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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#13501

Stephanie Amiel

#54663

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stephanie Anne Amiel, Lady Alberti, is a British physician and academic, specialising in type 1 diabetes. Since 1995, she has been the R. D. Lawrence Professor of Diabetic Medicine at King's College London and a consultant at King's College Hospital.

#13502

Bobby Jones

#184509

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bobby Jones is an American Gospel music singer television host, and radio broadcaster from Nashville, Tennessee and the host and executive producer of several cable television gospel music programs including the former Bobby Jones Gospel.

#13503

Ronald Garet

#180876

Overall Influence

Ronald Reed Garet is an American religion law scholar, currently the Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Religion at USC Gould School of Law. He graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, received his PhD in religious studies from Yale University, and his JD from USC Gould. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

#13504

Shigehiko Hasumi

#129014

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Shigehiko Hasumi is a film critic and an academic researcher on French literature from Japan. He was president of the University of Tokyo from 1997 to 2001. Life and work Hasumi's father Shigeyasu was a professor at Kyoto University. His wife Chantal Van Melkebeke is a teacher from Belgium.

#13505

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar

#187202

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar was a Spanish historian, researcher and academic. She arrived in Mexico in 1939, after the National victory in Spain.

#13506

Puri Soltani

#192044

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Puri Soltani was an academic who was a "pioneer of Iranian librarianship". Soltani was born in Hamadan. Her father, a prominent constitutionalist lawyer, died while she was a child. Her husband, the poet and newspaper editor, Morteza Keyvan, was executed three months after their wedding, prompting Soltani to leave Iran for several years. After returning to Iran, Soltani founded multiple library organizations, expanded the library system of the University of Tehran, and oversaw the digitization of Iranian national documents. Soltani is credited with modernizing libraries and information science in Iran.

#13507

Kenneth Gordon Lowe

#129713

Overall Influence

1917 - 2010 (93 years)

Kenneth Gordon Lowe was a Scottish physician who did pioneering research as a nephrologist and as a cardiologist. Biography After education at Arbroath High School, he studied medicine at the University of St Andrews and the Dundee Royal Infirmary . In 1941 he graduated MB ChB from the University of St Andrews and shortly thereafter married Nancy Young, a medical student in his graduating class. He worked at the DRI and assisted with Daniel F. Cappell's pioneering blood transfusion service in Dundee. In 1942 he became a captain in the RAMC; for about two years he specialised in tropical dise...

#13508

Niu Lizhi

#108186

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Niu Lizhi is a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.

#13509

Joel Sheveloff

#192225

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Joel Leonard Sheveloff was an American musicologist, teacher and author. Reception Sheveloff graduated from the City University of New York, Queens College, majoring in clarinet then earned a master's and a doctorate from Brandeis University. His 1970 dissertation on the keyboard instrument music of Domenico Scarlatti attracted attention by scholars. According to Robert Marshall and Carlo Grante, Ralph Kirkpatrick's iconic, exemplary work was eventually challenged by Joel Sheveloff. Sheveloff's Scarlatti scholarship, based on a close analysis and comparison of the manuscript and printed histo...

#13510

Louis Diamond

#30675

Overall Influence

1902 - 1999 (97 years)

Louis Klein Diamond was an American pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology." Early life and career Diamond was born in Chişinău, Bessarabia Governorate as the son of Jewish parents, Eliezer Dimant and Lena Klein. His family emigrated to the United States in 1904, following the Kishinev pogrom.

#13511

Winston Tabb

#120482

Overall Influence

Winston Tabb was the Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from September 2002 to December 2022. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tabb received his B.A. from Oklahoma Baptist University and earned an M.A. from Harvard University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After returning from Thailand as an instructor of English for the U.S. Army, Tabb received his degree in library science in 1972 from Simmons College. Upon his graduation from Simmons, he was recruited to join the professional staff of the Library of Congress.

#13512

Liselle Terret

#189226

Overall Influence

Liselle Terret is a co-programme leader and a senior lecturer at the University of East London. She has more than twenty years of experience within the field as a teacher, facilitator and manager of Applied Theatre related projects within and outside of the UK working with a diverse selection of groups.

#13513

Anne Rasmussen

#120117

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Anne K. Rasmussen is an American educator and ethnomusicologist. Much of her research focuses on Arab music in the US and Islamic ritual and performance. She has been the director of the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble since 1994. Rasmussen was named the William M. and Annie B. Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in 2014.

