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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16101

Richard Idro

#176380

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Richard Iwa Idro is a Ugandan pediatric neurologist, researcher and academic, who serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

#16102

Luc Foisneau

#130871

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Luc Foisneau, born in Blois on 30 March 1963, is a French philosopher specialising in contemporary political thought and that of the Early Modern period. Director of research at CNRS, he is a member of the Centre Raymond Aron, and teaches at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

#16103

David Tudehope

#183675

Overall Influence

David Ian Tudehope is an Australian physician, specialising in neonatology. Tudehope is credited with progressing neonatal research in Queensland in his roles as director of neonatology at the Mater Mothers' Hospital and as professor in neonatal paediatrics of the University of Queensland.

#16104

Lucius Duncan Bulkley

Lucius Duncan Bulkley

1845 - 1928 (83 years)

Lucius Duncan Bulkley was an American dermatologist and alternative cancer treatment advocate. Biography Bulkley was born in Manhattan. His father was Henry Daggett Bulkley. In 1869, he obtained his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He was house physician at New York Hospital and travelled to Europe to study dermatology in London, Paris and Vienna.

#16105

John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg

1852 - 1943 (91 years)

John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the Progressive Movement. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, founded by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It combined aspects of a European spa, a hydrotherapy institution, a hospital and high-class hotel. Kellogg treated the rich and famous, as well as the poor who could not afford other hospitals. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, his "development of dry breakfast cereals was largely responsible for the creation of the flaked-cereal industry."

#16106

Sarah Haffner

#79199

Overall Influence

1940 - 2018 (78 years)

Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.

#16107

Sebastian Shaw

#92067

Overall Influence

1905 - 1994 (89 years)

Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions.

#16108

David Frederick Bowers

1906 - 1945 (39 years)

David Frederick Bowers was a philosophy professor, noteworthy as a Guggenheim Fellow. Bowers graduated from Capital University with A.B. in 1929 and from Princeton University with A.M. in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1932. In Princeton University's philosophy department, he was an instructor from 1934 to 1938 and an assistant professor beginning in 1938. He was also an instructor at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1938.

#16109

Marcin Król

#82108

Overall Influence

1944 - 2020 (76 years)

Marcin Feliks Król was a Polish philosopher, historian of ideas, publicist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He was a democratic opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic. As a participant in the March events of 1968, Król was imprisoned in the same year for several months. He was a long-time contributing editor of the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Res Publica magazine. In 1975, Król was a signatory to the Letter of 59 against changes to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland.

#16110

Arthur H. Bulbulian

1900 - 1996 (96 years)

Arthur H. Bulbulian was a pioneer of Armenian descent in the field of facial prosthetics. Life His work as a part of the Mayo Clinic Aero Medical Unit led to his being credited with the creation of the A-14 oxygen mask for the United States Air Force in 1941. The A-14 fighter pilot's mask was frost proof, and included a microphone for radio communication, and allowed the pilot to talk and eat while wearing it.

#16111

Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn

#134159

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Rudolf Kelterborn was a Swiss musician and composer. Life Born in Basel, Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Boris Blacher, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner. In his own teaching career, Kelterborn has served as a lecturer and professor at a number of music colleges in Germany and in Switzerland, where he directed the Basel Music Academy from 1983 to 1994. Kelterborn also headed the music division of Swiss German radio from 1974 to 1980.

#16112

Oloph Bexell

#133296

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Oloph Eric Fingal Bexell is a Swedish priest and professor emeritus in church history at Uppsala University. Biography Oloph Bexell received his bachelor of theology in 1974 and was ordained in the Diocese of Växjö the same year. In 1988 he defended his thesis in practical theology, and was employed the same year by the Swedish Church Board for Teaching and Education. He later became a researcher in the history of Christianity at Uppsala University from 1989 to 1991. He received his docent certification in church and social sciences in 1990. From 1992 to 2000 Bexell worked as a university instructor in the subject.

#16113

David Hay

#149283

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Sir David Russell Hay was a New Zealand cardiologist and anti-smoking campaigner. Biography Born in Christchurch, Hay was one of four children of philanthropist Sir James Hay, including his identical twin brother Sir Hamish Hay and older sister Dame Laurie Salas. Educated at St Andrew's College, he spent 1945 at Canterbury University College, before going on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1951.

