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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15901

Constantine Cavarnos

#143270

Overall Influence

1918 - 2011 (93 years)

Schemamonk Constantine Cavarnos was an American philosopher, Byzantinist, and Eastern Orthodox monk. Early life and education Cavarnos was born in Boston in 1918. He graduated from Harvard University in 1948 with a doctorate in philosophy.

#15902

Jacques Rousseau

Jacques Rousseau

#50982

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jacques André Rousseau is a South African academic, secular activist and social commentator. Early life Rousseau was born in Cape Town in 1971. He attended Stellenberg High School and the University of Cape Town , where he obtained a BA in Philosophy and a MA in English.

#15903

N. C. Wyeth

1882 - 1945 (63 years)

Newell Convers Wyeth , known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly.

#15904

Heinrich Nauen

1880 - 1940 (60 years)

Heinrich Nauen was a German Expressionist artist. He created oils, watercolors, and prints; as well as murals and mosaics. A large part of his output consists of landscapes and floral still-lifes. Biography He was born to a family of bakers, but expressed an interest in art at an early age. In 1898, he was accepted at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, then attended a private art school in Munich. He completed his studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 1900 to 1902. Soon after, he joined the circle of artists that formed around the sculptor George Minne in the Flemi...

#15905

Donald Wood-Smith

#62709

Overall Influence

Donald Wood-Smith was a professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an attending surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He was also chairman of the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.

#15906

Malcolm Turvey

#53767

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Malcolm Turvey is a British Professor of Film Studies at Tufts University and an editor of the journal October. He formerly taught at Sarah Lawrence College. Books The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s, MIT Press Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson, Amsterdam University Press Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition, Oxford University Press

#15907

Rod Smallwood

#114062

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM , known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and computer scientist. Smallwood graduated in Physics from University College London, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the National Health Service in Sheffield and gaining a PhD from the University of Sheffield.

#15908

Gaius Blossius

150 BC - 130 BC (20 years)

Gaius Blossius was, according to Plutarch, a philosopher and student of the Stoic philosopher Antipater of Tarsus, from the city of Cumae in Campania, Italy, who instigated Roman tribune Tiberius Gracchus to pursue a land reform movement on behalf of the plebs. Tiberius was accused by his political opponents of attempting to provoke a popular uprising, and have himself crowned King. Eventually, he was assassinated, and his body thrown into the river Tiber.

#15909

Janusz Bardach

#44757

Overall Influence

1919 - 2002 (83 years)

Janusz Bardach was a gulag inmate, author, and noted plastic surgeon. He was the younger brother of Polish legal scholar Juliusz Bardach. Survivors include: his wife, Phyllis Harper- Bardach of Iowa City, Iowa; his daughter, Ewa Bardach and her husband Hani Elkadi of Iowa City; his granddaughter, Nina Elkadi of Iowa City.

#15910

Emmy Okello

#128759

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Emmy Okello, is a Ugandan consultant physician who has specialized as an interventional cardiologist and researcher. He serves as the Head of the Cardiac Catheterization Department at Uganda Heart Institute, the government institution in Kampala that specializes in the treatment of congenital and acquired cardiac disorders.

#15911

David J. Buch

#71821

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Joseph Buch is an American musicologist. Life and career Buch was born in Detroit and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He received his PhD in Music History from Northwestern University.

#15912

Joaquín Setantí

1550 - 1617 (67 years)

Joaquín Setantí y Alcina was an important figure in the municipality of Barcelona at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He contributed several monographs to the movement known as tacitism including Frutos de historia . His collection of moral aphorisms, Centellas de varios conceptos , stands out, due to its originality. Setantí was a precursor of Baltasar Gracián and of the other great cultivators of aphorisms during the Spanish Baroque. His 500 dense Centellas are said to "reveal a modern political and personal attitude that marks an important milestone in Spanish sententious litera...

#15913

Russell Strong

#129165

Overall Influence

Russell Walker Strong, is an Australian transplant surgeon. He pioneered several techniques for liver transplantation, including reduced-size liver transplantation, split-liver transplantation, and living donor liver transplantation.

#15914

Soma Weiss

1898 - 1942 (44 years)

Soma Weiss was a Hungarian-born American physician. Early life Soma Weiss was born in 1898 in Bistriţa, Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied physiology and biochemistry in Budapest. Immediately after the end of World War I, he immigrated to the United States and qualified in medicine in 1923. He was from Jewish ancestry.

