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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16001

Hugo Herrera

#154079

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Hugo Eduardo Herrera Arellano is a Chilean lawyer, philosopher and scholar dedicated to the Philosophy of Right. Known as the theoretician of the Chilean "social right-wing", Herrera works as a professor at the Schools of Law of the Diego Portales University and the University of Valparaíso .

#16002

Kenneth B. Pyle

#51597

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor emeritus of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. He earned his BA from Harvard College in 1958. Since earning his PhD in Japanese History from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, he has become a major figure in the area of Japan studies, publishing several books on Japan and its international relations, serving as the first editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies from 1974 to 1986 and director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington from 1978 to 1988, and appointed by President George H.

#16003

Eduard Rüppell

1794 - 1884 (90 years)

Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia. Biography Rüppell was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a prosperous banker, who was a partner in 'Rüppell und Harnier’s Bank'. He was originally destined to be a merchant, but after a visit to Sinai in 1817, where he met Henry Salt and the Swiss-German traveller Ludwig Burckhardt. He explored Giza and the Pyramids with Salt. In 1818, he developed an interest in natural history, and became elected member of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.

#16004

Angela Dale

#105676

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Angela Dale is a British social scientist and statistician whose research has involved the secondary analysis of government survey data, and the study of women in the workforce. Formerly Deputy Director of the Social Statistics Research Unit of City, University of London, and Professor of Quantitative Research and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester, she is now a professor emerita at Manchester.

#16005

Wolfram Goessling

#114958

Overall Influence

Wolfram Goessling is a physician-scientist who specializes in oncology and gastroenterology. He is the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Goessling is also involved in the Harvard–MIT Program of Health Sciences and Technology , where he is co-director with Emery N. Brown.

#16006

Józef Michał Chomiński

#113836

Overall Influence

1906 - 1994 (88 years)

Józef Michał Chomiński was a Polish musicologist of Ukrainian origin. He studied composition and conducting at Lviv Conservatory and musicology at John Casimir University in Lviv under Adolf Chybiński. From 1949 he taught in the School of Musicology of Warsaw University. From 1951 to 1968, he also worked at the State Institute of Art which became the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in since 1959. He trained several generations of Polish musicologists.

#16007

Wafik El-Deiry

#26552

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Wafik El-Deiry is an American physician and cancer researcher who is the Associate Dean for Oncologic Sciences at the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Director of the Cancer Center at Brown University, and the Director of the Joint Program in Cancer Biology at Brown University and its affiliated hospitals. He was previously deputy director of Translational Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, where he was also co-Leader of the Molecular Therapeutics Program.

#16008

Heinrich Braun

1862 - 1934 (72 years)

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Braun was a German surgeon remembered for his work in the field of anaesthesiology. He was a native of Rawitsch, Province of Posen . Braun attended the Kreuzschule and the Vitzhumsches Gymnasium in Dresden, completing his Abitur in 1881. He studied medicine at the Universities of Strasbourg, Greifswald and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1887. From 1891 to 1905 he worked at various hospitals in Leipzig, becoming an associate professor at the University of Leipzig in 1905. The following year he was appointed chief surgeon and medical director of the Royal Saxonian Hospital in Zwickau, a position he maintained until his retirement in 1923.

#16009

Tzvetan Todorov

#183153

Overall Influence

#16010

Thomas Leitch

#64973

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Thomas M. Leitch is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia. Early life Leitch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, where in 1972 he graduated BA magna cum laude in English and Comparative Literature, and then at Yale University, where he became an MA in 1973 and a PhD in 1976.

#16011

Jeffrey Brenner

#41288

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jeffrey Brenner is the CEO of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, and a primary care physician. Biography Brenner is the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and was its executive director from 2006 to 2017. The Camden Coalition provides preventive care to high-risk patients in order to reduce healthcare costs. This practice is known as "hotspotting". The program, which began in Camden, New Jersey, has since expanded to ten cities, including Allentown, Pennsylvania, Aurora, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Diego.

#16012

Una Ellis-Fermor

1894 - 1958 (64 years)

Una Mary Ellis-Fermor , who also used the pseudonym Christopher Turnley, was an English literary critic, author and Hildred Carlile Professor of English at Bedford College, London . In recognition of her services to London University, there is now an award in her name to provide assistance for research students in the publication of scholarly work, in the fields of English, Irish or Scandinavian drama to which Fermor-Ellis herself had been a notable contributor.

