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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#16801

Max Neuhaus

#115951

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Max Neuhaus was an American musician, composer and artist who was a noted interpreter of contemporary and experimental percussion music in the 1960s. He went on to create numerous permanent and short-term sound installations in the four decades that followed.

#16802

Pan Pingge

1610 - 1677 (67 years)

Pan Pingge , was a notable Chinese philosopher during the late-Ming and early-Qing period. Biography Pan was born in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in late Ming Dynasty in 1610. His courtesy name was Yongwei .

#16803

James Haar

#90928

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

James Haar was an American musicologist and W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in Renaissance music, he was the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1966 to 1969 and served as the president of American Musicological Society from 1976 to 1978. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.

#16804

Stefan Schwarz

#186801

Overall Influence

#16805

Eugene Thomas Long

#179961

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Eugene Thomas Long III was an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the University of South Carolina. He was also president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#16806

Said Awad

#132668

Overall Influence

2000 - 2021 (21 years)

Dr. Said A. Awad, MD, BCh, FRCS, is Professor Emeritus of Urology at Dalhousie University Medical School, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born in Cairo, Egypt and obtained his MD from Cairo University in 1959.

#16807

Ellen Mitchell

1838 - 1920 (82 years)

Ellen M. Mitchell was an American philosopher, educator and education reformer. She was one of the first women to be appointed lecturer in a university, in addition to writing philosophy, literature and literary criticism.

#16808

Stig Arild Slørdahl

Stig Arild Slørdahl

#129817

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Stig Arild Slørdahl is Managing Director of the Central Norway Regional Health Authority. He has a background as a Norwegian professor of Medicine and specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He has been dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and attending physician at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim.

#16809

Odette Harris

#61755

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Odette Harris is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Director of the Brain Injury Program for the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Rehabilitation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

#16810

Lillias Hamilton

Lillias Hamilton

1858 - 1925 (67 years)

Lillias Anna Hamilton was a British medical doctor and writer. She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton and his wife Margaret Clunes . After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890.

#16811

Anjan Chakravartty

#186856

Overall Influence

#16812

Julie Makani

#71151

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Julie Makani is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences . Also a visiting fellow and consultant to the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, she is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2011, she received the Royal Society Pfizer Award for her work with sickle cell disease.

#16813

Consuelo H. Wilkins

#144228

Overall Influence

Consuelo H. Wilkins is an American physician, biomedical researcher, and health equity expert. She is Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment at Meharry Medical College. She additionally serves as one of the principal investigators of the Vanderbilt Clinical and Translational Science Award, Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Resear...

#16814

Étienne Balibar

#186883

Overall Influence

#16815

Claude de Bectoz

1490 - 1547 (57 years)

Claude de Bectoz was a French writer and philosopher of the Renaissance. Life Both her mother, Michelette de Salvaing, and father, Jacques de Bactoz, were from well-known families in the Dauphiné. Denys Fauchier taught her to write Latin and verse. Claude would later write prose and verse in both French and Italian.

#16816

Erich Kukk

#119009

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

Erich Kukk was an Estonian phycologist and conservationist. Kukk is referred to as the Grand Old Man of Estonian Phycology. Early life Kukk was born in Misso Parish, and graduated from the University of Tartu in 1953.

#16817

Perri Klass

#43935

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Perri Klass is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patients, and children and literacy. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction novels, stories, essays, and journalism. Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national childhood literacy program that works through doctors and nurses to encourage parents to read aloud to young children, and to give them the books they need to do it.

#16818

Francesco de Vieri

Francesco de Vieri

1524 - 1591 (67 years)

Francesco de' Vieri, also known as Verino the Second , was an Italian philosopher. He was the nephew of "Verino the First" Francesco de' Vieri. Like his homonymous ancestor, he was professor of logic and philosophy at the University of Pisa, and actively involved in the Accademia Fiorentina.

#16819

Dimitar Dimitrov

#177951

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Dimitar Dimitrov is a Macedonian politician , scientist , writer. Dimitrov was the Minister of Culture and the Minister of Education of the Republic of Macedonia, the Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to Russia and Belarus.

#16820

Emily Erbelding

Emily Erbelding

#106597

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Emily J. Erbelding is an American physician-scientist. She is the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . Erbelding was previously deputy director of the Division of AIDS at NIAID. She was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as director of clinical services for the Baltimore City Health Department STD/HIV program.

#16821

James Langabeer

#138448

Overall Influence

James R. Langabeer II is an American decision scientist, academic, and entrepreneur known for his theories on strategy and decision-making. He is the Robert H. Graham Professor of Entrepreneurial Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , and maintains faculty appointments in the department of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry.

#16822

Hugo Knorr

1834 - 1904 (70 years)

Hugo Knorr was a Prussian and German painter and teacher of art, specializing in landscape and marine art. Life Knorr was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. In 1852, when he was almost eighteen, he entered the Königsberg Academy of Art, where he chiefly studied landscape. Later, his master was the painter August Behrendsen.

