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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18401

August Weber

1817 - 1873 (56 years)

Johann Baptist Wilhelm August Weber was a German painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work He began studying landscape painting in his hometown, with Carl Heinrich Rosenkranz , then moved to Darmstadt in 1835, where he continued his studies with the court painter, Johann Heinrich Schilbach. This was followed by a study trip to Switzerland.

#18402

Pauline Atherton Cochrane

#111281

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Pauline Atherton Cochrane is an American librarian and one of the most highly cited authors in the field of library and information sciences. She is considered a leading researcher in the campaign to redesign catalogues and indexes to provide improved online subject access in library and information services as well as "a leading teacher and theorist in cataloging, indexing, and information access."

#18403

May Cohen

#142606

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

May Cohen, OC is a Canadian physician and educator. She is best known for initiating the creation of a women's health curriculum in Ontario medical schools and for her work as a women's health advocate.

#18404

Marwan Kassab-Bachi

Marwan Kassab-Bachi

#34004

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Marwan Kassab-Bachi , commonly known as Marwan, was a Syrian painter. Born in Damascus, he first studied at Damascus University before moving to Berlin, Germany, where he enrolled in the Hochschule der Bildende Künste. He stayed there for most of his life, and was appointed full professor in 1980.

#18405

Molly Antopol

#53905

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. As of 2016, she is the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her primary research interests include the Cold War and the Middle East. She is married to author Chanan Tigay and lives in San Francisco.

#18406

Byron Burford

#123874

Overall Influence

1920 - 2011 (91 years)

Byron Leslie Burford, Jr. was an American figurative painter. Biography Byron Leslie Burford, Jr., was born July 12, 1920, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Byron and Floy Smith Burford. Growing up in Greenville, Burford became fascinated with the carnivals and circuses booked to perform in the community by his father, who directed the local YMCA. At the age of 14 Burford went to work as a roadie for the Tom Mix Circus, and he painted circus life.

#18407

David Gatten

#175230

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

David Edward Gatten is an American experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. Since 1996 Gatten's films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. His 16mm films often employee cameraless techniques, combined with close-up cinematography and optical printing processes. In addition to the ongoing 16mm films, Gatten is now making hybrid 16mm/digital works and has completed an entirely digital feature-length project cal...

#18408

Émile Achard

1860 - 1944 (84 years)

Émile Charles Achard was a French internist born in Paris. In Paris, he served as médecin des hôpitaux , later becoming a professor of general pathology and therapeutics. In 1910, he was appointed professor of internal medicine at the University of Paris . During his career, he also served as a physician at Hôpital Cochin.

#18409

Aaron Krach

#167932

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Aaron Krach is an American artist, writer, and journalist currently living in New York City. Background Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated from Alhambra High School. He attended the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1994. Aaron Krach moved to New York City in 1995. He received his MFA from Purchase College in 2012. He lives and works in Manhattan.

#18410

Nico Schüler

#171943

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Nico Schüler is a German-American music theorist, musicologist, composer, and university professor, whose scholarly work has been reviewed in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the Biography and Genealogy Master Index, in Who's Who in America and in Who's Who of Emerging Leaders.

#18411

Bence Szabolcsi

1899 - 1973 (74 years)

Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. Along with Ervin Major, "he can be considered the founder of scholarly study of the history of Hungarian music, and he was primarily responsible for creating an establishment for musicology in Hungary."

#18412

Thomas Keith

#190915

Overall Influence

Thomas Keith is an American filmmaker, educator, and anti-sexist activist. He received both his Masters and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University. Keith is a professor of philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and gender studies at Claremont Graduate University. He speaks to audiences throughout the United States on issues of masculinity, gender violence, media, and popular culture.

#18413

Peter Zandstra

#66794

Overall Influence

Peter W. Zandstra, is a Canadian scientist who is the Director of the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia. Education Zandstra graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University in the Department of Chemical Engineering and later obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, under the supervision of Jamie Piret and Connie Eaves. He continued his research training as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the field of Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology b...

#18414

A.Y.P. Garnett

1820 - 1888 (68 years)

#18415

Allyson Carlyle

#183461

Overall Influence

1954 - 2020 (66 years)

Allyson Carlyle was a United States of America library and information science scholar, considered a leading scholar in the field of cataloging. Carlyle was one of the initial faculty members of the University of Washington Information School, and served as the school’s first Associate Dean for Academics under Dean Michael Eisenberg. Carlyle worked to increase the diversity of the library profession, and established the Sherman Alexie and Lethene Parks Endowed Fellowship in Tribal and Rural Librarianship at the iSchool.

