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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15301

Yan Xiao

#179179

Overall Influence

#15302

Peter Lauremberg

1585 - 1639 (54 years)

Peter Lauremberg was a writer, professor and rector at the University of Rostock in the seventeenth century. Life Son of another professor, Wilhelm Lauremberg, Peter Lauremberg was born in Rostock in 1585, and like his father before him he studied medicine and astronomy at Rostock, where he earned his Master's degree in 1607. The following year he began his medical studies at Leiden. He travelled in Belgium and France, tutoring, and in 1611 took out his Doctor of Medicine in Paris. His first university appointment was at the University of Montauban where he taught philosophy.

#15303

Warren Boroson

#109329

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Warren Gilbert Boroson was an American author and journalist. He began his career in print journalism, and was best known as managing editor of Fact in 1964, when the magazine ran a controversial survey of psychiatrists on presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's mental fitness for office, which led to a lawsuit and revised ethical guidelines against psychological professionals diagnosing individuals they had not personally evaluated. He subsequently worked as an educator and writer of books about business and personal finance.

#15304

Lorraine Lipscombe

#168291

Overall Influence

Lorraine L. Lipscombe is a Canadian endocrinologist. In 2021, Lipscombe was appointed the director of the University of Toronto's Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations. Early life and education Born and raised in Montreal, Lipscombe completed her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at Concordia University where she helped complete research on how hormones affect maternal behaviour in rats. She then completed her medical degree at McGill University in 1998 before enrolling at the University of Toronto for Internal Medicine and Endocrinology residency training, followed by a Master's degree in Clinical Epidemiology, Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation.

#15305

Genevieve Lloyd

#179207

Overall Influence

#15306

David Neumark

1866 - 1924 (58 years)

David Neumark was a German-American rabbi and professor of Jewish philosophy. He authored several notable works on Jewish philosophy and Jewish law, and served as a professor at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

#15307

Luanne Metz

#149662

Overall Influence

Luanne Metz is a Canadian politician and clinical neurologist and researcher. She was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Varsity in the 2023 Alberta general election. She is known for her work in the field of multiple sclerosis and has been recognized globally as an expert in the field.

#15308

Thomas Tüting

#171690

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Thomas Tüting is a German dermatologist and researcher at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He is the clinical director of dermatology and the head of the Laboratory of Experimental Dermatology. His research interests include the identification and characterization of factors responsible for cancer progression and metastasis and resistance to cancer immunotherapy.

#15309

Suzanne Knoebel

#109237

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Suzanne Knoebel was an American internationally known cardiologist, a member of the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty, a visiting fellow at the National Institutes of Health, and the first female president of the American College of Cardiology . She was especially known for her interests in academic research, education, and patient care.

#15310

Nicholas Tatonetti

Nicholas Tatonetti is an American bioscientist who is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief Officer of Cancer Data Science at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University. His lab develops data mining approaches to understand clinical and molecular data.

#15311

Marin Cureau de la Chambre

Marin Cureau de la Chambre

1594 - 1669 (75 years)

Marin Cureau de la Chambre was a French physician and philosopher born in Saint-Jean-d'Assé, a village near Le Mans. Details of his youth and where he attended school are unknown. He was initially a physician in Le Mans, and around 1630 moved to Paris, where he became a friend and physician to Pierre Séguier . Afterwards, he was a médecin ordinaire to Louis XIV. Reportedly the monarch was impressed by Cureau de la Chambre's ability to judge human character based on physical appearance.

#15312

Lorenzo Scupoli

Lorenzo Scupoli

1530 - 1610 (80 years)

Francesco Scupoli , better known by his religious name Lorenzo Scupoli, was a Neapolitan Roman Catholic priest, most notable for his authorship of The Spiritual Combat , an important work in 16th century Catholic spirituality.

#15313

Kenji Ikeda

#179249

Overall Influence

#15314

Robert Orledge

#43606

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Robert Orledge is a British musicologist who specialises in French music from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. A Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool, Orledge has published book-length studies on the composers Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Koechlin and Erik Satie.

