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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18851

Manjeet Singh Riyat

Manjeet Singh Riyat

#103079

Overall Influence

1967 - 2020 (53 years)

Manjeet Singh Riyat was a British emergency care consultant, and the first person of Sikh heritage to hold such a role in the United Kingdom. Riyat's death from COVID-19 in the early months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England received widespread media coverage in the UK and was a call to investigate COVID-19 related deaths in some ethnic minorities.

#18852

John Claymond

1468 - 1537 (69 years)

John Claymond was the first President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Claymond was admitted to Magdalen College, Oxford, at the age of 16 in 1484, where he remained until his appointment as president in 1507. He remained in this post until 1516, during which time he befriended Desiderius Erasmus.

#18853

Wilhelm Siegmund Frei

1885 - 1943 (58 years)

Wilhelm Siegmund Frei was a German dermatologist best known for his contributions to Durand-Nicolas-Favre disease, a sexually transmitted disease found mainly in tropical and subtropical climates. He is also known for the Frei Test, which was developed in 1925 for the detection of lymphogranuloma venereum .

#18854

Constance L. Mui

#100432

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#18855

McKay McKinnon

#20027

Overall Influence

McKay McKinnon is an Americann physician specializing in plastic surgery. He works at Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California and the French-Vietnam Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

#18856

Robert Aim Lennie

1889 - 1961 (72 years)

Robert Aim Lennie was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1946 to 1955. Lennie was born at Cambuslang, Glasgow in 1889 the son of Ritchie Lennie , an oil and colour manufacturer, from Kincardine, Perthshire, and his wife Isabella Crawford Smith, daughter of Brodie Smith, a drapery merchant, from Leslie, Fife. R.A. Lennie graduated MB from the University of Glasgow in 1912, and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1936.

#18857

Herbert Golder

#112159

Overall Influence

Herbert Golder is a professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He has a Ph.D. in classical languages and literature from Yale University. His specialty is Greek mythology and he has to his credit a number of books and films. He played Rabbi Edelmann in the Werner Herzog film Invincible, he was also an assistant director on that film and the co-writer of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?.

#18858

Werner Felix

#126007

Overall Influence

1927 - 1998 (71 years)

Werner Felix was a German music historian and Bach scholar. He was rector of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig as well as president of the of the DDR.

#18859

Thomas Markaunt

1382 - 1439 (57 years)

Thomas Markaunt was a Fellow and benefactor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. He is best known for his sizeable bequest of seventy-five books to Corpus Christi library, which were lent out to the student body in a formal academic system of electio. However he is also of note for his extensive compilation of early University records, known as "Markaunt's book", which gained him a historical reputation as an antiquarian. While the majority of his original bequest has not survived the centuries, the extensive electio records and surviving books have been the subject of much study...

#18860

Wilhelm von Kobell

Wilhelm von Kobell

1766 - 1853 (87 years)

Wilhelm von Kobell was a German painter, printmaker and teacher. Biography Kobell was born in Mannheim, the son of Ferdinand Kobell, a landscape painter who cited Claude Lorrain as his influence. Wilhelm's initial lessons were supplied by his father and his uncle, Franz Kobell. He received further training under Franz Anton von Leydendorf and Egid Verhelst in the art of engraving at the Zeichnungsakademie in Mannheim. He studied the works in the galleries of Mannheim and Düsseldorf, especially those of Wouvermann, which he copied. During this time he practiced various styles, including 17th-c...

#18861

Jerry Zolten

#54331

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jerry Zolten is an American writer, advocator for, and producer of American roots music. A Professor at Penn State University, he is best known as the author of a book tracing the 90 year career of the African-American Dixie Hummingbirds gospel group and their influence on both sacred and secular music. He also writes about and is a noted expert on the history of American stand-up comedy. Zolten is also known for numerous articles and album liner notes on blues, country, and gospel music as well as collaborations on musical projects with Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar. His more recent writings ...

#18862

Douglas Kamerow

#154312

Overall Influence

Douglas B. Kamerow is an American family physician, medical researcher, and medical journal editor. He is a professor of family medicine at Georgetown University and Senior Scholar in Residence at the Robert Graham Center. He is also an associate editor and regular columnist for the BMJ.

#18863

Mel Stewart

#185986

Overall Influence

1929 - 2002 (73 years)

Milton "Mel" Stewart was an American character actor, television director, and musician who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. He is best known for playing Henry Jefferson on All in the Family and for playing section chief Billy Melrose on the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Stewart is sometimes credited as Melvin Stewart or Mel Stuart.

