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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16651

Christine Kreuder Johnson

#177839

Overall Influence

Christine Kreuder Johnson is an American epidemiologist and veterinary scientist who is Professor and Director of the EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics at the One Health Institute. She serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Ecosystem Health at the University of California, Davis. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.

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Jovita Idar

1885 - 1946 (61 years)

Jovita Idar Vivero was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants. Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, she worked for a series of newspapers, using her writing to work towards making a meaningful and effective change. She began her career in journalism at La Crónica, her father's newspaper in Laredo, Texas, her hometown.

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Wolfgang Martin Stroh

#122682

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Wolfgang Martin Stroh is a German musicologist and Emeritus professor at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Life Born in Stuttgart, Stroh studied mathematics, physics, musicology and modern German literature at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich, Freiburg and at the Eastman School of Music . In 1973 he obtained his doctorate with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht . In 2006 he acquired the HAF diploma for multimedia design. He was a teacher at several Gymnasiumss, from 1973 to 1978 he was research fellow at the Oberstufen-Kolleg Bielefeld, since 1978 Professor for systematic musicology at the University of Oldenburg.

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Albert Patron

#182582

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Alberto Patron , known in America also as Albert Patron, is an Italian composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, aporetic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Patron is one of the leading figures of the contemporary trent aporetic music as well as aporetic philosophy. Critics have lauded him as one of the most innovative Italian composers since 1990. He was also instrumental in the development of philosophy.

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Eva Steiness

#185323

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Eva Steiness née Uhl is a Danish physician, former university professor and businessperson who has been active in Scandinavia's pharmaceutical industry since the late 1990s. She is currently CEO of Serodus ASA, a biomedical company based in Oslo which develops drugs for the treatment of diabetes. In 1982, Steiness became the first women to be appointed dean of Copenhagen University's faculty of medicine and in 1985, she became the first women in Denmark to become a full professor in the medical field with her appointment at Aarhus University.

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John Marwick

1891 - 1978 (87 years)

John Marwick was a New Zealand palaeontologist and geologist. Early life and family Marwick was born near Oamaru, New Zealand, on 3 February 1891, the son of Hugh Marwick, and his wife, Jane née Cuthbert. While at Waitaki Boys' High School he helped to collect fossil shells and learned the beginnings of how to classify molluscs. He studied and taught at the University of Otago, and in 1912 gained an MA with first-class honours in with a thesis on geology. In 1915, he married Marion Ivy Mary Keys at Mosgiel. They had two sons and two daughters, all becoming science graduates.

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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

#133359

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies. Her work has focused on gender, race, ecofeminism, queer sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies. From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. In 2016, she was named Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and took early retirement in 2020.

#16658

Arthur Thomson

1890 - 1977 (87 years)

Sir Arthur Peregrine Thomson MC, LLD, MD, FRCP was a British physician. Born in British Guiana the son of Arthur Henry Thomson, a colonial civil servant, he was educated at Dulwich College and Birmingham University, where he graduated in 1915 with first class honours in medicine, surgery and midwifery. He was also awarded the gold medal in clinical medicine, the Russell Memorial Prize, and was both Queen's and Ingleby Scholar.

#16659

Edward D. Thalmann

Edward D. Thalmann

#51614

Overall Influence

1945 - 2004 (59 years)

Capt. Edward Deforest Thalmann, USN was an American hyperbaric medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the current United States Navy dive tables for mixed-gas diving, which are based on his eponymous Thalmann Algorithm . At the time of his death, Thalmann was serving as assistant medical director of the Divers Alert Network and an assistant clinical professor in anesthesiology at Duke University's Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology.

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Salem Mekuria

#107029

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Salem Mekuria is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States. Life and work Mekuria was born in Addis Ababa. She was educated there and in Axum, and moved to the United States in 1967 where she studied political science and journalism at Macalester College. Mekuria earned a MA in education technology and media production from San Francisco State University in 1978. She later worked at the WGBH TV station in Boston, starting as a secretary but eventually becoming a producer for the Nova series. Mekuria is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women's...

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Jocelyne Bloch

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Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL . Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002. Her area of expertise is deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders. In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal c...

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Shubhra Gupta

#87189

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Shubhra Gupta is an Indian film critic, writer and columnist for The Indian Express from New Delhi, India. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012. She was a member of the Central Board of Film Certification from 2012 to 2015. She is the author of 50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015.

