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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18601

Gillian Jagger

#183281

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gillian Jagger was a British multimedia sculptor and installation artist, based in the Hudson Valley of the United States. She is known for her plaster castings of manhole covers on the streets of New York City in the 1960s, during which time she was "erroneously being identified as a Pop artist". In her work Jagger "[appropriates] materials from nature", and incorporates tracings, rubbingss, and castings of found objects in both urban and rural environments.

#18602

Starr Hoffman

#191716

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#18603

Catherine Nakalembe

#128341

Overall Influence

Catherine Nakalembe is an Ugandan remote sensing scientist and an associate research professor at the University of Maryland in the Department of Geographical Sciences and the NASA Harvest Africa program Director. Her research includes drought, agriculture and food security.

#18604

Flavia Senkubuge

#68599

Overall Influence

Flavia Senkubuge is a South African physician, professor of public health medicine, an advocate of global public health and the immediate past President of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. At age 39, she was the college's youngest ever president and the first Black woman to hold the position.

#18605

Pierre Citron

#56799

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

Pierre Citron was a French musicologist and university professor, a specialist of novelist Jean Giono. He was the husband of historian Suzanne Citron. Biography Pierre Citron held the degrees of agrégé ès lettres and docteur ès lettres ; his main thesis was entitled La poésie de Paris dans la littérature française de Rousseau à Baudelaire. Attaché de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique from 1957 to 1960, he later was study director at the Institut français de Londres , then professor of French literature at the Faculté des lettres at the University of Clermont-Ferrand .

#18606

Elfreda Chatman

#96640

Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

Elfreda Annmary Chatman was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups .

#18607

John Lambert

#180909

Overall Influence

1926 - 1995 (69 years)

John Lambert was a British music composer and teacher. Biography John Arthur Neil Lambert was born at Maidenhead. After obtaining a post at the Royal College of Music, he lived at Brighton for the rest of his life, where he shared a house with organist Timothy Bond. He died in Brighton from liver cancer.

#18608

Joan Catoni Conlon

#164259

Overall Influence

Joan Catoni Conlon is Professor and Director of Graduate Choral Research Emerita for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she conducted the University Singers. She received her BA, MA and DMA degrees from the University of Washington where she was Professor of Choral Music and Conducting . From 1971 to 1995 she was the conductor of the Northwest Chamber Chorus in Seattle, Washington, and was the chair of the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association. Her scholarship specializes in the choral music of Georg Philipp Telemann and Claudio Monteverdi. She published Performing Monteverdi: A Conductor’s Guide .

#18609

Luigi Nono

1850 - 1918 (68 years)

Luigi Nono was an Italian painter, known primarily for his genre scenes depicting life among the poor. Biography A young Nono entered the Accademia of Venice, then under the leadership of Pompeo Marino Molmenti. But by at the age of twenty years, he went to Polcenigo in the Friulian countryside, and he began to refine his style of landscape paintings, including Sull' Avemaria, Le sorgenti del Gorgazzo, Ritorno dai campi, and Verso sera. He later returned to painting genre subjects of everyday life, and these paintings would prove to be his most influential. If his contemporary, Giacomo Favret...

#18610

Chris Bourg

#129618

Overall Influence

Chris Bourg is an American librarian, sociologist and former officer of the United States Army. She has been the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries since 2015. Career and education Bourg graduated with a B.A. from Duke University and a M.A. from the University of Maryland. She went on to study sociology at Stanford University where she completed an M.A. and PhD. Her doctoral thesis titled Gender mistakes and inequality was supervised by Cecilia L. Ridgeway.

#18611

Zafer Kızılkaya

#170894

Overall Influence

Zafer Ali Kızılkaya is a Turkish marine advocate and engineer who is credited for expanding marine protected areas along Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Kızılkaya was born in Ankara in 1969. Growing up, he watched Jacques Cousteau documentaries which inspired his admiration for the sea. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Middle East Technical University. After graduating from college, Kızılkaya took interest in commercial deep sea diving and underwater photography. He took his interests to the Pacific Ocean and spent many years exploring its waters while being a marine photographer and researcher in Indonesia.

#18612

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz

#88781

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Shira Yalon-Chamovitz is an Israeli occupational therapist. She is the director of the Israel Institute on Cognitive Accessibility and dean of students at Ono Academic College. She has made significant contributions to the field of accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, having coined the terms "cognitive ramps" and "simultaneous simplification".