#16013

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon

1831 - 1920 (89 years)

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon was a French surgeon and urologist born in Saint-Denis, Ile-Bourbon . He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1858. He was appointed médecin des hôpitaux in 1864, and was later a professor of surgical pathology and genitourinary surgery at the University of Paris. In 1878 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine. At Hôpital Necker he held clinics that were attended by students worldwide

#16014

Denmark Vesey

1767 - 1822 (55 years)

Denmark Vesey was an 18th-century and early 19th century free Black and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. Although the alleged plot was discovered before it could be realized, its potential scale stoked the fears of the antebellum planter class that led to increased restrictions on both slaves and free blacks.

#16015

Peter Bander van Duren

#59787

Overall Influence

1930 - 2004 (74 years)

Peter Bander van Duren was a British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood. Biography Peter Bander immigrated to the United Kingdom from Germany and became a British citizen in 1962. In 1976, he changed his name by deed poll to Peter Bander van Duren, adding a slight alteration of his mother's maiden name, von Duren, to his father's surname.

#16016

John Harrison

#102984

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John S. Harrison Jr. is an American filmmaker, musician, and composer best known for his collaborations with director George A. Romero and for writing-directing the miniseries adaptation of Dune. Early life and career Harrison was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BS in Theater Arts and is an MFA graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. For several years after that, he performed on the road with his band Homebrew before moving back to Pittsburgh to take a master's degree in film and television from Carnegie Mellon University.

#16017

Thomas-Étienne Hamel

Thomas-Étienne Hamel

1830 - 1913 (83 years)

Thomas-Étienne Hamel was a French-Canadian priest and academic. He was the son of Victor Hamel, a merchant and Therèse DeFoy. In 1852, as a student of the Séminaire de Québec, he traveled with Louis-Jacques Casault to London where they arranged for the royal charter of what would become Laval University. After his ordination in 1854, he was sent to Paris' École des Carmes and eventually graduated from the Sorbonne with a license in science, before returning to Quebec to teach at the Séminaire, also acquiring the office of general secretary of the new university. He became rector of the Sémina...

#16018

Michael Weiss

#183191

Overall Influence

#16019

Jerome of Prague

Jerome of Prague

1380 - 1416 (36 years)

Jerome of Prague was a Czech scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, and professor. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance. Early life Jerome was born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia , in 1379 and graduated from the Charles University of Prague in 1398. He later studied at Oxford University where he first became familiar with the reformist teachings of John Wycliffe. He was a philosopher, theologian, university professor, and church reformer who dedicated his life to eradicate those church doctrines and dogmas he found to be corrupt.

#16020

Jérôme Salomon

#48428

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jérôme Salomon is a French infectious diseases physician and high-ranking civil servant. He is the French Directeur général de la Santé since 8 January 2018. He became known in France since the COVID-19 pandemic.

#16021

Johan Quanjer

#178998

Overall Influence

1934 - 2001 (67 years)

Johan Henri Quanjer was a Dutch author, publisher, and New Age philosopher and mystic who spent most of his adult life in London. In 1973 he coined the term "Pneumatocracy" for the principle of the rule of the spirit in government and sought to combine politics with personal spirituality.

#16022

Gerald Jones

#179972

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Gerald Jones is a London-based philosopher, educator and textbook author. Gerald Jones has spent his professional career in adult education. Since 1990 he has written and lectured in Philosophy and Critical Thinking, and was a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Education between 1996 and 2006. He later became an educational administrator and educational theorist. He was Head of Humanities at the Mary Ward Centre before becoming head of the community education service for the London Borough of Ealing, and afterwards the head of adult learning for the London Borough of Lewisham. He is now Pri...

#16023

Nicoletta Sacchi

#74461

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Nicoletta Sacchi is an Italian professor of oncology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is the co-discoverer of the acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction method to extract RNA from biological samples with Trizol. As a consequence of this groundbreaking discovery she is now considered the most cited woman scientist in the world.

#16024

Ernst Ehrlich

#94214

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich was a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June 1943, using a false passport. From 1961 to 1994 he was European director of the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith.

#16025

Matthias Qualle

1470 - 1518 (48 years)

Matthias Qualle , was a Slovene philosopher. Between 1502 and 1514 he taught philosophy at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Arts, and in 1510 he served as the faculty's dean. Life and work Qualle was born in Vače, in present-day Slovenia. He started studying at Vienna in 1491, where he became a teacher. He was a mentor to, and later a colleague of, the Swiss humanist and reformer Joachim Vadian.

