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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4551

Ingrid Fleming

#109505

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#4552

Olivier Lortholary

#109518

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

#4553

Raphaël Liogier

Raphaël Liogier

#21040

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Raphaël Liogier is a French sociologist and philosopher. He received his PhD in social sciences at the University Paul Cézanne in France, where he also received master's degrees in public law and in political science. Other degrees include a degree in philosophy from the University of Provence, and a Masters of Science by research in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Liogier has also studied social sciences as a visiting undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley.

#4554

Lawrence A. Frohman

#109528

Overall Influence

#4555

Henry Marsh

#16450

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS is an English neurosurgeon and best-selling author, a pioneer of awake craniotomy techniques and of neurosurgical work in Ukraine. His widely acclaimed memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery was published in 2014. It has been translated into 37 languages. According to The Economist, this memoir is "so elegantly written it is little wonder some say that in Mr Marsh neurosurgery has found its Boswell." His second memoir Admissions: A life in brain surgery was published in 2017. And Finally, his most recent book, was published in 2022 to critica...

#4556

Frank Stack

#32626

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Frank Huntington Stack is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the Bible Belt, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1964.

#4557

Grant W. Liddle

#109552

Overall Influence

#4558

Nina Witoszek

#61909

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nina Witoszek Nina Witoszek is a Polish-Irish-Norwegian writer and research professor at the Center for Development and the Environment in Oslo. She is also director of the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Prior to her work at SUM, she taught comparative cultural history at the National University of Ireland in Galway and the European University in Florence . She held fellowships at the Swedish Collegium of the Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Uppsala , Robinson College, Cambridge and Mansfield College, Oxford and visiting prof...

#4559

Carl Wood

#20009

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Edwin Carlyle "Carl" Wood, , FRANZCOG was a prominent Australian gynaecologist, best known for his pioneering work developing and commercialising the technique of in-vitro fertilisation . He gained considerable international and national attention for his wide-ranging contributions in the field of women's health over a period of almost 50 years, although not all of it was positive given the controversial nature of many of his endeavours.

#4560

Kapil Kapoor

#30826

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Kapil Kapoor is an Indian scholar of linguistics and literature and an authority on Indian intellectual traditions. He is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and served as professor at the Centre for Linguistics and English, and at the Centre for Sanskrit Studies there before retiring in 2005. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 11-Volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism published by Rupa & Co. in 2012. He is a member of the Kapoor family.

#4561

Marianne Durano

#60941

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Marianne Durano, , is a French essayist and philosopher, and member of the editorial board of the journal Limite. Biography Durano is one of the French theorists of integral ecology, alongside Eugénie Bastié and Gaultier Bès. A graduate of Lyon and a graduate of philosophy, she is a part-time philosophy professor in a high school.

#4562

Myron Augsburger

#55730

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Myron Augsburger is an American Mennonite pastor, professor, theologian, and author. He is the former president of both Eastern Mennonite College and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

#4563

Stephen N. Thibodeau

#109579

Overall Influence

#4564

Melvin L. Depamphilis

#109598

Overall Influence

#4565

Barbara Stühlmeyer

Barbara Stühlmeyer

#29240

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Barbara Stühlmeyer OblOSB is a German theologian, musicologist, author, especially a Hildegard scholar and a science journalism. Biography Stühlmeyer was born in Bremen. After completing her A levels at the Altes Gymnasium in Bremen and her organ studies with church music director Winfrid Langosz, whom she assisted at the Catholic Provost church St. John's Bremen, she studied Christian music at the University of the Arts Bremen . During her scientific studies from 1988 to 1994 she studied Catholic theology with Arnold Angenendt and Klemens Richter, philosophy with Berthhold Wald and musicology with Axel Beer and Winfried Schepporst at the Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet in Muenster.

#4566

Joanne B. Ciulla

Joanne B. Ciulla

#91263

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Joanne Bridgett Ciulla is an American philosopher. She is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics as well as teaching and publishing on business Ethics. She is currently a professor at the Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick and is the director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership. She has received several awards for her contributions to leadership studies and business ethics.

#4567

Sophie Grace Chappell

#92748

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sophie Grace Chappell is an English philosopher and academic. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. Early life and education Chappell was born in November 1964. She studied Literae humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford, having been awarded the Anne Shaw Classical Scholarship. She achieved a first in Honour Moderations in March 1986 and an upper second in the Final Honour School in June 1988, thereby graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then moved to the University of Edinburgh to undertake research for a Doctor of Philosophy degree under the supervision of James Mackey and Dory Scaltsas.

#4568

Fiona Timmins

#109668

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

#4569

Nilesh Samani

#55597

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Sir Nilesh Jayantilal Samani is a British physician who is professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital in the city, and Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation.

#4570

Souleymane Mboup

#20670

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Souleymane Mboup is a Senegalese microbiologist, medical researcher, and colonel in the Armed Forces of Senegal. In 1985, he was a member of the first team to identify HIV-2, a form of HIV that is typically found in West Africa and is less transmissible than the more common HIV-1. Mboup has contributed to the improvement of Senegal's research infrastructure throughout his career. Among his published works, he is known for editing the 1994 reference book AIDS in Africa. Mboup is currently the President of L'Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Épidémiologique et de Formations in D...