#16114

Nancy H. Nielsen

#96113

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Nancy H. Nielsen is an American physician. She is the senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. In 2009, Nielsen was recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine for her medical advocacy work.

#16115

Susumu Kagawa

#73691

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

was a Japanese urologist and a co-author of 41 peer-reviewed articles all of which can be found on Web of Science and PubMed. He was also a President of the University of Tokushima.

#16116

Ignacio de Arbieto

1585 - 1670 (85 years)

Ignacio de Arbieto was a Jesuit philosopher and historian of Peru. Biography Arbieto was born in Madrid. He joined the Jesuit Order in 1603 and was ordained as a priest in Lima, Peru, in 1612. He was appointed chair of philosophy in Quito, Ecuador, then he went to Arequipa and finally back to Lima.

#16117

Fausto Vagnetti

Fausto Vagnetti

1876 - 1954 (78 years)

Fausto Vagnetti is a representative of Italian painting from the era of transition from the 19th to the 20th century. He emigrated from Tuscany to Rome and started infusing Tuscan brilliance and chromatism into the warm Roman style of painting.

#16118

Sue Hill

#53070

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dame Susan Lesley Hill has been the Chief Scientific Officer for England since October 2002. Professional and academic background Hill's professional background is as a healthcare scientist in the National Health Service specialising in respiratory medicine. She gained a PhD in Respiratory Sciences having undertaken a programme of basic science research into the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease at the University of Birmingham. She spent three decades at what is now University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and as an academic at the University of Birmingham Medical School. Sh...

#16119

Marcel Poëte

1866 - 1950 (84 years)

Marcel César Poëte was a French librarian, historian and urban planning theoretician. He was a co-founder of the School of Advanced Urban Studies, where he taught, and was highly influential in developing new theories of urban planning in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.

#16120

Linda Stone

#64610

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Linda Stone is a writer and consultant who coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" in 1998. Stone also coined "email apnea" in 2008 which means "a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email."

#16121

Lene Auestad

#83425

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Lene Auestad is an author and a philosopher from the University of Oslo. She has written on the themes of prejudice, social exclusion and minority rights, and has contributed to public debates on hate speech.

#16122

Aleksandr Adabashyan

Aleksandr Adabashyan

#150199

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan is Soviet and Russian film writer, artist, director and actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR . Honored Artist of Russia . Biography Born in Moscow into a russified Armenian family of Artyom Adabashyan, an official at the Ministry of Construction Industry, and Valentina Barkhudarova, a teacher of German language. According to Aleksandr, he was raised inside the Russian culture, he doesn't speak Armenian language and he visited Yerevan only twice in his life. In 1962 he enrolled in the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, and in 1964 he went to serve in the army.

#16123

Daniel Mojon

#59090

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Daniel Mojon is a Swiss ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon who is considered to be the inventor of minimally invasive strabismus surgery , a method of surgically correcting squinting that uses only very small incisions of two to three millimeters and is supposed to lead to quicker rehabilitation and wound healing. Daniel Mojon is president of the program committee of the Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology .

#16124

Peter Crockaert

1465 - 1514 (49 years)

Peter Crockaert , known as Peter of Brussels, was a Flemish scholastic philosopher. Initially he was a pupil of John Mair and a follower of William of Ockham. Later he joined the Dominican Order, and became a supporter of orthodox Thomism. He taught at the University of Paris, and is known for a number of commentaries, on Aristotle and Peter of Spain as well as on Aquinas.

#16125

Joe May

1880 - 1954 (74 years)

Joe May was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema. Biography After studying in Berlin and a variety of odd jobs, he began his career as a stage director of operettas in Hamburg. In 1902 he had married the actress Mia May and took his stage name from hers.

