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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#18951

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari

#133270

Overall Influence

Mirza Hashem Eshkevari was a Shi'a philosopher, jurist and mystic. He is one of the most important pupils of Agha Muhammad reza Qomshehi and his mystical school. Early life He was born in Eshkevar at Gilan. Eshkevar had given rise to scientists such as Qutb Al Din Eshkevari and Sayyed Abul Qasem Eshkevari. He was born there in 1250 Hijra lunar. His family lineage goes back to the regress of Sadat.

#18952

Adolf Vossius

1855 - 1925 (70 years)

Adolf Vossius was a German ophthalmologist. He studied medicine at the universities of Königsberg and Giessen, receiving his doctorate in 1879. Following graduation, he remained at Giessen as an assistant to Arthur von Hippel at the university eye clinic. In 1882 he obtained his habilitation at Königsberg, where five years later, he was named an associate professor. In 1890 he returned to the University of Giessen as a full professor of ophthalmology. At Giessen he opened a new eye clinic on Friedrichstrasse.

#18953

Reginald Marsh

#143512

Overall Influence

1926 - 2001 (75 years)

Reginald Albert Saltmarsh, known by the stage name Reginald Marsh , was an English actor who is best remembered for supporting roles in many British sitcoms from the 1970s onwards. Early life and career Marsh was born in London in 1926 and he grew up on the Sussex coast at Worthing. After he left school he worked in a bank. After realising how serious he was about acting, his father introduced him to a retired actress, who introduced him to an agent who got his first acting role, at the age of 16, as a juvenile in Eden End by J.B. Priestley. He then worked in rep.

#18954

James McIlwain

#141411

Overall Influence

James T. McIlwain is an American ophthalmologist currently the Sidney A. and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor Emeritus at Brown University. He obtained his M.D. degree from Tulane University in 1961.

#18955

Genevieve Lee

#191176

Overall Influence

Genevieve Feiwen Lee is an American pianist and musicologist. She is the Everett S. Olive Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Early life and education Lee attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music and École Normale de Musique de Paris before completing her doctorate in musical arts at Yale University.

#18956

T. Narayana Rao

T. Narayana Rao

#130913

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

T. Narayana Rao M.B.B.S., MS FICS, FACS, FRCS Glasgow is Professor of Surgery, Andhra Medical College, and chief surgeon at King George Hospital, bariatric surgeon of Visakhapatnam. Started Visakha Obesity Surgery Center and Member of Governing Council and Hon Jn secretary of ASSOCIATION of Surgeons of India.

#18957

B. P. Loughridge

B. P. Loughridge

#107523

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Billy Paul Loughridge is a cardiovascular surgeon, author, and health care consultant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He practiced cardiovascular surgery in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1967 until 1998. During this period he performed more than 10,000 surgeries. He also taught in medical schools, supervised surgery at two hospitals, wrote three books, and served as an expert witness in numerous legal cases involving medical issues. In the 1970s he worked for four years with engineers at a company which makes oil pumping equipment in an unsuccessful attempt to create an artificial heart. Beyond his medical practi...

#18958

Michael O'Donnell

#71621

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Michael O'Donnell was a British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster. He became a full-time writer after working for 12 years as a doctor. On BBC Radio Four he was the last chairman and word-setter of My Word! and wrote and presented Relative Values. On BBC Television he presented the O'Donnell Investigates series and, on Yorkshire Television, the controversial Tuesday Documentary Is Your Brain Really Necessary?. He worked as a newspaper and magazine columnist, published three novels, edited World Medicine, wrote and presented over 100 television and radio documentaries, and helped f...

#18959

Moses Alobo

#162935

Overall Influence

Moses Alobo is a Kenyan physician, public health researcher and social entrepreneur. He leads the African Academy of Sciences Grand Challenges Africa Programme. He specialises in the implementation of health research in resource-limited countries, including programmes in vaccinology and antimicrobial resistance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alobo led the African Academy of Sciences' response to coronavirus disease.

#18960

Paul Loye

1861 - 1890 (29 years)

Paul Loye was a French physician and "préparateur" for various physiological courses at the Sorbonne in the 1880s. His greatest contribution lay in his observations on the functions and organization of the brain and nervous system.

#18961

Rudolph August Witthaus

1846 - 1915 (69 years)

Rudolph August Witthaus Jr. was an American physician, chemist, and toxicologist. He was the top authority on poisons in the United States and was a forensic toxicologist in many important capital murder cases of the late19th and early 20th centuries. He was also a survivor of the sinking of the SS Ville du Havre.