#18864

Robert Parris

#185931

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

Robert Parris was a composer and professor of music. He was born in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, then the Juilliard School in New York. Among his teachers were Otto Luening, Aaron Copland, Jacques Ibert, and Peter Mennin . After a year of study on a Fulbright Fellowship in Paris , and a year teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle, he settled in the Washington, D.C. area in 1952. Parris joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1963 where he taught theory and composition.

#18865

Grace Ebun Delano

#104766

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Grace Ebun Delano is a nurse and midwife who has played a key role in pioneering family planning and reproductive health services in Nigeria. She co-founded the Association for Reproductive and Family Health of which she was director for many years, has acted as consultant for many different organisations across Africa, and has written and co-authored numerous books and articles on women's health and related topics. In 1993, she was given the World Health Organization Sasakawa Award for her work in health development.

#18866

Nancy Wilson

#56336

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nancy L. Wilson is an American cleric who served as the moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Under Wilson's leadership, the denomination became known as "The Human Rights Church" in many parts of the world for its commitment to same-sex marriage, employment and housing non-discrimination laws.

#18867

David O'Donnell

#192035

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

David O'Donnell may refer to:David O'Donnell , New Zealand actor and theatre directorDavid O'Donnell , Australian-born film writer, director and producerDavid O'Donnell , Australian professional rugby league player

#18868

Pauline Alderman

Pauline Alderman

1893 - 1983 (90 years)

Edith Pauline Alderman was an American musicologist and composer. She was the founder and the first Chairwoman of the Department of Music History and Literature at the University of Southern California, between 1952 and 1960.

#18869

John Carson

1752 - 1794 (42 years)

John Carson was an early American physician as well as one of the first trustees for the rechartered University of Pennsylvania. He later was appointed chair of the university's Chemistry Department.

#18870

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

1820 - 1914 (94 years)

Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , known as Sir Donald A. Smith between May 1886 and August 1897, was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman who became one of the British Empire's foremost builders and philanthropists. He became commissioner, governor and principal shareholder of the Hudson's Bay Company. He was president of the Bank of Montreal and with his first cousin, George Stephen , co-founded the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and afterwards represented Montreal in the House of Commons of Canada. He was Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1896 to 1914.

#18871

Sydney Beck

#185239

Overall Influence

1906 - 2001 (95 years)

Sydney Beck was an American musicologist, music educator, violinist and viol player. As a scholar, he was considered an authority on English music of the 16th through 18th centuries. One of his major contributions was his research on composer Thomas Morley which led to the modern publication of Morley's The First Book of Consort Lessons in 1959. Beck led his own ensemble, The Consort Players, in performances of Morley's music and other works by Morley's contemporaries; performances which contributed to the interest in reviving broken consort music in the 20th century.

#18872

William Leon McBride

#191956

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

William McBride is an American philosopher and Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is known for his works on political philosophy and philosophy of law. Books Fundamental Change in Law and Society: Hart and Sartre on Revolution, Mouton and Co.,The Hague, 1970The Philosophy of Marx, Hutchinson Univ. Library, London; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977 Social Theory at a Crossroads, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 1980Demokrati og Autoritet , Dreyers, Oslo, 1980Sartre's Political Theory, Indiana University Press, 1991Social and Political Philoso...

#18873

Janet Sawicki

#102869

Overall Influence

Janet Sawicki is an American cancer researcher, and professor emeritus and former deputy director of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. Her research is focused on the preclinical development of treatments for cancers using DNA and siRNA.

#18874

Espen Rostrup Nakstad

#90973

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Espen Rostrup Nakstad is a Norwegian physician, lawyer and author from Skjetten who is the current assistant director of the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs. Medical career Nakstad earned a Doctorate in medicine from the University of Oslo and is specialized in respiratory disease and internal medicine. In 2018 he issued a book on disaster preparedness together with Bjørn Bjelland, Beredskap, kriseledelse og praktisk skadestedsarbeid. He leads the CBRNE Centre at Ullevål Hospital/Oslo University Hospital. Among others, he led Ullevål Hospital's response when a Norwegian ci...

#18875

Eta Harich-Schneider

1894 - 1986 (92 years)

Eta Harich-Schneider was a German harpsichordist, musicologist, Japanologist and writer. Life Born in Oranienburg, Harich-Schneider later gave her year of birth as 1897, whereas her gravestone in Vienna-Hietzing reads "1894".