#18416

Hermann Eichhorst

Hermann Eichhorst

1849 - 1921 (72 years)

Hermann Ludwig Eichhorst was a German-Swiss internist born in Königsberg. He studied medicine in Königsberg and Berlin, and was an assistant to Ernst Viktor von Leyden , Bernhard Naunyn , and Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs . In 1884 became director of the medical clinic in Zurich, where he remained for the rest of his career.

#18417

Chris Fearne

#115276

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Christopher Fearne is a Maltese physician and politician. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Health in April 2014 and Minister for Health since April 2016. In July 2017, the Labour Party elected him as Deputy Leader for Parliamentary Affairs, thus assuming the role of Deputy Prime Minister of Malta and Leader of the House.

#18418

Kevin O'Rourke

#170372

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kevin O'Rourke is an American film, stage, and television actor, best known for his role as Scott Sherwood in Remember WENN , Edward Bader in Boardwalk Empire, and as Spencer Tracy in The Aviator. Early life and education Kevin O'Rourke was born January 25, 1956, in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre.

#18419

Alfred William Alcock

Alfred William Alcock

1859 - 1933 (74 years)

Alfred William Alcock was a British physician, naturalist, and carcinologist. Early life and education Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath. His mother was a daughter of Christopher Puddicombe, the only son of a Devon squire.

#18420

Catherine Ellis

#181928

Overall Influence

1935 - 1996 (61 years)

Catherine Joan Ellis was an Australian ethnomusicologist. She co-founded the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide in 1972. Early life and education Catherine Joan Caughie was born on 19 May 1935 at Birregurra in Victoria.

#18421

Rudolph Bergh

1824 - 1909 (85 years)

Rudolph Bergh , full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Bergh, was a Danish physician and malacologist. He worked in Copenhagen. As a doctor his speciality was sexually transmitted diseases. In Copenhagen a hospital and a street are named after him.

#18422

Chang Ching-wen

#181864

Overall Influence

Chang Ching-wen is a Taiwanese scientist and public official. Chang earned a master's of science at National Taiwan University's Institute of Public Health and a doctorate from the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati. Upon her return to Taiwan, Chang became a supervisor and director for the Taiwan Occupational Hygiene Association and Taiwan Society of Indoor Environmental Quality. She also held a professorship at NTU.

#18423

Stephen Lewis

#105839

Overall Influence

1936 - 2015 (79 years)

Stephen Lewis , credited early in his career as Stephen Cato, was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake in On the Buses, Clem "Smiler" Hemmingway in Last of the Summer Wine and Harry Lambert in Oh, Doctor Beeching!, although he also appeared in numerous stage and film roles.

#18424

Ambika Bumb

#188171

Overall Influence

Ambika Bumb an American biomedical scientist and businessperson. Bumb is a nanomedicine specialist who uses nanotechnology for the detection and treatment of disease. Her discoveries using nanodiamonds while working as postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute led to the launch of the biotech Bikanta.

#18425

Edwin Seroussi

#97476

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Edwin Seroussi is an Israeli musicologist of Uruguayan origin. He is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting scholar in Jewish studies at Dartmouth College. He is the 2018 Israel Prize laureate in the field of Musicology.

#18426

Jan Dullaert

1471 - 1513 (42 years)

Jan Dullaert of Ghent Latinized as Ioannis Dullardi was a Flemish philosopher and logician who lived in France as an Augustinian friar. He elucidated principles of propositional logic in his commentaries on the works of Aristotle published from 1506 to 1509.

#18427

Cheryl

#132490

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. Born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's Popstars: The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a solo career in April 2009, and between then and 2014, she released four studio albums – 3 Words , Messy Little Raindrops , A Million Lights and Only Human . Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – "Fight for This Love", "Promise This", "Call My Name", "Crazy Stupid Love" and "I Don't Care" – reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart.

#18428

Ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī

1052 - 1127 (75 years)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sīd al-Baṭalyawsī , also spelled Ibn Assīd or Abenasid, was an Andalusian grammarian and philosopher. He is the earliest Islamic philosopher from the West whose works have survived.