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Joshua Brickman

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Joshua Mark Brickman is an American/British biologist. He is a professor of stem cell and developmental biology at the University of Copenhagen. Brickman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and Philosophy from the University of Vermont in 1985 and a PhD in Molecular Cellular Biology from Harvard University in 1996

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Theodor von Dusch

Theodor von Dusch

1824 - 1890 (66 years)

Theodor von Dusch was a German physician who was a native of Karlsruhe. He was the son of Baden statesman Alexander von Dusch . He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where he had as instructors Jacob Henle , Karl von Pfeufer and Maximilian Joseph von Chelius . He earned his doctorate in 1847, and was habilitated for medicine in 1854. In 1870 he became professor and director of the policlinic at Heidelberg.

#16665

Anton Kolig

1886 - 1950 (64 years)

Anton Kolig was an Austrian expressionist painter. Biography Anton Kolig was born in Neutitschein as the son of salon artist Ferdinant Kolig. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts with Oscar Kokoschka in 1904–1907, then from 1907 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the guidance of Heinrich Lefler and Alois Delug.

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Jay Telotte

#99348

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jay P. Telotte, published as J. P. Telotte, is a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With over 150 published scholarly articles and 10 published books, his area of expertise lies in film studies. His primary field of study is film history and genres, and he is particularly involved in the studies of science fiction. In his book Animating the Science Fiction Imagination, Telotte combines his interest in the science fiction genre and animation to explore the intersection between the two.

#16667

Emilia Rensi

1901 - 1990 (89 years)

Emilia Rensi was an Italian philosopher, free thinker, writer and teacher. She wrote for anarchist and progressive magazines, such as Flavia Steno's La Chiosa, Volontà , Umanità Nova and Franco Leggio's Sicilia Libertaria . She began publishing books on social, cultural and ethical subjects from the late 1960s onwards.

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Mony J. De Leon

#186229

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Qadi Husayn Maybudi

Qadi Kamal al-Din Husayn ibn Mu'in al-Din Ali Maybudi , better known as Qadi Husayn Maybudi , was an Iranian scholar and qadi in the city of Yazd under the Aq Qoyunlu. He was executed in 1504 after having participated in a failed revolt against the Safavid shah Ismail I .

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Theodora Kimball Hubbard

1887 - 1935 (48 years)

Theodora Kimball Hubbard was the first librarian of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture, and a contemporary of and collaborator with many significant figures in landscape architecture in expanding the body of knowledge in that subject area.

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Kirk R. Smith

#56768

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Kirk R. Smith was an American expert on the health and climate effects of household energy use in developing nations. He held a professorship in Global Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focused on the relationships among environmental quality, health, resource use, climate, development, and policy in developing countries. Smith contributed a great deal to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , and the work of the IPCC was recognized by the joint award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Smith was a recipient of the 2012 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work with cookstoves, health, and climate.

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Otto Küstner

1849 - 1931 (82 years)

Otto Ernst Küstner was a German gynecologist. Initially he studied medicine in Leipzig and Berlin, and during the Franco-Prussian War was a volunteer with the Garde-Füsilier-Regiment. Afterwards, he continued his studies at the University of Halle, obtaining his doctorate in 1873. He then furthered his education in Vienna, later returning to Halle as an assistant in the polyclinic of Theodor Weber and also in the obstetrics institute under Robert Michaelis von Olshausen.

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Eustachio Divini

Eustachio Divini

1610 - 1685 (75 years)

Eustachio Divini was an Italian manufacturer and experimenter of optical instruments for scientific use in Rome. The origins Eustachio was born on 4 October 1610 in San Severino Marche, from the illustrious Divini's family. At the age of 4 his mother, Virginia Saracini, died and 7 years later his father, Tardozzo Divini, also died, so his brothers Vincenzo and Cipriano looked after him and his basic education before moving to Rome. At that time Divini was initiated into the military career but after a severe disease in 1629 he had to give up. After that he joined again his brothers.

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Themista of Lampsacus

300 BC - 260 BC (40 years)

Themista of Lampsacus , the wife of Leonteus, was a student of Epicurus, early in the 3rd century BC. Epicurus' school was unusual in the 3rd century, in that it allowed women to attend, and we also hear of Leontion attending Epicurus' school around the same time. Cicero ridicules Epicurus for writing "countless volumes in praise of Themista," instead of more worthy men such as Miltiades, Themistocles or Epaminondas. Themista and Leonteus named their son Epicurus.