#18876

Dōmei Yakazu

#31647

Overall Influence

1905 - 2001 (96 years)

was a Japanese physician who contributed to the restoration of kampo medicine in Japan. In 1979, he was awarded the by the Japanese Medical Association for his contributions to oriental medicine. Life Yakazu was born in 1905 as Shirō, the fourth son of Tatsunosuke Yakazu and Sute Yakazu, in Omiya . He graduated from Mito Commercial School and entered Tokyo Medical University majoring in traditional Chinese medicine under Professor Mori Dohaku along with his elder brother Kaku. He graduated in 1930, and less than a year later, he adopted the art-name Dōmei Yakazu. In 1933, he started his own c...

#18877

John Wall

1708 - 1776 (68 years)

John Wall , was an English physician, one of the founders of the Worcester Royal Infirmary and the Royal Worcester porcelain works. He was also involved in the development of Malvern as a spa town. Early life Wall was born at Powick, Worcestershire, in 1708, was the son of John Wall, a tradesman of Worcester city. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford on 23 June 1726, graduated B.A. in 1730, and migrated to Merton College, where he was elected fellow in 1735, and whence he took the degrees of M.A. and M.B. in 1736, and of M.D. in 1759.

#18878

Frank Harrison

#64612

Overall Influence

1913 - 2013 (100 years)

Frank Harrison Jr. was an American physician, professor and university administrator. Harrison was born in 1913 in Dallas, Texas, and educated at Southern Methodist University, Northwestern University and UT Southwestern Medical School. He received the B.Sc. Chemistry in 1957 from SMU, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and the M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School in 1956. Harrison pursued a long career of service within The University of Texas System, notably at UT Southwestern, University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

#18879

Jane Anne Russell

1911 - 1967 (56 years)

Jane Anne Russell was an endocrinologist. She researched pituitary extract. Education Russell graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, California, in 1928, as the second best student in her class. At age 17, she entered the University of California Berkeley, and graduated in 1932 as first in her class. She was awarded the California Fellowship in Biochemistry in 1934 and the Rosenburg Fellowship in 1935.

#18880

Katharine Lloyd-Williams

1896 - 1973 (77 years)

Katharine Georgina Lloyd-Williams CBE was a British anaesthetist, general practitioner and medical educator. She was a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital from 1934 and dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine from 1945, retiring from both posts in 1962.

#18881

Eric D'Ath

1897 - 1979 (82 years)

Eric Frederick D'Ath was a New Zealand pathologist, and was professor of pathology and medical jurisprudence at the University of Otago from 1929 until 1962. In the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours, D'Ath was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services as professor of pathology and medical jurisprudence at the University of Otago. In 1975, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Otago.

#18882

Friedrich Ludwig

1872 - 1930 (58 years)

Friedrich Ludwig was a German historian, musicologist, and college instructor. His name is closely associated with the exploration and rediscovery of medieval music in the 20th century, particularly the compositional techniques of the Ars Nova and the isorhythmic motet.

#18883

Sławomir Dobrzański

#186272

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Sławomir Pawel Dobrzański is a Polish-American pianist, teacher and musicologist. Biography He was born in Wrocław . He is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Regina Smendzianka, Andrzej Dutkiewicz and Jerzy Maciejewski. He also studied privately with Kajetan Mochtak in Warsaw. In 1992-1994 he studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence with Jack Winerock. He also participated in summer courses in Switzerland and Poland, where he studied piano performance with Malcolm Frager, Mieczysław Horszowski and Victor Merzhanov. Additionally, he benefited from coaching sessions with Nina Tichman in Mainz, Germany, and Jan Gorbaty in New York City.

#18884

William Baldwin

William Baldwin

1779 - 1819 (40 years)

William Baldwin was an American physician and botanist who is today remembered for his significant contributions to botanical studies, especially Cyperaceae. He lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia, and served as a ship's surgeon on two voyages overseas. He published only two scientific papers, but his major contributions were in the knowledge that he imparted to other botanists in his letters to them and in the thousands of specimens that he provided for their herbaria. He wrote letters to Henry Muhlenberg, Stephen Elliott, William Darlington, Zaccheus Collins, and others. His most important collections were from Georgia, Florida, and eastern South America.

#18885

Barry Dorn

#58299

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Barry C. Dorn is an American phsyician who is Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative , a joint program of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Associate Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at HSPH. He is also an Instructor in Public Health Practice at HSPH and Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Additionally, he served on the Faculty of Health Services at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel from 2010-2013.

#18886

Anne Ormisson

#180217

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Anne Ormisson is an Estonian medical researcher and pediatrician. Biography Anne Tampere was born on 19 November 1942 in Tartu, Estonia and is the second child of a four-child family of Vanemuine orchestra player Arnold and a music school teacher Helene. She graduated school in 1961 from Tartu 7th Secondary School. She graduated University of Tartu in 1967 and was sent to Võru hospital as a paediatrician. She later moved to Viljandi where she met and married Toivo Ormisson, and her daughter Liis and a son Niil were born. In 1971, she started working as a researcher at the Department of Pediat...