#15915

William Gregory

William Gregory

1803 - 1858 (55 years)

William Gregory FRCPE FRSE FCS was a Scottish physician and chemist. He studied under and translated some of the works of Justus von Liebig, the German chemist. Gregory also had interests in mesmerism and phrenology.

#15916

Hilary Critchley

#60700

Overall Influence

Hilary Octavia Dawn Critchley FRSE FRSB FMedSci FFSRH FRCOG FRANZCOG is a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. , she is the Professor of Reproductive Medicine and an Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh.

#15917

Georges-Elia Sarfati

Georges-Elia Sarfati

#53794

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Georges-Elia Sarfati is a philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis. He has translated Viktor E. Frankl. He is the grand-nephew of the sociologist Gaston Bouthoul.

#15918

Mark Seidenfeld

#44262

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Mark B. Seidenfeld is an American legal academic who is known for his contributions to American administrative law. He is the Patricia A. Dore Professor of Administrative Law at the Florida State University College of Law.

#15919

Roland of Cremona

1178 - 1259 (81 years)

Roland of Cremona was a Dominican theologian and an early scholastic philosopher. He was the first Dominican regent master at Paris, France . He was among the most enthusiastic of those who made use of the newly translated Aristotle in the early 13th century.

#15920

An Hyang

1243 - 1306 (63 years)

Ahn Hyang , also known as Ahn Yu , was a leading Confucian scholar born in Yeongju in present-day South Korea, and was from the Sunheung Ahn clan. He is considered the founder of Neo-Confucianism in Korea, introducing Song Confucianism to the Goryeo kingdom. Ahn Hyang visited China, transcribing the works of Zhu Xi and bringing his copy and portraits of Confucius and Zhu Xi to Korea to use in his revitalization of Confucianism. He strove to replace Buddhism with Confucianism.

#15921

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

#182677

Overall Influence

#15922

Tomi Mäkelä

#61482

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Tomi Matti Mäkelä is a Finnish musicologist and pianist, professor at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He studied music and musicology in Lahti, Vienna, Berlin and Helsinki. As a pianist he studied with Rauno Jussila and Noel Flores. He got his doctoral degree 1988 in Berlin under the guidance of Carl Dahlhaus. He has published widely on the music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. His German book on Sibelius Poesie in der Luft got the award Geisteswissenschaft international 2008 and was published in English translation by Steven Lindberg as Jean Sibelius .

#15923

Alfred Leland Crabb

1884 - 1979 (95 years)

Alfred Leland Crabb was an American academic and author of historical novels. He was Professor of Education at Peabody College from 1927 to 1949. He wrote two trilogies on Southern culture. Early life Alfred Leland Crabb was born on January 22, 1884, in Plum Springs, Kentucky. His father, James Wade Crabb, was a farmer. His mother was Annie Cordelia Crabb.

#15924

William Andrew Moffett

#56566

Overall Influence

1933 - 1995 (62 years)

William Andrew Moffett was a historian and librarian who was named "100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century" by American Libraries in 1999. He is primarily known for aiding in the capture of a prolific library thief, James Richard Shinn, and, more famously, opening access of the Dead Sea Scrolls for scholarly use, both of which news stories made the front page of the New York Times. Moffett was also known for being a highly influential academic librarian director at Oberlin College, the 6th Librarian at the Huntington Library and for being named Academic/Research Librar...

#15925

Prem Lata Sharma

#90549

Overall Influence

1927 - 1998 (71 years)

Prem Lata Sharma, 10-05-1927 to 05-12-1998, was an Indian musicologist. Life Prem Lata Sharma was born on 10 May 1927, in Nakodar, District Jalandhar, East Panjab. She was the only child of her parents, Pandita Lalchand sharma, Srimati, Mayadevi,. Both of them were devoted Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas and they brought up their only child, Premlata, in a serene and pious atmosphere. She received her primary and secondary training at home in Delhi along with training in vocal music and sitar. She passed her High School Examination from Panjab University in 1938 at the age of eleven. For the next two years she studied at the University of Delhi in 1940.

#15926

Lewis Leavitt

#69113

Overall Influence

Lewis A. Leavitt is medical director of the Waisman Center on Human Development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Leavitt graduated from the University of Chicago School of Medicine and is the husband of medical historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.

#15927

Dafydd Stephens

Dafydd Stephens

#72375

Overall Influence

1942 - 2012 (70 years)

Dafydd Stephens was an audiological physician, holding the post of Honorary Professor of Audiological Medicine at the Cardiff University School of Medicine at Cardiff University. He was also a visiting professor at Swansea University and the University of Bristol. He previously worked as a consultant audiological physician at the Welsh Hearing Institute, University Hospital of Wales.

