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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18751

Vito Fazio-Allmayer

Vito Fazio-Allmayer

1885 - 1958 (73 years)

Vito Fazio-Allmayer was an Italian philosopher, pedagogist and university teacher. Biography He was born in Palermo from Giuseppe Emanuele Fazio, originary from Alcamo and from Felicina Allmayer, of German origins but resident in Italy. Since a boy he was interested in the history of art; when he was 23 he graduated in Jurisprudence, but as he was fond of philosophy, he soon started the philosophical studies and attended the philosophical library of Palermo, where he met Giovanni Gentile.

#18752

Jan Millsapps

#175385

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jan Millsapps is a U.S. digital filmmaker, fiction writer, and Professor Emerita in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. She has produced films, videos and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues.

#18753

William Cumin

1784 - 1854 (70 years)

William Cumin was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow between 1834 and 1840. He was the son of Patrick Cumin , professor of oriental languages at the University of Glasgow, and his wife Rachael Baird. The Scottish philosopher David Hume in a letter to Adam Smith in June 1761 had recommended Cumin's father for his position.

#18754

Ferdinand Laufberger

1829 - 1881 (52 years)

Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm Laufberger was an Austrian painter and etcher. Biography Laufberger trained at both the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He initially painted genre scenes of peasant and village life then, in 1855, on behalf of Österreichischer Lloyd , travelled through the Danube Vilayet to Istanbul, creating a series of drawings that were made into popular engravings. While in Istanbul, Laufberger made several connections with Caucasus Germans that had settled in Istanbul, and the material he drew from them provided inspiration to his later work.

#18755

Theodore Wesley Koch

Theodore Wesley Koch

1871 - 1941 (70 years)

Theodore Wesley Koch was the Director of Northwestern University's library , and the Director of the University of Michigan Library . He also held positions at the Cornell University Library and the Library of Congress.

#18756

Bertil H. van Boer

#104587

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Bertil H. van Boer is an American musicologist, composer, conductor and violist. Life and career Bertil Hermann van Boer studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Master of Arts at the University of Oregon and his PhD in Music History from Uppsala University.

#18757

Lothar Voigtländer

#184371

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Lothar Voigtländer is a German composer. Life Voigtländer was born in Leisnig. He received his formative musical education between 1954 and 1962 as a choirboy and later as choir prefect in the Dresdner Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger. From 1961 to 1968 he studied conducting with Rolf Reuter and music composition with Fritz Geißler at the Leipzig Academy of Music and from 1970 to 1972 as a master student at the Akademie der Künste der DDR with Günter Kochan.

#18758

Peter of Capua the Elder

Peter of Capua the Elder

1150 - 1214 (64 years)

Peter of Capua was an Italian scholastic theologian and prelate. He served as cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata from 1193 until 1201 and cardinal-priest of San Marcello al Corso from 1201 until his death. He often worked as a papal legate. He wrote several theological works and was a patron of his hometown of Amalfi.

#18759

Ann Rockley

#102407

Overall Influence

Ann Rockley is a content manager. She is the founder and President of The Rockley Group, based in the greater Toronto Area. She regularly presents papers and workshops on subjects involving the efficient creation, management and delivery of content for organizations in North America and Europe. She was the lead analyst for The XML & Component Content Management Report on Content Management Systems Watch.

#18760

Junichiro Ito

#31654

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Junichiro Ito is a Japanese medical researcher and a psychiatrist. He is currently the director of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health, Japan. Ito's research interests include Assertive Community Treatment and assistance programs for socially withdrawn individuals, called hikikomori.

#18761

Laurent Gagnebin

#106357

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Laurent Gagnebin is a philosopher and Protestant theologian born in Lausanne in 1939. He has been pastor of the Reformed Church of France in Paris in the Liberal Protestant congregations of the Oratory of the Louvre and the from 1963 to 1981 and professor of practical theology at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris.

#18762

Theodore Henry Robinson

1881 - 1964 (83 years)

Theodore Henry Robinson was a British biblical scholar who became professor of Semitic languages at University College, Cardiff. Life Robinson was born in Edenbridge, Kent, on 9 August 1881 to the Baptist minister W. Venis Robinson and his wife Emily Jane. After studying at St. John's College, Cambridge, Regent's Park Baptist College and Göttingen University he taught Hebrew and Syriac at Serampore College, Bengal.

