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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18801

Babowai

450 - 484 (34 years)

Babowai was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 457 to 484, during the reign of the Sassanid King Peroz I. Babowai was known for his pro-Byzantine leanings, for which he was often in conflict with other members of the anti-Byzantine Church of the East. He was executed in 484.

#18802

Melahat Okuyan

#85940

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Melahat Okuyan is a Turkish female veterinary physician, academic and scientist in microbiology. She is an AIDS activist. Personal life Melahat Okuyan was born in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey in 1926. She was schooled at the age of five and half. She married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

#18803

Henk Aertsen

#120277

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Henk Aertsen is a now-retired professor of Old English and Middle English language and literature at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the editor of Companion to Middle English Romance , and of Companion to Old English Poetry .

#18804

Helio Gallardo

#51073

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Helio Gallardo Martínez is a Chilean Philosopher and Professor of the University of Costa Rica. He moved to Costa Rica after Salvador Allende was overthrown. Books Mitos e ideología en el proceso político chileno. Heredia: EUNA, 1979.Pensar en América Latina. Heredia: EUNA, 1981.Fundamentos de comprensión de lectura. San José: Nueva Década, 1982.Teoría y crisis en América Latina. San José: Nueva Década, 1984.Cultura, política, estado. San José: Nueva Década, 1985.Elementos de política en América Latina. San José: DEI, 1986.Fundamentos de formación política: análisis de coyuntura. San José: DEI, 1988.Actores y procesos políticos latinoamericanos.

#18805

Benno Baginsky

1848 - 1919 (71 years)

Benno Baginsky was a German physician specializing in the field of otorhinolaryngology. He was a younger brother to pediatrician Adolf Aron Baginsky . He studied medicine in Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1870. Following service as a physician in the Franco-Prussian War, he began practicing medicine and soon found himself specializing in diseases of the ear, nose and larynx. In 1884 he became a privat-docent of otology, rhinology and laryngology at the University of Berlin, and in 1897 received the title of professor. Among his assistants at Berlin was fellow otorhinolaryngologist Jacob K...

#18806

Henry Bate of Mechelen

1246 - 1310 (64 years)

Henry Bate or Hendrik Baten a.k.a. Henricus Batenus was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, astronomer, astrologer, poet, and musician. He was Master of Arts of the University of Paris before 1274. He was a pupil of Thomas Aquinas, he became a canon and cantor of the Cathedral of Saint-Lambert, Liège before 1289.

#18807

Leslie I. Poste

#141832

Overall Influence

1918 - 1996 (78 years)

Leslie Irlyn Poste was a librarian in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program at the end of World War II, and was active in the preservation, conservation and restitution of books, scrolls, manuscripts and reports accumulated by the German government from the occupied countries.

#18808

Keith Peters

#50949

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.

#18809

Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali

1180 - Present (846 years)

Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali was born and raised in Trujillo to a noted Muwallad Muslim family. He received his education in Cordoba and later entered Almoravid service as a physician in Seville in Al-Andalus, he was a talented reader regarding the works of philosophy, he was thoroughly familiar with the Principles and the Branches of medical science, he was an excellent practitioner and his cures were frequently successful. He was the renowned educator of Ibn Bajjah and the young Ibn Rushd in his late years.

#18810

Asma El Dareer

#38855

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Asma Abdel Rahim El Dareer is a Sudanese physician known for her research in the 1980s into female genital mutilation. She was one of the first Arab women and feminist doctors to speak out publicly against the practice.

#18811

LJ Punch

#182518

Overall Influence

LJ Punch is an American critical care surgeon, an associate professor of surgery, and a scholar within the Institute for Public Health at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Punch is also an activist in the fight against gun violence and directs StopTheBleedSTL, located at "The T" anti-violence center in St. Louis, which runs programs to educate the community on how to reduce the impact of trauma, injury, and violence in St. Louis. As a physician, educator, and activist, Punch aims to propagate the idea of “Radical Generosity” as means to better his community and t...

#18812

Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska

#191994

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska – Polish musicologist and ethnographer, professor at the University of Warsaw, daughter of anthropologist Jan Czekanowski. She applied statistical-mathematical methods for analysis of folk music.

#18813

Zdzisław Jachimecki

Zdzisław Jachimecki

1882 - 1953 (71 years)

Zdzisław Jachimecki was a Polish historian of music, composer, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Kraków Music Academy, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning. Life Born in Lwów in 1882, in 1904–5 he studied counterpoint with Arnold Schönberg in Vienna.