#15315

Rahel Hirsch

1870 - 1953 (83 years)

Rahel Hirsch was a German physician and professor at the Charité medical school in Berlin. In 1913 she became the first woman in the Kingdom of Prussia to be appointed a professor of medicine. Biography Rahel Hirsch was born on 15 September 1870 in Frankfurt am Main, one of eleven children of Mendel Hirsch . Mendel Hirsch was the director of the girls' school of the Jewish religious community in Frankfurt am Main. Mendel's fatherRahel's paternal grandfatherwas the eminent rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

#15316

Sadr ad-Din Dashtaki

1425 - 1498 (73 years)

Sayyid Sadr Al-Din Dashtaki or Sayyed Sanad was an Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian. He counts as the founder of the Shiraz school of philosophy. Birth Sadr Al din was born in Dashtah, a region near Shiraz. His complete name was Sayyid Muhammad b. Mansur Al Husayni Al Dashtaki. He was born in Shiraz on second of 829/19 June. He counted as the first in the Dastaki family who confessed apparently to shiism sect. According to Pourjavady, it seems that he was a Zaydi. He also challenged with Jalāl-al-Dīn Davānī on the legality of Shia.

#15317

Eugene Allen Noble

Eugene Allen Noble

1865 - 1948 (83 years)

Eugene Allen Noble was an American academic and Methodist minister. He served as president of three institutions: Centenary University from 1902 to 1908, Goucher College from 1908 to 1911, and Dickinson College from 1911 to 1914. He was also an administrator at the Juilliard School.

#15318

Peter Harper

#121147

Overall Influence

1939 - 2021 (82 years)

Sir Peter Stanley Harper was a British physician and academic who was University Research Professor in Human Genetics at Cardiff University. His work focused on researching neurogenetics and has resulted in discoveries concerning muscular dystrophies and Huntington's disease. He was knighted in 2004 for services to medicine.

#15319

August Coppola

#25899

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

August Floyd Coppola was an American academic, author, film executive, and advocate for the arts. He was the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and the father of actor Nicolas Cage, radio DJ Marc Coppola and director Christopher Coppola.

#15320

John Brown

1810 - 1882 (72 years)

John Brown was a Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae , containing essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. Best remembered are his dog story "Rab and his Friends" and his essays "Pet Marjorie" , on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy and alleged "pet" of Walter Scott, "Our Dogs", "Minchmoor", and "The Enterkine". Brown was half-brother to the organic chemist Alexander Crum Brown.

#15321

Luigi Stefanini

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Luigi Stefanini was an Italian philosopher.

#15322

William Boyd

1885 - 1979 (94 years)

William Boyd, FRCPath, was a Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks. Biography William was born in Portsoy, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd and Eliza Marion Boyd. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he graduated M.B. Ch.B. in 1908, M.D. in 1911, and went on to become trained and accredited as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist. Boyd worked as an attending physician and nominal pathologist at the Derby County Asylum in the English Midlands from 1909–1912, and at Winwick Hospital from 1912–1913. He was a pathologist at Wolverhampton Royal Infirmary from 1913 to August 1914.

#15323

Myia

600 BC - 560 BC (40 years)

Myia was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras. Life Myia was married to Milo of Croton, the famous athlete. She was a choir leader as a girl, and as a woman she was noted for her exemplary religious behaviour. Lucian, in his In Praise of a Fly, states that he could say many things about Myia the Pythagorean were it not for the fact that her history is known to everyone.

#15324

Stanton Glantz

#11705

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Stanton Arnold Glantz is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where he is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, the American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and former director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Glantz's research focused on the health effects of tobacco smoking.

#15325

Thomas Ferguson

1900 - 1977 (77 years)

Thomas Ferguson FRSE CBE was a Scottish surgeon and Professor of Public Health from 1944 to 1964 at the University of Glasgow. Much of his early writing and philosophy paved the way for the National Health Service in Britain after the Second World War.

