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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14901

Peter Watkins

#63842

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Peter Watkins is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary.

#14902

Daniel Roses

#56263

Overall Influence

Daniel F. Roses is an American surgeon who is the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology of the New York University School of Medicine and a Senior Attending Surgeon at Tisch Hospital of the New York University Medical Center.

#14903

Giorgio Agamben

#176783

Overall Influence

#14904

Jing Wang

#135993

Overall Influence

1950 - 2021 (71 years)

Jing Wang was Professor of Chinese media and Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was jointly appointed to MIT's Comparative Media Studies and Global Studies & Languages.

#14905

John C. Baldwin

#30269

Overall Influence

1948 - 2016 (68 years)

John Charles Baldwin was an American cardiac surgeon and academic administrator. He served as the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine, as dean of Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine, as president and CEO of the Harvard Immune Disease Institute, and as president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

#14906

Sorin Lavric

#151422

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sorin Lavric is a Romanian writer, philosopher and politician. Having started studying medicine in 1987, Lavric later began studying philosophy as well. Posteriorly, as he did not want to be a physician, he focused entirely on philosophy. Lavric finished his university studies in 1996 and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 2005. Lavric has written several books.

#14907

Slobodan Škerović

#86410

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Slobodan Škerović is a Serbian author, painter and philosopher, and a member of the international neo-avantgarde Signalism movement. Biography Škerović studied painting at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He has had poems and articles published since 1976 in numerous Yugoslav journals: Haiku, Student, Vidici, Knjizevna reč, Koraci, Stvaranje, Signal, Rukovet, Savremenik, Književne novine... He was editor of the Student and Vidici journals from 1980 to 1982, and for a short time was a comics writer and a member of Belgrade's comics art group "Tuš grupa".

#14908

Harold C. Case

1902 - 1972 (70 years)

Harold Claude Case was an American academic administrator and Methodist preacher. He served as president of Boston University from 1951 to 1967 and was later named acting president of Whittier College.

#14909

Arnon Afek

#45839

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Arnon Afek is an Israeli physician who specializes in pathology and medical management. Afek served as Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2014–2015. He is currently Deputy Director-General of Sheba Medical Center and acting director of Sheba General Hospital at Tel Hashomer.

#14910

Jonathan Grigg

#93194

Overall Influence

Jonathan Grigg is a British professor of paediatric respiratory and environmental medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He is a former Research lead of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society and was a Vice Chair of the Royal College of Physicians' working party on air pollution and authored the report "Every breath we take, the lifelong impact of air pollution".

#14911

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

1762 - 1836 (74 years)

Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland was a German physician, naturopath and writer. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numerous works displaying extensive reading and a cultivated critical faculty.

#14912

Richard Alan Fox

#89809

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Richard Alan Fox was an Australian medical physicist. He was the son of Alan Fox, a businessman, and Rosalind née Morris. Biography While initially educated at Aquinas College. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and studied physics at the University of Western Australia. In 1964, he graduated Bachelor of Science with first class honours. In 1966, he went to Oxford University and completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in 1970. During 1970-1974, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex. The next four years, he worked as a Scientifi...

#14913

Bill Martin

#105024

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Bill Martin is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University whose academic work concerns Derrida, Sartre, Marxist theory, Aesthetics, and critiques of Richard Rorty. Martin has also written on progressive rock bands including Yes.

#14914

Raymond Jonson

1891 - 1982 (91 years)

Raymond Jonson , was an American-born Modernist painter known for his paintings of the American Southwest. Born Carl Raymond Johnson, he originally signed his paintings C. Raymond Johnson, but later used Raymond Jonson, dropping the first initial and reverting to a more traditional spelling of his last name.

#14915

Caspar Creuziger

Caspar Creuziger

1504 - 1548 (44 years)

Caspar Creuziger, also known as Caspar Cruciger the Elder , was a German Renaissance humanist and Protestant reformer. He was professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, preacher at the Castle Church , secretary to and worked with Martin Luther to revise Luther's German Bible translation.

#14916

Samy Azer

#53140

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Samy A. Azer is an Egyptian-born Australian physician author and medical educator who has contributed to medical education internationally. Academic career Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne . He is Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at King Saud University College of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, from 2007 to 2009.

#14917

Frank Sargent Hoffman

Frank Sargent Hoffman

1852 - 1928 (76 years)

Frank Sargent Hoffman was an American philosopher who wrote on psychology and religion. Hoffman was born in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. In 1876 he graduated from Amherst College and obtained his PhD in 1896. He received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University. He was Professor of Philosophy at Union College. He contributed to The North American Review and was a member of the American Philosophical Association, American Psychology Society and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

#14918

Chen Chao-long

#100941

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Chen Chao-long is a Taiwanese transplant surgeon. Early life and education Chen was born in Kaohsiung on 29 September 1950. He earned his medical degree at Kaohsiung Medical University and trained in surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he worked with Thomas Starzl. He has taught at China Medical University and Chang Gung University.