#18814

Edgar von Gierke

1877 - 1945 (68 years)

Edgar Otto Conrad von Gierke was a German Jewish pathologist who specialized in glycogenesis and discovered glycogen storage disease type I in 1929. Early life Edgar was born in 1877 the Prussian province of Silesia in Breslau to a famous Pomeranian German family. He was the son of the noted legal scholar Otto von Gierke and Marie Caecilie Elise née Loening . Edgar had a sister named Anna von Gierke and a brother named Julius. Marie was an Evangelical Christian but her parents had converted from Judaism to Christianity in the 1840s prior to her birth. Thus, under the racial laws of German Nazi rule, she was considered to be Jewish as was Edgar, who identified as a Protestant.

#18815

Srinivas Gada

#183677

Overall Influence

Srinivas Gada is an Oxford-based doctor, lecturer and academic. His work revolves around autism/ASD in children, Dyspraxia, Developmental Delay, Learning Disability, Emotional & Behavioural Disorders and Cerebral Palsy. Dr Gada has been teaching at University of Oxford. Dr Sri Gada is an Hon Senior Lecturer since 2007.

#18816

John G. Webb

#29359

Overall Influence

John G. Webb, M.D., FRCPC is a Canadian interventional cardiologist and the McLeod Professor of Heart Valve Intervention at the University of British Columbia. He is most well known for performing the first transfemoral and the first transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation in the world both in 2005. He completed the first ever transcatheter mitral valve-in-valve replacement in 2009 and the first in-human TMVR to be completed with the Neovasc Tiara device in 2014. In addition, he was an investigator in the PARTNER trial, a randomized clinical trial demonstrating the efficacy of TAV...

#18817

Salvador Mazza

Salvador Mazza was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist, best known for his strides in helping control American trypanosomiasis, an endemic disease among the rural, poor majority of early 20th century South America.

#18818

Leonard Parsons

1879 - 1950 (71 years)

Sir Leonard Gregory Parsons MRCS FRCP FRCOG FRS was a British Paediatrician. Parsons studied at Mason College and the University of Birmingham from 1896 to 1903. He graduated with a University of London external degree in medicine in 1903.

#18819

Joshua Silver

#44039

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Joshua D. Silver is a British physicist whose discoveries have included a new way to change the curvature of lenses, with a significant application for the low-cost manufacture of corrective lenses and adjustable spectacles, especially in low-income countries.

#18820

Michael Burden

#87463

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Michael Burden, FAHA, is an Australian musicologist, working in the United Kingdom. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018. Life Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Pulteney Grammar School and the University of Adelaide; his took his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently Fellow in Music, Dean and Chattels Fellow at New College, Oxford; he is also director of New Chamber Opera, and Professor of Opera Studies in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford. In 2016, he became one of the patrons of the St Peter’s Ca...

#18821

Merceline Dahl-Regis

#36862

Overall Influence

Merceline Dahl-Regis, CMG OD, is a Bahamian physician and public health expert. She is the former Chief Medical Officer of the Bahamas and has been recognized for her role in advancing public health in the Caribbean and internationally.

#18822

Peter Matz

#91596

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Peter Matz was an American musician, composer, arranger and conductor. His musical career in film, theater, television and studio recording spanned fifty years, and he worked with a number of prominent artists, including Marlene Dietrich, Noël Coward and Barbra Streisand. Matz won three Emmys and a Grammy Award and is best known for his work on Streisand's early albums as well as for his work as the orchestral conductor and musical director for The Carol Burnett Show.

#18823

Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

#186324

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dr. Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein is a Brazilian botanist and professor at the Federal University of Goiás. She specializes in plant taxonomy, particularly floristics and the classification of spermatophytes. She is manager of the Federal University of Goiás' Conservation Unit, which consists of an herbarium, the August Forest of Saint Hilaire, and the Serra Dourada Biological Reserve. She has described at least five species of melonleaf in the genus Cayaponia.

#18824

Alice MacLennan

#181911

Overall Influence

1901 - 2015 (114 years)

Alice MacLennan, was an Australian physician and researcher. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and undertook further training in Chicago before moving to Australia, where she established a clinic focusing on menopause. She served as Chair of the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies from 2005 to 2008, and from 2007 to 2009 was president of the Australasian Menopause Society. She also taught at the University of Adelaide as the Clinical Senior Lecturer in Gynaecology.

#18825

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

#181272

Overall Influence

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is an American educator and author. She is the founder and president of the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation, a private operating foundation that describes itself as a philanthropic "innovation lab", and founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund , a venture philanthropy fund. She is also the author of Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World.

#18826

Robert Tigerstedt

1853 - 1923 (70 years)

Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt was a Finnish-born medical scientist and physiologist who, with his student Per Bergman, discovered renin at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm in 1898. Renin is a component of the renin–angiotensin system which regulates blood pressure, salt and water homeostasis and is an important therapeutic target. Tigerstedt is also recognised as an educator, author and social campaigner.