#16126

Edward Tobinick

#87042

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#16127

Bruno Piglhein

1848 - 1894 (46 years)

Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein was a German sculptor and painter. He was a founder and first President of the Munich Secession. Life His father was a decorator. Upon graduating from the Gymnasium, he studied with the sculptor Julius Lippelt. After Lippelt's death from tuberculosis, Piglhein went to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, but had to leave after two years for an alleged lack of talent. The sculptor Johannes Schilling saw that he had some potential, however, and took him into his studio. After a short stay in Italy, Piglhein decided to take up painting instead and, on Schilling's recommendation, began studies with Ferdinand Pauwels at the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School.

#16128

Stephen A. Douglas

#183766

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Craig Hanks

#135823

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

James Craig Hanks is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and philosophy of technology. Hanks has been the Chair of Philosophy at Texas State University since 2014.

#16130

Jürg Baur

#132264

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Jürg Baur was a German composer whose works include Incontri and Mutazioni. Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years. Baur was also awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

#16131

Friedrich Kaulbach

Friedrich Kaulbach

1822 - 1903 (81 years)

Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach was a German painter from Bad Arolsen, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont. His father was Christian Kaulbach , a cabinet maker in Arolsen. He was also the cousin and at one time the student of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach, son of Philipp Karl Friedrich v. Kaulbach , goldsmith and amateur painter.

#16132

Josep Montserrat i Torrents

#56026

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Josep Montserrat i Torrents , better known as José Montserrat Torrents in the Spanish-speaking world, is a Spanish writer, philosopher, historian and Coptic scholar. Biography J. Montserrat was born in 1932, in Barcelona. His education took place in Barcelona, Rome, Munster, Paris, and Benares. Due to his activism and writings in the Catalan Press regarding the Second Vatican Council he was censured in the newspapers from 1966 to 1977. A teacher since 1954, the government denied him the "certificate of political good behavior" due to his anti-Francoist activism, and he was thus unable to continue in that profession.

#16133

Zoltan Torey

#152462

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Zoltan Torey who was born in Hungary on 21 November 1929 and died in 2014 is a Hungarian-Australian psychologist, writer and philosopher. He is known for his theories on consciousness. He left Hungary when he was 18 years old and came to Australia in 1949. Later he became blind in an industrial accident and forced to leave his studies to become a dentist. Next phase of his life started after earning a degree in Clinical Psychology. He not only worked as a practitioner in Clinical Psychology but also wrote three books; one of them more autobiographical and the others on what is known as hard ...

#16134

P. L. Travers

1899 - 1996 (97 years)

Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the ...

#16135

Daria Chubata

#91825

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Daria Dmytrivna Chubata is a Ukrainian physician, author, and social activist. She became a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine in 2003, and twice served as a member of the Ternopil Oblast Council . In 1980, she was awarded the Distinguished Healthcare Worker of the USSR.

#16136

Dave A. Chokshi

#53192

Overall Influence

Dave Ashok Chokshi is an American physician and former public health official who served as the 43rd health commissioner of New York City. He was the first health commissioner of Asian descent. Chokshi previously served as the inaugural chief population health officer for NYC Health + Hospitals and as a White House fellow in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Currently he is a practicing physician at Bellevue Hospital and the inaugural Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, part of the City College of New York.

#16137

James Douglas

1675 - 1742 (67 years)

James Douglas was a Scottish physician and anatomist, and Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline. Life and works One of the seven sons of William Douglas and his wife, Joan, daughter of James Mason of Park, Blantyre, he was born in West Calder, West Lothian, in 1675. His brother was the lithotomist John Douglas .

#16138

Sharon Goldfeld

#114113

Overall Influence

Sharon Goldfeld is a paediatrician and public health physician, who is Director of the Centre for Community and Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital, Co-Group Leader of the Policy and Equity Research Group, and Theme Director, Population Health, at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

#16139

Cigall Kadoch

#115217

Overall Influence

Cigall Kadoch is an American biochemist and cancer biologist who is Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research is focused in chromatin regulation and how changes in cellular structure can lead to human diseases, such as Cancer, Neurodevelopmental disorders, and others. She is internationally recognized for her work on the mammalian SWI/SNF complex, a large molecular machine known as a Chromatin remodeling complex. She was named as one of the world's leading sc...