#15326

Jan Rath

#144468

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jan Rath is a Dutch social scientist who is holding a chair in Urban Sociology in the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His academic studies have focused on the nexus of urban structures and processes on the one hand and their social, ethnic and religious dimensions on the other. His work is highly cited in the sub-fields related to the problematization of immigrant ethnic minorities, and on urban economies, entrepreneurship, and cultural consumption.

#15327

Herbert E. Douglass

#57499

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Herbert Edgar Douglass Jr. was a Seventh-day Adventist theologian. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, US, the oldest of five children to Herbert Edgar Douglass Sr and Mildred Jennie Munson . He earned his Doctorate in Theology at Pacific School of Religion in 1964.

#15328

Euphrates the Stoic

35 - 118 (83 years)

Euphrates was an eminent Stoic philosopher, who lived c. 35–118 AD. Biography According to Philostratus, Euphrates was a native of Tyre, and according to Stephanus of Byzantium, of Epiphania in Syria; whereas Eunapius calls him an Egyptian.

#15329

John Rotherham

#74880

Overall Influence

John Rotherham or Rotheram was an 18th-century British physician and scientist. Life He was born around 1750 in Hexham in northern England, the son of Catherine Roberts and her husband Dr John Rotheram. He was the eldest brother of seven siblings, one of which was Edward Rotheram. He was educated at Newcastle Grammar School in part learning mathematics and physics from his father and Charles Hutton. He was then sent to Sweden to study medicine and sciences at the University of Uppsala under Carl Linnaeus and Prof Bergmann.

#15330

David McKee

#18640

Overall Influence

1935 - 2022 (87 years)

David John McKee was a British writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was UK nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.

#15331

Seiji Ogawa

#179353

Overall Influence

#15332

Eva J. Pell

#73013

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Eva J. Pell is a biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator. Pell's research focused on the physiological and biochemical impacts of air pollutants on vegetation. As a science administrator at Pennsylvania State University and the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Pell initiated several pan-institutional science institutes. Since leaving the Smithsonian, she is developing a series of adventure stories for elementary school children with the theme rescuing endangered species.

#15333

Marc Mitscher

1887 - 1947 (60 years)

Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher was a pioneer in naval aviation who became an admiral in the United States Navy, and served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific during the latter half of World War II.

#15334

Tachi Yamada

#159325

Overall Influence

1945 - 2021 (76 years)

Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada KBE was a Japanese-born American physician and gastroenterologist. He was a venture partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners. Early life and education Born in Tokyo, Yamada had a Japanese American mother and was the a grandson of one of the first people of Japanese descent to be fully trained as an American physician. In 1960, he moved to the United States where he completed his education. After attending Phillips Academy for his high school education, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine.

#15335

Isaac ibn Latif

1210 - 1280 (70 years)

Isaac ibn Latif was a Jewish philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo. In 1238 he published his first work, a treatise named sha'ar ha-shama'yim , a commentary on Koheles . Artscroll's Koheles cites from his work.

#15336

Simone Buitendijk

#37828

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Simone Elisabeth Buitendijk is a Dutch academic and the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. In October 2023 it was announced that she would be stepping down from the post on 31st December 2023. Her research considers women's health and innovations in education.

#15337

Anthony Abela

#127409

Overall Influence

1954 - 2006 (52 years)

Anthony Abela was a major Maltese sociologist. He mostly specialised in values. Life Abela was born at Floriana, Malta, in 1954. He began his studies at the University of Malta, from which he acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy , and pursued further studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, from which he acquired a bachelor's degree in Theology . He also studied at the Centre Sèvres in Paris, France, from which he acquired a master's degree in Theology ; at the Loyola University of Chicago, U.S. ; and at the University of Oxford, England, from which he acquired a doctorate in ...

#15338

Martin Heidegger

#179384

Overall Influence

#15339

Robert J. Glushko

#38523

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert J. Glushko is an adjunct professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Information. He has written a number of books including Document Engineering and The Discipline of Organizing .

#15340

Helen O'Connell

#40159

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Helen E. O'Connell is an Australian professor of urology and a pioneer in the anatomical study of the clitoris. She is a leading researcher in the area of female pelvic anatomy and was the first woman to complete training as a urologist in Australia.

