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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15701

Antoni Comín

#102598

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Antoni Comín, born in Barcelona on March 7 1971, is a Catalan intellectual and politician from Spain. He is currently the executive vice-president of the Council for the Republic and has been an MEP since July 2019. He is the fourth child of the politician and intellectual Alfonso Carlos Comín i Ros and Maria Lluïsa Oliveres i Sanvicens, whose other children are Maria, Pere and Betona. He is the partner of the stage designer Sergi Corbera, and they have a daughter called Laia.

#15702

James Linder

#62113

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

James Linder is an American author, academic and businessperson, as well as an authority on university research commercialization. He serves as chief executive officer of Nebraska Medicine, and most recently was president of the University Technology Development Corporation and chief strategist for the University of Nebraska system. He is also a professor of pathology and microbiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

#15703

Luis N. Rivera-Pagán

#108442

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Luis Nicolás Rivera-Pagán is the Henry Winters Luce Professor Emeritus of Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary. Biography Luis Nicolás Rivera-Pagán was born in San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, on December 5, 1942.

#15704

Broda Otto Barnes

Broda Otto Barnes

1906 - 1988 (82 years)

Broda Otto Barnes was an American physician and professor of medicine who studied endocrine dysfunction, particularly hypothyroidism. In the 1970s, Barnes published several books arguing that hypothyroidism was underdiagnosed in the U.S. and was responsible for a wide range of health problems. Barnes' views on the prevalence of hypothyroidism were never widely accepted by the medical community and run counter to its current understanding of thyroid function, but they have been embraced by some elements of the alternative medicine community.

#15705

Ginette Vincendeau

#128227

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ginette Vincendeau is a French-born British-based academic who is a professor of film studies at King's College London. Early life and education Vincendeau was educated at the Lycée Lamartine and Lycée Sophie Germain in Paris, and the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, gaining a degree in English language and literature. She taught French in schools in the UK and at the University of East Anglia, before completing a doctorate in film studies, supervised by Thomas Elsaesser.

#15706

René Laubies

#88946

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

René Laubies was a Colonial French painter, translator, traveler and writer associated with the Lyrical Abstraction, Arte Informale and Tachism movements though particularly linked to the Nuagisme painters.

#15707

David Schaberg

#81298

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

David Schaberg is an American academic. He is the author of a book on the Zuo Zhuan and the Guoyu, for which he won the 2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize. He is the dean of Humanities and the senior dean of the College at the University of California, Los Angeles .

#15708

Alice Ravenhill

1859 - 1954 (95 years)

Alice Ravenhill was an educational pioneer, a developer of Women's Institutes, and one of the first authors to propound aboriginal rights in B.C. She is also the author of numerous articles and books, including her autobiography which she wrote when she was 92.

#15709

John O'Halloran

#71873

Overall Influence

John O'Halloran is an Irish scientist, university lecturer, ornithologist and academic administrator. In August 2021, he was appointed as the sixteenth President of University College Cork. Biography O’Halloran was born in Cork, the second youngest of eight children. He is a past pupil of Douglas Community School. O’Halloran first studied in UCC as an undergraduate student of Zoology. He was awarded a doctorate of science by the National University of Ireland for his published works in 2009 and he previously held academic posts at Colby College in Maine in the United States and the University...

#15710

Zbigniew Herman

#109751

Overall Influence

1935 - 2010 (75 years)

Zbigniew Stanisław Herman was a Polish physician and pharmacologist, rector of Silesian Medical Academy in years 1980–1982. He was decorated with an Officer's Cross and with a Commander's Cross with Star of Polonia Restituta.

#15711

George James Allan

#119622

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

George James Allan, also known as George J Allan or just George Allan, is an American philosopher and former Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College at Dickinson College. He is also a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#15712

Maryna Tkachuk

#139605

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Maryna Tkachuk is a Ukrainian historian of philosophy, Dean of Faculty of Humanities of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She was awarded the state award "Honoured Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine" in 2015.