#18613

Anne-Marie Jackson

#190775

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Anne-Marie Jackson is a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago specialising in Māori physical education and health. Early life Jackson grew up in rural Southland, with a Māori and a non-Māori parent. Both her parents worked in shearing gangs. She affiliates with the Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu o Whangaroa and Ngāti Wai tribes.

#18614

Ochy Curiel

#188714

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Rosa Inés Curiel Pichardo , better known as Ochy Curiel, is an Afro-Dominican feminist academic, singer and social anthropologist. She is known for helping to establish the Afro-Caribbean women's movement and maintaining that lesbianism is neither an identity, orientation nor sexual preference, but rather a political position. She is one of the most prominent feminist scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean.

#18615

Danny Sullivan

#168322

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Danny Sullivan is an American technologist, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Search Engine Watch in 1997, one of the earliest online publications about search engine marketing. He also launched Search Engine Strategies, one of the earliest search marketing trade shows. After selling both companies in 2006, he co-founded Search Engine Land, another search marketing publication. In 2017, he joined Google as an adviser at the search division of the company.

#18616

Frances Clarke Sayers

1897 - 1989 (92 years)

Frances Clarke Sayers was an American children's librarian, author of children's books, and lecturer on children's literature. In 1999, American Libraries named her one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".

#18617

Andrew Davenport

#112678

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Andrew Davenport is an English writer, puppeteer, producer, composer, and actor, specialising in creating television, music, and books for young children. He is known as co-creator and writer of Teletubbies and writer, voice artist and puppeteer of "Tiny" on Tots TV. He is also the creator, writer, and composer of both In the Night Garden... and Moon and Me.

#18618

Władysław Mazurkiewicz

Władysław Mazurkiewicz

1871 - 1933 (62 years)

Władysław Mazurkiewicz was a Polish physician and professor at the University of Warsaw. In May 1901, together with Aleksander Sulkiewicz, he helped Józef Piłsudski escape from a mental hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, to which Piłsudski had been transferred from the Warsaw Citadel after feigning mental illness.

#18619

Pilar Pedraza

#102381

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Pilar Pedraza Martínez is a Spanish professor and writer. Her work has two main aspects: horror narrative and essay. Biography After earning her doctorate in History at the University of Valencia, Pilar Pedraza has been teaching Film and avant-garde cinema there since 1982. She was Councilor of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana from 1993 to 1995, during the last term of Joan Lerma, and member of the Board of Directors of RTVV. Throughout her career, she has combined teaching and research with literary creation.

#18620

Axel von Harnack

1895 - 1974 (79 years)

Friedrich Hermann Julius Axel von Harnack was a German librarian, historian and philologist. He was the cousin of Arvid and Falk Harnack and worked to get Arvid and his wife, Mildred Harnack released from Nazi detention after they were arrested in connection with the Red Orchestra. He was the first in the family to be told of Arvid and Mildred's arrest, which had been kept secret by the Nazis. In 1947, he published a memoir of the trial that convicted Arvid and Mildred Harnack of high treason and sentenced them to death.

#18621

Bob Haymes

1923 - 1989 (66 years)

Robert William Haymes , also known by the stage names Robert Stanton and Bob Stanton, was an American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter. He is best remembered for co-writing the song "That's All", part of the Great American Songbook. He was the younger brother of singer and actor Dick Haymes.

#18622

Azalea Thorpe

1911 - 1988 (77 years)

Azalea Thorpe was a Scottish-born American weaver and textile designer. Known for her innovative experimentation with both natural and synthetic materials, Thorpe was a featured instructor and lecturer throughout the United States. She has weavings in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. An annual award given in her honor is presented by the Institute of American Indian Arts for fiber arts.

#18623

Marcus Pløen Ingstad

Marcus Pløen Ingstad

1837 - 1918 (81 years)

Marcus Pløen Ingstad was a Norwegian jurist and educator. He was a legal historian and scholar who was the author of several books on Roman law. He served as a Professor of Jurisprudence and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo between 1870 and 1918.

#18624

Barbara J. Bain

#91576

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Barbara Jane Bain is an Australian haematologist and oncologist. She is a professor at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and a consultant at St Mary's Hospital, London. She is known as the author of reference textbooks in the field of haematology that form the core curriculum for laboratory morphology and pathology.

#18625

Carlos Pardo-Villamizar

#123466

Overall Influence

Carlos A. Pardo-Villamizar, also known simply as Carlos Pardo, is a professor of neurology and pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center. His area of expertise is immunopathology and the neuroimmune system. He is currently leading a project that investigates the role of neuroglial dysfunction in HIV infection and drug abuse, and has also published research concluding that the brains of autistic individuals exhibit neuroglial activation, loss of neurons in the Purkinje layer and neuroinflammation "in the sam...