#18962

Donald Burrows

#95849

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Donald James Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University, and a leading scholar of the music of George Frideric Handel. He read History and Music at Trinity Hall, Cambridge . He completed his PhD at the Open University in 1981. He is vice-president of the Händel-Gesellschaft, and chairman of the Handel Institute.

#18963

Sho Yano

#44673

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Sho Timothy Yano is an American physician. Yano is a former child prodigy and has an estimated IQ of 200. Life and education Yano's mother, Kyung, is originally from South Korea, while his father, Katsura, is originally from Japan. Yano reportedly was reading by age two, writing by age three, playing classical music on the piano at age four, and composing by age five. He went to the Mirman School as a child. After scoring 1500 out of 1600 on the SAT at age eight, he graduated from the American School of Correspondence at age nine then entered Loyola University Chicago also at age nine, graduating summa cum laude at age 12.

#18964

Netha Hussain

#157947

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Netha Hussain is an India-born medical doctor and Wikipedian known for her efforts to tackle the spread of misinformation in Wikipedia about the origin of the coronavirus. Biography Hussain was born on 11 June 1990 in Kunnamangalam in the state of Kerala.

#18965

Roscoe Ates

1895 - 1962 (67 years)

Roscoe Blevel Ates was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones. He was also billed as Rosco Ates.

#18966

Marriott Fawckner Nicholls

Marriott Fawckner Nicholls

1898 - 1969 (71 years)

Sir Marriott Fawckner Nicholls CBE, FRCS, was an English surgeon who specialised in the genitourinary tract. He served in the British Army in both the First and Second World Wars and was dean of the medical school at St George's Hospital for 20 years. At the age of 64 he became professor of surgery at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where he maintained the position until his death five years later.

#18967

Lisa Warrington

#129271

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Lisa Jadwiga Valentina Warrington is a New Zealand theatre studies academic, director, actor and author. She has directed more than 130 productions, and established the Theatre Aotearoa database. In 2014 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Dunedin Theatre Awards, and was three times winner of a New Zealand Listener Best Director award, including one for Tom Scott's The Daylight Atheist.

#18968

Laurence Howard

#162062

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Sir Laurence Howard was the Lord Lieutenant of Rutland. He was appointed in 2003 in succession to Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Kennedy, having served as a deputy lieutenant since 1997. He is a former chairman of the Central Council of Magistrates' Courts Committees, serving on the bench in Leicestershire for 25 years. He was also the honorary air commodore of 504 County of Nottingham Squadron for ten years, ending in 2018.

#18969

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto

1722 - 1777 (55 years)

Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, was born at Minto, Roxburghshire, and was a Scottish statesman, philosopher and poet. Early life Elliot was born in September 1722 in Minto, Roxburghshire. He was one of nine children born to Helen Steuart and Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet, of Minto.

#18970

Philip Levine

1900 - 1987 (87 years)

Philip Levine was an immuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion. Life and career Levine was born in Kletsk, near Minsk , then in the Russian Empire. He moved with his family to New York when he was 8 years old where his family took on a more English sounding surname. The family settled in Brooklyn where Levine graduated from Boys' High School. He received a bachelor's degree at City College and a master's degree and, in 1923, an M.D. degree at Cornell University Medical School. About 1925, Levine became assistant to Karl Landsteiner at the Rockefeller Institute, New York City.

#18971

Rita McAllister

#178827

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Margaret 'Rita' McAllister is a Scottish musicologist, composer and academic. She is the Director of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is a renowned authority on the works of Sergei Prokofiev.

#18972

Francesco Pucci

1543 - 1597 (54 years)

Francesco Pucci was an Italian philosopher and humanist. Life Pucci was born in Figline Valdarno. He was of the same family as the Cardinals Lorenzo Pucci, Roberto Pucci, and Antonio Pucci. He worked began in a mercantile house at Lyon and came into contact with the Protestant Reformation. He made his way to London, where he became acquainted with Antonio de Corro.

#18973

Cecilia Castaño

Cecilia Castaño

#139335

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Cecilia Castaño Collado is a PhD in Political Science, professor of Applied Economics, and lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid's Department of Applied Economics. She is an expert in information technology and its effect on women's employment and work. She has conducted numerous investigations on the digital gender gap and women's access to the information society. In 2006 she created the Research Program on Gender and the Information Society of the Open University of Catalonia . She has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

#18974

Alfred Szendrei

1884 - 1976 (92 years)

Alfred Szendrei, also Alfred Sendrey and Aladár Szendrei was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, composer of Hungarian origin. He was one of the leading conductors and pioneers of German radio. In exile he changed his Hungarian surname "Szendrei" to the Americanized spelling "Sendrey".