#18429

Grzegorz Braun

#177276

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Grzegorz Michał Braun is a Polish far-right politician, journalist, academic lecturer, movie director and screenwriter. He is the leader of the monarchist party, Confederation of the Polish Crown and one of the leaders of Confederation Liberty and Independence. He was elected to the Sejm in 2019.

#18430

Rustem Nureev

#45403

Overall Influence

1950 - 2023 (73 years)

Rustem M. Nureev was a Soviet and Russian scientist and economist. Doctor of Sciences in Economics , professor at the Higher School of Economics and Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. He was the first vice chancellor of the Higher School of Economics. He was also Principal Researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

#18431

Arthur Porter

#50834

Overall Influence

1956 - 2015 (59 years)

Arthur Thomas Porter IV was a Canadian physician and hospital administrator. In February 2004, Porter was appointed to replace Hugh Scott as the Director General and CEO of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, one of Canada's largest academic health centres. He left that position in December 2011.

#18432

Ida Halpern

1910 - 1987 (77 years)

Ida Halpern was a Canadian ethnomusicologist. Halpern was born in Vienna, Austria. She arrived in Canada in order to flee Nazism in her native country, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1944. She worked among Native Americans of coastal British Columbia during the mid-20th century, collecting, recording, and transcribing their music and documenting its use in their cultures. Many of these recordings were released as LPss, with extensive liner notes and transcriptions. More recently, her collection has also been released digitally.

#18433

Anthony A. Goodman

#87887

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Anthony A. Goodman is an American breast cancer surgeon and author. He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Montana State University WWAMI Medical Sciences Program and is Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

#18434

Francisco Amighetti

#65938

Overall Influence

1907 - 1998 (91 years)

Francisco Amighetti was a Costa Rican painter. In addition to his paintings, Amighetti also produced wood engravings, poetry and works of art criticism. He based his artwork on basic lifestyle in Costa Rica.

#18435

Henry Suter

1841 - 1918 (77 years)

Henry Suter was a Swiss-born New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist. Biography Henry Suter was born on 9 March 1841 in Riesbach, Zurich, Switzerland, and was the son of a prosperous silk-manufacturer of Zurich. He was educated at the local school and university, being trained as an analytical chemist. Suter joined his father's business, and for some years he engaged in various commercial pursuits.

#18436

Film News Anandan

Film News Anandan

#68994

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Film News Anandan was an Indian film historian and photographer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was popularly known as the "walking encyclopedia" of Tamil cinema. Early life Anandan was born as Mani. His father P. K. Gnanasagaram was a government servant. When he was being admitted in school he told his principal his name was Anandakrishnan, which later became his legal name, and was further shortened to Anandan. After school, he joined Quaide Millath Arts college, then known as Government Arts college. When he was a college student, he had a chance to interact with the drama troupes of Y. G.

#18437

Otto Andersson

1879 - 1969 (90 years)

Otto Emanuel Andersson was a Finnish musicologist. Andersson studied first at the Helsingfors musikinstitut , becoming a teacher there. He studied folklore and music from 1908 onwards, and gained his Ph.D. in 1923 at the University of Helsinki. From 1926 on, he held the Robert Mattsons chair in musicology and folklore at the Åbo Akademi. In 1906, he formed the Brage Society, dedicated to Finland's Swedish folk music and culture, serving later as the group's chairman and choirmaster.

#18438

Piotr Ogrodziński

#118851

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Piotr Andrzej Ogrodziński is a Polish diplomat, activist and philosopher. Activist Ogrodziński was born in Paris where his father, Przemysław Ogrodziński, was serving as the Polish charge d'affairs at the Polish embassy. Ogrodziński's father was a senior diplomat under the Communist regime. Ogrodziński's mother, Halina Jacuńska-Ogrodzińska, was recognized by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem as one of Righteous Among the Nations on 28 June 1979 for hiding two Jewish women, Maria Glass and Olga Lilien during the Holocaust.

#18439

Fred J. Ansfield

#86079

Overall Influence

1910 - 1996 (86 years)

Fred Joseph Ansfield, M.D. was an American pioneer of medical oncology. He was a leader in applying 5-FU to humans, demonstrating its effectiveness as a chemotherapy drug. Ansfield co-founded the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 1964, along with Harry Bisel, Arnoldus Goudsmit, Herman H. Freckman, Robert W. Talley, William Wilson and Jane Cooke Wright. He served as ASCO's third president . "He shall be remembered by cancer treatment specialists everywhere as one of the founders of Medical Oncology."