#15928

Walery Jaworski

Walery Jaworski

1849 - 1924 (75 years)

Walery Jaworski was a Polish physician and gastroenterologist. He is considered one of the pioneers of gastroenterology in Poland. He is also known for making one of the first observations of Helicobacter pylori in 1899.

#15929

Kuttipuzha Krishna Pillai

1900 - 1971 (71 years)

Kuttipuzha Krishna Pillai , was an Indian scholar, journalist, philosopher, atheist and critic of Malayalam language. Counted among the prominent literary critics of the language, he wrote a number of books covering the genres of literary criticism and philosophy. He presided over the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, chaired the advisory board of the Kerala Bhasha Institute as an ex-officio member and was a recipient of the Soviet Land Nehru Award.

#15930

France Cukjati

#134064

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

France Cukjati is a Slovenian politician, physician, theologian and a former Jesuit. Till 21 December 2011, he served as deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia. He was born in the village of Šentgotard near Trojane in central Slovenia . His father fell in World War II as a member of the Yugoslav partisan resistance, while his mother was a local schoolteacher. He studied civil engineering at the University of Ljubljana, before being drafted to the Yugoslav People's Army. In 1964, he entered the Jesuit order. In 1966, he enrolled at the University of Zagreb, where he studied philosophy.

#15931

William M'Intosh

William M'Intosh

1838 - 1931 (93 years)

William Carmichael M'Intosh LLD was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist. He served as president of the Ray Society, as vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and was awarded the Neill Prize .

#15932

Ludvig Puusepp

1875 - 1942 (67 years)

Ludvig Puusepp was an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery. Early life Ludvig Puusepp was born on 3 December 1875 in Kyiv to an Estonian father and a Polish-Czech mother. His father Martin Puusepp was a shoemaker who had migrated from Rakvere, Estonia to St. Petersburg where he met and married Victoria-Stephania Goebel. Puusepp learned German at home and Russian in school; it was not until 1920 at age 44 that he learned the Estonian language. He continued to study languages including French, English and Italian.

#15933

Wilfried Gruhn

#89499

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Wilfried Gruhn is a German violinist, musicologist, music educator, and professor emeritus at universities in Germany and abroad. His focus is the music education of small children. He founded and directed the Gordon Institute of early childhood music learning in Freiburg in 2003. He is engaged in several international organisations such as International Society for Music Education and the Internationale Leo Kestenberg Gesellschaft which published Leo Kestenberg's complete writings in six volumes.

#15934

Lewis Caleb Beck

1798 - 1853 (55 years)

Lewis Caleb Beck was an American physician, botanist, chemist, and mineralogist. Biography He graduated from Union College in 1815 with a Master of Arts. He then studied medicine, and began his practice in Schenectady in 1818. From 1820 to 1821, he resided in St. Louis, but soon returned and settled in Albany. Beck was successively professor of botany in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , professor of botany and chemistry in the Vermont Academy of Medicine , professor of chemistry and natural history at Rutgers College , and professor of chemistry and pharmacy at Albany Medical College ....

#15935

David E. Levy

#182722

Overall Influence

#15936

Chaeremon of Alexandria

10 - 90 (80 years)

Chaeremon of Alexandria was a Stoic philosopher and historian who wrote on Egyptian mythology from a "typically Stoic" perspective. All of Chaeremon's works are lost, though a number of fragments are quoted by later authors. Three titles are preserved: the History of Egypt, Hieroglyphika, and On Comets, with another fragment quoted from an unknown grammatical treatise of his. According to the Suda, he was the head of the Alexandrian school of grammarians, and he may also have been head of the Museion.

#15937

Daoud Hanania

#37437

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Daoud Anastas Hanania is a Jordanian heart surgeon. Hanania is a former Lieutenant General in the Jordanian Armed Forces and former Senator in the Jordanian Parliament. Family background and education Daoud Hanania was born into an Orthodox Christian Palestinian family originally hailed from Jerusalem, Palestine. His father, Anastas Hanania, was a lawyer and politician. The Hananias lived in West Jerusalem until 1948. In the early 1950s they permanently moved to Amman, Jordan, where Hanania's father came to hold several cabinet positions in the Jordanian government, including Foreign Minister, Minister of Justice, Minister for Refugees and Minister of Finance.