#18827

Eduard Zeis

1807 - 1868 (61 years)

Eduard Zeis was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist born in Dresden. He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Munich, receiving his doctorate at Leipzig in 1832. Afterwards he opened a general practice in his hometown of Dresden, later becoming a professor of surgery at the University of Marburg . In 1850 he returned to Dresden and was senior medical officer at the newly founded city hospital in Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

#18828

Henrik Sjögren

1899 - 1986 (87 years)

Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren was a Swedish ophthalmologist best known for describing the eponymous condition Sjögren syndrome. Sjögren received his medical degree in Stockholm 1927. His first experience with the syndrome was an encounter with a 49-year-old woman with arthritis and extreme dryness of the eyes and the mouth. He worked with his wife, Maria, to describe a total of 19 cases and presented these cases for his doctoral theses in 1933, which was published at the Karolinska Institute and titled "On knowledge of keratoconjunctivitis" that eventually served as the basis of identifying and naming of Sjögren's syndrome.

#18829

Leon Tochowicz

1897 - 1965 (68 years)

Leon Tochowicz was a Polish internist and cardiologist. For three terms he was a rector of the Medical Academy in Kraków , and was referred to as the "founder of the Kraków school of cardiology". He was the author of nearly one hundred original research papers, mostly in the field of clinical cardiology, and was the initiator of the construction of the Institute of Pediatrics in Kraków-Prokocim, nowadays the University Children's Hospital in Kraków.

#18830

Hyginus Ekwuazi

#168400

Overall Influence

Professor Hyginus Ekwuazi was a former Acting Head of the Department of Theatre Arts in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was also Director General of the Nigerian Film Corporation.

#18831

Peter Froggatt

#183611

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

#18832

Valentine Mott

1785 - 1865 (80 years)

Valentine Mott was an American surgeon. Life Valentine Mott was born at Glen Cove, New York. He graduated at Columbia College, studied under Sir Astley Cooper in London, and also spent a winter in Edinburgh. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy he was appointed professor of surgery in Columbia College in 1809. From 1811 to 1834 he was in very extensive practice as a surgeon, and most successful as a teacher and operator. He tied the innominate artery in 1818; the patient lived twenty-six days. He performed a similar operation on the carotid for the first time in the USA on 20 Sept 1829 b...

#18833

Ellen Tise

#175200

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ellen Remona Tise is a South African librarian, president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions from 2009 to 2011, under the theme "Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge ". Her work has focused on library associations and the open access promoted from the library sector.

#18834

Gretchen Rehberg

#102538

Overall Influence

Gretchen Mary Rehberg is the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. Early life and education Rehberg was born in Pullman, Washington on July 7, 1964. Her mother, Margaret Rehberg was a homemaker and her father, Wallace Rehberg, was a professor at Washington State University. The family had a small farm outside of town. After graduating from Pullman High School in 1982, Rehberg attended Sewanee: The University of the South.

#18835

Zoltán Gárdonyi

Zoltán Gárdonyi

1906 - 1986 (80 years)

Zoltán Gárdonyi was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music for 26 years. Life and work Gárdonyi was born in Budapest. His mother, the pianist Maria Weigl, studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Liszt's pupil, István Thomán, at the same time and in the same class as Béla Bartók. At the age of 17, Gárdonyi began his studies in composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. After studying with Paul Hindemith and Arnold Schering in Berlin, he taught as a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest from 1941 until 1967.

#18836

Donald Bogle

#127018

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania.

#18837

Richard Hoppin

#53603

Overall Influence

1913 - 1991 (78 years)

Richard Hallowell Hoppin was an American musicologist. Hoppin received his BA from Carleton College in 1936 after spending two years at the Paris Ecole Normale de Musique. He studied at Harvard University, obtaining his MA in 1938, and taught at Mount Union College from 1938 to 1942. After serving in World War II he returned to Harvard, completing his Ph.D. in 1952. From 1949 to 1961 he taught at The University of Texas, and from 1961 at Ohio State University.

#18838

Frank Williams

#110262

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Frank John Williams was an English actor, best known for playing Reverend Timothy Farthing in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army . Often cast as a member of the clergy, Williams appeared in similar roles in sitcoms including The Worker, Vanity Fair, Hi-de-Hi and You Rang, M'lord? and film What's Up Nurse!. Williams reprised his role of Reverend Mr. Farthing in the 2016 film adaptation of Dad's Army.

