The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
#10501
Ted Peters
#10511
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Theodore Frank Peters , known as Ted Peters, is an American Lutheran theologian and Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. In addition to his work as a theologian and educator, he is a prolific author and editor on Christian theology, Public Theology, the interaction of science and religion, bioethics, and space ethics. He is the former editor of Dialog, a quarterly scholarly magazine of modern and postmodern theology, and now co-editor of Theology and Science. Peters also serves on the Advisory Council of METI .
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Barbara Smuts
#10512
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Barbara Boardman Smuts is an American anthropologist and psychologist noted for her research into baboons, dolphins, and chimpanzees, and a Professor Emeritus at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Smuts received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Harvard University and a Ph.D in neurological and biological behavioral science from Stanford Medical School. In the 1970s she began studying animal behaviour at the University of Michigan, including research with Jane Goodall on chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, where she had a violent introduction to field research, being among four field researchers kidnapped and beaten by a Marxist revolutionary group.
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Patricia A. McKillip
#10513
Overall Influence
1948 - 2022 (74 years)
Patricia Anne McKillip was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. She wrote predominantly standalone fantasy novels and has been called "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy genre". Her work won many awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.
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James Lockhart
#10514
Overall Influence
1933 - 2014 (81 years)
James Lockhart was a U.S. historian of colonial Spanish America, especially the Nahua people and Nahuatl language. Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Lockhart attended West Virginia University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison . Late in life, Lockhart wrote a short, candid memoir. He joined the US Army and was posted to Germany, working in "a low-level intelligence agency," translating letters from East Germany. Returning to the US, he entered the graduate program at University of Wisconsin, where he pursued his doctorate in the social history of conquest-era Peru.
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Zhang Weiying
#10515
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Zhang Weiying is a Chinese economist and was head of the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He is known for his advocacy of free markets and his ideas have been influenced by the Austrian School.
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Tom Petty
#10516
Overall Influence
1950 - 2017 (67 years)
Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader of the rock bands Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch and a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He was also a successful solo artist.
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Alvin Robert Cornelius
#10517
Overall Influence
1903 - 1991 (88 years)
Alvin Robert Cornelius, HPk was a Pakistani jurist, legal philosopher and judge, serving as the 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1960 until 1968. In addition, he served as Law Minister in the cabinet of Yahya Khan, 1969 – 16 December 1971.
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George Chauncey
#10518
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
George Chauncey is a professor of history at Columbia University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 . Life and works
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John Carlos
#10519
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
John Wesley Carlos is an American former track and field athlete and professional American football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he displayed the Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith. He went on to tie the world record in the 100-yard dash and beat the 200 meters world record . After his track career, he enjoyed a brief stint in the Canadian Football League but retired due to injury.
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Paulo Evaristo Arns
#10520
Overall Influence
1921 - 2016 (95 years)
Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was made a cardinal and the Archbishop of São Paulo by Pope Paul VI, and later became cardinal protopriest. His ministry began with a twenty-year academic career, but when charged with responsibility for the Sao Paulo Archdiocese he proved a relentless opponent of Brazil's military dictatorship and its use of torture as well as an advocate for the poor and a vocal defender of liberation theology. In his later years he openly criticized the way Pope John Paul II governed the Catholic Church through the Roman Curia and ...
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Henk Zijm
#10521
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Willem Hendrik Maria Zijm is a Dutch mathematician, and Professor Production and Supply Chain Management and Emeritus Rector Magnificus at the University of Twente. Biography Born in Driehuizen, Texel, Zijm received both his BSc in mathematics, physics and astronomy in 1977, and his MSc cum laude in applied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. In 1982 he received his Phd in operations research at the Eindhoven University of Technology under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Gerhard Willem Veltkamp with a thesis entitled "Nonnegative Matrices in Dynamic Programming."
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Bernard Hinault
#10522
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Bernard Hinault is a French former professional road cyclist. With 147 professional victories, including five times the Tour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In his career, Hinault entered a total of thirteen Grand Tours. He abandoned one of them while in the lead, finished in 2nd place on two occasions and won the other ten, putting him one behind Merckx for the all-time record. No rider since Hinault has achieved more than seven.
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Paul Jorion
#10523
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Paul Jorion is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics. Paul was born and raised in Belgium, and has been a professor at the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, Paris VIII and University of California at Irvine. He was a visiting scholar of the "Human Complex Systems" Program at UCLA from 2005 to 2009. He currently lives in France, where he runs a popular blog on financial and economic matters. In 2012, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel made him holder of the newly created "Stewardshi...
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Randy Newman
#10524
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Randall Stuart Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist known for his Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs , and various film scores. His hits as a recording artist include "Short People" , "I Love L.A." , and "You've Got a Friend in Me" with Lyle Lovett, while other artists have enjoyed success with cover versions of his "Mama Told Me Not to Come" , "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" and "You Can Leave Your Hat On" .
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Roger W. Brockett
#10525
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Roger Ware Brockett was an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983.
