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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13251

Hilary Corke

#148817

Overall Influence

1921 - 2001 (80 years)

Hilary Topham Corke was an English writer, composer and mineralogist. Corke was born in Malvern, Worcestershire. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. His poems appeared in Poetry Now and Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse . Together with Anthony Thwaite and William Plomer he edited New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He died at Abinger Hammer, Surrey, aged 80.

#13252

Karen Lam

#139130

Overall Influence

Karen Lam is a Canadian director, writer and producer. She is known for the horror film Evangeline . Life and career Karen Lam grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. Lam's father, a professor, would show his daughter horror films that she cites as an influence for her work. Lam also lists Gothic literature and Asian horror films as influences.

#13253

Brigitte François-Sappey

Brigitte François-Sappey

#124559

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Brigitte François-Sappey is a French musicologist, educator, radio producer, and lecturer. Biography Brigitte François-Sappey studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where she won first prizes of music history, musical analysis, musical esthetics, musicology, and at the École normale de musique de Paris where she graduated for piano teaching.

#13254

Victor Warren Fazio

#68640

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Victor Warren Fazio AO, , an Australian, was a colorectal surgeon, a leader at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio for over 35 years. He pioneered surgical techniques and improved the quality of life for cancer patients around the world. He wrote or co-authored 13 books, contributed scientific papers to standard texts, lectured and taught younger surgeons in the United States and Australia.

#13255

Mihail Neamțu

#191259

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Mihail Neamțu , born 1978, is a Romanian conservative politician. He received a PhD in theology from King's College London and has written several books on politics, religion, and culture. Life and career

#13256

Knut Bjøro

#178679

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Knut Jahr Bjøro was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Skedsmo. He took the Dr. Med. degree in 1966. He worked at Rikshospitalet, and was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo. He was a professor from 1971 to his retirement, and his specialties were obstetrics and gynaecology. He died in March 2010.

#13257

Thaddeus Weclew

#97774

Overall Influence

Dentist Dr. Thaddeus V. Weclew was one of the creators of the Academy of General Dentistry in 1952. He also was the founder and first chancellor of the Academy of Continuing Dental Education. Dr. Weclew served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and its dental radiology department for 32 years.

#13258

Amanda Howe

#66147

Overall Influence

Amanda Caroline Howe is a British medical doctor who works as a general practitioner and is a Professor of Primary Care. She is a former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a former President of the World Organization of Family Doctors .

#13259

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

#148573

Overall Influence

Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah-Onukagha is an American researcher who is the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research considers women's health disparities in Black women. Amutah-Onukagha is the inaugural Tufts University Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Public Health. She was named the American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Section's Young Professional of the Year in 2019.

#13260

Lawrence Gushee

#152731

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Lawrence Arthur "Larry" Gushee was an American musicologist, who specialized in medieval music and early jazz. He was born in Ridley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College, Yale University, University of Dijon, and the Manhattan School of Music. He earned his doctorate at Yale in 1959, with the dissertation "The Musica Disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme: a critical edition and commentary." He taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Yale, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Professor Emeritus.

#13261

Robert Mauzi

#72432

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Robert Mauzi was a French academic and author who studied and taught literature and thought, particularly that of 18th century France. He was born in Toulouse, attended then later taught at the Faculty of Arts in Lyon. Mauzi was named a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1969, and continued to serve there actively or as professor emeritus until his death.

#13262

Kay Slocum

#183620

Overall Influence

Kay Brainerd Slocum is an American musician and historian who has published books in music and medieval history. Slocum is currently the Gerhold Professor of History and Humanities at Capital University, Ohio, prior to which she taught music history and viola at Kent State University. A violist, Slocum has performed with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic, and the Youngstown Symphony. She currently plays with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

#13263

Frances Lander Spain

#105254

Overall Influence

1903 - 1999 (96 years)

Frances Lander Spain was a children's librarian and an instructor of school library services. In 1960, she became the first children's librarian to ever hold the position of president of the American Library Association . Spain was named one of the library's "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."