#13514

Viktor Savelyev

#106044

Overall Influence

1928 - 2013 (85 years)

Viktor Sergeyevich Savelyev was a Soviet and Russian surgeon. He was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1997 until his death, and of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Head of the Department of Surgery of the Russian State Medical University. He died on 25 December 2013 in Moscow, Russia at the age of 85.

#13515

David Bawden

#29266

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

David Allen Bawden , who took the name Pope Michael, was an American conclavist claimant to the papacy. Bawden believed that the Catholic Church had apostatized from the Catholic faith since Vatican II, and that there had been no legitimate popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. In 1990 he was elected pope by a group of six laypeople, including himself and his parents. In 2011, he was ordained a priest and consecrated a bishop by an Independent Catholic bishop.

#13516

Gianni Rondolino

#54344

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Gianni Rondolino was an Italian film critic and historian. Born in Turin, Rondolino was professor of History and Criticism of Film at the University of Turin. Rondolino was the author of several essays and monographies, including books on Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Walt Disney, Tex Avery, the magic lantern and the Turin-based silent cinema industry. He was best known for a book on the history of world cinema he released in 1977, Storia del cinema, informally known as "Il Rondolone". He founded and also directed for several years the Turin Film Festival.

#13517

Antonio Mano Azul

#174561

Overall Influence

Antonio Mano Azul is a Portuguese physician specialising in stomatology. He was president of the European Association of Oral Medicine in 2000–02. He was professor of microbiology and oral surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon.

#13518

Judith Stamper

#106974

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Judith Stamper is an English former television presenter, journalist and academic. Early life Stamper was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. She attended Cockermouth Grammar School . She graduated in English in 1975 from St David's University College, Lampeter . She gained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from University College, Cardiff.

#13519

Alcante

#180051

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Alcante, pen name of Didier Swysen is a Belgian comics writer, best known for his series Pandora’s Box. Biography Alcante has studied economic sciences and worked in academic research, when he won a comics writing contest of publisher Dupuis in 1995. The winning story was published in Spirou magazine. It took another seven years before he regularly began to publish short stories there. Pandora Box is his first series. He is the younger brother of comics creator Bernard Swysen.

#13520

Rory Jack Thompson

#166901

Overall Influence

1942 - 1999 (57 years)

Jack Newman , better known by his birth name Rory Jack Thompson, was an Australian CSIRO scientist and murderer. In September 1983, he was charged for murdering his wife, Maureen Thompson, in their Hobart, Tasmania home and after dismembering her body, he dumped the remains down a toilet. He was not sentenced to serve in prison on the grounds of insanity, but instead, was detained in a hospital attached to the Risdon Prison Complex for an unspecified period of time.

#13521

Enn Kasak

#103291

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Enn Kasak is an Estonian philosopher and astrophysicist. 1981 he graduated from University of Tartu in astrophysics speciality. 1981-1995 he worked at Tõravere Observatory. 1998-2007 he taught at Tallinn University. Since 2007 he is teaching at Tartu University.

#13522

David Celermajer

#55545

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

David Stephen Celermajer is an Australian cardiologist and the Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney. Early life and education Celermajer is the son of John and Tina Celermajer, both Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. When he was eleven, Celermajer won a scholarship to Sydney Grammar School. He went on to win the World Universities Debating Championship. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a medical degree in 1983, and won a Rhodes Scholarship that same year. He has a PhD in children's heart disease from the University of London, which he received in 1993, and a higher-doctorate D.Sc.

#13523

Robert Turner

#125196

Overall Influence

1938 - 1999 (61 years)

Professor Robert Turner MD, FRCP was a British physician endocrinologist and Professor in Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford. He was trained at Cambridge and qualified from the Middlesex Hospital, London in 1963. He then developed an interest in diabetes and went to work in the Endocrine and Diabetes Units at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1971, before joining the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University as a Lecturer.

#13524

John Meehan

#177659

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

John Meehan SJ is a Canadian Jesuit priest, historian and academic. He is Director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He was president and vice-chancellor of the University of Sudbury in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada from September 2019 until 2021. He was formerly rector of the Church of the Gesù in Montreal and president of Campion College in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

#13525

Mabel Bianco

#71298

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Mabel Bianco is an Argentine physician who has devoted her career to fighting for women's access to improved health services and sex education. In 1989, she established the Foundation for Studies and Research on Women , and has continued to serve as its president. She has been an activist in Latin America and the world, introducing policies addressing breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, reproductive rights and gender reform in the UN.