#16140

Shinjini Bhatnagar

#71230

Overall Influence

Shinjini Bhatnagar is an Indian pediatric gastroenterologist. She is elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences. Her research was recognised by the World Health Organization , and at 2nd World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition. She was awarded the Dr. ST Achar Gold Medal Award for Research in Child Health, and Hotam Tomar Gold Medal in recognition of her research in Pediatric Gastroenterology.

#16141

Mark LeBar

#178018

Overall Influence

Mark LeBar is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Florida State University. He is known for his works on moral philosophy and is the editor of Social Theory and Practice since 2015.

#16142

Hunter McGuire

1835 - 1900 (65 years)

Hunter Holmes McGuire was an American soldier, physician, teacher, and orator. McGuire was a surgeon in the Confederate Army attached to Stonewall Jackson's command, and he continued serving with the Army of Northern Virginia after Jackson's death. He started several schools and hospitals which later became part of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. McGuire was later president of the American Medical Association. His statue sits prominently on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol. Nearby, the McGuire Veterans Administration Medical Center was named in his honor unti...

#16143

Sean P. F. Hughes

Sean P. F. Hughes

#71363

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Sean Patrick Francis Hughes is emeritus professor of orthopaedic surgery at Imperial College London where he was previously professor of orthopaedic surgery and head of the department of surgery, anaesthetics and intensive care. Earlier in his career he had been professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Edinburgh.

#16144

J. Colin Partridge

#161592

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Colin Partridge is an American pediatrician and neonatologist, and an expert on neonatal intensive care, perinatal brain imaging, international medical education and neonatal medical ethics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco and held the Academy Chair in Pediatric Education, an endowed chair at the same university, from 2007 to 2013. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 6,700 times in scientific publications, and his h-index is 37.

#16145

Adrian Beverland

Adrian Beverland

1650 - 1716 (66 years)

Hadriaan Beverland was a Dutch humanist scholar who was banished from Holland in 1679 and settled in England in 1680. Early life Beverland was born between 20 September and 14 December 1650 in Middelburg, son to Johannes Beverland and Catarina van Deijnse . He had two older brothers: Johannes and Christoffel . His father worked in the military village of Lillo and died in March 1654. In September 1654, Beverland’s mother Catarina married Bernard de Gomme, an important military engineer for the English army. The couple moved to England around 1660. Beverland and his brothers remained in Middelburg to finish their education and lived in different households.

#16146

P. Allen Smith

#48529

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Paul Allen Smith, Jr. is an American television host, garden designer, conservationist, and lifestyle expert. He is the host of three television programs. P. Allen Smith's Garden Home and P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table are distributed to public television by American Public Television. His 30-minute show Garden Style is syndicated by The Television Syndication Company. Smith is one of America's most recognized gardening and design experts, providing ideas and guidance through multiple media venues. He is the author of the Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random Hous...

#16147

Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet

Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet

1815 - 1880 (65 years)

Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet was a French philosopher, whose ideas were a precursor to modern sociology. Works L'Unité Spirituelle .De la Douleur .La Restauration Française .L'Affaiblissement de la Raison .Politique Réelle .L'Infaillibilité .La Raison. Philosophie Fondamentale .La Légitimité .La Loi Électorale et les Deux Chambres .Le XVIIIe Siècle .Le Socialisme et la Société .L'Amour et la Chute .

#16148

Vijayindra Tirtha

1514 - 1592 (78 years)

Vijayīndra Tīrtha was a Dvaita philosopher and dialectician. A prolific writer and an unrelenting polemicist, he is said to have authored 104 treatises expounding the principles of Dvaita and defending it against attacks from the contemporary orthodox schools of Vedanta. He held the pontifical seat at Kumbakonam under the rule of Thanjavur Nayaks where he participated in polemical discussions with the Advaita philosopher Appayya Dikshita Inscriptions from that era record grants of villages received by Vijayindra for his triumph over theological debates . Legend ascribes to him mastery over ...

#16149

Albert Zimmermann

1808 - 1888 (80 years)

August Albert Zimmermann was a German painter. He was the brother of painters Max, Richard, and Robert Zimmermann, and served as Max's teacher. He was primarily self-taught as a painter, but did study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

#16150

Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov

Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov

1782 - 1856 (74 years)

Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov was a Russian nobleman and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic Wars and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853.

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