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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18651

Kay Slocum

#183620

Overall Influence

Kay Brainerd Slocum is an American musician and historian who has published books in music and medieval history. Slocum is currently the Gerhold Professor of History and Humanities at Capital University, Ohio, prior to which she taught music history and viola at Kent State University. A violist, Slocum has performed with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Erie Philharmonic, and the Youngstown Symphony. She currently plays with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

#18652

Charles Rolls

1877 - 1910 (33 years)

Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32.

#18653

Frances Lander Spain

#105254

Overall Influence

1903 - 1999 (96 years)

Frances Lander Spain was a children's librarian and an instructor of school library services. In 1960, she became the first children's librarian to ever hold the position of president of the American Library Association . Spain was named one of the library's "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."

#18654

Roberto Castillo

#185840

Overall Influence

1950 - 2008 (58 years)

Roberto Castillo was a Honduran philosopher and writer. A 2002 novel by Roberto Castillo, La guerra mortal de los sentidos, chronicles the adventures of the "Searcher for the Lenca Language."

#18655

Ian Hassall

#121910

Overall Influence

1941 - 2021 (80 years)

Sir Ian Bruce Hassall was a New Zealand paediatrician and children's advocate. He was New Zealand's first Commissioner for Children from 1989 to 1994. His career entailed working for children and their families as clinician, strategist, researcher and advocate. He was awarded the Aldo Farina Award by UNICEF in 2010 for his dedication to improving child welfare.

#18656

Oleg Timofeyev

#170533

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Oleg Vitalyevich Timofeyev , is an American musicologist, specializing in lute and Russian guitar. He is best known for his pioneering work in the discovery, promotion, interpretation, and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Russian seven-string guitar.

#18657

June Blum

#145500

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

June Druiett Blum was a multimedia American artist who produced paintings, sculptures, prints, light shows, happenings, jewelry, art books, pottery, conceptual documentations, and drawings. She was also a feminist curator and activist who worked to advance the women's movement and increase visibility for women artists.

#18658

Demetrius Lacon

150 BC - Present (2176 years)

Demetrius Lacon or Demetrius of Laconia was an Epicurean philosopher, and a disciple of Protarchus. He was an older contemporary of Zeno of Sidon and a teacher of Philodemus. Sextus Empiricus quotes part of a commentary by Demetrius on Epicurus, where Demetrius interprets Epicurus' statement that "time is an accident of accidents."

#18659

Metrodorus of Lampsacus

500 BC - 464 BC (36 years)

Metrodorus of Lampsacus was a Pre-Socratic philosopher from the Greek town of Lampsacus on the eastern shore of the Hellespont. According to Diogenes Laertius, he was a contemporary and friend of Anaxagoras.He died in 464 BC.

#18660

Dioscorides

300 BC - Present (2326 years)

Dioscorides , sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus. All other information has been lost. Another Dioscorides is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius. This philosopher was a Pyrrhonist, and was a student of Timon of Phlius.

#18661

Charles Dibdin

1745 - 1814 (69 years)

Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of "Tom Bowling", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas The Waterman and The Quaker , and several novels, memoirs and histories. His works were admired by Haydn and Beethoven.

#18662

Ernest Arthur Edghill

1879 - 1912 (33 years)

Ernest Arthur Edghill , B.D., was an Anglican priest and theological writer. He was the Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge 1910–11, and Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at King's College London. Ernest Arthur Edghill was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he studied theology.

#18663

Robert King Stone

Robert King Stone

1822 - 1872 (50 years)

Robert King Stone was an American physician and professor at Columbian College Medical School . He was considered "the dean of the Washington medical community". Stone served U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the years of the American Civil War, frequently treating maladies from the Lincoln family. Stone was present at Lincoln's deathbed and at his autopsy in 1865. Stone was one of 14 doctors to attend President Lincoln at his death bed. Stone was the only witness to his condition at the military tribunal, and his testimony has been shared by the National Archive of the United States.

#18664

Aubrey Otis Hampton

1900 - 1955 (55 years)

Aubrey Otis Hampton was an American radiologist remembered for describing Hampton's hump and Hampton's line. He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1925, undertook his internship in Dallas and worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1926. He became chief of radiology at Massachusetts General in 1941, serving as chief of radiology at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1945. Hampton was said to be one of the most accurate radiologists in diagnosing during his era.