#13526

Nathan W. Levin

#125731

Overall Influence

Nathan W. Levin is an American physician and founder of the Renal Research Institute, LLC., a research institute dedicated to improving the outcomes of patients with kidney disease, particularly those requiring dialysis. Levin is one of the most prominent and renowned figures in clinical nephrology as well as nephrology research. He has authored multiple book chapters and over 350 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in leading journals such as Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet.

#13527

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham

#173683

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician and researcher. She is the vice president for research at the University of Michigan, and William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health.

#13528

Walter Kolneder

#187604

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Walter Kolneder was an Austrian musicologist and violist. Life and career Koldener was born in Wels, Upper Austria. From 1925 to 1935 he studied music with Bernhard Paumgartner , Theodor Müller and Friedrich Frischenschlager at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He also attended a master class for viola with Max Strub and was a member of the Mozarteum orchestra . Privately he studied composition with Johann Nepomuk David in Wels from 1927 to 1929. In 1934/35, he began musicological studies at the University of Vienna. In 1936 he became head of department at the Conservatory of the and in 1939 lect...

#13529

Kim Soo-jung

#81508

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Kim Soo-jung is a South Korean cartoonist and animator best known as the creator of Dooly the Little Dinosaur. His debut occurred in 1975 after he won the Hanguk Ilbo daily comics contest. In April 1983, Dooly the Dinosaur was first published in Bomulseom.

#13530

Donald Morton

#71774

Overall Influence

1934 - 2014 (80 years)

Donald Lee Morton was an American surgical oncologist who was best known for developing sentinel lymph node evaluation, a procedure that, by some estimates, saves the U.S. healthcare system nearly $4 billion annually in the treatment of melanoma and breast cancer. At the time of his death, he was Chief of the melanoma program and co-director of the surgical oncology fellowship program at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, now known as Saint John’s Cancer Institute. He published in excess of 600 articles in peer reviewed journals and received funding for his research from the National Institutes of Health for 35 years.

#13531

Jasmine Zapata

#100578

Overall Influence

Jasmine Y. Zapata is an American physician and epidemiologist. She is the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for community health at Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Her career includes work as a pediatrician, public health researcher, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, author, and her support for youth empowerment with a variety of initiatives.

#13532

Takehiko Ogawa

#32254

Overall Influence

is a Japanese urologist and developmental biologist, known for his pioneer research on in vitro spermatogenesis. He is Professor of Proteomics at Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University.

#13533

Jack Shallcrass

#165587

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

John James Shallcrass was a New Zealand author, educator and humanist. Biography Born in Takapuna in 1922, Shallcrass was educated at Wellington College, and served in the Pacific during World War II. He later studied at Victoria University College, from where he graduated with a Diploma of Education in 1952, a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 and Master of Arts in 1961.

#13534

Lee Eun-sook

#187348

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Lee Eun-sook is a South Korean surgical oncologist with expertise in breast cancer at National Cancer Center and previously served as its president from 2017 to 2020. Lee was the first woman to lead the center since its creation in 2000. She was an ex officio president of the NCC Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy and NCC Foundation's board. She has also served as the secretary-general of Asian National Cancer Centers Alliance from the beginning of her presidency.

#13535

Marie Bernard

#73364

Overall Influence

Marie A. Bernard, M.D. is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at the National Institutes of Health . Prior to this, she was the deputy director of the National Institute on Aging at the NIH, where she oversaw approximately $3.1 billion in research focused on aging and Alzheimer's disease. Bernard co-leads the NIH UNITE initiative, launched in 2021 to end structural racism in biomedicine. She co-chairs the Inclusion Governance Committee, which promotes inclusion in clinical research by sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and age. She also co-chairs two of the Department of Health and H...

#13536

Milan Balabán

#56396

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

Milan Balabán was a Czechoslovak theologian, professor of religion and the Old Testament, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren pastor, and poet. Balabán, an anti-communist dissident during Czechoslovakia's communist era, was a Charter 77 signatory. He was also among of group of Czech Old Testament scholars who wrote and translated the Old Testament theologians the Czech Ecumenical Translation of the Bible, which remains the most widely used Czech language translation of the Bible today.