#14919

Park Rehyun

1920 - 1976 (56 years)

Park Rehyun was a Korean painter. She is regarded as a pioneer of modern Korean art during the late Japanese Colonial period and the following decades. Biography Park was born in the city of Jinnampo in South Korea's South Pyongan Province. Graduating from Gyeongseong high school in 1937, she entered the Tokyo Women's School of Fine Arts in 1941 during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

#14920

Zsolt Liposits

#173061

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Zsolt Liposits is a Hungarian physician, neuroscientist and university professor. Career In 1976, he received MD degree from University Medical School Pécs and was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy. He was invited by Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University and was appointed chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Szeged, Hungary in 1993.

#14921

Munzifa Gafarova

#176867

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Munzifa Kakharovna Gafarova Biography Born in Khujand, Ghafforova was the daughter of two of the first teachers to work in the city. She graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in 1944, and from that year until 1947 served as a secretary of the local Komsomol committee and director of the Tajikistan branch of the Cultural Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1948 she married Solijon Rajabov, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of the Tajik SSR, with whom she would go on to have numerous children.

#14922

Hanah Margalit

#74811

Overall Influence

Hanah Margalit is a Professor in the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research combines bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology, specifically in the fields of gene regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes.

#14923

Pope Celestine V

Pope Celestine V

1215 - 1296 (81 years)

Pope Celestine V , born Pietro Angelerio , also known as Pietro da Morrone, Peter of Morrone, and Peter Celestine, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States for five months from 5 July to 13 December 1294, when he resigned. He was also a monk and hermit who founded the order of the Celestines as a branch of the Benedictine order.

#14924

William Crathorn

1301 - Present (725 years)

William Crathorn was an English Dominican philosopher, from Oxford. He was a philosopher who immediately followed in the intellectual tradition of William of Ockham and worked to strengthen his philosophical works. Crathorn created unique theories in the philosophy of language and psychology, as well as in epistemology by focusing on the claims of skeptics. Other areas of Crathorn's philosophy, which have not been extensively studied, show promise is revealing more about his life and his work.

#14925

Vidyadhiraja Tirtha

#156715

Overall Influence

Vidyadhiraja Tirtha was a Hindu philosopher, dialectician and the seventh pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha and served as peetadhipathi from . Bifurcation of Mathas It was during the time of Vidyadhiraja Tirtha that the first bifurcation of the Madhva Mathas took place. According to tradition Vidyadhiraja want to ordain Rajendra Tirtha, one of his disciples, to succeed him on the pontifical throne. But when Vidyadhiraja fell ill and the time came for formally handing over Matha to Rajendra Tirtha, the latter, who was on tour at the critical juncture. So Vidyadhiraja ordained his disciple Kavindra to succeed him on the pontifical throne.

#14926

Isabella Eckerle

#55530

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Isabella Eckerle is a German virologist who is the co-Head of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva. Her research considers infectious diseases and the development of cell lines that allow a better understanding of their epidemiology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eckerle studied the difference in response of adults and children to coronavirus disease.

#14927

Klaus-Ernst Behne

#96999

Overall Influence

1940 - 2013 (73 years)

Klaus-Ernst Behne was a German professor of musicology with a focus on music psychology. Life Born in Uelzen, Behne studied school music, musicology, psychology and physics in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and Hamburg. He belonged to a group of young musicologists around Hans-Peter Reinecke. - besides Klaus-Ernst Behne also Helga de la Motte-Haber, Ekkehard Jost, Günter Kleinen and Eberhard Kötter. When Reinecke was commissioned in 1964 to set up the department for musical acoustics at the State Institute for Music Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, he took four of the above...

#14928

Fred Turner

#73720

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Fred Turner is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, having formerly served as department chair. Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman C...

#14929

Ladette Randolph

#140774

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor. Ladette Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: Private Way, Haven’s Wake and A Sandhills Ballad, a short story collection, This is Not the Tropics, and a memoir, Leaving the Pink House. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College and co-owner of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine. A long-time Nebraskan, she spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She now lives in Boston with her husband Noel.

#14930

Emilio Oribe

1893 - 1975 (82 years)

Emilio Nicolás Oribe , was a Uruguayan poet, essayist, philosopher, and doctor. A professor at the University of the Republic, Uruguay, Oribe was dean of the university's Faculty of Humanities and Sciences and a member of the Uruguayan Academy of Letters.

#14931

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola

#34491

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola was a Puerto Rican doctor and educator. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1954 where he was top of his class. He did his internship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He was the first Puerto Rican and first alumni to be dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967. In 1967, he became the first rector of the newly formed University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus.

#14932

Dorothy Grover

#170298

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Dorothy Lucille Grover was a New Zealand philosopher of logic who worked as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was known for prosententialism, a deflationary theory of truth in which assertions of the truth of a proposition combine with the proposition to form a pro-sentence, a part of speech which refers to the proposition itself much like a pronoun refers to a noun.

#14933

Helen Stokes-Lampard

#28024

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Dame Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard , FLSW is a British medical academic and a medical general practitioner. She is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges a GP principal and Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing . She was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from November 2016 to November 2019. She is also a professor of GP Education at Birmingham University and holds a visiting chair at St George's, University of London.