#18626

James Lawrence Cabell

James Lawrence Cabell

1813 - 1889 (76 years)

Dr. James Lawrence Cabell was an American sanitarian and author. Life He was born in Nelson County, Virginia, the son of Dr. George Cabell, Jr., and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1833. He then studied medicine in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Paris, and became Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Virginia, where he was chairman of the faculty in 1846 and 1847. Cabell was a full professor at the School of Medicine for 52 years and was an early pioneer of the sanitary preparation of the surgical patient following Lister's principles.

#18627

Chris Evans

#181915

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Christopher James Evans is an English television presenter, radio DJ and producer for radio and television. He started his broadcasting career working for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester, as a teenager, before moving to London as a presenter for the BBC's BBC Radio London and then Channel 4 television, where The Big Breakfast made him a star. Soon he was able to dictate highly favourable terms, allowing him to broadcast on competing radio and TV stations. Slots like Radio 1 Breakfast and TFI Friday provided a mix of celebrity interviews, music and comic games, delivered in an irreverent style that attracted high ratings, though often also generated significant numbers of complaints.

#18628

Norman Horrocks

#101865

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Norman Horrocks OC was Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University. Biography Horrocks began his library career in Manchester, England, from 1945-53 interrupted by three years in the British Army's Intelligence Corps between 1945 and 1948. He was elected a Fellow of the Library Association, and worked in Cyprus, Western Australia, Perth , and then studied for his MLS and doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh before joining Dalhousie in 1971. He became Director of the School of Library and Information Studies and later was also Dean of the Faculty of Management.

#18629

Moshe Rosman

#65318

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Moshe Rosman is an Israeli historian specializing in the history of Polish Jews. He is a professor emeritus at the Department of Jewish History in Bar-Ilan University. Awards 1996: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish History category for Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov

#18630

Hilary Corke

#148817

Overall Influence

1921 - 2001 (80 years)

Hilary Topham Corke was an English writer, composer and mineralogist. Corke was born in Malvern, Worcestershire. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. His poems appeared in Poetry Now and Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse . Together with Anthony Thwaite and William Plomer he edited New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. He died at Abinger Hammer, Surrey, aged 80.

#18631

Ernst Friedrich Apelt

1812 - 1859 (47 years)

Ernst Friedrich Apelt was a German philosopher and entrepreneur. Life Apelt graduated from secondary school in Zittau and entered the University of Jena in 1831. He then continued his studies at the University of Leipzig. He received his doctorate in 1835 and four years later completed his habilitation in Jena. He taught there from 1840 and became a full professor in 1856.

#18632

Karen Lam

#139130

Overall Influence

Karen Lam is a Canadian director, writer and producer. She is known for the horror film Evangeline . Life and career Karen Lam grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. Lam's father, a professor, would show his daughter horror films that she cites as an influence for her work. Lam also lists Gothic literature and Asian horror films as influences.

#18633

Brigitte François-Sappey

Brigitte François-Sappey

#124559

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Brigitte François-Sappey is a French musicologist, educator, radio producer, and lecturer. Biography Brigitte François-Sappey studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where she won first prizes of music history, musical analysis, musical esthetics, musicology, and at the École normale de musique de Paris where she graduated for piano teaching.

#18634

Frederick Forchheimer

1853 - 1913 (60 years)

Frederick Forchheimer was an American pediatrician known for describing Forchheimer spots. Biography Frederick Forchheimer was born in Cincinnati on September 25, 1853. He was educated in public schools and the Medical College of Ohio. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1873.

#18635

Abai Qunanbaiuly

Abai Qunanbaiuly

1845 - 1904 (59 years)

Ibrahim Qunanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam. Among Kazakhs he is known simply as Abai.

#18636

Victor Warren Fazio

#68640

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Victor Warren Fazio AO, , an Australian, was a colorectal surgeon, a leader at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio for over 35 years. He pioneered surgical techniques and improved the quality of life for cancer patients around the world. He wrote or co-authored 13 books, contributed scientific papers to standard texts, lectured and taught younger surgeons in the United States and Australia.