#15713

J. Roscoe Miller

1905 - 1977 (72 years)

James Roscoe Miller was the twelfth president of Northwestern University, serving between 1949 and 1970. During his tenure, Northwestern substantially increased the size of its Evanston campus, constructing many new buildings on adjacent land reclaimed by filling in Lake Michigan. Furthermore, the university's academic programs were strengthened, the faculty was expanded, and enrollment was increased.

#15714

Karl Britton

1909 - 1983 (74 years)

Karl William Britton was a British philosopher. Throughout his entire career, Britton was interested in the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, on whom he published a book in 1953 which was long regarded as the standard student text.

#15715

John Edwin Smith

#123564

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

John Edwin Smith was an American philosopher and Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He served as president of the American Philosophical Society, Eastern Division, the American Theological Society, the Metaphysical Society of America, the Hegel Society of America and the C.S. Peirce Society.

#15716

Emily Dawson

#109932

Overall Influence

Emily Dawson is a teacher in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Career Dawson's research focuses on how people encounter and engage with science, with an emphasis on equity and social justice.

#15717

Christian Gerhard Leopold

Christian Gerhard Leopold

1846 - 1911 (65 years)

Christian Gerhard Leopold was a German gynecologist born in Meerane, Saxony. In 1870 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where he studied under Carl Siegmund Franz Credé , who would later become his father-in-law. From 1877 until 1883 he taught midwifery at the Frauenklinik in Leipzig, and afterwards succeeded Franz von Winckel as director of the Dresden Royal Gynecological Infirmary.

#15718

Johann Ulrich von Cramer

Johann Ulrich von Cramer

1706 - 1772 (66 years)

Johann Ulrich von Cramer was an eminent German judge, legal scholar, and Enlightenment philosopher. Biography Cramer was the most important representative of Wolffianism in the area of law; he was first a university professor at the University of Marburg and then one of the highest judges of the Holy Roman Empire, both in Vienna and Wetzlar.

#15719

Claudia Maurer Zenck

#93534

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Claudia Maurer Zenck is a German musicologist. Early life, family and education She was born in Bremen. She earned her promotion in 1974 at the Technical University of Berlin and her habilitation in 2000 in Innsbruck.

#15720

T. J. Morgan

1907 - 1986 (79 years)

Thomas John Morgan , better known as T. J. Morgan, was a Welsh academic. He was Professor of Welsh at Swansea University from 1961 to 1975. Life Morgan was born at "Ynys-y-mwn", in the village of Glais, near Swansea, and he studied Welsh at Swansea University. In 1926, he met his future wife, Huana Rees, at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The couple wed in 1935. They had two sons: the politician Rhodri Morgan and historian Prys Morgan .

#15721

Chad Engelland

#173224

Overall Influence

Chad Anthony Engelland is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is known for his research on the ideas of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Engelland is a former editor-in-chief of Xavier Newswire .

#15722

Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea

#49081

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Luis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Life Luis Urrea is the son of Alberto Urrea Murray, of Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico and Phyllis Dashiell, born in Staten Island, New York. He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and listed as an American born abroad. Both his parents worked in San Diego. The family moved to Logan Heights in South San Diego, because he had tuberculosis and they felt he would recover in the US. The family moved again in 1965 to Clairemont, a newer subdivision in the city of San Diego. His mother encouraged him to write and encouraged him to attend college and to apply for grants that would help pay for his college education.

#15723

Anthony of the Mother of God

1583 - 1637 (54 years)

Anthony of the Mother of God , O.C.D. , was a Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar, who was notable as a professor of philosophy and theology, who initiated the compilation. Career and works Born Antonio Oliva y Ordás, as a young man, he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites around 1600. After completing his studies at their seminary, then part of the University of Salamanca, in 1609 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Anthony then taught Aristotle's dialectics and natural philosophy at another seminary of his Order, part of the Universidad Complutense, at that time located in Alcalá de Henare...

