean Giono. He was the husband of historian Suzanne Citron. Biography Pierre Citron held the degrees of agrégé ès lettres and docteur ès lettres ; his main thesis was entitled La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire. Attaché de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique from 1957 to 1960, he later was study director at the Institut français de Londres , then professor of French literature at the Faculté des lettres at the University of Clermont-Ferrand .

#13235

Elfreda Chatman

#96640

Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

Elfreda Annmary Chatman was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups .

#13236

John Lambert

#180909

Overall Influence

1926 - 1995 (69 years)

John Lambert was a British music composer and teacher. Biography John Arthur Neil Lambert was born at Maidenhead. After obtaining a post at the Royal College of Music, he lived at Brighton for the rest of his life, where he shared a house with organist Timothy Bond. He died in Brighton from liver cancer.

#13237

Joan Catoni Conlon

#164259

Overall Influence

Joan Catoni Conlon is Professor and Director of Graduate Choral Research Emerita for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she conducted the University Singers. She received her BA, MA and DMA degrees from the University of Washington where she was Professor of Choral Music and Conducting . From 1971 to 1995 she was the conductor of the Northwest Chamber Chorus in Seattle, Washington, and was the chair of the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association. Her scholarship specializes in the choral music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Claudio Monteverdi. She published Performing Monteverdi: A Conductor’s Guide .

#13238

Chris Bourg

#129618

Overall Influence

Chris Bourg is an American librarian, sociologist and former officer of the United States Army. She has been the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries since 2015. Career and education Bourg graduated with a B.A. from Duke University and a M.A. from the University of Maryland. She went on to study sociology at Stanford University where she completed an M.A. and PhD. Her doctoral thesis titled Gender mistakes and inequality was supervised by Cecilia L. Ridgeway.

#13239

Zafer Kızılkaya

#170894

Overall Influence

Zafer Ali Kızılkaya is a Turkish marine advocate and engineer who is credited for expanding marine protected areas along Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Kızılkaya was born in Ankara in 1969. Growing up, he watched Jacques Cousteau documentaries which inspired his admiration for the sea. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Middle East Technical University. After graduating from college, Kızılkaya took interest in commercial deep sea diving and underwater photography. He took his interests to the Pacific Ocean and spent many years exploring its waters while being a marine photographer and researcher in Indonesia.

#13240

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz

#88781

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz is an Israeli occupational therapist. She is the director of the Israel Institute on Cognitive Accessibility and dean of students at Ono Academic College. She has made significant contributions to the field of accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, having coined the terms "cognitive ramps" and "simultaneous simplification".

#13241

Anne-Marie Jackson

#190775

Overall Influence

Anne-Marie Jackson is a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago specialising in Māori physical education and health. Early life Jackson grew up in rural Southland, with a Māori and a non-Māori parent. Both her parents worked in shearing gangs. She affiliates with the Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa and Ngāti Wai tribes.

#13242

Ochy Curiel

#188714

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Rosa Inés Curiel Pichardo , better known as Ochy Curiel, is an Afro-Dominican feminist academic, singer and social anthropologist. She is known for helping to establish the Afro-Caribbean women's movement and maintaining that lesbianism is neither an identity, orientation nor sexual preference, but rather a political position. She is one of the most prominent feminist scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean.

#13243

Danny Sullivan

#168322

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Danny Sullivan is an American technologist, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Search Engine Watch in 1997, one of the earliest online publications about search engine marketing. He also launched Search Engine Strategies, one of the earliest search marketing trade shows. After selling both companies in 2006, he co-founded Search Engine Land, another search marketing publication. In 2017, he joined Google as an adviser at the search division of the company.

#13244

Andrew Davenport

#112678

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Andrew Davenport is an English writer, puppeteer, producer, composer, and actor, specialising in creating television, music, and books for young children. He is known as co-creator and writer of Teletubbies and writer, voice artist and puppeteer of "Tiny" on Tots TV. He is also the creator, writer, and composer of both In the Night Garden... and Moon and Me.

#13245

Pilar Pedraza

#102381

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Pilar Pedraza Martínez is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Biography After earning her doctorate in History at the University of Valencia, Pilar Pedraza has been teaching Film and avant-garde cinema there since 1982. She was Councilor of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana from 1993 to 1995, during the last term of Joan Lerma, and member of the Board of Directors of RTVV. Throughout her career, she has combined teaching and research with literary creation.

#13246

Barbara J. Bain

#91576

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Barbara Jane Bain is an Australian haematologist and oncologist. She is a professor at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and a consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London. She is known as the author of reference textbooks in the field of haematology that form the core curriculum for laboratory morphology and pathology.

#13247

Carlos Pardo-Villamizar

#123466

Overall Influence

Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar, also known simply as Carlos Pardo, is a professor of neurology and pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center. His area of expertise is immunopathology and the neuroimmune system. He is currently leading a project that investigates the role of neuroglial dysfunction in HIV infection and drug abuse, and has also published research concluding that the brains of autistic individuals exhibit neuroglial activation, loss of neurons in the Purkinje layer and neuroinflammation "in the sam...

#13248

Chris Evans

#181915

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Christopher James Evans is an English television presenter, radio DJ and producer for radio and television. He started his broadcasting career working for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester, as a teenager, before moving to London as a presenter for the BBC's BBC Radio London and then Channel 4 television, where The Big Breakfast made him a star. Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio and TV stations. Slots like Radio 1 Breakfast and TFI Friday provided a mix of celebrity interviews, music and comic games, delivered in an irreverent style that attracted high ratings, though often also generated significant numbers of complaints.

#13249

Norman Horrocks

#101865

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Norman Horrocks OC was Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University. Biography Horrocks began his library career in Manchester, England, from 1945-53 interrupted by three years in the British Army's Intelligence Corps between 1945 and 1948. He was elected a Fellow of the Library Association, and worked in Cyprus, Western Australia, Perth , and then studied for his MLS and doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh before joining Dalhousie in 1971. He became Director of the School of Library and Information Studies and later was also Dean of the Faculty of Management.

#13250

Moshe Rosman

#65318

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Moshe Rosman is an Israeli historian specializing in the history of Polish Jews. He is a professor emeritus at the Department of Jewish History in Bar-Ilan University. Awards 1996: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

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