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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Barry Gordon

#145008

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Barry J. Gordon is an American behavioral neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is the inaugural holder of the therapeutic cognitive neuroscience endowed professorship and a professor of neurology with a joint appointment in cognitive science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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Waljit Dhillo

#134759

Overall Influence

Waljit Dhillo is an endocrinologist and a Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism at the Imperial College London. He is the Director of Research at the Division of Medicine & Integrated Care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Dean of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Academy. His research focuses on how the endocrine system controls body weight and reproductive functions.

#13753

Herman Schmalenbach

Herman Schmalenbach

1885 - 1950 (65 years)

Herman Schmalenbach was a German philosopher who refined the concepts of Gemeinschaft and Bund. Biography He was born on 15 November 1885 in Breckerfeld, Germany, his brother was Eugen Schmalenbach. He studied in Jena, Berlin and Munich, and he received his doctorate in 1910 at Jena. From 1916 to 1917 he taught at a reform school in Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen. In Göttingen from 1920 to 1923 he was an associate professor. He also taught in 1928 at the Leibniz University Hannover. From 1931 he started at the University of Basel, founded and worked there until his death on 3 November 1950 in Bas...

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Charles Flexner

#33036

Overall Influence

Charles Williams Flexner is an American physician, clinical pharmaceutical scientist, academic, author and researcher. He is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

#13755

Aaron Shirley

#35267

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Aaron Shirley was an American physician and civil rights activist. Shirley was born in Gluckstadt, Mississippi. He was Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

#13756

Antonio Persio

1542 - 1612 (70 years)

Antonio Persio was an Italian philosopher of the Platonic school who opposed the Aristotelianism which predominated in the universities of his time. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and an associate of Galileo Galilei.

#13757

Lokenath Brahmachari

1730 - 1860 (130 years)

Baba Lokenath Brahmachari was a Bengali yogi. External links

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Fred Miller

#150354

Overall Influence

Fred Dycus Miller Jr. is an American philosopher who specializes in Aristotelian philosophy, with additional interests in political philosophy, business ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy in science fiction. He is a professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University.

#13759

Damis

1 - 101 (100 years)

Damis was a student and lifelong companion of Apollonius of Tyana, the famous Neopythagorean philosopher and teacher who lived in the early 1st up to the early 2nd century AD. Life All that is known about Damis comes from Apollonius' biographer Philostratus who wrote his Life of Apollonius of Tyana between 217 and 238. Some scholars believe the notebooks of Damis are an invention of Philostratus, while others think it was a real book forged by someone else and used by Philostratus. Some scholars think that Damis never existed at all. F.C. Conybeare, however, points out the extreme and unneces...

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Jane W. Davidson

#146395

Overall Influence

Jane Davidson is Professor of Creative and Performing Arts at The University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Early life She began her academic career in 1991, initially as a postdoctoral research fellow at Keele University, Staffordshire, then as lecturer in music at City University, London. From 1995 to 2006 she worked through the ranks from lecturer to full professor at the University of Sheffield. In the UK, she also taught on a sessional basis at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She ...

#13761

Arthur Kampf

1864 - 1950 (86 years)

Arthur Kampf was a German painter. He was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life Kampf studied under Peter Janssen, among others, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1879 to 1881.

#13762

William James Chidley

1860 - 1916 (56 years)

William James Chidley was an Australian philosopher with unconventional theories on sex, diet and clothing. Early life Chidley was born in Melbourne around 1860 and was adopted by John James Chidley, a toymaker and his first wife Maria, née Lancelott. His adoptive parents were followers of the teachings of Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. Chidley attended several different schools in Melbourne, leaving school at the age of 13 and continuing his education by reading in public libraries.

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Kurt Gudewill

#113067

Overall Influence

1911 - 1995 (84 years)

Kurt Gudewill was a German musicologist and University lecturer. From 1952 to 1976 he was professor at the musicological institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. He rendered outstanding services to Heinrich Schütz and Lied research.