#16823

Jim Samson

#132783

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Thomas James Samson, FBA , commonly known as Jim Samson, is a musicologist, music critic and retired academic. Educated at Queen's University Belfast and University College, Cardiff , he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of Leicester in 1972. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1973 as a lecturer; promotions followed, to reader in 1987 and Professor of Musicology in 1992. In 1994, he was appointed Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and was then Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002 and 2011.

#16824

Stefan Kutzsche

#172776

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Stefan Kutzsche is a Norwegian paediatrician, anaesthesiologist, ethicist, and educationalist in the health professions. Education and career He graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Hamburg in 1983 and obtained a dr.med. degree in neonatology from the University of Oslo in 2002, an MHA in health administration and health economics from the University of Oslo and an MSc in health professions education from the University of Maastricht . He is double board certified in paediatrics and anaesthesiology. In 2013 he completed a certificate in paediatric bioethics at the Children's M...

#16825

Jane Wynne

#79884

Overall Influence

1944 - 2009 (65 years)

Jane Margery Wynne FRCP was an English community paediatrician. An authority on child abuse and handicap, she lectured at the University of Leeds and ran courses teaching paediatricians to identify signs of abuse.

#16826

Saibal Chatterjee

#76241

Overall Influence

Saibal Chatterjee is an Indian film critic, editor and documentary screenwriter. He was a columnist at BBC News, Business Standard, Hindustan Times and The Financial Express. He has also written for The Telegraph, The Times of India, and Outlook. In addition, he has served as the editor of TV World; and a consultant to Zee Premiere. He presently reviews films for NDTV. He's a founder member of the Film Critics Circle of India and was a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica's Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema. He has served on the team as well as jury of a variety of international film festivals.

#16827

Mark H. Buzby

#58353

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mark Howard Buzby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as the Administrator of the United States Maritime Administration. He retired from the Navy in 2013 and joined Carnival Cruise Line's Safety & Reliability Review Board. Buzby was nominated to be MARAD Administrator in June 2017 by President Donald Trump, and confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017. He resigned from the post on January 11, 2021, along with Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, to protest the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

#16828

Peter Jones

#87231

Overall Influence

1920 - 2000 (80 years)

Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster. Early life and early career Peter Jones, born in Wem, Shropshire, was educated at Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College, making his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory theatre in East Anglia. In 1942 he acted on the West End stage in The Doctor's Dilemma and in 1942 he made an uncredited film appearance in Fanny by Gaslight. An early film credit was as a Xenobian trade delegate in Chance of a Lifetime .

#16829

James Felt

#175679

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

James Felt was an American philosopher and John Nobili Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santa Clara. He was a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America .

#16830

Willard Rhodes

#87344

Overall Influence

1901 - 1992 (91 years)

Willard Rhodes was an American ethnomusicologist. He is known for his extensive recording of American Indian music between 1939 and 1952. Rhodes grew up in Dunkirk, Ohio and received A.B. and Bachelor of Music degrees from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1929. In France, he studied with Nadia Boulanger. From 1937 to 1969, he served as a professor at Columbia University, where he founded the graduate program in ethnomusicology, and co-founded the Society for Ethnomusicology, serving as that organization's first president.

#16831

Daniel Ott

#177576

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Daniel Ott is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of the Arts and with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and sp...

#16832

Homer Tien

#115382

Overall Influence

Homer Chin-nan Tien is a Canadian trauma surgeon and the president and CEO of Ornge, an air ambulance non-profit based on Ontario. He also holds the rank of colonel in the Canadian Forces Health Services, associate professorship at the University of Toronto, and was the former director of Trauma Services at Sunnybrook's Tory Regional Trauma Centre. He is the first to hold the Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research.

#16833

Michael Wagner

#186957

Overall Influence

#16834

Christian Eduard Boettcher

1818 - 1889 (71 years)

Christian Eduard Boettcher, or Böttcher , was a German painter whose work comprised portraiture and genre painting. Career Boettcher first attended the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart under Johann Heinrich von Dannecker from 1833 to 1838 and trained as a lithographer, working as such for the Ebner'sche Verlagshaus , in Stuttgart and for the Arnz & Comp. lithographic institute in Düsseldorf.

#16835

David Berger

#157942

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David Berger is an American academic, dean of Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, as well as chair of Yeshiva College's Jewish Studies department. He is the author of various books and essays on medieval Jewish apologetics and polemics, as well as having edited the modern critical edition of the medieval polemic text Nizzahon Vetus. Outside academic circles he is best known for The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, a criticism of Chabad messianism.

#16836

Hans Albrecht

1902 - 1961 (59 years)

Joachim Hans Albrecht was a German musicologist and university lecturer. He was professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Life Born in Magdeburg, Albrecht was son of Theodor Albrecht and Klara Emmy Brandt in Magdeburg, Province of Saxony. He spent his childhood and youth in Essen, where he already prepared himself for the music teacher examination during his period at the Essener Konservatorium and completed this in 1921 in the main subject piano. In 1921 he began studying musicology. After one semester at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität he moved to the Humboldt-Unive...

#16837

John Caughie

#123821

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Caughie is a British academic, specialising in film and television studies. Life Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, his books include Theories of Authorship, A Companion to British and Irish Cinema and Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture. He is on the editorial board of the British film and television journal, Screen, and is a Council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, U.K.