#16026

Sadasiva Brahmendra

1700 - Present (326 years)

Sadasiva Brahmendra was a saint, composer of Carnatic music and Advaita philosopher and sishya of the 57th Shankaracharya of Moolamnaya Sarvajna Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Shri Paramasivendra Sarasvati , who lived near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, during the 18th century. Only a few of his compositions have survived, but they are recognised as great compositions of Carnatic music.

#16027

Susan Neuhaus

#143952

Overall Influence

Susan Josephine Neuhaus is an Australian general surgeon and surgical oncologist with specialty interests in melanoma and sarcoma surgery. Neuhaus was one of three finalists for the South Australian nomination for Australian of the Year in 2012.

#16028

Rihard Jakopič

1869 - 1943 (74 years)

Rihard Jakopič was a Slovene painter. He was the leading Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician. Together with Matej Sternen, Matija Jama and Ivan Grohar, he is considered the pioneer of Slovene Impressionist painting.

#16029

Ralph R. Shaw

1907 - 1972 (65 years)

Ralph Robert Shaw was a librarian, a publisher, and an innovator in library science. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century". Scarecrow Press Ralph Shaw founded a publishing company called the Scarecrow Press in 1950 in the basement of his Alexandria, Virginia home, “assisted only by his wife Viola”. Shaw wanted to establish a publishing company that would publish scholarly and academic work, unlikely to capture the attention from most companies that were more concerned with making money than the distribution of scholarly ideas.

#16030

Alexander Berghaus

Alexander Berghaus

#79829

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Alexander Berghaus is a German specialist in otorhinolaryngology and a university professor of otorhinolaryngology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . From 1993 to 2003, he was a director of the department of otorhinolaryngology, face and neck surgery, and professor of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He was dean at the medical faculty there in 1994 and pro-dean from 1996 to 1998. Since 2003 he has been director of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Medical Campus of the University of Munich and professor of otorhi...

#16031

Daisuke Miyao

#121913

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Daisuke Miyao is a professor of Japanese films at the University of Oregon and the University of California San Diego. He is also the author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom and The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, editor of Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema and co-translator of Ozu's Anti-Cinema.

#16032

Wei Liaoweng

1178 - 1237 (59 years)

Wei Liaoweng was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Southern Song Dynasty. He and his colleague Zhen Dexiu were instrumental in establishing Neo-Confucianism as the dominant political philosophy of the court at the time.

#16033

Theodor Rehbenitz

Theodor Rehbenitz

1791 - 1861 (70 years)

Theodor Markus Rehbenitz was a German painter and draftsman, associated with the Nazarene movement. Life and work He was born on an estate where his father served as the Superintendent. After receiving instruction from the local Rector, he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck. When his father died in 1810 the Bürgermeister of Bad Oldesloe became his guardian. The following year, he became a law student at the University of Kiel, then moved to the University of Heidelberg. While there, he was able to see the collection of paintings amassed by Sulpiz Boisserée and his brother Melchior, which had recently been put on display.

#16034

Edward A. Synan

#178423

Overall Influence

1918 - 1997 (79 years)

Edward Aloysius Synan was a philosopher, theologian, and professor at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. In addition to authoring and editing several books, Synan published over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism.

#16035

Steve Haake

#80467

Overall Influence

Stephen John Haake is a British sports engineer. He is professor of sports engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, England and is founding director of the university's advanced wellbeing research centre.

#16036

Tom F. Driver

#108585

Overall Influence

1925 - 2021 (96 years)

Tom Faw Driver was a theologian, preacher, lecturer, author, and peace activist. He is best known for his combined interest in theology, theater, and ritual studies. Tom F. Driver is also known for his numerous publications and lectures on similar topics, which range from academic and popular articles to sermons and books. These culminate in works that condemn war and advocate justice. Driver was also the photographer and director of two documentary films about the violence in Colombia, both of which were written and narrated in collaboration with his wife, historian Anne L. Barstow. Since hi...

#16037

Harvey R. Brown

#161965

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Harvey Robert Brown is a British philosopher of physics. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a fellow of the British Academy.

#16038

Sebald Heyden

1499 - 1561 (62 years)

Sebald Heyden was a German musicologist, cantor, theologian, hymn-writer and religious poet. He is perhaps best known for his De arte canendi which is considered to have had a major impact on scholarship and the teaching of singing to young boys. He wrote hymns such as "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß". It has been speculated that Heyden was the world's first true musicologist.