#18975

Rudolf Schirmer

Rudolf Schirmer

1831 - 1896 (65 years)

Rudolf Schirmer was a German ophthalmologist from Greifswald. He initially studied medicine at the University of Greifswald, then furthered his studies at Göttingen, Berlin, Paris and Vienna. Later he returned to Greifswald, where he was habilitated for ophthalmology in 1860. In 1873 he attained the chair of ophthalmology, a position he held until his retirement in 1893. In 1885, he succeeded philosopher Wilhelm Schuppe as university rector at Greifswald.

#18976

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

1875 - 1948 (73 years)

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter, and pastor. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit," in the indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo–Aleut language. The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland.

#18977

Astrid Söderbergh Widding

#167282

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is Professor of film studies and Rector of Stockholm University since 2013. Söderbergh Widding is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former President of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. She earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky. She was elected as a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.

#18978

R. C. Mehta

#178562

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Ramanlal C. Mehta was an Indian musician and musicologist. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour. Life Ramanlal was a Gujarati who was born on 31 October 1918 in Surat in the state of Gujarat. He retired in 1978, from the MS University of Baroda, after serving as Principal of the College of Indian Music, Dance & Dramatics / Faculty of Performing Arts for several years. He died after a fall in 2014 at the age of 95.

#18979

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe

#139554

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of professor. His research mainly centered on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.

#18980

Alan Symonds

#165269

Overall Influence

1946 - 2006 (60 years)

Alan Symonds was the Technical Director of the Harvard College Theaters for many years. He entered Harvard College in the 1960s, started participating in technical theater during his freshman orientation period, and soon found himself spending much more time on technical theater than on his studies. He participated in work on the student level, but also started working with professional companies, particularly the Boston Ballet, for whom he designed low cost portable smoke generators, and the American Repertory Theater.

#18981

Edwin Stringham

1890 - 1974 (84 years)

Edwin John Stringham was an American composer. Life Stringham was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from Northwestern University, a doctorate in music from the University of Denver, and a doctorate in teaching from the University of Cincinnati. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Rome, the Italian Academy, and the University of Munich. He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

#18982

Esteban González Burchard

#159305

Overall Influence

Esteban González Burchard is an American physician-scientist, a distinguished professor in the School of Pharmacy at University of California at San Francisco,a specialist in gene-environment interactions in asthma and health disparities.

#18983

Conrad Laforte

#100339

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Conrad Laforte was a Québécois ethnologist and librarian. He created the Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française which contains 80,000 entries. Early life and education Laforte was born in Kénogami. He studied in Chicoutimi, the Université Laval, and finally the Université de Montréal.

#18984

Cornelius Rea Agnew

Cornelius Rea Agnew

1830 - 1888 (58 years)

Cornelius Rea Agnew was an American surgeon. Early years Agnew was born in New York City, the son of William Agnew and Elizabeth Thompson Agnew; his ancestors, Huguenot, Irish and Scotch, came to America from time to time during the 18th century. He entered the Columbia College in 1845 and graduated from there in 1849 with the degree of A.B. He then received the degree of M.D. from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1852. In 1856, he married Mary Nash, daughter of Lora Nash, a New York merchant.

#18985

Anna Suk-Fong Lok

#74923

Overall Influence

Anna Suk-Fong Lok is a gastroenterologist who studied in Hong Kong and moved to the United States in 1992. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and helped the World Health Organization and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases develop guidelines for medical professionals and recommendations for the general public on who should be treated and how treatments should be administered to persons with hepatitis B infections.

#18986

Carolyn Sue

#88913

Overall Influence

Carolyn Mary Sue is an Australian physician-scientist, professor and research director. She has been the Executive Director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research since 2019 and is also Director of Neurogenetics at Royal North Shore Hospital, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, and Director of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research . Sue specialises in complex neurogenetic conditions and runs tertiary referral clinics for patients with diseases such as Parkinson's, mitochondrial diseases, and other inherited movement disorders. ...

#18987

John Gillies

#167931

Overall Influence

John Calum Macdonald Gillies FRSE is a medical doctor who worked as general practitioner and who is the Depute Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care. He was formerly the chair of the Scottish Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners from November 2010 to November 2014.