#16838

Ephraim Isaac

#16423

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Ephraim Isaac is an Ethiopian scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of Africann and Ethiopiann civilizations. He is the director of the Institute of Semitic Studies based in Princeton, NJ. and the chair of the board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.

#16839

Hernán Neira

#176778

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Hernán Neira is a Chilean writer, philosopher and university professor. Education He attended in Chile to Colegio San Ignacio in Santiago de Chile. His family moved to Spain in 1971, where he attended to Colegio San Patricio and Instituto Cardenal Cisneros. In January 1984 he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the Catholic University in Santiago de Chile, where he also directed Perspectivas, a student magazine opposed to the dictatorship of general Pinochet. In 1985 he moved to Paris, where he studied philosophy at the Paris VIII University. He also studied sociology and linguistics at the l'École de hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris.

#16840

Dino del Garbo

1280 - 1327 (47 years)

Dino di maestro Bono del Garbo da Firenze was an Italian medieval physician and philosopher. He was also known as Dino da Firenze, Aldobrandino and in Latin as Dinus Florentinus. He studied under Taddeo Alderotti in Bologna in 1295.

#16841

Bob Russell

1914 - 1970 (56 years)

Bob Russell was an American songwriter born Sidney Keith Rosenthal in Passaic, New Jersey. Career Russell attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked as an advertising copywriter in New York; for a time, his roommate there was Sidney Sheldon, later a novelist. He turned to writing material for vaudeville acts, and then for film studios, ultimately writing complete scores for two movies: Jack and the Beanstalk and Reach for Glory. The latter film received the Locarno International Film Festival prize in 1962. A number of other movies featured compositions by Russell, incl...

#16842

Piotr Czauderna

#40126

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Piotr Stefan Czauderna is a member of the National Development Council of Poland. He was appointed to the position by President Andrzej Duda in November 2015. Biography Czauderna was born on 11 August 1962. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk Medical University and the University of Provence. A professor of medical science since 2013, Czauderna is currently the Head of the Surgery and Urology Clinic for Children and Adolescents of the Gdańsk Medical University. He was elected to the Gdańsk City Council in 2014 from the Law and Justice party. Czauderna is the vice chairman of the Gdańsk City Council.

#16843

Carol Davila

1828 - 1884 (56 years)

Carol Davila was a prestigious Romanian physician of Italian ancestry. He is considered to be the father of Romanian medicine. Biography He started from humble beginnings, most probably as an abandoned child, and the surname Davila was bestowed on him by his adoptive family and guardian.

#16844

Paul Leopold Friedrich

1864 - 1916 (52 years)

Paul Leopold Friedrich was a German surgeon and bacteriologist born in the town of Roda, Saxe-Altenburg. In 1888 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig, and as a young assistant worked under Robert Koch at the Reich Health Office in Berlin. From 1894 he worked as a privat-docent of surgery in Leipzig, where in 1896 he became an associate professor. Later he served as a professor at the Universities of Greifswald , Marburg and Königsberg . At Greifswald he succeeded August Bier as director of the Surgical University Hospital. Two of Friedrich's well-known assistants were Fer...

#16845

Liu Bowen

1311 - 1375 (64 years)

Liu Ji , courtesy name Bowen, better known as Liu Bowen, was a Chinese military strategist, philosopher, and politician who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. He was born in Qingtian County . He served as a key advisor to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dynasty, in the latter's struggle to overthrow the Yuan dynasty and unify China proper under his rule. Liu is also known for his prophecies and has been described as the "Divine Chinese Nostradamus". He and Jiao Yu co-edited the military treatise known as the Huolongjing .

#16846

John Ezell

#156178

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

John Ezell is an American scenic designer and theatre educator. He currently serves as the Hall Family Foundation Professor of Design at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he leads the UMKC Theatre Scenic Design program.

#16847

Vladimir Dilman

#89909

Overall Influence

1925 - 1994 (69 years)

Vladimir Mikhailovich Dilman was a Soviet scientist and physician. He served on the staff of the N.N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology for many years. He contributed to the development of oncology, endocrinology and gerontology.

#16848

Kay Thompson

#149411

Overall Influence

1909 - 1998 (89 years)

Kay Thompson was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer. She became famous for creating the Eloise children's books and for her role in the movie Funny Face.

#16849

Annie Luetkemeyer

Annie Luetkemeyer

#33978

Overall Influence

Annie F. Luetkemeyer is an American physician and researcher who is Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. She specializes in infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and viral hepatitis. During the COVID-19 pandemic Luetkemeyer led a clinical trial of remdesivir. She has also researched treatment of COVID-19 as a co-infection with HIV.

#16850

Filippa Lentzos

#42547

Overall Influence

Filippa Lentzos is a Norwegian social scientist researching threats posed by biological agents. She is a senior research fellow at King's College London, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and the Department of War Studies. Lentzos also holds the position of associate senior researcher at the Armament and Disarmament Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . Moreover, she is the NGO Coordinator for the Biological Weapons Convention since 2017, the biosecurity columnist at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 2018, a...

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