#18839

Sheldon Hall

#89844

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sheldon Hall is a film historian based in the Humanities department of Sheffield Hallam University. His books include Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters which Jim Whalley called "an important addition to work considering popular film and film industries". He also wrote Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It about the 1964 film.

#18840

Hans H. Skei

#115905

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Hans Hanssen Skei is a Norwegian editor and writer. He was born in Dønna, and graduated as Ph.D. with the treatise "The novelist as short story writer : a study of William Faulkner's short stories with special emphasis on the period 1928-1932" at the University of Oslo. He has been the editor-in-chief of Nordisk Tidskrift since 2002. Skei has provided a large amount of literary criticism on the works of William Faulkner, and has also translated some of his books.

#18841

Eva Isaksson

#175906

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Eva Isaksson is a Finnish librarian and non-fiction writer, with interests in astronomy and feminism. She was employed at the Helsinki University Observatory from 1981 and became a tenured astronomy librarian in 1998. In 2010, she transferred with the merger of the physics and astronomy departments to the Kumpula Science Library, on the Kumpula Campus. Isaksson and has been involved with the Finnish LGBT and pacifist movements since the 1970s. She produced the Lesbian Information Secretariat Newsletter for the International Lesbian Information Service from 1981 to 1983 and in the 1990s, began to create on-line platforms for lesbians to network.

#18842

Albert J. Fornace Jr.

#110340

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Albert J. Fornace Jr. is a professor in the departments of Oncology, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Radiation Medicine at Georgetown University. He has also been awarded the Molecular Cancer Research Chair at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, joining Georgetown in 2006 from the Harvard School of Public Health. Earlier, he was chief of the Gene Response Section at the National Cancer Institute. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , and received his B.S. and M.D. from the Jefferson-Penn State joint pre-medical/medical program.

#18843

Oksana Bulgakowa

#115657

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Oksana Bulgakowa is a professor of film history and film analysis at the University of Mainz. Career Born in Nikopol, Soviet Union, Bulgakowa completed in 1977 a five-year study of film theory and history at Allunionsinstitut of Cinematography in Moscow, and then followed her husband Dietmar Hochmuth in the DDR where a Szenaristenlehrgang at the graduated Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

#18844

Francesc Xavier Butinyà i Hospital

Francesc Xavier Butinyà i Hospital

1834 - 1899 (65 years)

Francesc Xavier Butinyà i Hospital was a Spanish missionary Jesuit from Catalonia, teacher and writer and the founder of two religious congregations of Sisters. He was the son of a prosperous factory owner. Nevertheless, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in Spain, he was an early proponent of the natural connection of the Christian faith with the working class, who were suffering in miserable working and living conditions.

#18845

Louis François de Pourtalès

Louis François de Pourtalès

1823 - 1880 (57 years)

Louis François de Pourtalès was a Franco-American naturalist, born at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Early life and education Pourtales was born on 4 March 1824 and regarded as a Swiss representative of an old family with linage in France, Prussia, and Bohemia. After the death of his father, he succeeded to the title of Count and inherited a fortune that enabled his scientific pursuits.

#18846

Jaime C. Bulatao

#58040

Overall Influence

1922 - 2015 (93 years)

Jaime C. Bulatao , called "Father Bu" by his students and coworkers, is a Filipino Jesuit priest and psychologist. He is one of the co-founders of the Ateneo de Manila University's Department of Psychology and the Psychological Association of the Philippines.

#18847

T. K. Lahiri

#94748

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Tapan Kumar Lahiri is an Indian cardiothoracic surgeon, medical academic and writer from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a former professor at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to medicine.

#18848

Margaret Trask

#178527

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Margaret Trask was an Australian librarian and educator, as well as Deputy Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney . She is considered to be a pioneer in the area of information sciences in Australasia.

#18849

Jaroslav Šabata

#121422

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Jaroslav Šabata was a Czech political scientist, psychologist, and dissident during Czechoslovakia's Communist era. A leading dissident based in Brno, Šabata was a signatory of Charter 77 in 1977. He served as the spokesman of Charter 77, the organization named for the document, from 1978 to 1981.

#18850

Dorothy Fratt

#168036

Overall Influence

1923 - 2017 (94 years)

Dorothy Fratt - Cooper was an American artist. A native of Washington, D.C., Fratt was the daughter of a photographer and journalist on the staff of The Washington Post. She received scholarships to the Mount Vernon College for Women, the Corcoran School of Art, and the art school at The Phillips Collection, and she studied painting with Karl Knaths and Nikolai Cikovsky. Her first solo exhibition came in 1946, at the Washington City Library, and she has since shown work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. From 1946 to 1951 Fratt taught at Mount Vernon College for Women; in 1958 she settled in Phoenix, Arizona, and began teaching color theory and painting privately.

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