#18637

Mihail Neamțu

#191259

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Mihail Neamțu , born 1978, is a Romanian conservative politician. He received a PhD in theology from King's College London and has written several books on politics, religion, and culture. Life and career

#18638

Alfred Stillé

1813 - 1900 (87 years)

Alfred Stillé was an American physician. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Stillé studied classics at Yale, but was expelled for participating in the Conic Sections Rebellion. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the same year, where he received an A.B. degree in 1832. He went on to earn an A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835 and in 1836 an M.D. from the school's department of medicine.

#18639

Lü Liuliang

1629 - 1683 (54 years)

Lü Liuliang was a Han Chinese poet and author from Tongxiang, Zhejiang province. He was born under the Ming dynasty but died under the Manchu Qing dynasty. Career In 1647 one of his nephews was executed for anti-Qing activity. Lü took active part in the anti-Manchu military movement that followed the fall of the Ming in 1644. After the failure of the Ming loyalist movement, he became a hermit and a physician. He refused to serve the new dynasty, despite frequent requests, because he argued that upholding the difference between Hua and barbarians was more important than respecting the righteou...

#18640

Johann Christian Stark

Johann Christian Stark

1753 - 1811 (58 years)

Johann Christian Stark was a German physician and obstetrician born in Oßmannstedt. His nephew, also named Johann Christian Stark , was a noted obstetrician. He earned his doctorate in 1777 from the University of Jena, where in 1779 he became an associate professor. At Jena he was director of a health institute and subdirector of maternity hospital services.

#18641

Knut Bjøro

#178679

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Knut Jahr Bjøro was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Skedsmo. He took the Dr. Med. degree in 1966. He worked at Rikshospitalet, and was hired as a docent at the University of Oslo. He was a professor from 1971 to his retirement, and his specialties were obstetrics and gynaecology. He died in March 2010.

#18642

Thaddeus Weclew

#97774

Overall Influence

Dentist Dr. Thaddeus V. Weclew was one of the creators of the Academy of General Dentistry in 1952. He also was the founder and first chancellor of the Academy of Continuing Dental Education. Dr. Weclew served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and its dental radiology department for 32 years.

#18643

Amanda Howe

#66147

Overall Influence

Amanda Caroline Howe is a British medical doctor who works as a general practitioner and is a Professor of Primary Care. She is a former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a former President of the World Organization of Family Doctors .

#18644

Ernst Gadermann

Ernst Gadermann

1913 - 1973 (60 years)

Ernst Gadermann was a German physician in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. After World War II he became a well known cardiologist.

#18645

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

#148573

Overall Influence

Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah-Onukagha is an American researcher who is the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Her research considers women's health disparities in Black women. Amutah-Onukagha is the inaugural Tufts University Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Public Health. She was named the American Public Health Association Maternal and Child Health Section's Young Professional of the Year in 2019.

#18646

James Murdoch

1856 - 1921 (65 years)

James Murdoch was a Scottish Orientalist scholar and journalist, who worked as a teacher in the Empire of Japan and Australia. From 1903 to 1917, he wrote his "monumental" three-volume A History of Japan, the first comprehensive history of Japan in the English language . In 1917 he began teaching Japanese at the University of Sydney and in 1918 he was appointed the foundation professor of the School of Oriental Studies there.

#18647

Lawrence Gushee

#152731

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Lawrence Arthur "Larry" Gushee was an American musicologist, who specialized in medieval music and early jazz. He was born in Ridley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Haverford College, Yale University, University of Dijon, and the Manhattan School of Music. He earned his doctorate at Yale in 1959, with the dissertation "The Musica Disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme: a critical edition and commentary." He taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Yale, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Professor Emeritus.

#18648

Robert Mauzi

#72432

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Robert Mauzi was a French academic and author who studied and taught literature and thought, particularly that of 18th century France. He was born in Toulouse, attended then later taught at the Faculty of Arts in Lyon. Mauzi was named a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1969, and continued to serve there actively or as professor emeritus until his death.

#18649

Leslie Henson

1891 - 1957 (66 years)

Leslie Lincoln Henson was an English comedian, actor, singer producer for films and theatre, and film director. He initially worked in silent films and Edwardian musical comedy and became a popular music hall comedian who enjoyed a long stage career. He was famous for his bulging eyes, malleable face and raspy voice and helped to form the Entertainments National Service Association during the Second World War.

#18650

Jannik Petersen Bjerrum

1851 - 1920 (69 years)

Jannik Petersen Bjerrum was a Danish ophthalmologist who was a native of Skærbæk, a town in the southernmost part of Jutland. In 1864 Skærbæk became part of Germany due to consequences of the Second Schleswig War.

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