#18763

María Teresa Ferrari

María Teresa Ferrari

1887 - 1956 (69 years)

María Teresa Ferrari was an Argentine educator, physician, and women's rights activist. She was the first female university professor in Latin America and one of the first women allowed to teach medicine. She was a pioneering researcher in women's health, studying the use of radiation therapy rather than surgery for uterine tumors and developing a vaginoscope that revolutionized women's health care in Brazil. She established the first maternity ward and gynecological services at the Hospital Militar Central of Buenos Aires in 1925, which provided the first incubation services in the country.

#18764

William Kilpatrick Stewart

1914 - 1967 (53 years)

Air Vice Marshal William Kilpatrick Stewart, was a Scottish researcher in aerospace physiology, senior consultant in physiology to the Royal Air Force, and commanding officer of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine.

#18765

Venko Filipče

#81022

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Venko Filipče is a Macedonian neurosurgeon and the former health minister of North Macedonia from 2017 to 2022. He served as the health minister during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia. In addition to his work as a surgeon and health minister, Filipče has also published scientific articles in medical neurosurgical journals.

#18766

Kentaro Higuchi

#90580

Overall Influence

1907 - 1994 (87 years)

was a Japanese dermatologist and educator. Personal history Higuchi was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and graduated from Kyushu Imperial University in 1934. He studied mycology under Mokutaro Kinoshita or Masao Ota. In 1942 he became assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at Kyushu Imperial University. One year later, he became professor of dermatology at Jakarta University. He was a professor of dermatology at Kurume University in 1947 and at Kyushu University in 1948. In 1957 he studied in Germany. In 1971 he retired from Kyushu University and became professor of dermatology at F...

#18767

Reuben Ottenberg

1882 - 1959 (77 years)

Reuben Ottenberg was an American physician and haematologist, who served Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City with distinction for 50 years. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1902 and his M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons three years later.

#18768

H. Winter Griffith

#130041

Overall Influence

1926 - 1993 (67 years)

Dr. H. Winter Griffith was an American physician who authored 27 popular medical books. His books include The Complete Guide to Symptoms, Illness, and Surgery and Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs. Multiple editions have been published, even after his death, and these books are the basis for the health library on the popular web site MDadvice.com . Griffith's books have been renowned as easy for patients to read and understand.

#18769

Neema Kaseje

#93323

Overall Influence

Neema Kaseje is an American pediatric surgeon and public health specialist in Boston, with Doctors Without Borders, and at University Hospitals Geneva. She is the founder and director of the Surgical Systems Research Group in Kisumu, Kenya. She has recently been appointed the head of the World Health Program in Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, and leads a Wellcome Trust funded COVID-19 health intervention in Siaya, Kenya.

#18770

Aesara

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Aesara of Lucania was a conjectured Pythagorean philosopher who may have written On Human Nature, a fragment of which is preserved by Stobaeus, although the majority of critical scholars follow Holger Thesleff in attributing it to Aresas, a male writer from Lucania who is also mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras.

#18771

Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty

1825 - 1874 (49 years)

Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, also spelled Surjo Kumar Chakraborty was the first Indian to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service in 1855 and subsequently became the Professor of Materia Medica at Calcutta Medical College in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

#18772

Roser Bru

#112944

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

Roser Bru Llop was a Spanish-born Chilean painter and engraver associated with the neo-figurative art movement. Biography Roser Bru was born in Barcelona in 1923. The following year her family went into exile in Paris, France, as a result of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Four years later, they returned to their hometown where Bru studied at the Montessori School and later, in 1931, at the . After the Spanish Civil War, in 1939, she moved back to France, where she embarked for Chile on the SS Winnipeg. She arrived in Valparaíso on 3 September of that year.

#18773

Hermann Schmitz

#187772

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Hermann Schmitz was a German philosopher who founded neo-phenomenology. He was a professor at the University of Kiel.

#18774

Ivan Loveridge Bennett

1922 - 1990 (68 years)

Ivan Loveridge Bennett, Jr. was an American physician who was dean of the NYU School of Medicine and served as president of New York University 1980–1981. Bennett was educated at Emory University where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Graduated with a B.A. in 1943, and a medical degree in 1946. Bennett was Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1967 and 1969. Bennett was also director of the department of pathology at Johns Hopkins University and also taught at Yale and New York University.

#18775

Laurent Bavay

#124158

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Laurent Bavay is a Belgian Egyptologist who has been director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale since June 2015.