#13264

Roberto Castillo

#185840

Overall Influence

1950 - 2008 (58 years)

Roberto Castillo was a Honduran philosopher and writer. A 2002 novel by Roberto Castillo, La guerra mortal de los sentidos, chronicles the adventures of the "Searcher for the Lenca Language."

#13265

Ian Hassall

#121910

Overall Influence

1941 - 2021 (80 years)

Sir Ian Bruce Hassall was a New Zealand paediatrician and children's advocate. He was New Zealand's first Commissioner for Children from 1989 to 1994. His career entailed working for children and their families as clinician, strategist, researcher and advocate. He was awarded the Aldo Farina Award by UNICEF in 2010 for his dedication to improving child welfare.

#13266

Oleg Timofeyev

#170533

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev , is an American musicologist, specializing in lute and Russian guitar. He is best known for his pioneering work in the discovery, promotion, interpretation, and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Russian seven-string guitar.

#13267

June Blum

#145500

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

June Druiett Blum was a multimedia American artist who produced paintings, sculptures, prints, light shows, happenings, jewelry, art books, pottery, conceptual documentations, and drawings. She was also a feminist curator and activist who worked to advance the women's movement and increase visibility for women artists.

#13268

Wong Siew Te

#81096

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Wong Siew Te is a Malaysian wildlife biologist known for his studies on the Malayan sun bear and the foundation of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sandakan, Sabah. Biography Wong Siew Te was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang on 16 May 1969 as the youngest son of the tailor Wong Soon Kew, who operated the business "Soon Kew Tailor" in Bukit Mertajam from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. He grew up with eight other siblings – four elder brothers and four elder sisters. From 1976 to 1982 he joined Kim Sen Primary School in Bukit Mertajam and from 1982 to 1987 the Jit Sin High School, also in...

#13269

Neil B. Shulman

Neil B. Shulman

#54460

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Neil Barnett Shulman is an American doctor and medical writer, who is Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Emory University. He has conducted and published clinical research on hypertension and is the co-founder of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks. He is the author of many books promoting medical literacy for both adults and children, as well as humor and children's books. He is the associate producer of the 1991 film Doc Hollywood, based on one of his books.

#13270

Jerrold Northrop Moore

#80487

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Jerrold Northrop Moore is an American-born British musicologist, best known for a biography and other writings on the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar. He is also an authority on the history of the gramophone.

#13271

Andrew J. Carr

#123176

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Andrew Jonathan Carr is a British surgeon and has been the sixth Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics and head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford since 2001.

#13272

Heinrich W. Schwab

#173172

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab is a German musicologist. Career Born in Ludwigshafen Schwab received his doctorate from the University of Saarbrücken in 1964 with a thesis on the influences of 18th century music on that of the 19th century. From 1966 he took part in a research project at the University of Kiel that focused on Scandinavian and Baltic music history. Since 1998 he was professor for musicology at the University of Copenhagen. He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 1998, and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 1999 and since 2005 a member of the Academia Europaea.

#13273

Beatriz Jaguaribe

#115731

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor of comparative communications in the School of Communications at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jaguaribe has written on race and visual culture in contemporary Brazil. Among her publications are Fins de Século: Cidade e Cultura no Rio de Janeiro , published by Rocco, and Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro , published by Sextante Artes. Jaguaribe works on the relationship between artistic production and lived experiences in the production of cultural maps of urban Brazil.

#13274

Karen Finch

#164790

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Karen Solveig Sinding Møller Finch was a Danish-born British master weaver, conservator and educator who was the founder of the Textile Conservation Centre. Life Karen Finch was born in May 1921 on a farm in Rødding in Denmark to Soren Møller and Ellen Sinding. She left the farm to study art in Copenhagen under Gerda Henning and Kaare Klint. She witnessed the occupation of her country and moved to England after she married Norman Finch in 1946.

#13275

Alex Mowat

#89236

Overall Influence

1935 - 1995 (60 years)

Alexander Parker Mowat was a Scottish paediatric hepatologist. He established the paediatric hepatology unit at King's College Hospital, London, which became a referral centre for children across Britain with liver diseases.

