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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13351

Marco Williams

#112448

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films have received several awards, including the Gotham Documentary Achievement Award for Two Towns of Jasper, and he has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize.

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Taras Filenko

#174698

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Taras Filenko is an ethnomusicologist, lecturer, and concert pianist most renowned for his research and proliferation of Ukrainian music history of 19th and early 20th centuries. Dr. Filenko’s findings are presented in his Ph.D. dissertation from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine , his second Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from University of Pittsburgh , and The World of Mykola Lysenko book in English and Ukrainian . As a two-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Dr. Filenko has conducted lectures and developed courses at academic institutions throughout Europe and North Am...

#13353

Anne Carlisle

#144202

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Anne Carlisle is a British educator. She attended Ballyclare High School from 1974–1976. She studied a Diploma in Foundation Art & Design at the University Polytechnic, Belfast . Further to this, Professor Carlisle graduated with a First Class Honours in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast and went on to complete a Masters at the University of Arts, London in 1981.

#13354

Titus Albucius

#183711

Overall Influence

Titus Albucius was a noted orator of the late Roman Republic. Education He finished his studies at Athens at the latter end of the 2nd century BC, and belonged to the Epicurean sect. He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek. On account of his affecting on every occasion the Greek language and philosophy, he was satirized by Lucilius, whose lines upon him are preserved by Cicero, and Cicero himself speaks of him as a light-minded man. He accused, though unsuccessfully, Mucius Scaevola, the augur, of maladministration in his province.

#13355

Gérard Karsenty

#99866

Overall Influence

Gérard Karsenty is a professor and chair of the Genetics and Development Department at the Columbia University Medical Center where he studies the endocrinology of bone. In 2010 Karsenty won the Richard Lounsbery Award for his work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the formation and the remodeling of bone. In 2016 he won the Roy O. Greep Laureate Award.

#13356

Melahat Okuyan

#85940

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Melahat Okuyan is a Turkish female veterinary physician, academic and scientist in microbiology. She is an AIDS activist. Personal life Melahat Okuyan was born in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey in 1926. She was schooled at the age of five and half. She married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

#13357

Henk Aertsen

#120277

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Henk Aertsen is a now-retired professor of Old English and Middle English language and literature at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the editor of Companion to Middle English Romance , and of Companion to Old English Poetry .

#13358

Helio Gallardo

#51073

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Helio Gallardo Martínez is a Chilean Philosopher and Professor of the University of Costa Rica. He moved to Costa Rica after Salvador Allende was overthrown. Books Mitos e ideología en el proceso político chileno. Heredia: EUNA, 1979.Pensar en América Latina. Heredia: EUNA, 1981.Fundamentos de comprensión de lectura. San José: Nueva Década, 1982.Teoría y crisis en América Latina. San José: Nueva Década, 1984.Cultura, política, estado. San José: Nueva Década, 1985.Elementos de política en América Latina. San José: DEI, 1986.Fundamentos de formación política: análisis de coyuntura. San José: DEI, 1988.Actores y procesos políticos latinoamericanos.

#13359

Leslie I. Poste

#141832

Overall Influence

1918 - 1996 (78 years)

Leslie Irlyn Poste was a librarian in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program at the end of World War II, and was active in the preservation, conservation and restitution of books, scrolls, manuscripts and reports accumulated by the German government from the occupied countries.

#13360

Keith Peters

#50949

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.

#13361

Asma El Dareer

#38855

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Asma Abdel Rahim El Dareer is a Sudanese physician known for her research in the 1980s into female genital mutilation. She was one of the first Arab women and feminist doctors to speak out publicly against the practice.

#13362

LJ Punch

#182518

Overall Influence

LJ Punch is an American critical care surgeon, an associate professor of surgery, and a scholar within the Institute for Public Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Punch is also an activist in the fight against gun violence and directs StopTheBleedSTL, located at "The T" anti-violence center in St. Louis, which runs programs to educate the community on how to reduce the impact of trauma, injury, and violence in St. Louis. As a physician, educator, and activist, Punch aims to propagate the idea of “Radical Generosity” as means to better his community and t...