#15724

Jean Chevalier

#38768

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Jean Chevalier was a French writer, philosopher, and theologian, best known for his co-authorship of the Dictionnaire des symboles , first printed in 1969 by publisher Éditions Robert Laffont. Dictionary of Symbols is an encyclopedic work of cultural anthropology, co-written with the French poet and Amazonian explorer Alain Gheerbrant, devoted to the symbolism of myths, dreams, habits, gestures, shapes, figures, colors and numbers found in mythology and folklore. It contains over 1,600 articles and has seen nineteen reprints between 1982 and 1997. It has been republished on a worldwide basis ...

#15725

Tracie D. Hall

#78862

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Tracie D. Hall is an American librarian, author, curator, and advocate for the arts who served as the executive director of the American Library Association from 2020 to 2023. Hall is the first African American woman to lead the association since its founding in 1876.

#15726

William Moodie

1759 - 1812 (53 years)

William Moodie or Mudie FRSE was a Scottish Minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1799. He was also a philologist, and Professor of Hebrew at Edinburgh University.

#15727

Sheila Corrall

#111773

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Sheila Mary Corrall is Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are in scholarly communication, collection development in the digital world, professional competence, and intellectual capital in library and information services.

#15728

Diana Ross

#49441

Overall Influence

1910 - 2000 (90 years)

Diana Patience Beverly Ross was an English children's author. A graduate of the Central School of Art in London, she also worked on sculpture and graphic arts and illustrated several of her own books under the name of her cat, Gri.

#15729

Bonaventura Vulcanius

Bonaventura Vulcanius

1538 - 1614 (76 years)

Bonaventura Vulcanius was a Flemish humanist who played a leading role in Northern humanism during the 16th and 17th century. He was a professor of Latin and Greek at Leiden University for 30 years and published various books in the Latin language. He was also a poet.

#15730

Sachin H. Jain

#21775

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Sachin H. Jain is an American physician who held leadership positions in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology . From 2015 to 2020, he served as president and chief executive officer of the CareMore Health System. In June 2020, it was announced that he would join the SCAN Group and Health Plan as its new president and CEO. He is also adjunct professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a Contributor at Forbes. In 2018, he was named one of American healthcare's most 100 most influ...

#15731

Christina Gurnett

#171651

Overall Influence

Christina A. Gurnett is the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Neurology, the director of the Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis, and the chief of Neurology at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

#15732

David Ferriero

#17081

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

David Sean Ferriero is an American librarian and library administrator, who served as the 10th Archivist of the United States. He previously served as the Director of the New York Public Library and as the University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. Prior to his Duke position, he worked for 31 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library. Ferriero was the first librarian to serve as Archivist of the United States.

#15733

Patrick M. McCarthy

#85185

Overall Influence

Patrick M. McCarthy is a cardiac surgeon, executive director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and vice president of the Northwestern Medical Group at Northwestern Medicine, the first Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering.

#15734

A. E. Heath

1887 - 1961 (74 years)

Archie Edward Heath was a philosopher and philosophy professor. Alongside his contemporary Ludwig Wittgenstein, he significantly influenced the 'Swansea School of Philosophy'. He was President of the Rationalist Press Association from 1949 to 1954.

#15735

Jakob Kolletschka

Jakob Kolletschka

1803 - 1847 (44 years)

Jakob Kolletschka was Professor of Forensic Medicine at Vienna General Hospital in Austria. Jakob Kolletschka is mostly known for his death which eventually led Ignaz Semmelweis to his discovery of the etiology of childbed fever. Below is a quote from the original reference describing the details of his death.

#15736

Mary E. Klotman

#170992

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Mary Frances Earley Klotman is an American physician-scientist and academic administrator. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and became the editor of the Annual Review of Medicine in 2020. She has been the dean of the Duke University School of Medicine since 2017.