#13276

Francesca Sundsten

#58242

Overall Influence

1960 - 2019 (59 years)

Francesca Sundsten was an American painter. She applied traditional techniques while exploring elements of composition, palette, and minor abstractions of space and paint to create paintings and illustrations which were described by The Seattle Times as "calling to mind the Old Masters" with a "distinctly surrealist sensibility."

#13277

Emanuel Fried

#182477

Overall Influence

1913 - 2011 (98 years)

Emanuel "Manny" Fried was a playwright, actor, and union organizer. Born in New York City to a working-class background, Fried married into a prominent upper-class Buffalo, NY family. At the onset of World War II, Fried worked for Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. There, Fried became involved in the company's union and was fired for subversive activities. From 1944-1946, Fried served in the US Army. After the war, Fried again worked as a labor organizer, and was fired after an FBI investigation into Communist ties.

#13278

Jean E. Lowrie

#186658

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Jean Elizabeth Lowrie was an American librarian, educator, and president of the American Library Association from 1973 to 1974. She received a bachelor's degree from Keuka College in 1940 and a second bachelor's degree in library science from Western Reserve University in 1941. She went on to receive a master's degree in elementary education from Western Michigan University in 1956 and her doctorate from Western Reserve University in 1959.

#13279

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

#112599

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad is a Norwegian physician and sexologist who is also known as one of Norway's most prominent trans people. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad was originally known as just Esben Benestad, but often publishes work in the name which includes their alias Esther Pirelli, the name which is often used by the media. Even though the Justice Department originally refused to issue supplementary identity documents in the name of Benestad's desired name, the local police eventually issued some unofficial documents.

#13280

Fedon Lindberg

#187244

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Fedon Lindberg is a Greek-born Norwegian physician and weight loss guru. Lindberg was born and grew up in Greece, he migrated to Norway in 1986. He was educated as a physician and became a specialist in internal medicine, eventually focusing on weight control. He became a best-selling non-fiction author in the early 2000s, with the nutrition and weightloss books Naturlig slank med kost i balanse and Kokeboken naturlig slank , where he advocates a no carb diet.

#13281

Donald Ross

#24580

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS was a South African-born British thoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of cardiac surgery and led the team that carried out the first heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in 1968. He developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for treatment of aortic valve disease.

#13282

Sally Baddock

#106979

Overall Influence

Sally Anne Baddock is a New Zealand academic in the field of midwifery, and is a professor in the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic. Academic career Baddock completed a PhD titled Bedsharing vs cot-sleeping: an investigation of the physiology and behaviour of infants in the home setting in 2004 at the University of Otago.

#13283

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

#178274

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Padma Shri Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Kaithapram, is a Malayalam lyricist, poet, music director, actor, singer, screenwriter, music therapist and performer of Carnatic music. He debuted with the movie Ennennum Kannettante in 1986. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyricist two times. He was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honor Padma Shri in 2021 by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of art.

#13284

Alan Walker

#80997

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Alan Christopher Walker, CBE, FBA, FRSA, FAcSS is a British academic, social scientist and public health administrator. Since 1985, he has been Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield.

#13285

Margaret Benyon

#82433

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Margaret Benyon, , was a British artist. Trained as a painter, she was one of the first artists to use holography as a medium and had her first solo show of holograms in 1969. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for her service to art and has been called "the mother of British holography".

#13286

Jeanine Meerapfel

Jeanine Meerapfel

#152945

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Jeanine Meerapfel is a German-Argentine film director and screenwriter. She has directed twenty films since 1966. In 1984, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

#13287

Edgar Haber

#70016

Overall Influence

1932 - 1997 (65 years)

Edgar Haber , was a research physician specializing in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology. He was, at times, Chief of Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Higgins Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, President of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and Director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. He published more than 550 research papers in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology, and edited The Practice of Cardiology , at the time the definitive text on the subje...

#13288

Libby Heaney

#171599

Overall Influence

Libby Heaney is a British artist and quantum physicist known for her pioneering work on AI and quantum computing. She works on the impact of future technologies and is widely known to be the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Her work has been featured internationally, including in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern and the Science Gallery.