#14934

Bruce A. Peterson

#176899

Overall Influence

#14935

Ulrik Huber

1636 - 1694 (58 years)

Ulrik Huber , also known as Ulrich Huber or Ulricus Huber, was a professor of law at the University of Franeker and a political philosopher. Huber studied in Franeker, Utrecht and Heidelberg. He started in 1657 – at a very young age – as professor of Eloquence and History at the University of Franeker and as of 1665 he became professor of law. From 1679 to 1682 he was a judge at the Court of Appeal of Friesland and thereafter returned his position as professor of law until his death in 1694.

#14936

Richard McSorley

#104596

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Richard McSorley was a Jesuit priest and peace studies Professor at Georgetown University. In 1964 he was unofficially assigned by Robert F. Kennedy to give counsel to his sister-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy at Georgetown University. Five years later Bill Clinton asked him to say a prayer for peace at St. Mark's Church. McSorley founded the Center for Peace Studies at Georgetown.

#14937

Nikolai Eberhardt

#112945

Overall Influence

Nikolai Eberhardt was a German émigré physicist and author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament . Biography Born 1930 in Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a Physics Diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University . Intermittently he also served as Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation.

#14938

Alan Freed

1921 - 1965 (44 years)

Albert James "Alan" Freed was an American disc jockey. He also produced and promoted large traveling concerts with various acts, helping to spread the importance of rock and roll music throughout North America.

#14939

Roger Schofield

#151291

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Roger Snowden Schofield, FBA, FRHistS, FSS was a British social scientist, social historian, demographer and academic. He was director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure between 1974 and 1994, and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1969 until his death.

#14940

Adebowale A. Adeyemo

#110493

Overall Influence

Adebowale A. Adeyemo is a Nigerian physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist specialized in genomics and cardiometabolic disorders. He is the deputy director and chief scientific officer of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

#14941

Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe

Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe

1787 - 1840 (53 years)

Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe, He was the father of ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe and grandfather of politician Albrecht von Graefe . Biography Gräfe studied medicine at Halle and Leipzig, and after obtaining his licence from Leipzig, he was in 1807 appointed a private physician to Duke Alexius of Anhalt-Bernburg. In 1811, he became a professor of surgery and director of the ophthalmological institute at the University of Berlin. His lectures at the University of Berlin attracted students from all parts of Europe. During the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon, he was a superintendent of milit...

#14942

Thomas Stapleton

#130390

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Thomas Stapleton FRCP , FRACP, FRCPCH was a British paediatrician who worked in Australia. Early life Stapleton was born on 1 February 1920 in Lynton, Devon, England, with Anglo-Irish heritage. His maternal ancestors included John Nicholson of the East India Company.

#14943

Kay O'Halloran

#78411

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Kay L. O'Halloran is an Australian-born academic in the field of multimodal discourse analysis. She is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University . She is the founding director of the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at the National University of Singapore . She is widely known for her development of systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its application in the realm of mathematical discourse and multimodal text construction.

#14944

Ariston of Athens

#14945

Anne Macaulay

#77498

Overall Influence

1924 - 1998 (74 years)

Anne Macaulay was a Scottish musicologist, author and lecturer. Biography Macaulay was born in Aithernie, Fife in Scotland near Lundin standing stones, the youngest child of Alison and Sir David Russell. Her family soon moved to Silverburn near Lundin Links where her father managed a paper-making business through the Great Depression and had interests in religion, archaeology, industry and a good sense of family values. She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews during the Second World War going on to briefly attend the University of Edinburgh which she departed for South Africa she learned how to fly an aeroplane.

#14946

Aryeh Eldad

#93719

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Aryeh Eldad is an Israeli physician, politician and former medical officer. Eldad is a professor of medicine, and was head of the plastic surgery and burns unit at the Hadassah Medical Center. He was a member of the Knesset from 2003 to 2013 for the National Union and from 2012 for Otzma LeYisrael, which he co-founded. He was formerly a chief medical officer, and was the senior commander of the Israeli Defense Forces medical corps for 25 years.

#14947

David Lowery

#82994

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

David Lowery is an American filmmaker. His original work Ain't Them Bodies Saints , starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he directed the Disney film Pete's Dragon , a live-action film which he had co-written. It was a new work loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name. In 2017, he directed the drama film A Ghost Story and in 2018, he directed The Old Man & the Gun. In 2021, he directed the fantasy epic The Green Knight.

#14948

Hartmut Krones

#75480

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Hartmut Krones is an Austrian musicologist. Training Born in Vienna, Krones studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna as well as music education, vocal pedagogy and Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also won a doctorate in musicology.

#14949

John Tooke

#37987

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Sir John Edward Tooke, is the Head of the School of Life & Medical Sciences at University College, London. He was formerly worked at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry where he was the Inaugural Dean, and of the Peninsula Medical School which was its first constituent. He was President of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 2011 to 2015.

#14950

Urso of Calabria

1200 - 1225 (25 years)

Urso of Calabria, also Urso of Salerno, Ursus Salernitanus, Urso di Calabria was an Italian scholastic philosopher and significant author of medical works in the school of Salerno. He has been thought the leading figure of the school and its most important theoretician and Aristotelian. He had a European reputation.

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