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Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska

#191994

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska – Polish musicologist and ethnographer, professor at the University of Warsaw, daughter of anthropologist Jan Czekanowski. She applied statistical-mathematical methods for analysis of folk music.

#13364

Srinivas Gada

#183677

Overall Influence

Srinivas Gada is an Oxford-based doctor, lecturer and academic. His work revolves around autism/ASD in children, Dyspraxia, Developmental Delay, Learning Disability, Emotional & Behavioural Disorders and Cerebral Palsy. Dr Gada has been teaching at University of Oxford. Dr Sri Gada is an Hon Senior Lecturer since 2007.

#13365

John G. Webb

#29359

Overall Influence

John G. Webb, M.D., FRCPC is a Canadian interventional cardiologist and the McLeod Professor of Heart Valve Intervention at the University of British Columbia. He is most well known for performing the first transfemoral and the first transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation in the world both in 2005. He completed the first ever transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement in 2009 and the first in-human TMVR to be completed with the Neovasc Tiara device in 2014. In addition, he was an investigator in the PARTNER trial, a randomized clinical trial demonstrating the efficacy of TAV...

#13366

Joshua Silver

#44039

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joshua D. Silver is a British physicist whose discoveries have included a new way to change the curvature of lenses, with a significant application for the low-cost manufacture of corrective lenses and adjustable spectacles, especially in low-income countries.

#13367

Michael Burden

#87463

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael Burden, FAHA, is an Australian musicologist, working in the United Kingdom. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018. Life Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Pulteney Grammar School and the University of Adelaide; his took his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently Fellow in Music, Dean and Chattels Fellow at New College, Oxford; he is also director of New Chamber Opera, and Professor of Opera Studies in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. In 2016, he became one of the patrons of the St Peter’s Ca...

#13368

Merceline Dahl-Regis

#36862

Overall Influence

Merceline Dahl-Regis, CMG OD, is a Bahamian physician and public health expert. She is the former Chief Medical Officer of the Bahamas and has been recognized for her role in advancing public health in the Caribbean and internationally.

#13369

Peter Matz

#91596

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Peter Matz was an American musician, composer, arranger and conductor. His musical career in film, theater, television and studio recording spanned fifty years, and he worked with a number of prominent artists, including Marlene Dietrich, Noël Coward and Barbra Streisand. Matz won three Emmys and a Grammy Award and is best known for his work on Streisand's early albums as well as for his work as the orchestral conductor and musical director for The Carol Burnett Show.

#13370

Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

#186324

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dr. Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein is a Brazilian botanist and professor at the Federal University of Goiás. She specializes in plant taxonomy, particularly floristics and the classification of spermatophytes. She is manager of the Federal University of Goiás' Conservation Unit, which consists of an herbarium, the August Forest of Saint Hilaire, and the Serra Dourada Biological Reserve. She has described at least five species of melonleaf in the genus Cayaponia.

#13371

Alice MacLennan

#181911

Overall Influence

1901 - 2015 (114 years)

Alice MacLennan, was an Australian physician and researcher. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and undertook further training in Chicago before moving to Australia, where she established a clinic focusing on menopause. She served as Chair of the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies from 2005 to 2008, and from 2007 to 2009 was president of the Australasian Menopause Society. She also taught at the University of Adelaide as the Clinical Senior Lecturer in Gynaecology.

#13372

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#181272

Overall Influence

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is an American educator and author. She is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, a private operating foundation that describes itself as a philanthropic "innovation lab", and founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund , a venture philanthropy fund. She is also the author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World.

#13373

Hyginus Ekwuazi

#168400

Overall Influence

Professor Hyginus Ekwuazi was a former Acting Head of the Department of Theatre Arts in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was also Director General of the Nigerian Film Corporation.

#13374

Peter Froggatt

#183611

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

#13375

Ellen Tise

#175200

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ellen Remona Tise is a South African librarian, president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions from 2009 to 2011, under the theme "Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge ". Her work has focused on library associations and the open access promoted from the library sector.