#18665

Simon of Faversham

1260 - 1306 (46 years)

Simon of Faversham was an English medieval scholastic philosopher and later a university chancellor. Simon of Faversham was born in Faversham, Kent, and educated at Oxford, receiving a Master of Arts degree. He probably taught in Paris during the 1280s. His philosophical work consists almost entirely of commentaries on Aristotle's works. He was made Chancellor of Oxford University in January 1304 until his death in 1306.

#18666

Wong Siew Te

#81096

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Wong Siew Te is a Malaysian wildlife biologist known for his studies on the Malayan sun bear and the foundation of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sandakan, Sabah. Biography Wong Siew Te was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang on 16 May 1969 as the youngest son of the tailor Wong Soon Kew, who operated the business "Soon Kew Tailor" in Bukit Mertajam from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. He grew up with eight other siblings – four elder brothers and four elder sisters. From 1976 to 1982 he joined Kim Sen Primary School in Bukit Mertajam and from 1982 to 1987 the Jit Sin High School, also in...

#18667

Andreas Ludwig Jeitteles

1799 - 1878 (79 years)

Andreas Ludwig Joseph Heinrich Jeitteles or, in Czech, Ondřej Ludvík Jeitteles was a Czech physician, author of medical literature, journalist, politician, poet and writer; under the pseudonym, Justus Frey.

#18668

Neil B. Shulman

Neil B. Shulman

#54460

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Neil Barnett Shulman is an American doctor and medical writer, who is Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at Emory University. He has conducted and published clinical research on hypertension and is the co-founder of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks. He is the author of many books promoting medical literacy for both adults and children, as well as humor and children's books. He is the associate producer of the 1991 film Doc Hollywood, based on one of his books.

#18669

Jerrold Northrop Moore

#80487

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Jerrold Northrop Moore is an American-born British musicologist, best known for a biography and other writings on the life and music of Sir Edward Elgar. He is also an authority on the history of the gramophone.

#18670

Andrew J. Carr

#123176

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Andrew Jonathan Carr is a British surgeon and has been the sixth Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics and head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford since 2001.

#18671

Heinrich W. Schwab

#173172

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Heinrich Wilhelm Schwab is a German musicologist. Career Born in Ludwigshafen Schwab received his doctorate from the University of Saarbrücken in 1964 with a thesis on the influences of 18th century music on that of the 19th century. From 1966 he took part in a research project at the University of Kiel that focused on Scandinavian and Baltic music history. Since 1998 he was professor for musicology at the University of Copenhagen. He has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 1998, and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 1999 and since 2005 a member of the Academia Europaea.

#18672

Beatriz Jaguaribe

#115731

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Beatriz Jaguaribe is a professor of comparative communications in the School of Communications at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jaguaribe has written on race and visual culture in contemporary Brazil. Among her publications are Fins de Século: Cidade e Cultura no Rio de Janeiro , published by Rocco, and Mapa do Maravilhoso do Rio de Janeiro , published by Sextante Artes. Jaguaribe works on the relationship between artistic production and lived experiences in the production of cultural maps of urban Brazil.

#18673

Karen Finch

#164790

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Karen Solveig Sinding Møller Finch was a Danish-born British master weaver, conservator and educator who was the founder of the Textile Conservation Centre. Life Karen Finch was born in May 1921 on a farm in Rødding in Denmark to Soren Møller and Ellen Sinding. She left the farm to study art in Copenhagen under Gerda Henning and Kaare Klint. She witnessed the occupation of her country and moved to England after she married Norman Finch in 1946.

#18674

Alex Mowat

#89236

Overall Influence

1935 - 1995 (60 years)

Alexander Parker Mowat was a Scottish paediatric hepatologist. He established the paediatric hepatology unit at King's College Hospital, London, which became a referral centre for children across Britain with liver diseases.

#18675

Francesca Sundsten

#58242

Overall Influence

1960 - 2019 (59 years)

Francesca Sundsten was an American painter. She applied traditional techniques while exploring elements of composition, palette, and minor abstractions of space and paint to create paintings and illustrations which were described by The Seattle Times as "calling to mind the Old Masters" with a "distinctly surrealist sensibility."