#15737

Fujiro Katsurada

Fujiro Katsurada

1867 - 1946 (79 years)

Fujiro Katsurada was a Japanese parasitologist who discovered a parasite called Schistosoma japonicum. Biography He was born in 1867 to the home of a samurai in Kaga, Ishikawa, and his childhood name was Kohkichi Shoda . He graduated from Kanazawa Medical School, now the Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University in 1887, and entered the Department of Pathology at Tokyo University under Moriharu Miura . In the same year, he was adopted to Katsurada family, and his name was changed to Fujiro.

#15738

Barry S. Levy

#72178

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Barry S. Levy is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association. A graduate of Tufts University , he holds an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his M.D. at Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

#15739

Aaron Valero

#49981

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Aaron Valero was an Israeli physician and educator who helped establish hospitals and medical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to the advancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20th century.

#15740

Pieter Ballon

#175540

Overall Influence

Pieter Ballon is a Belgian historian and communications scholar specializing in smart cities. He is a Professor in Communication Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and holder of the university's academic Chair on Smart Cities.

#15741

Angela Warnick Buchdahl

Angela Warnick Buchdahl

#29162

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Angela Warnick Buchdahl is an American rabbi. She was the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan . In 2011 she was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of America's "Most Influential Rabbis", and in 2012 by The Daily Beast as one of America's "Top 50 Rabbis". Buchdahl was recognized as one of the top five in The Forwards 2014 "Forward Fifty", a list of American Jews who had the most impact on the national scene in the previous year.

#15742

William Gillette

William Gillette

1853 - 1937 (84 years)

William Hooker Gillette was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage-manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.

#15743

William C. Wantland

#70534

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

William Charles Wantland is an American Anglican Bishop. He is a former Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire. Biography Wantland was born in Edmond, Oklahoma. He is of Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw descent. In 1973 Wantland, his, wife, and their children were declared citizens of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma by adoption.

#15744

Seamus Ross

#66577

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Seamus Ross is a digital humanities and digital curation academic and researcher based in Canada. He is the son of James Francis Ross, a philosopher, and Kathleen Fallon Ross, a nurse. After graduating from the William Penn Charter School, he earned his A.B. from Vassar College , his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania , and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford .

#15745

Yi Gi

1476 - 1552 (76 years)

Yi Gi was a Korean scholar-official during the Joseon period. He was Chief State Councillor from 1549 to 1551. He was the nephew of Seong Dam su , one of the members of Saengyuksin , and a relative of Yi Yi .

#15746

Peter Kyobe Waiswa

#176255

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Peter Kyobe Waiswa is a Ugandan researcher, medical doctor and academic administrator. He is an associate professor of Health Policy, Planning and Management at Makerere University. Waiswa is a health policy and health systems expert with a special interest in maternal, newborn and child health in low and middle-income countries.

#15747

Sophia Moreau

#142617

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Sophia Moreau is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on inequality and discrimination. Books Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination, Oxford University Press 2020

#15748

Andrew Duncan

1773 - 1832 (59 years)

Andrew Duncan, the younger was a British physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. Life Duncan was the son of Elizabeth Knox and Andrew Duncan, the elder, born at Adam Square in Edinburgh on 10 August 1773. His early education was at the High School in Edinburgh. He was then apprenticed to Alexander and George Wood, surgeons of Edinburgh. He graduated with an MA in 1793, and MD in 1794.

#15749

Franz von Wirer

Franz von Wirer

1771 - 1844 (73 years)

Franz de Paula Augustin Wirer Ritter von Rettenbach was an Austrian physician who was a native of Korneuburg in Lower Austria. He was a physician to Austrian royalty, a rector at the University of Vienna and instructor at the Vienna Medical School.

#15750

Cornelis Johannes Marinkelle

Cornelis Johannes Marinkelle

#146514

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Cornelis Johannes Marinkelle was a Dutch physician and biologist, who contributed to the taxonomy of insects, parasites, yeasts and mammals. He described and reported several new living species; many species are named on his honour.

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