#16675

Leonteus of Lampsacus

301 BC - 201 BC (100 years)

Leonteus of Lampsacus was a pupil of Epicurus early in the 3rd century BCE. He was the husband of Themista, who also attended Epicurus' school. Such was the esteem in which they held Epicurus that they named their son after him.

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Sherry Flint-Garcia

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Liang Boqiang

1899 - 1968 (69 years)

Liang Boqiang 梁伯强 Chinese pathologist, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, pioneer pathologist in China.

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Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider

1891 - 1990 (99 years)

Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider was a German-Australian physicist and philosopher. She is best known for her collaboration and correspondence with physicists Albert Einstein, Max von Laue, and Max Planck. Rosenthal-Schneider earned a PhD in philosophy in 1920 at the University of Berlin, where she first met Albert Einstein. After leaving Nazi Germany and emigrating to Australia in 1938, she became a tutor in the German department at the University of Sydney in 1945 and taught history and philosophy of science. In the 1940s and 1950s, she exchanged a series of letters with Albert Einstein about philo...

#16679

Wade Clark Mackey

#91439

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

W. C. Mackey is an American author and social scientist who has researched in topics of anthropology, criminal justice, criminology, psychology and sociology in his academic and professional career .He has authored Fathering Behaviours ,The American Father and co-authored the 2000 book Gender Roles, Traditions and Generations to Come: The Collision of Competing Interests and the Feminist Paradox with Nancy S. Coney for Nova Science Publishing. He has written on the relationship of gender on parental interaction.

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Daniel Fung

#43654

Overall Influence

Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng is a Singaporean psychiatrist and researcher who is the current chief executive officer of the Institute of Mental Health . Fung is also the president of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and of the College of Psychiatrists in Singapore.

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Daniel Mongiardo

#129982

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Frank Daniel Mongiardo is an American physician and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Mongiardo is a Democrat and was the 54th lieutenant governor of Kentucky from 2007 until 2011. He was a member of the Kentucky State Senate from 2001 to 2007. He also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, narrowly losing in the general election to Jim Bunning and again in 2010, losing in the primary election to Jack Conway.

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Taro Takemi

1904 - 1983 (79 years)

Taro Takemi, , was a Japanese physician who served as 11th President of the Japan Medical Association for 25 years from 1957 to 1982, and also served as president of the World Medical Association from 1975 to 1976.

#16683

Yuri Kholopov

#49796

Overall Influence

1932 - 2003 (71 years)

Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov was a Russian musicologist and educator. Biography After graduating from Ryazan Music Regional College he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire from 1949 to 1954 with Igor Sposobin and then with Semyon Bogatyrev, completing his master's degree in 1960.

#16684

Harry Keen

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Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Harry Keen CBE was an English diabetologist and a professor of human metabolism at Guy's Hospital. He was the first to identify microalbuminuria as a predictor of kidney disease in diabetics, and was an international authority on diabetes.

#16685

Ernst Moro

1874 - 1951 (77 years)

Ernst Moro was an Austrian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe the infant reflex that was named after him . Career Moro studied medicine in Graz, Austria, getting his M.D. in 1899. From 1901 to 1902 he worked with Theodor Escherich in Vienna, the discoverer of the Escherichia coli bacterium. He earned his habilitation in pediatrics in Munich in 1906, and became a professor of pediatrics in the University of Heidelberg in 1911.

#16686

Bonnie Brinton

#90134

Overall Influence

Bonnie Brinton is a speech language pathologist, a professor at Brigham Young University , and from 1999 to 2009 was dean of the BYU graduate school. Prior to joining the BYU faculty, Brinton was on the faculty of the University of Kansas and the University of Nevada School of Medicine.

#16687

Ibrahim B. Syed

Ibrahim B. Syed

#46630

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Ibrahim Bijli Syed is an American radiological scientist, medical physicist, health physicist and the past president of the International Islamic Research Foundation. Biography He was born in Bellary, Karnataka, the son of Mumtaz Begum and B. Syed Ahmed. Ibrahim B. Syed married Sajida Begum Shariff who graduated with an M.Sc. degree from Central College, Bengaluru of the University of Mysore. They have one son, Mubin I. Syed, M.D., F.A.C.R., F.S.I.R., Who is an Interventional and Neuroradiologist who works at Dayton Interventional Radiology, in Dayton, Ohio. Mubin married Afshan Ahmed. They have a son , and two daughters .