#13376

Gretchen Rehberg

#102538

Overall Influence

Gretchen Mary Rehberg is the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. Early life and education Rehberg was born in Pullman, Washington on July 7, 1964. Her mother, Margaret Rehberg was a homemaker and her father, Wallace Rehberg, was a professor at Washington State University. The family had a small farm outside of town. After graduating from Pullman High School in 1982, Rehberg attended Sewanee: The University of the South.

#13377

Donald Bogle

#127018

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania.

#13378

Richard Hoppin

#53603

Overall Influence

1913 - 1991 (78 years)

Richard Hallowell Hoppin was an American musicologist. Hoppin received his BA from Carleton College in 1936 after spending two years at the Paris Ecole Normale de Musique. He studied at Harvard University, obtaining his MA in 1938, and taught at Mount Union College from 1938 to 1942. After serving in World War II he returned to Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in 1952. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at The University of Texas, and from 1961 at Ohio State University.

#13379

Frank Williams

#110262

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Frank John Williams was an English actor, best known for playing Reverend Timothy Farthing in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army . Often cast as a member of the clergy, Williams appeared in similar roles in sitcoms including The Worker, Vanity Fair, Hi-de-Hi and You Rang, M'lord? and film What's Up Nurse!. Williams reprised his role of Reverend Mr. Farthing in the 2016 film adaptation of Dad's Army.

#13380

Sheldon Hall

#89844

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the Humanities department of Sheffield Hallam University. His books include Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters which Jim Whalley called "an important addition to work considering popular film and film industries". He also wrote Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It about the 1964 film.

#13381

Hans H. Skei

#115905

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Hans Hanssen Skei is a Norwegian editor and writer. He was born in Dønna, and graduated as Ph.D. with the treatise "The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with special emphasis on the period 1928-1932" at the University of Oslo. He has been the editor-in-chief of Nordisk Tidskrift since 2002. Skei has provided a large amount of literary criticism on the works of William Faulkner, and has also translated some of his books.

#13382

Eva Isaksson

#175906

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Eva Isaksson is a Finnish librarian and non-fiction writer, with interests in astronomy and feminism. She was employed at the Helsinki University Observatory from 1981 and became a tenured astronomy librarian in 1998. In 2010, she transferred with the merger of the physics and astronomy departments to the Kumpula Science Library, on the Kumpula Campus. Isaksson and has been involved with the Finnish LGBT and pacifist movements since the 1970s. She produced the Lesbian Information Secretariat Newsletter for the International Lesbian Information Service from 1981 to 1983 and in the 1990s, began to create on-line platforms for lesbians to network.

#13383

Albert J. Fornace Jr.

#110340

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Albert J. Fornace Jr. is a professor in the departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University. He has also been awarded the Molecular Cancer Research Chair at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, joining Georgetown in 2006 from the Harvard School of Public Health. Earlier, he was chief of the Gene Response Section at the National Cancer Institute. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , and received his B.S. and M.D. from the Jefferson-Penn State joint pre-medical/medical program.

#13384

Oksana Bulgakowa

#115657

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Oksana Bulgakowa is a professor of film history and film analysis at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Nikopol, Soviet Union, Bulgakowa completed in 1977 a five-year study of film theory and history at Allunionsinstitut of Cinematography in Moscow, and then followed her husband Dietmar Hochmuth in the DDR where a Szenaristenlehrgang at the graduated Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

#13385

Jaime C. Bulatao

#58040

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

Jaime C. Bulatao , called "Father Bu" by his students and coworkers, is a Filipino Jesuit priest and psychologist. He is one of the co-founders of the Ateneo de Manila University's Department of Psychology and the Psychological Association of the Philippines.

#13386

T. K. Lahiri

#94748

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Tapan Kumar Lahiri is an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon, medical academic and writer from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a former professor at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to medicine.

#13387

Margaret Trask

#178527

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Margaret Trask was an Australian librarian and educator, as well as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney . She is considered to be a pioneer in the area of information sciences in Australasia.