#18676

Emanuel Fried

#182477

Overall Influence

1913 - 2011 (98 years)

Emanuel "Manny" Fried was a playwright, actor, and union organizer. Born in New York City to a working-class background, Fried married into a prominent upper-class Buffalo, NY family. At the onset of World War II, Fried worked for Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. There, Fried became involved in the company's union and was fired for subversive activities. From 1944-1946, Fried served in the US Army. After the war, Fried again worked as a labor organizer, and was fired after an FBI investigation into Communist ties.

#18677

Ioannis Doukas

1845 - 1916 (71 years)

Ioannis Doukas or Dukas was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives in 19th century portrait painting in Greece. Life Doukas was born in 1841, in Gjirokastër . He started his studies in art at the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece, in 1859. He continued his studies outside Greece: initially in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , being a student of the German painter Karl von Piloty. He then moved to Paris and became student of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

#18678

Jean E. Lowrie

#186658

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Jean Elizabeth Lowrie was an American librarian, educator, and president of the American Library Association from 1973 to 1974. She received a bachelor's degree from Keuka College in 1940 and a second bachelor's degree in library science from Western Reserve University in 1941. She went on to receive a master's degree in elementary education from Western Michigan University in 1956 and her doctorate from Western Reserve University in 1959.

#18679

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad

#112599

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad is a Norwegian physician and sexologist who is also known as one of Norway's most prominent trans people. Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad was originally known as just Esben Benestad, but often publishes work in the name which includes their alias Esther Pirelli, the name which is often used by the media. Even though the Justice Department originally refused to issue supplementary identity documents in the name of Benestad's desired name, the local police eventually issued some unofficial documents.

#18680

Luigi Cornaro

1484 - 1566 (82 years)

Alvise Cornaro, often Italianised Luigi , was a Venetian nobleman and patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of Discorsi about the secrets to living long and well with measure and sobriety.

#18681

Fedon Lindberg

#187244

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Fedon Lindberg is a Greek-born Norwegian physician and weight loss guru. Lindberg was born and grew up in Greece, he migrated to Norway in 1986. He was educated as a physician and became a specialist in internal medicine, eventually focusing on weight control. He became a best-selling non-fiction author in the early 2000s, with the nutrition and weightloss books Naturlig slank med kost i balanse and Kokeboken naturlig slank , where he advocates a no carb diet.

#18682

Donald Ross

#24580

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Donald Nixon Ross, FRCS was a South African-born British thoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of cardiac surgery and led the team that carried out the first heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in 1968. He developed the pulmonary autograft, known as the Ross procedure, for treatment of aortic valve disease.

#18683

Sally Baddock

#106979

Overall Influence

Sally Anne Baddock is a New Zealand academic in the field of midwifery, and is a professor in the School of Midwifery at Otago Polytechnic. Academic career Baddock completed a PhD titled Bedsharing vs cot-sleeping: an investigation of the physiology and behaviour of infants in the home setting in 2004 at the University of Otago.

#18684

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

#178274

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Padma Shri Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Kaithapram, is a Malayalam lyricist, poet, music director, actor, singer, screenwriter, music therapist and performer of Carnatic music. He debuted with the movie Ennennum Kannettante in 1986. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyricist two times. He was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honor Padma Shri in 2021 by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of art.

#18685

Alan Walker

#80997

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Alan Christopher Walker, CBE, FBA, FRSA, FAcSS is a British academic, social scientist and public health administrator. Since 1985, he has been Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield.

#18686

Margaret Benyon

#82433

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Margaret Benyon, , was a British artist. Trained as a painter, she was one of the first artists to use holography as a medium and had her first solo show of holograms in 1969. She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for her service to art and has been called "the mother of British holography".

#18687

Jeanine Meerapfel

Jeanine Meerapfel

#152945

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Jeanine Meerapfel is a German-Argentine film director and screenwriter. She has directed twenty films since 1966. In 1984, she was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.