#15938

Ewa Majewska

#175732

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Ewa Alicja Majewska is a Polish philosopher, political activist and an author. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she was involved in anarchist, anti-border, ecological and women's movements. She is a contributor to prominent international conferences, projects and published articles and essays, in journals, magazines, and collected volumes, including: e-flux, Signs, Third Text, Journal of Utopian Studies, and Jacobin.

#15939

Maria Oliva-Hemker

#120100

Overall Influence

Maria M. Oliva-Hemker is a Cuban-American pediatrician. She is the Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease , Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Vice Dean for Faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

#15940

Carl E. Schneider

#123700

Overall Influence

Carl E. Schneider was an American lawyer and bioethicist. He served as Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and as Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He was educated at Harvard College and received his JD from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor-in-chief of the law review. Schneider subsequently clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; he served in the same capacity for Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court. In 1981, he joined the law faculty at the University of Michigan.

#15941

Richard S. Potember

#65948

Overall Influence

Richard S. Potember is an American scientist and inventor. He is currently a principal systems engineer at MITRE. Prior to this he was a program manager in the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . He has been an instructor at the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University since 1987. He was a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, from 1981 to 2015. He served as an adjunct professor at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies from 1995 to 1998. H...

#15942

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo

1924 - 1984 (60 years)

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo Torrontegui , also known as Fernando M. Zóbel, was a Spanish Filipino painter, businessman, art collector and museum founder. Early life Zóbel was born in Ermita, Manila in the Philippines to Enrique Zóbel de Ayala and Fermina Montojo y Torrontegui and was a member of the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family. He was a brother of Jacobo Zóbel , Alfonso and Mercedes Zóbel McMicking, all children of his father from his first wife, Consuelo Róxas de Ayala . He was a nephew and namesake of Fernando Antonio Zóbel de Ayala, the eldest brother of his father.

#15943

Francesco Vimercato

1512 - 1571 (59 years)

Francesco Vimercato was an Italian Aristotelian scholar. He was a Royal Reader in Philosophy in Paris. He is known for his commentaries on Aristotle’s ethical and zoological works. In 1561 he left France to work for Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. He was employed as a professor, and then a diplomat.

#15944

Paula Jameson

#168558

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Paula Elizabeth Jameson is a New Zealand plant physiologist. Biography In1982 Jameson was awarded a PhD titled 'A study on the role of cytokinins in the development of starch accumulating structures from the University of Canterbury. After working at Otago University and serving as head of department at Massey University, Jameson moved to the University of Canterbury. Jameson is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science and a life member of the New Zealand Society of Plant Physiologists.

#15945

James Spence

1812 - 1882 (70 years)

James Spence FRSE FRCSEd was a Scottish surgeon. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1867/68. Life He was born on 31 March 1812 at 12 South Bridge in Edinburgh, the son of James Spence, a perfumer, and his third wife.

#15946

Thomas Stewart Traill

Thomas Stewart Traill

1781 - 1862 (81 years)

Thomas Stewart Traill was a British physician, chemist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence. He was the grandfather of the physicist, meteorologist and geologist Robert Traill Omond FRSE .

#15947

Lynn Riggs

1899 - 1954 (55 years)

Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter. His 1931 play Green Grow The Lilacs was adapted into the landmark 1943 musical Oklahoma!. Early life Riggs was born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma, . His mother was 1/8 Cherokee, and when he was two years old, his mother secured his Cherokee allotment for him. He was able to draw on his allotment to help support his writing.

#15948

Pedro Ciruelo

1470 - 1548 (78 years)

Pedro Sánchez Ciruelo was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, mathematician, astrologer, astronomer and writer on topics of natural philosophy. Early life Ciruelo was born somewhere between 1460 and 1470 in Daroca, Spain. Ciruelo was born in the kingdom of Aragon where Daroca held political, military, and administrative significance for the kingdom. He came from a family of Jews and Judaizers according to papers that traced his genealogy during the Spanish Inquisition. Ciruelo claimed to be an orphan, but the validity of this claim is not well-supported as Ciruelo had living relatives and received an education which was costly at the time.

#15949

Sachiko Kamimura

Sachiko Kamimura

#62355

Overall Influence

Sachiko Kamimura is a Japanese animator. She is noted for her work with Sunrise, where she was the supervising animator and character designer for the City Hunter series and several others, mentoring future several Sunrise character designers and animators, including Toshihiro Kawamoto.

#15950

Honoratus a Sancta Maria

1651 - 1729 (78 years)

Honoratus a Sancta Maria was a French Discalced Carmelite, known as a prolific controversialist. His secular name was Blaise Vauxelles , and he was known also by the French version of his name in religion, Honoré de Sainte-Marie.

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