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Alex Toth

#12950

Overall Influence

1928 - 2006 (78 years)

Alexander Toth was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost, Sealab 2020, The Herculoids and Birdman. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network’s late night sister channel Adult Swim: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

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Averil Mansfield

Averil Mansfield

#45302

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Dame Averil Olive Bradley , known professionally as Averil Mansfield, is a retired English vascular surgeon. She was a consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, central London, from 1982 to 2002, and in 1993 she became the first British woman to be appointed a professor of surgery.

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Gita Ramjee

#25118

Overall Influence

1956 - 2020 (64 years)

Gita Ramjee was a Ugandan-South African scientist and researcher in HIV prevention. In 2018, she was awarded the ‘Outstanding Female Scientist’ award from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. She died in Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa, from COVID-19 related complications.

#13767

Staffan Normark

Staffan Normark

#22827

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Jan Staffan Normark is a Swedish physician, microbiologist and infectious disease researcher. He grew up in Umeå and was awarded his Ph.D. at Umeå University in 1971. At the end of the 1970s, he was one of the first Swedish scientists to use the new genetic engineering tools in infection-related research. In 1980, he was made a professor at Umeå University, then the university's youngest. 1989 he was recruited as professor of molecular microbiology to Washington University in St. Louis. 1993 he returned to Sweden as professor of infectious disease control, in particular clinical bacteriology, at Karolinska Institutet.

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Harry Ostrer

#169128

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John Hadley

#124163

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

John Hadley is an Australian philosopher whose research concerns moral and political philosophy, including animal ethics, environmental ethics, and metaethics. He is currently a senior lecturer in philosophy in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He has previously taught at Charles Sturt University and the University of Sydney, where he studied as an undergraduate and doctoral candidate. In addition to a variety of articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, he is the author of the 2015 monograph Animal Property Rights and the 2019 monograph Animal Neopragmatism .

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David Dowdy

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Overall Influence

David Wesley Dowdy is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. He is the B. Frank and Kathleen Polk Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Early life and education Dowdy earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1999 before enrolling at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his Master's degree, PhD, and Medical degree. He completed his PhD under the guidance of Richard Chaisson, a tuberculosis and HIV expert, who encouraged him to study epidemiological modeling of tuberculosis.

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Jerome A. Miller

#167050

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Jerome Aloysius Miller is a contemporary American philosopher and professor emeritus at Salisbury University. Miller's research interests lie in the areas of philosophy of religion and phenomenology. Miller received a B.A. in philosophy from Scranton University, and his doctorate in philosophy from Georgetown University.

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Jozo Zovko

#33201

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Jozo Zovko, OFM is a Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan priest, most notable for being a parish priest in Medjugorje during the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in 1981. He was very active in the promotion of apparitions around the world. He is an adherent of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. Zovko is currently under a suspension imposed on him by his bishops in 1989, 1994 and 2004 for disobedience and is forbidden to perform priestly duties in his home Diocese of Mostar-Duvno.

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Eliza Ritchie

1856 - 1933 (77 years)

Dr. Eliza Ritchie was a prominent suffragist in Nova Scotia, Canada. Biography Ritchie was born on 20 May 1856 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of John William Ritchie and Amelia Almon. She attended Dalhousie University and went on to earn her doctorate in German philosophy from Cornell University in 1889, becoming one of the first Canadian women to receive a PhD. She traveled to Leipzig, Germany, and Oxford, England to further her studies. She taught at a variety of universities in the United States before returning to Canada in 1899. Beginning in 1901 she lectured philosophy at Dalhousie University.

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Kristin Gjesdal

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Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics , nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and she has served on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as a subject area expert for 19th Century Philosophy.

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Shomron Ben-Horin

#168612

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Shomron Ben-Horin is an Israeli physician, a co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Evinature, and professor of medicine at the Tel-Aviv University. Shomron Ben-Horin was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel.