#18688

Edgar Haber

#70016

Overall Influence

1932 - 1997 (65 years)

Edgar Haber , was a research physician specializing in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology. He was, at times, Chief of Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Higgins Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, President of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and Director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. He published more than 550 research papers in cardiology, immunology, and molecular biology, and edited The Practice of Cardiology , at the time the definitive text on the subje...

#18689

Walter de Haas

1886 - 1969 (83 years)

Walter de Haas , who wrote under the pseudonym Hanns Günther, was a prolific German author, translator, and editor of popular science books. He began to publish books in 1912, including introductions to topics in electrical engineering under the Franckh'schen Verlagshandlung imprint and popular science works in the same publisher's Kosmos series. His books remain exemplary for their combination of exactness and ease of understanding.

#18690

Robert Lee

1793 - 1877 (84 years)

Robert Lee FRS was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow in 1834. He held the Chair for the shortest period of any holder to date, resigning from his position immediately after giving his opening address.

#18691

Libby Heaney

#171599

Overall Influence

Libby Heaney is a British artist and quantum physicist known for her pioneering work on AI and quantum computing. She works on the impact of future technologies and is widely known to be the first artist to use quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. Her work has been featured internationally, including in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern and the Science Gallery.

#18692

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner

1871 - 1935 (64 years)

Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner was a Jewish bacteriologist and physician, known for her research on tuberculosis and public health. She was the second woman to become a Professor in Prussia. Biography Lydia Rabinowitsch was born at Kovno, Russian Empire . She was educated at the girls' gymnasium of her native city, and privately in Latin and Greek, subsequently studying natural sciences at the universities of Zurich and Bern . After graduation she went to Berlin, where Professor Robert Koch permitted her to pursue her bacteriological studies at the Institute for Infectious Diseases. She became t...

#18693

Virginia Caine

#189323

Overall Influence

Virginia A. Caine is an American physician who is the director and chief medical officer of the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a specialist in infectious diseases and is nationally recognized for her work with AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Infectious Disease Division of the Indiana University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health.

#18694

Charles Warren Hostler

#168133

Overall Influence

1919 - 2014 (95 years)

Charles Warren Hostler was an American diplomat. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain from 1989 to 1993, as a political appointee. He also served as a colonel in the United States Air Force, an executive with McDonnell Douglas and adjunct professor of political science at San Diego State University.

#18695

Georg Jochmann

1874 - 1915 (41 years)

Georg Jochmann was a German internist and bacteriologist, who specialized in infectious diseases. In 1898 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Freiburg, and following graduation, worked as an assistant to Bernhard Fischer at the Institute of Hygiene in Kiel. Afterwards, he worked in the department of internal medicine at Hamburg-Eppendorf Hospital under Theodor Rumpel, and at the university medical clinic in Breslau under Alfred Kast and Adolph Strümpell. In 1904 he obtained his habilitation for internal medicine at the University of Breslau.

#18696

Niko Miljanić

1892 - 1957 (65 years)

Dr. Nikola "Niko" Miljanić was a Montenegrin and Serbian anatomist and surgeon, professor of anatomy at Belgrade Medical School, resistance participant during World War II and the president of Montenegrin wartime Assembly.

#18697

Ute Müller-Doblies

#174726

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Ute Müller-Doblies is a German botanist with an interest in the systematics of Amaryllidaceae. She is currently at the Herbarium of the Technische Universität Berlin in collaboration with Dietrich Müller-Doblies .

#18698

Ludwig Richter

1803 - 1884 (81 years)

Adrian Ludwig Richter was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles. He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is described as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm, for whom he produced several woodcuts.

#18699

James Ormiston Affleck

1840 - 1922 (82 years)

Sir James Ormiston Affleck FRSE was a Scottish physician and medical author. Life Affleck was born in Edinburgh in 1840, but not to a medical family. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1867 with MB ChB. He completed his doctorate in 1869 and began practicing in the Stockbridge area of the city, operating from 12 Claremont Place. He also took on the role of public vaccinator at the New Town Dispensary.

#18700

James Hilton

#84761

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

James Loyd Hilton is an American psychologist, educator, and academic administrator. Hilton served as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan since September 1, 2013. He was also Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, responsible for developing strategies and policies around educational technology and other cross-campus digital education initiatives. He stepped down as head of the U-M Library on June 30, 2022.

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