#18440

Peter Panzica

#150997

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Peter John Panzica is Director of Anesthesiology at Westchester Medical Center and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at New York Medical College. He was prior Vice Chairman for Clinical Services in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School.

#18441

Mwalim

#162325

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Mwalim , also known as "Mwalim *7" and "Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor" is an American performing artist, writer, and educator. He is a tenured associate professor of English and former director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is also a founding member of The GroovaLottos, a multiple Grammy Award-nominated soul-funk-blues band, for which he is the keyboard player, a vocalist, and the resident songwriter.

#18442

Max Wilms

1867 - 1918 (51 years)

Carl Max Wilhelm Wilms was a German pathologist and surgeon who was a native of Hünshoven, which today is part of the town Geilenkirchen. In 1890, he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and afterwards was an assistant to pathologist Eugen Bostroem in Giessen and to internist Otto Michael Ludwig Leichtenstern in Cologne. In 1899, he began training as a surgeon at Leipzig. In 1907, he became a professor of surgery at Basel. In 1910, he attained the chair of surgery at the University of Heidelberg.

#18443

Petrus Wesseling

Petrus Wesseling

1692 - 1764 (72 years)

Petrus Wesseling was a German philologist and jurist working in the Dutch Republic. He became famous as a philologist. Early life Petrus Wesseling was born to Gerardus Wesseling and Anna Reiners or Creter on 7 January 1692 Old Style. When he was 10 he lost his father. He then went to his uncle Wessel Reiners, a merchant in Emden. Here Wesseling visited the Latin school. Later he went to the Gymnasium Arnoldinum in Steinfurt, where he was educated in classical languages and theology. His main teachers were August Houck , Werner Justin Pagenstecher and Arnold Visch . In 1712 Wesseling ended his studies in Steinfurt with the disputation theologica de petra in Matthaei evang.

#18444

Isak Jundell

1867 - 1945 (78 years)

Isak Jundell , née Jundelsky, was a Russian-born Swedish pediatrician. He was Professor of Pediatrics at the Karolinska Institute, a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and was the first editor-in-chief of Acta Paediatrica.

#18445

Henry Moore

1831 - 1895 (64 years)

Henry Moore was an English marine and landscape painter. Life Moore was born in York, a brother of both Albert Joseph and John Collingham, and the pupil of their father, William Moore. Henry was educated at York and was taught painting by his father. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1853, and exhibited his first picture, Glen Clunie, Braemar, at the Royal Academy in the same year. He was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Academy from that time onwards. He exhibited at the Portland Gallery from 1855 to 1860, and at the British Institution from 1855 to 1865. It was also in 1855 that he...

#18446

Richard of Campsall

#191317

Overall Influence

Richard of Campsall was an English theologian and scholastic philosopher, at the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol College and then of Merton College. He is now considered a possible precursor to the views usually associated with William of Ockham.

#18447

Clifford Mann

#92385

Overall Influence

1962 - 2021 (59 years)

Clifford John Mann OBE was a British Emergency Medicine physician, and President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine 2013–2016, becoming the first President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine when the organisation received its royal charter.

#18448

Hans Einstein

#47726

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Hans E. Einstein was the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever. He lived in Bakersfield, California. He was related to Albert Einstein: Hans's grandfather and Albert were first cousins.

#18449

Wilberforce Echezona

#64830

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Wilberforce William Chukudinka Echezona was a Nigerian musicologist and a pioneer teacher of music in Nigerian universities. He was the first Igbo man to be educated at London's Trinity College of Music, and the first African to obtain a degree in music education in the United States, where he received a PhD from Michigan State University in 1963.

#18450

Vida Latham

1866 - 1958 (92 years)

Vida Annette Latham was a British-American dentist, physician, microscopist, and researcher, known for her work in publishing and her research on oral tumors, surgery, and anatomy. Early life and education Vida Latham was born in Lancashire in 1866 to a physician father. Her early education took place in Cambridge and Manchester. She earned her master's degree from the University of London in 1889; she published papers on tooth anatomy and pain in 1888 while working at a London dentist's office. She then moved to the United States because she could not practice in the UK with an American dentistry degree.

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