#13776

Publius Egnatius Celer

100 - 100 (0 years)

Publius Egnatius Celer, , was a Stoic philosopher, who as a result of being a delator, or informer, in the reign of Nero, was sentenced to death in the reign of Vespasian. Treason charges were brought against Barea Soranus in AD 66 because he had incurred the hatred of Nero. Egnatius Celer, who had formerly been a client and the teacher of Barea Soranus, stood as chief witness against him. Barea Soranus was condemned to death together with his daughter Servilia.

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Wilhelm Netzel

1834 - 1914 (80 years)

Nils Wilhelm Netzel was a Swedish gynecologist and obstetrician. Biography Netzel was born in Stockholm and studied at Uppsala University, completing his dissertation in 1865 on puerperal changes in modern life. In 1863 he took a position as assistant in the obstetric department at the General Maternity Hospital in Stockholm. In 1864 he became a substitute lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at the Karolinska Institute, and in 1865 became a regular lecturer and in 1879, a professor. In 1887 he succeeded Anders Anderson as professor of obstetrics and gynecology and retained this position until 1889.

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Akinyinka Omigbodun

#13123

Overall Influence

Akinyinka Omigbodun is a Nigerian professor of Gynecology, Obstetrics and former provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He once served as president of the West African College of Surgeons and chair of the management board of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa .

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Cassidy Sugimoto

#129039

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is an American information scientist who is the Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies the ways knowledge is processed and disseminated. She is the author of the 2016 MIT Press book Big Data is Not a Monolith.

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Wulf H. Utian

#107370

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Wulf H. Utian is a physician, reproductive endocrinologist, clinical researcher, and academic women's health department administrator. He is best known for first recognizing menopause as a potential health-related issue. He is the co-founder of the International Menopause Society and founder of the North American Menopause Society. Previously he has worked as a medical department Director at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, and academic chairman of the department of Reproductive Biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is currently the Arthur H.

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Grace de Laguna

Grace de Laguna

1878 - 1978 (100 years)

Grace Mead de Laguna was an American philosopher who taught at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Life Grace Mead Andrus was born on 28 September 1878 in East Berlin, Connecticut. She was the youngest child, and only daughter, of Wallace R. Andrus and Annis Andrus . Both parents were of Connecticut ancestry dating back to the 17th century. Her mother, Annis, had been a school teacher. Her father had served with the 17th Connecticut Volunteers during the Civil War, He would later work as a land agent for the Northern Pacific Railway whilst it was being built. This led to the family moving, wh...

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Hugo van der Goes

Hugo van der Goes

1440 - 1482 (42 years)

Hugo van der Goes was one of the most significant and original Flemish painters of the late 15th century. Van der Goes was an important painter of altarpieces as well as portraits. He introduced important innovations in painting through his monumental style, use of a specific colour range and individualistic manner of portraiture. From 1483 onwards, the presence of his masterpiece, the Portinari Triptych, in Florence played a role in the development of realism and the use of colour in Italian Renaissance art.

#13783

Abd-al-Baqi al-Zurqani

1611 - 1688 (77 years)

Abd al-Baqi al-Zurqani was an Islamic scholar from Egypt, connected to Al-Azhar. His full name was Abd al-Baqiy ibn Yusuf ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ulwan al-Zurqani. He is the father of Muhammad al-Zurqani and the commentator of al-Jundi's Mukhtasar Khalil, itself annotated by Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Bannani , titled al-Fath al-Rabbani.

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Kim Solez

#75079

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Kim Solez is an American pathologist and co-founder of the Banff Classification, the first standardized international classification for renal allograft biopsies. He is also the founder of the Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology.

#13785

Tayyeb Tizini

#138384

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Tayeb Tizini was a Syrian philosopher, researcher and academic. born in the city of Homs, a supporter of Marxist nationalist thought. He relies on the historical dialectic in his philosophical project to re-read Arab thought since before Islam until now. He died at the age of 85 after struggle with disease in his city, Homs.

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James Webster

#63128

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

James Webster is a musicologist, specializing in the music of Joseph Haydn and other composers of the classical era. His professional position is as the Goldwin Smith Professor of Music at Cornell University.