#13537

Hardy R. Franklin

Hardy R. Franklin

#141453

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Hardy Rogers Franklin was an American librarian and served as president of the American Library Association from 1993 to 1994. Franklin received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College and began a career as a teacher and librarian in Conyers, Georgia. He served as a librarian in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 in Okinawa, Japan. He received a master's degree in library science from Atlanta University in 1956 and moved to New York to work at the Brooklyn Public Library. In 1971, after graduating from Rutgers University with a doctorate in library science, he taught at Queens College.

#13538

Daniel Kalla

#112556

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Daniel Kalla is a Canadian author and physician. He has written several popular novels in the thriller and historical fiction genres, all with medical themes. He was the director of Emergency Medicine at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.

#13539

Sharad Panday

#14009

Overall Influence

1934 - 2004 (70 years)

Sharad Pandey was an Indian heart surgeon. He was on the team of surgeons who performed the first-ever heart transplant in India at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College in Mumbai. He was a specialist in bloodless heart surgery, and was an early exponent of bloodless open heart surgery in India.

#13540

Rob Krier

#27651

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Rob Krier was a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer, and theorist. He was a professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. From 1993 to mid-2010s he worked in partnership with architect Christoph Kohl in a joint office based in Berlin, Germany.

#13541

Diana Egerton-Warburton

#183593

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Diana Egerton-Warburton is an Australian medical professional, specialising in emergency medicine. Egerton-Warburton serves as the director of Emergency Medicine Research at Monash Medical Centre and Medical Co-chair at Monash University of the Monash Emergency Research Collaborative .

#13542

Nitya Anand

#16118

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Nitya Anand is a medicinal chemist who was the director of Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow from 1974 to 1984. In 2005, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission appointed him chairman of its scientific committee. In 2012, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government.

#13543

Gerald Green

#176100

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Gerald Green was an American author, journalist, and television writer. Biography Green was born in Brooklyn, New York as Gerald Greenberg. He was the son of a physician, Dr. Samuel Greenberg. He was Jewish.

#13544

Bruce Alan Brown

#118839

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Bruce Alan Brown is a professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music Los Angeles, California. Life and career Bruce Alan Brown acquired degrees from the University of California at Berkeley , and also studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam.

#13545

Jo Bradwell

#189058

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

A. R. Bradwell is a British philanthropist, physician and businessman. Bradwell donated £15 million to Birmingham University to establish new forestry research centre. The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research is currently being established. BIFoR will focus on the impact of climate and environmental change on woodlands, and the resilience of trees to pests and diseases.

#13546

Ugo Orlandi

#140172

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ugo Orlandi is a musicologist, a specialist in the history of music, a university professor and internationally renowned mandolinist virtuoso. Among worldwide musicians, professional classical musicians are a small group; among them is an even smaller group of classical mandolinists. Among members of this group, Ugo Orlandi is considered "distinguished." Music historian Paul Sparks called him "a leading figure in the rehabilitation of the eighteenth-century mandolin repertoire, having recorded many concertos from this period."

#13547

Miloš Velimirović

#87176

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Miloš Milorad Velimirović was an American musicologist. Twice a recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, he was considered an international expert in the areas of Byzantine music, the history of Slavonic music, and the history of Italian opera in the 18th century.

#13548

Arbie Orenstein

#135735

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Arbie Orenstein is an American musicologist, author, academic and pianist, known as a scholar of the life and works of the composer Maurice Ravel and, more generally, as an expert on Jewish music. Life and career Orenstein was born in New York and was educated at the High School of Music and Art, Queens College, and Columbia University, receiving a doctorate in musicology. He is known as a Ravel scholar, and his books include The Vocal Works of Maurice Ravel , Ravel: Man and Musician and Ravel: Lettres, Ecrits, Entretiens , translated into English as A Ravel Reader .

#13549

Ivan Neumyvakin

#111646

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Ivan Pavlovich Neumyvakin was a Soviet physician, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor and Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Laureate of the 1982 Latvian SSR State Prize and of the 2005 "" International Prize. He is known in Russia as one of the founders of space medicine. He also is known as a healer. He received the honorary titles 1979 "Honoured Inventor of the RSFSR" and the 2006 "The Person of Russia" and the title "Distinguished Healer of the Russia" and the title "Maitre of Science and Practice". He was a popular author. His book Endoecology of health is a best seller.

#13550

Cyndi Shein

#192283

Overall Influence

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