#16039

Alexander Burns Wallace

Alexander Burns Wallace

1906 - 1974 (68 years)

Alexander Burns Wallace was a Scottish plastic surgeon. He was a founding member and president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, and the first editor of the British Journal of Plastic Surgery. In authorship he appears as A. B. Wallace.

#16040

Michael Plekon

#76632

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Yonkers born April 3, 1948UNDP, 2002UNDP, 2009UNDP, 2012Liturgical Press, 2017 Plekon's efforts to describe what holiness looks like in our time, the distinctive characteristics of women and men of faith, have been praised by colleagues. They see this work as an important "new hagiography" or writing about saints who are our contemporaries, like Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton or Daniel Berrigan.

#16041

Isabelle Garo

#111994

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Isabelle Garo , is a French philosopher specialising in the works of Karl Marx. Biography Garo's research focuses on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, put in their context and broached from both theoretical and political angles. Her work has affected the critical reception of Marx, especially in France, since the 1970s. At the same time, her books analyse the Marxist tradition within the scope of contemporary capitalism and its crisis.

#16042

Donald Dafoe

#44650

Overall Influence

Donald Christian Dafoe is an American surgeon and research scientist. Biography The eldest son of a surgeon, Dafoe graduated from Appleton West High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1967, where he was on the football and wrestling teams. He then attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his undergraduate degree in zoology and his medical degree.

#16043

Augustyn Wróblewski

1866 - 1913 (47 years)

Augustyn Wróblewski was a Polish biochemist and anarchist.

#16044

Melchiorre Zoppio

1544 - 1634 (90 years)

Melchiorre or Melchior Zoppio was an Italian doctor and scholar. Life Born in Bologna, a son of Girolamo Zoppio, Melchiorre Zoppio followed his father's dual career in medicine and education. He taught philosophy in Macerata then Bologna, where in 1588 he was one of the founders of the Accademia dei Gelati. He was one of that society's keenest members, adopting the name Caliginoso within it and leaving it a room for its meetings in his will. Over the fifty years he served as a professor in Bologna Melchiorre acquired such a reputation that his colleagues honoured him with a public inscription during his lifetime.

#16045

Miratul Muqit

#127913

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Miratul Muqit FRSE FMedSci is a British neurologist and a Programme Lead at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. His research focuses on the study of the PINK1 gene, mutations in which are a major cause of Parkinson's disease.

#16046

Anu Sharma

#72168

Overall Influence

Anu Sharma is an American audiologist and academic. She is a professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Science and a fellow at the Institute for Cognitive Science and Center for Neuroscience at University of Colorado Boulder. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado Denver Medical School. Sharma received her doctorate at Northwestern University while working under Nina Kraus, PhD.

#16047

Michael Nobel

#25247

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Michael Nobel is a Swedish entrepreneur of Russian origin. He is a member of the Nobel family, a descendant of Ludvig Nobel, a former chairman of the Nobel Family Society , a co-founder and chairman of the Nobel Sustainability Trust Foundation. At present, Nobel serves on several international boards that focus on scientific, medical and charitable initiatives. He promotes energy efficiency and alternative energy technology.

#16048

Hugo Beltrami

#183371

Overall Influence

Hugo Beltrami is a Canadian natural scientist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Climate Dynamics at St. Francis Xavier University. He works as a professor in the Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute at St. Francis Xavier University

#16049

Elizabeth Losh

#55723

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Elizabeth Losh is a media theorist and digital rhetoric scholar, who is a professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. Education Elizabeth Losh earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, and a PhD in English with an emphasis in critical theory from University of California at Irvine. She was Director of Academic Programs, Sixth College at University of California at San Diego, where she also taught in Communication, Visual Arts, and the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts major. She is a member of the edit...

#16050

Andrej Janež

#90300

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Andrej Janež is a Slovenian diabetologist and diabetes researcher. Janež is the Head of Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Disease at University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Assistant Professor for Internal Medicine at the Medical University Ljubljana, Chairman of the Advances in Diabetes and Insulin Therapy conference, member of the advisory board for peroral antidiabetic therapy in Servier Pharma, member for Slovenia in the Diabetes Education Study Group at European Association for the Study of Diabetes, and member of the European advisory board for continuous glucose monitorin...

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