#15341

John McKellar Stewart

1878 - 1953 (75 years)

John McKellar Stewart , generally referred to as J. McKellar Stewart, was professor of philosophy at the University of Adelaide and its vice-chancellor from 1945 to 1948. History McKellar Stewart was a son of Alexander Stewart and his wife Lillias Stewart, née McKellar.Alexander Stewart left Scotland for Australia with his parents in 1852. and operated a farm at Ballangeich, around 30 km north of Warrnambool, Victoria.Lillias McKellar left Scotland for Australia aboard Christina in company with one John McKellar, arriving in Sydney in April 1839.Stewart was employed as trainee teacher at Warrnambool State School, then taught at Charlton then Benalla.

#15342

Drorah Setel

#98088

Overall Influence

Drorah Setel is an American biblical scholar and feminist theologian from Buffalo, New York, who was formerly a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls, NY. She presently serves as rabbi to the Temple Emanu-El congregation at the Jewish Community Center in Brighton, a suburb of Rochester, New York.

#15343

Clay Marsh

#97149

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Clay Braden Marsh is an American physician, scientist, educator and university administrator. He has been vice president and executive dean for health sciences at West Virginia University since 2015. He is a member of the board of WVU Medicine, West Virginia's largest health care enterprise and largest employer.

#15344

Joanna Hańderek

#174105

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Joanna Hańderek is a Polish philosopher of culture, associate professor at the Jagiellonian University, opinion journalist, activist and politician. Biography Academic work In 2002 she obtained a PhD in humanities at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, on the basis of the work Suffering and Time. An attempt to analyze the suffering-time relationship based on the views of Emmanuel Lévinas, supervised by Beata Szymańska. In 2012, she obtained habilitation in humanities. She is an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. She was the deputy director for student a...

#15345

Nicholas J. J. Smith

#168139

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Nicholas Jeremy Josef Smith is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a former President of the Australasian Association for Logic. Smith is known for his research on logics. He is a lecturer for the popular PHIL1012: Introductory Logic course at the University of Sydney, which broke records in 2021 as the largest course by enrolments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

#15346

Patrice Mangin

#36339

Overall Influence

Professor Patrice Mangin is a widely published forensic pathologist and toxicologist, director of the University Center of Legal Medicine in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. Education Mangin graduated from the Faculty of medicine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, University René Descartes in 1973. In 1978 he obtained his M.D. thesis at Faculty of medicine, Louis Pasteur University - Strasbourg I and later got his board certification in legal medicine in France and Switzerland in 1980 and 1996 respectively. He defended his Ph.D thesis in toxicology under Professor of Pharmacy G. Dirrheimer at Louis Pasteur University - Strasbourg I in 1985.

#15347

John P. Welle

#131232

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

John P. Welle is an American professor of Italian Studies and translator of poems from Italian to English. Life He graduated from St. John's University and Indiana University with an MFA and PhD. His poetry and translations have appeared in Dacotah Territory, The Cresset, The Juggler, Modern Poetry in Translation, and World Literature Today.

#15348

Max Thedy

1858 - 1924 (66 years)

Max Thedy was a German painter, designer and engraver. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as Marc Thedy. Biography He was the youngest of twelve children born to Johann Valentin Thedy, a Verwaltungsaktuar and his wife, Theresia. After his parents' premature deaths, he was taken in by the family of the Hamburg painter, Georg Friedrich Louis Reinhardt and encouraged to pursue a career in art.

#15349

Megan Rosenbloom

Megan Rosenbloom

#101264

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Megan Curran Rosenbloom is an American medical librarian and expert on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin. She is a team member of the Anthropodermic Book Project, a group which scientifically tests skin-bound books to determine whether their origins are human. Rosenbloom is the author of Dark Archives, a 2020 non-fiction book on the history, provenance, and myths about books bound in human skin.

#15350

Alma Flor Ada

#50152

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Alma Flor Ada is a Cuban-American author of children's books, poetry, and novels. A Professor Emerita at the University of San Francisco, she is recognized for her work promoting bilingual and multicultural education in the United States.

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