#18887

Thomas Rymer Jones

1810 - 1880 (70 years)

Thomas Rymer Jones, FRS was an English surgeon, academic and zoologist. Life Jones was the son of a captain in the Royal Navy and he studied at Guy's Hospital in Paris. He became M.R.C.S. in 1833, but found himself unable to practice because of his hearing impairment.

#18888

Linda Maria Koldau

Linda Maria Koldau

#47629

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Linda Maria Koldau is a German musicologist and was Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since 2013 she has been director of the Coastal Academy in Northern Germany, focusing on efficiency, conciseness and perfection in business language and communication.

#18889

Jennifer Grandis

#165961

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jennifer Rubin Grandis is an American otolaryngologist, focusing in general otolaryngology and clinical and translational research. Her research interests include diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer. She is a Full professor at the University of California, San Francisco having previously worked as the UPMC Endowed Chair at University of Pittsburgh.

#18890

Alexander Poznansky

#59688

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Alexander Poznansky is a Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Born in 1950 at Vyborg. In 1968 he relocated to Leningrad. Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at Yale University. He is perhaps best known for his 1991 book: Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, published by Schirmer/Macmillan.

#18891

Linda Kouvaras

#191979

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Linda Kouvaras is a Melbourne-based composer with a background in punk and new wave. Her compositions, which explore genre mixing, are focused on vocals and piano music, and are released on ABC Records and Move Records.

#18892

Xin Lu

#37789

Overall Influence

Xin Lu is a Professor of Cancer Biology and Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Oxford. She is known for her discovery of and research on the ASPP family of proteins.

#18893

Zygmunt Vogel

1764 - 1826 (62 years)

Zygmunt Vogel was a Polish illustrator, educator, and painter in the classical style. He was sometimes called Ptaszek : a reference to his name and to the many years that he traveled almost continuously.

#18894

Nicholas Wright

#93384

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Nicholas Alcwyn Wright is a British professor and medical doctor. He was the Warden of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Wright attended Bristol Grammar School and Durham Medical School accepted him straight into the second year before he graduated in 1965 and proceeded to achieve two post-graduate degrees in pathology at Newcastle University.

#18895

Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm

#97491

Overall Influence

Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm is a Samoan-New Zealand health researcher and practitioner. Cowley-Malcolm completed a Masters degree at Auckland University of Technology in 2005. Her masters thesis was titled Some Samoans' perceptions, values and beliefs on the role of parents and children within the context of aiga/family and the influence of fa'asamoa and the church on Samoan parenting. She did her PhD in Pacific Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, she was the first women graduate of the Pacific studies programme. Her doctoral thesis was titled Perceptions of Samoan Pare...

#18896

Joseph Ahaneku

#134191

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Joseph Eberendu Ahaneku is an academic and Consultant Chemical Pathologist of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria . Ahaneku is the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka . He is from Nnarambia Ahiara Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria.

#18897

Richard Heuberger

Richard Heuberger

1850 - 1914 (64 years)

Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas, a music critic, and teacher. Heuberger was born in Graz, the son of a bandage manufacturer. He initially studied engineering, but gave it up in 1876, and turned to music. He studied at the Graz Conservatory , and later transferred to Vienna, where he eventually became the chorus master of the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein, conductor of the Wiener Singakademie, director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein , and a teacher at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien.

#18898

Angus Wallace

#55397

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

William Angus Wallace is a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon. He is Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences of the University of Nottingham. He came to widespread public notice for a life-saving surgery he performed using improvised equipment on a British Airways flight in 1995, and for treating Wayne Rooney before the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

#18899

James Broselow

#179017

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

James Broselow is an American emergency physician, an assistant professor, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He and fellow emergency physician Robert Luten, M.D., are best known in the medical community for inventing the Broselow Tape in 1985, which was the first tool developed relating a pediatric patient's height to their weight in order to “determine the size of equipment, supplies, and dosages of medication to use…” during emergencies. The Broselow Tape is featured in many medical textbooks and reference manuals as the standard for length based weight measures.

#18900

Daniel J. Caron

Daniel J. Caron

#62378

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel J. Caron was the Librarian and Archivist of Canada from April 25, 2009 until May 15, 2013. He is also a professor, author, fellow and public speaker. Education Caron graduated with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Economics from Laval University, and earned a doctorate in Applied Human Sciences from the University of Montreal. His doctoral dissertation was in Canadian studies on aboriginal issues.

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