#18988

August Siegrist

1865 - 1947 (82 years)

August Siegrist was a Swiss ophthalmologist remembered for describing Siegrist streaks. He trained at Basel, Zurich, Lausanne, Vienna and Bern, where he received his M.D. in 1892. He studied further in Bern under Emil Theodor Kocher and in Vienna under Ernst Fuchs. He was habilitated in ophthalmology at Basel in 1900, and in 1903 succeeded Ernst Pflüger as professor of ophthalmology and director of the eye clinic at the University of Bern. He maintained these positions at Bern up until 1935. He worked on the correction of keratoconus including the use of early contact lenses.

#18989

Friedrich Martius

Friedrich Martius

1850 - 1923 (73 years)

Friedrich Martius was a German internist who was one of the pioneers of constitutional thought in medicine. He was the father of philosopher Hedwig Conrad-Martius . He studied medicine at the Pépinière in Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1874. Following graduation, he served as a military doctor, and afterwards worked as an assistant in the clinic of Carl Gerhardt in Berlin. In 1887 he received his habilitation, and later was appointed personal physician to Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1891 he relocated to the University of Rostock as an associate professor and director of the medical clinic.

#18990

Robert Spittal

Robert Spittal MD FRSE was a 19th-century Scottish physician and amateur botanist. Life Spittal was born to Marion Brown and James Spittal. The family moved to 59 South Bridge in Edinburgh's Old Town in 1810.

#18991

Fay Biles

#104571

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Fay Biles was an American academic and college sports coach. She was the first woman to serve in a vice presidency role at an Ohio university. As a head coach of the field hockey and lacrosse teams, she logged more victories than any other coach in Kent State University history. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.

#18992

Martin F. Angell

1876 - 1930 (54 years)

Martin Fuller Angell was an American football and baseball coach and physics and mathematics professor. Angell was born in Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1878. He attended the University of Wisconsin where he received a bachelor's degree in 1902.

#18993

Marcia J. Bates

#99841

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Marcia J. Bates is Professor VI Emerita of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Career Bates received a M.L.S in 1967 and a Ph.D , both from the University of California, Berkeley.

#18994

William of Falgar

William of Falgar was a Franciscan theologian from south-west France, a follower of Bonaventure. He entered the Franciscan Order at Toulouse. He became bishop of Viviers in 1296. Notes External links Franaut pageList of works

#18995

Paul Silex

1858 - 1929 (71 years)

Paul Silex was a German ophthalmologist. He is known for contributions made involving war-related blindness. He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Berlin and Breslau, obtaining his doctorate in 1883. Afterwards he served as an assistant to ophthalmologist Ludwig Laqueur in Strasbourg, followed by several years as an assistant to Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger in Berlin.

#18996

Ruth McNair

#136340

Overall Influence

Ruth McNair has been a driving force behind the improvement of lesbian and bisexual women's health and wellbeing in Australia. Education Ruth McNair obtained diplomas of obstetrics and gynaecology, and anaesthetics in the UK, and has a Fellowship from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She completed a PhD in lesbian and bisexual women's health in 2009.

#18997

Stanisław Koziej

Stanisław Koziej

#37217

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Stanisław Marian Koziej is a Polish brigadier general, military science professor, and public official who served as the Head of the National Security Bureau from 2010 to 2015. Biography Koziej was educated at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale and at the NATO Defense College. He holds a doctorate and a habilitation. Since 1990 Koziej is a professor of military science.

#18998

Elisabeth Niggemann

Elisabeth Niggemann

#55738

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Elisabeth Niggemann is a German librarian specializing in the digitization of cultural heritage resources. From 1999 to 2019, she served as the Director General of the German National Library. Education and career Elisabeth Niggemann was born in Dortmund on April 2, 1954. In college she studied biology and English, receiving a Ph.D. in biology from Ruhr University Bochum.

#18999

Lee Guk-jong

#57976

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Lee Guk-jong is a South Korean doctor. As a surgeon specializing in trauma, he is South Korea's leading authority in the treatment of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gunshot wounds. He won "The Person Who Brightened the World" award in November 2017. Lee Guk-jong leads the trauma surgery team at Ajou University Hospital.

#19000

Bernard Salick

#190118

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bernard Salick is an American nephrologist and medical entrepreneur known for his contributions to comprehensive disease-state management and his efforts to reduce the costs of cancer treatment. He is the founder and former CEO and chairman of Salick Health Care, a national disease management company in the United States. While leading the company, Salick created a managed care subsidiary, the first to offer fixed-price insurance products for the treatment of catastrophic diseases such as cancer and end-stage renal disease.

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