#4571

Catherine Ann Jones

#51342

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Catherine Ann Jones is a prize-winning playwright as well as an actor and short story writer. After playing major roles in over 55 plays on and off Broadway, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, "On the Edge", about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, Hitler, and WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Eleven of her plays, including "Calamity Jane" , "The Women of Cedar Creek", and "Freud’s Oracle", have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include "The Christmas W...

#4572

Swee Lay Thein

#93533

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Swee Lay Thein is a Malaysian haematologist and physician-scientist who is Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. She works on the pathophysiology of haemoglobin disorders including sickle cell disease and thalassemia.

#4573

Ronna Burger

#83450

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ronna C. Burger is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. Career She received her PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty and has been teaching at Tulane since 1980. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Earhart Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. She is the author of books and articles on Plato and Aristotle, and her graduate seminars on those thinkers have often led to dissertations in ancient philosophy.

#4574

Richard I. Fisher

#109782

Overall Influence

#4575

Raymond Briggs

#4311

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.

#4576

Kenneth D. Brandt

#109822

Overall Influence

#4577

Peter Wicke

#83674

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Peter Wicke is a German musicologist, who is particularly interested in popular music; he teaches as a university professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Life and achievements Born in Zwickau, Wicke studied musicology in Berlin until 1974 and received his PhD in 1980 with a dissertation on the music aesthetics of popular music. In 1986, he was awarded a doctorate with a thesis on the aesthetics and sociology of rock music and in 1988 he was appointed Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Music of Carleton University in Ottawa. In 1992 he was appointed to the Humboldt Universit...

#4578

Ricardo Azziz

#109837

Overall Influence

#4579

Garrett John Gross

#109854

Overall Influence

#4580

Joy Lawn

#86881

Overall Influence

Joy Elizabeth Lawn is a British paediatrician and professor of maternal, reproductive and child health. She is Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre. She developed the epidemiological evidence for the worldwide policy and programming that looks to reduce neonatal deaths and stillbirths and works on large-scale implementation research.

#4581

Cecil Arthur Hoare

#109869

Overall Influence

#4582

Nanda Thein Zan

#46870

Overall Influence

1947 - 2011 (64 years)

Nanda Thein Zan was a well-known author from Burma who wrote on philosophy and Buddhism. Zan was born on 21 February 1947 in Paungde Township of Pegu Division, the youngest of three siblings. At an early age he began writing under the pen name "Thein Zan" in the Thit Bawa Magazine. His first article was on Memory and Thought, appearing in the November 1963 issue. Later he changed his pen name to "Nandar Thein Zan" to avoid confusion with another writer publishing under the name "Thein Zan". He studied at the University of Rangoon, obtaining a BA degree in 1966 and a master's degree in philosophy in 1968.

#4583

Willem Andries Buurman

#109893

Overall Influence

#4584

Robert Irwin Henkin

#109897

Overall Influence

#4585

V. Levachkova Yu.

#109927

Overall Influence

#4586

Howard Wilbur Jones

#109936

Overall Influence

#4587

Johannes Schreiter

#58876

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Johannes Schreiter is a German graphic artist, printmaker, designer of stained glass, theoretician and cultural critic. Born in Buchholz in 1930, Schreiter studied in Munster, Mainz, and Berlin, before receiving a scholarship from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in 1958. His invention of the Brandcollage in 1959 first brought him to broader cultural attention, and in 1963 he became professor of Painting and Graphic Art at the Frankfurt/Main School of Decorative Arts, and later Rector of the same. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuze , the highest civilian honour granted by West Germany, in 1979.

#4588

Arthur E. Weyman

#109978

Overall Influence

#4589

D. Craig Miller

#109979

Overall Influence

#4590

Michael G. Shlipak

#109989

Overall Influence

#4591

John Deacon

#15328

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

John Richard Deacon is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free"; co-wrote "Under Pressure", "Friends Will Be Friends" and "One Vision"; and he was involved in the band's financial management.

#4592

Christopher H. Evans

#110062

Overall Influence

#4593

T. Edward Damer

#106447

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

T. Edward Damer is an American philosopher and author. Biography Damer was a professor of philosophy and chair of the Division Visual and Performing Arts at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He started on the Emory faculty in 1967 and retired in 2012. In 1991, he won the James A. David Faculty Recognition Award from the Emory alumni in recognition of his teaching.

#4594

Norihiro Kokudo

#110081

Overall Influence

#4595

Erick K. Rowinsky

#110088

Overall Influence

#4596

Michael J. Cousins,

#110103

Overall Influence

#4597

Robert E Kingston

#110108

Overall Influence

#4598

Gregory Poland

#46382

Overall Influence

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist. He is the Mary Lowell Leary professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.

#4599

Massimo Volpe

#110118

Overall Influence

#4600

Johannes Hoff

#67497

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Johannes Hoff is a German Christian philosopher, theologian and university professor. Born in Trier, Hoff completed his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Tübingen in 2006 and is currently senior research associate at the van Hügel Institute of the University of Cambridge and honorary professor at the Department of Theology and Religion of Durham University. Until 2018, he has been professor of philosophical theology at Heythrop College . Previously he has been teaching at St David's Catholic College in Wales and at the University of Tübingen.

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