#13388

Jaroslav Šabata

#121422

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Jaroslav Šabata was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era. A leading dissident based in Brno, Šabata was a signatory of Charter 77 in 1977. He served as the spokesman of Charter 77, the organization named for the document, from 1978 to 1981.

#13389

Dorothy Fratt

#168036

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Dorothy Fratt - Cooper was an American artist. A native of Washington, D.C., Fratt was the daughter of a photographer and journalist on the staff of The Washington Post. She received scholarships to the Mount Vernon College for Women, the Corcoran School of Art, and the art school at The Phillips Collection, and she studied painting with Karl Knaths and Nikolai Cikovsky. Her first solo exhibition came in 1946, at the Washington City Library, and she has since shown work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. From 1946 to 1951 Fratt taught at Mount Vernon College for Women; in 1958 she settled in Phoenix, Arizona, and began teaching color theory and painting privately.

#13390

Manjeet Singh Riyat

Manjeet Singh Riyat

#103079

Overall Influence

1967 - 2020 (53 years)

Manjeet Singh Riyat was a British emergency care consultant, and the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. Riyat's death from COVID-19 in the early months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England received widespread media coverage in the UK and was a call to investigate COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities.

#13391

Constance L. Mui

#100432

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#13392

McKay McKinnon

#20027

Overall Influence

McKay McKinnon is an Americann physician specializing in plastic surgery. He works at Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and the French-Vietnam Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

#13393

Herbert Golder

#112159

Overall Influence

Herbert Golder is a professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has a Ph.D. in classical languages and literature from Yale University. His specialty is Greek mythology and he has to his credit a number of books and films. He played Rabbi Edelmann in the Werner Herzog film Invincible, he was also an assistant director on that film and the co-writer of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?.

#13394

Werner Felix

#126007

Overall Influence

1927 - 1998 (71 years)

Werner Felix was a German music historian and Bach scholar. He was rector of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig as well as president of the of the DDR.

#13395

Jerry Zolten

#54331

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jerry Zolten is an American writer, advocator for, and producer of American roots music. A Professor at Penn State University, he is best known as the author of a book tracing the 90 year career of the African-American Dixie Hummingbirds gospel group and their influence on both sacred and secular music. He also writes about and is a noted expert on the history of American stand-up comedy. Zolten is also known for numerous articles and album liner notes on blues, country, and gospel music as well as collaborations on musical projects with Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar. His more recent writings ...

#13396

Douglas Kamerow

#154312

Overall Influence

Douglas B. Kamerow is an American family physician, medical researcher, and medical journal editor. He is a professor of family medicine at Georgetown University and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Robert Graham Center. He is also an associate editor and regular columnist for the BMJ.

#13397

Mel Stewart

#185986

Overall Influence

1929 - 2002 (73 years)

Milton "Mel" Stewart was an American character actor, television director, and musician who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known for playing Henry Jefferson on All in the Family and for playing section chief Billy Melrose on the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Stewart is sometimes credited as Melvin Stewart or Mel Stuart.

#13398

Robert Parris

#185931

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

Robert Parris was a composer and professor of music. He was born in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, then the Juilliard School in New York. Among his teachers were Otto Luening, Aaron Copland, Jacques Ibert, and Peter Mennin . After a year of study on a Fulbright Fellowship in Paris , and a year teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, he settled in the Washington, D.C. area in 1952. Parris joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1963 where he taught theory and composition.

#13399

Grace Ebun Delano

#104766

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Grace Ebun Delano is a nurse and midwife who has played a key role in pioneering family planning and reproductive health services in Nigeria. She co-founded the Association for Reproductive and Family Health of which she was director for many years, has acted as consultant for many different organisations across Africa, and has written and co-authored numerous books and articles on women's health and related topics. In 1993, she was given the World Health Organization Sasakawa Award for her work in health development.

#13400

Nancy Wilson

#56336

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nancy L. Wilson is an American cleric who served as the moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Under Wilson's leadership, the denomination became known as "The Human Rights Church" in many parts of the world for its commitment to same-sex marriage, employment and housing non-discrimination laws.

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