#18776

Kazimierz Pelczar

1894 - 1943 (49 years)

Kazimierz Pelczar was a Polish academic and physician. Professor of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and pioneer of oncology research and treatment, he was murdered in the Ponary massacre. Biography Kazimierz Pelczar was born on 2 August 1894 in Truskawiec. His father, Z. Pelczar, was a physician himself, owner of a sanatorium and author of about 20 articles. In the years 1912–1914 he studied medicine at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. During the First World War he was conscripted by the Austro-Hungarian Army, he was taken prisoner of war by the Imperial Russian Army in 1915 and soon joined the Red Cross.

#18777

Mark M. Davis

#38189

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Mark Morris Davis is an American immunologist. He is the director of and Avery Family Professor of Immunology at the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection at Stanford University. Education Davis was educated at Johns Hopkins University and the California Institute of Technology where he was awarded a PhD in 1981 for research supervised by Leroy E. Hood.

#18778

Hans Grüß

#175442

Overall Influence

1929 - 2001 (72 years)

Hans Ludwig Kurt Reinhold Grüß was a German musicologist and ensemble leader. Life Childhood and studies He spent his childhood and adolescence in Freiberg since his father taught as professor of mathematics and technical mechanics at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1936. As a grammar school student he was drafted to the Volkssturm and was only able to take his Abitur after he had been a prisoner of war.

#18779

Arnold Buffum Chace

Arnold Buffum Chace

1845 - 1932 (87 years)

Arnold Buffum Chace was an American textile businessman, mathematics scholar, and eleventh chancellor of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Family Arnold was born November 10, 1845, in Cumberland, Rhode Island. His paternal grandfather Oliver Chace was founder of the Valley Falls textile company, which later became Berkshire Hathaway. His parents Samuel Buffington Chace and Elizabeth Buffum Chace were Quakers and prominent anti-slavery activists. His maternal grandfather, Arnold Buffum, was president of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. His sister Lillie became an author and so...

#18780

John Howard

#115653

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Howard is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and recording artist and published author. With his February 1975 debut album Kid in a Big World , Howard emerged as a late voice of the glam-pop wave of the early 1970s. Across a musical career that has included two main periods of recording activity – 1974-84 and 2004–present – Howard has released 20 studio albums and 12 studio EPs. In March 2018, he became a published author, his first autobiography, Incidents Crowded With Life, covering his childhood up to 1976, was published by Fisher King Publishing. In August 2020, the second volume ...

#18781

Sean D. Kirkland

#113528

Overall Influence

Sean D. Kirkland is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University. He is known for his expertise on Ancient Greek Philosophy. Kirkland won the 2013 Symposium Book Award for his monograph The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Platos Early Dialogues.

#18782

Jo Zayner

#78449

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Jo Zayner is a biohacker, artist, and scientist best known for their self-experimentation and work making hands-on genetic engineering accessible to a lay audience, including CRISPR. Education At the age of 19, Zayner worked at Motorola as a programmer. She has a BA in plant biology from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D in biophysics from the University of Chicago. Before receiving their Ph.D, Zayner earned a MSc in cell and molecular biology from Appalachian State University.

#18783

Januarius Jingwa Asongu

#190614

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Januarius Jingwa Asongu is an American philosopher, scholar, journalist, author, entrepreneur, and activist. Born in the city of Lewoh, in the former British Southern Cameroons, Africa, he moved to the United States in the mid-1990s, where he is now a naturalized citizen.

#18784

Jacqueline Couti

#191692

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Associate Professor of French Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. Education Dr. Couti received her MA in 2004, and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Virginia in French Language and Literatures with a specialization in Francophone and New World Studies.

#18785

Kate van Orden

#177415

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Kate van Orden is an American musicologist and bassoonist, currently Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. Biography Van Orden obtained a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 1996.

#18786

Dieter Härtwig

#131695

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Dieter Härtwig is a German dramaturge, musicologist and author of numerous writings on Dresden's music history and its personalities. After gaining his Abitur from Kreuzschule, Härtwig studied musicology and German literature at the University of Leipzig. He was awarded a doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation on Rudolf Wagner-Régeny.

#18787

Ian Ford

#119288

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ian Ford [ FRSE FRCP is a professor of biostatistics and a director of the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, and a former Dean of Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, at the University of Glasgow.

#18788

Doris Hargrett Clack

#181867

Overall Influence

1928 - 1995 (67 years)

Doris Hargrett Clack was an African-American librarian and expert on cataloging and classification. She was a professor of library science at Florida State University for 23 years and did extensive scholarly work on the library classification of black studies and the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules .

#18789

Thomas Malcolm Knox

1900 - 1980 (80 years)

Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox was a British philosopher who served as Principal of St Andrews University from 1953 to 1966 and Vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1978. Biography Knox was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on 28 November 1900, the son of Scottish Congregationalist minister James Knox and his wife Isabella Marshall.

#18790

Miles of Marseilles

1294 - 1301 (7 years)

Miles of Marseille was a Provençal-Jewish physician and philosopher of the Middle Ages. He was born at Marseille around 1294. In some manuscripts he is designated by the name "Bongodos," the Provençal language equivalent of "ben Judah."

#18791

Judith Estrin

#182373

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Judith "Judy" L. Estrin is an American entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist. She co-founded eight technology companies. Estrin worked with Vinton Cerf on the Transmission Control Protocol project at Stanford University in the 1970s. She was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. Since 2007, Estrin has been the CEO of JLABS, LLC, a privately held company focused on furthering innovation in business, government, and nonprofit organizations.

#18792

Marco Williams

#112448

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films have received several awards, including the Gotham Documentary Achievement Award for Two Towns of Jasper, and he has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize.

#18793

David Boswell Reid

David Boswell Reid

1805 - 1863 (58 years)

Prof David Boswell Reid MD FRSE FRCPE was a British physician, chemist and inventor. Through reports on public hygiene and ventilation projects in public buildings, he made a reputation in the field of sanitation. He has been called the "grandfather of air-conditioning".

#18794

Taras Filenko

#174698

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Taras Filenko is an ethnomusicologist, lecturer, and concert pianist most renowned for his research and proliferation of Ukrainian music history of 19th and early 20th centuries. Dr. Filenko’s findings are presented in his Ph.D. dissertation from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine , his second Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from University of Pittsburgh , and The World of Mykola Lysenko book in English and Ukrainian . As a two-time recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, Dr. Filenko has conducted lectures and developed courses at academic institutions throughout Europe and North Am...

#18795

Karl Leichter

1902 - 1987 (85 years)

Karl Leichter was an Estonian musicologist. He graduated in 1929 in theory and composition, studying under Heino Eller with pupils such as Eduard Tubin, Alfred Karindi, Eduard Oja and Olav Roots. Between 1929 and 1931 he worked in the Estonian Folklore Archives. Following World War II and the ensuing Soviet occupation of Estonia, he worked hard to re-establish functioning musical education and musicological research. For a short period, he was dean of Tallinn State Conservatory, but quickly lost his position due to political reasons. Only after Stalin's death could he slowly work his way bac...

#18796

Anne Carlisle

#144202

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Anne Carlisle is a British educator. She attended Ballyclare High School from 1974–1976. She studied a Diploma in Foundation Art & Design at the University Polytechnic, Belfast . Further to this, Professor Carlisle graduated with a First Class Honours in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast and went on to complete a Masters at the University of Arts, London in 1981.

#18797

Titus Albucius

#183711

Overall Influence

Titus Albucius was a noted orator of the late Roman Republic. Education He finished his studies at Athens at the latter end of the 2nd century BC, and belonged to the Epicurean sect. He was well acquainted with Greek literature, or rather, says Cicero, was almost a Greek. On account of his affecting on every occasion the Greek language and philosophy, he was satirized by Lucilius, whose lines upon him are preserved by Cicero, and Cicero himself speaks of him as a light-minded man. He accused, though unsuccessfully, Mucius Scaevola, the augur, of maladministration in his province.

#18798

Richard Russell

Richard Russell

1687 - 1759 (72 years)

Richard Russell was an 18th-century British physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater. The contemporary equivalent of this is thalassotherapy, although the practice of drinking seawater has largely discontinued.

#18799

Gérard Karsenty

#99866

Overall Influence

Gérard Karsenty is a professor and chair of the Genetics and Development Department at the Columbia University Medical Center where he studies the endocrinology of bone. In 2010 Karsenty won the Richard Lounsbery Award for his work on the molecular mechanisms that underlie the formation and the remodeling of bone. In 2016 he won the Roy O. Greep Laureate Award.

#18800

Menedemus the Cynic

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Menedemus was a Cynic philosopher, and a pupil of the Epicurean Colotes of Lampsacus. Diogenes Laërtius states that he used to go about garbed as a Fury, proclaiming himself a sort of spy from Hades: He assumed the garb of a Fury, and went about saying that he had come from Hades to take notice of all who did wrong, in order that he might descend there again and make his report to the deities who live in that country. And this was his dress: a tunic of a dark colour reaching to his feet, and a purple girdle round his waist, an Arcadian hat on his head with the twelve signs of the zodiac embro...

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