#13787

Benno Reinhardt

1819 - 1852 (33 years)

Benno Ernst Heinrich Reinhardt was a German physician who worked as prosector at Charité hospital in Berlin. He is known for his contributions to pathology, especially as co-founder of the journal Virchows Archiv.

#13788

Robert of Melun

1100 - 1167 (67 years)

Robert of Melun was an English scholastic Christian theologian who taught in France, and later became Bishop of Hereford in England. He studied under Peter Abelard in Paris before teaching there and at Melun, which gave him his surname. His students included John of Salisbury, Roger of Worcester, William of Tyre, and possibly Thomas Becket. Robert was involved in the Council of Reims in 1148, which condemned the teachings of Gilbert de la Porrée. Three of his theological works survive, and show him to have been strictly orthodox.

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Franz Skarbina

1849 - 1910 (61 years)

Franz Skarbina was a German impressionist painter, draftsman, etcher and illustrator. Life Born in Berlin, he was the son of a goldsmith from Zagreb. From 1865 to 1869, he studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts. After graduation, he spent two years as a tutor to the daughters of Count , during which time he travelled to Dresden, Vienna, Venice, Munich, Nuremberg and Merano. In 1877, he had acquired the funds to make a year-long study trip to the Netherlands, Belgium and France, where he came under the influence of impressionism.

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William S. Pierce

#83831

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

William S. Pierce is the cardiothoracic surgeon and chemical engineer who led development of the first pneumatic heart assist pump. The Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device, also known as the Penn State Assist Pump, was designated an International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1990.

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Yusuke Nakamura

#169288

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Chiaki Mukai

#4577

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space.

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John Tooze

#21419

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

John Tooze FRS was a British research scientist, research administrator, author, science journalist, former executive director of EMBO/EMBC, director of research services at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and a vice president at The Rockefeller University.

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Richard Colledge

#169329

Overall Influence

Richard J. Colledge is an Australian philosopher and Head of the School of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He is the Chair of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy. Colledge is known for his research on Heidegger and Kierkegaard.

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John Kearsley Mitchell

John Kearsley Mitchell

1798 - 1858 (60 years)

John Kearsley Mitchell was an American physician and writer, born in Shepherdstown, Virginia . Orphaned at the age of eight, and sent to his late father's family in Scotland at the age of thirteen, Kearsley was educated at Ayr Academy and the University of Edinburgh.

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Elmer Sprague

#131428

Overall Influence

1950 - 2019 (69 years)

Elmer Sprague was a professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford , and was the Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University .

#13797

Phoebe Gilman

#83446

Overall Influence

1940 - 2002 (62 years)

Phoebe Gilman was a Canadian-American children's book author and illustrator. Her books were notable for their strong lead female characters. Her book Something from Nothing, adapted from an old Yiddish tale, won the 1993 Ruth Schwartz Award for best children's book, and was later adapted for television. Born in The Bronx, New York, where she lived her first years, she later lived in Europe, Israel, and finally settled in Canada in 1972.

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Allen Kent

#18320

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Allen Kent was an American information scientist. Early life He was born in New York City. At City College of New York he earned a degree in chemistry. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces. After the war, he worked on a classified project at MIT in mechanized document encoding and search.

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Kimryn Rathmell

#167832

Overall Influence

W. Kimryn Rathmell is an American physician-scientist whose work focuses on the research and treatment of patients with kidney cancers. She is the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center , and Physician-in-Chief for Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital and Clinics in Nashville, Tennessee. On Nov. 17, 2023, Rathmell was announced as the intended next Director of the National Cancer Institute.

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Ruth Wynne-Davies

#136328

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

Ruth Wynne-Davies or Ruth Blower was a British medical doctor and scholar of orthopaedics. She researched and wrote about clubfoot and scoliosis. Life and career Wynne-Davies was born in London in 1926. She attended Oswestry High School for Girls. After finishing school, she was a land girl. She then worked as a secretary before starting her training in medicine at the Royal Free School of Medicine. She was encouraged and financially supported to do so by her uncle, Llewellyn Wynne-Davies. In 1959, she changed her name to Wynne-Davies, in his honour.

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