#13289

Virginia Caine

#189323

Overall Influence

Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health.

#13290

Charles Warren Hostler

#168133

Overall Influence

1919 - 2014 (95 years)

Charles Warren Hostler was an American diplomat. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain from 1989 to 1993, as a political appointee. He also served as a colonel in the United States Air Force, an executive with McDonnell Douglas and adjunct professor of political science at San Diego State University.

#13291

Ute Müller-Doblies

#174726

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Ute Müller-Doblies is a German botanist with an interest in the systematics of Amaryllidaceae. She is currently at the Herbarium of the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with Dietrich Müller-Doblies .

#13292

James Hilton

#84761

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

James Loyd Hilton is an American psychologist, educator, and academic administrator. Hilton served as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan since September 1, 2013. He was also Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, responsible for developing strategies and policies around educational technology and other cross-campus digital education initiatives. He stepped down as head of the U-M Library on June 30, 2022.

#13293

Rudolph Angermüller

#100434

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Rudolph Kurt Angermüller was a German musicologist, who rendered great services to Mozart studies in particular. Life Born in near Bielefeld, Angermüller took classes in piano, double bass and music theory at the Fösterling-Konservatorium in Bielefeld. He obtained his Abitur in 1961. From 1961 to 1970 he studied musicology, Romance studies and history at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, and the University of Salzburg, with Arnold Schmitz, Günther Massenkeil, Hellmut Federhofer and Gerhard Croll. From 1968 to 1975, he was a lecturer of musicology at the University of Salzburg.

#13294

Bruce Conforth

#137870

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Bruce Michael Conforth is an American academic, author, lecturer, and musician. He was the first curator of Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early years Conforth was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and New York City. He became an artist and musician at an early age. In 1966 he appeared on an album called It's Happening Here as the bass player for a band called The Nightwatch. He was an athlete in high school, winning several letters and medals for his abilities as a long jumper, quarter-miler, and a member of the mile-relay team.

#13295

Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal

#153111

Overall Influence

Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal is an Indian born UK-based orthopedic surgeon. He is a Research Fellow at University of Oxford and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College London GKT School of Medical Education. Born to Mohan Tibrewal, he graduated in medicine in 1973 from Ranchi University.

#13296

James Wetzel

#190566

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

James Wetzel is Chair of Saint Augustine, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University. He obtained his doctorate from Columbia University. Works

#13297

E. A. Badoe

#69999

Overall Influence

E. A. Badoe was an Emeritus Professor in surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School. He was educated at Achimota School. University of Ghana Medical School Prior to the first medical school being set up in Ghana, Badoe was one of the committee along with Alexander Kwapong and Charles Odamtten Easmon who as part of their work visited the newly opened University of Lagos and the University of Ibadan Medical Schools. He later became professor of surgery at the same medical school based on the campus of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

#13298

William Clarke Wescoe

#144098

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

W. Clarke Wescoe was an American medical educator, physician, pharmacologist and academic administrator. He was selected as the dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine at the age of 32 and served in that capacity from 1952 to 1960. He was the 10th chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1960 to 1969, leading the University during a time of both campus growth with the near doubling in enrollment and unrest during the 1960s. More than $40 million in new construction was completed, including most of the Daisy Hill residence halls.

#13299

Richard Merkin

#76063

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Richard Marshall Merkin was an American painter, illustrator and arts educator. Merkin's fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity as a professional dandy. Many of his works depict the interwar years, painting narrative scenes in bright colors of jazz musicians, film stars, writers, and sports heroes. Merkin was as well known for his outré sense of clothing style and collections of vintage pornography as he was for his painting and illustration work.

#13300

Faʻafetai Sopoaga

#186981

Overall Influence

Faumuinā Faʻafetai Sopoaga is a Samoan-New Zealand academic specialising in Pacific health, Pacific workforce development, Pacific students, and Pacific communities. She is a professor at the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, Dunedin. When she was appointed, she became the first Pacific woman medical doctor to be appointed in a professorial role at any university in Australia or New Zealand, and the first Pacific woman to be appointed a professor at the University of Otago.

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