#16688

Willis Maddrey

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Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Willis Maddrey is an American physician and internist specializing in diseases of the liver. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Education Maddrey graduated from Wake Forest University in 1960 and received his M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1964. He was a resident and chief resident in the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital and served a fellowship in liver disease at Yale University School of Medicine.

#16689

Gil Jae

1353 - 1419 (66 years)

Gil Jae or Kil Jae was a Korean scholar-official of the Goryeo period then of the Joseon period. Works Yaeun jip Yaeun eunhaeng seupyu Yaeun sokjip See also Jeong Mong-juJeong Do-jeonKwon GeunJeong Inji

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Andrija Štampar

Andrija Štampar

1888 - 1958 (70 years)

Andrija Štampar was a distinguished scholar in the field of social medicine from Croatia. Education Štampar was born 1 September 1888 in Brodski Drenovac , at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in modern Požega-Slavonia County. From 1898 to 1906, he attended grammar school in Vinkovci. During his secondary schooling, Štampar was a brilliant pupil and, at that time, he wrote his first literary attempt, published in the periodical Pobratim in 1902. He enrolled at the medical school in Vienna in 1906, which was at the time the most important medical center in the world. As a medical s...

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Thea L. James

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Overall Influence

Thea L. James is an American emergency medical physician as well as an Associate Professor, Associate Chief Medical Officer, and Vice President of the Mission at the Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Carl-Göran Hedén

#121403

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Carl-Göran Hedén was a distinguished Swedish scholar in the fields of Microbiology, Biotechnology and microbial physiology, D.Sc., Professor of the Karolinska Institute , where he earned his doctorate 1951, publishing his thesis on the infection of E.Coli B with the Bacteriophage T2. He was also a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1959 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1975, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science

#16693

James Dudley Fooshe

1844 - 1940 (96 years)

James Dudley Fooshe , known as J. D. Fooshe, was a soldier, author, farmer, philosopher, Methodist churchman and one of the last surviving Confederate veterans in Richmond Co., Georgia. He was a prolific writer of articles that dealt with reminiscences of the American Civil War and his philosophy of religion, social conduct and political economy.

#16694

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud

#186071

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Kristin Carson-Chahhoud is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, heading a research group in the Adelaide Medical School. Specialising in respiratory medicine, tobacco control and management of tobacco-related illnesses, Carson aims to close the gap between clinical research trials and real-world patient care.

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Walter C. Lowdermilk

Walter C. Lowdermilk

1888 - 1974 (86 years)

Walter Clay Lowdermilk was a soil conservationist who worked in countries throughout the world to help protect and reclaim lands in order to better feed their population. Lowdermilk worked with the Belgian Relief Effort after World War I, in China in the 1920s to help avert famine, with the Soil Conservation Service, in fascist Italy in the 1930s, in the United States, and in Mandatory Palestine planning land and water use.

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Acrion

#103766

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Acrion was a Locrian from Magna Graecia and a Pythagorean philosopher. He is mentioned by Valerius Maximus under the name of Arion. According to William Smith, Arion is a false reading of Acrion. Notes

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Alula Pankhurst

#32083

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alula Pankhurst is a British scholar and social development consultant whose main focus is Ethiopia and Ethiopian studies. He has worked in Ethiopia for many years in a variety of positions including as an associate professor of anthropology at Addis Ababa University and as the country director for Young Lives.

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Gilbert Barling

Gilbert Barling

1855 - 1940 (85 years)

Sir Harry Gilbert Barling, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon. Life Barling was born at Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire and educated at a boarding school at Weston, near Bath. He went to Birmingham in 1875 at the age of 20, to take his matriculation exam at Queen's College, Birmingham , before going on to study at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and culminating in his admittance to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1879, becoming a Fellow in 1881. It was at this time he was appointed resident pathologist at the General Hospital which would start an association lasting for 60 years. He became President of the hospital in 1925.

#16699

Klaus Pietschmann

#142496

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Klaus Pietschmann is a German musicologist. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Cologne, Pietschmann studied musicology and Medieval studies at the University of Cologne, at the University of Florence and at the University of Münster. In 1997/98 he was at the German Historical Institute in Rome and received his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on Church music between tradition and reform. The Papal Chapel and its repertoire under Pope Paul III. Subsequently, he worked until 2003 in the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Cologne in a research project on .

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Kyle Baker

#88024

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man. Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.

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