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Hugh Dennis
#10526
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Peter Hugh Dennis is an English comedian, presenter, actor, impressionist, and writer. He was a panellist in every episode of the comedy show Mock the Week . He has also appeared in the comedy double act Punt and Dennis with Steve Punt and played Dr. Piers Crispin in the sitcom My Hero , Pete Brockman in the sitcom Outnumbered , Toby in the sitcom Not Going Out , and the Bank Manager in the first season of the comedy-drama series Fleabag . He presents the community archaeology television show The Great British Dig .
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Louis Blom-Cooper
#10527
Overall Influence
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Sir Louis Jacques Blom-Cooper was an English author and lawyer specialising in public and administrative law. Early life Born in London, his parents were the grocer Alfred Blom-Cooper and Ellen Flesseman. Blom-Cooper and his family were Jewish. He did national service as a Captain in the East Yorkshire Regiment from 1944 to 1947. Louis Blom-Cooper was educated at Port Regis School, Seaford College, University of British Columbia, King's College London , the University of Amsterdam, and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1952.
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Ennio Morricone
#10528
Overall Influence
1928 - 2020 (92 years)
Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Golden Globes, six BAFTAs, ten David di Donatello, eleven , two European Film Awards, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
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Merle Haggard
#10529
Overall Influence
1937 - 2016 (79 years)
Merle Ronald Haggard was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launched a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class; these occasionally contained themes contrary to the anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time.
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Agnieszka Radwańska
#10530
Overall Influence
1989 - Present (37 years)
Agnieszka Roma Radwańska is a Polish former professional tennis player. She won 20 career singles WTA Tour titles, two doubles titles, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 on 9 July 2012. Her achievements include winning the season-ending 2015 WTA Finals, the Women's Tennis Association Fan Favourite Award six times, Shot of the Year five times, and Shot of the Month on a regular basis.
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Mary Louise Pratt
#10531
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Mary Louise Pratt is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University. She received her B.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto in 1970, her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1971, and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 1975.
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Yu Ying-shih
#10532
Overall Influence
1930 - 2021 (91 years)
Yu Ying-shih was a Chinese-born American historian, sinologist, and the Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was known for his mastery of sources for Chinese history and philosophy, his ability to synthesize them on a wide range of topics, and for his advocacy for a new Confucianism. He was a tenured professor at Harvard University and Yale University before his time at Princeton.
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Dominique Reynié
#10533
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Dominique Reynié is a French academic. He is a professor of political science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris . Biography Education Dominique Reynié graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 1983, where he also presented a master thesis in political science in 1984. In 1994, within the same institution, he became a doctor of political science. His thesis was directed by Jean Leca, on the theme: The Democratic Order: The Practical Foundations of a Democratic-type Mass Policy. He earned his Agrégation of political science in 1997.
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Gottfried Böhm
#10534
Overall Influence
1920 - 2021 (101 years)
Gottfried Böhm was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne chapel "Madonna in the Rubble" . The chapel was completed in 1949 where a medieval church once stood before it was destroyed during World War II. Böhm's most influential and recognized building is the Maria, Königin des Friedens pilgrimage church in Neviges.
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Shitij Kapur
#10535
Overall Influence
Shitij Kapur is a medical doctor and administrator; he is the 21st president and principal of King's College London since 1 June 2021. Previously, he was the dean of the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences and assistant vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 2016 to 2020.
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George Coyne
#10536
Overall Influence
1933 - 2020 (87 years)
George Vincent Coyne, S.J. was an American Jesuit priest and astronomer who directed the Vatican Observatory and headed its research group at the University of Arizona from 1978 to 2006. From January 2012 until his death, he taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. His career was dedicated to the reconciliation of theology and science, while his stance on scripture was absolute: "One thing the Bible is not," he said in 1994, "is a scientific textbook. Scripture is made up of myth, of poetry, of history. But it is simply not teaching science."
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Anne K. Mellor
#10537
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Anne Kostelanetz Mellor is an American academic working as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten female Romantic writers into literary history, and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled Romanticism and Feminism.
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Tony Curtis
#10538
Overall Influence
1925 - 2010 (85 years)
Tony Curtis was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles covering a wide range of genres. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.
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Michael Benton
#10539
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Michael James Benton is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record.
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David Eisenhower
#10540
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Dwight David Eisenhower II is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon.
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Anatol Lieven
#10541
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst best known for his expertise on the Taliban of Afghanistan. He is currently a visiting professor at King's College London and senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also a contributor to the Valdai Discussion Club.
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Michael Kimmelman
#10542
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic for The New York Times and has written about public housing and homelessness, public space, landscape architecture, community development and equity, infrastructure and urban design. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, most recently in 2018 for his series on climate change and global cities. In March 2014, he was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize for his "insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York's architectural environment" that is "journalism at its finest."
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Doug Naylor
#10543
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Douglas Rodger Naylor is an English comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer. Life and career Naylor was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, and studied at Chetham's School of Music and the University of Liverpool. In the mid-1980s Naylor created and wrote two comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 entitled Cliché and Son of Cliché, as well as two sitcoms,Wrinkles and Wally Who? for the same station. These shows were scripted by Naylor along with another writer, Rob Grant. This writing partnership was successful, with Grant and Naylor going on to co-write and...
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Jim Davis
#10544
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.
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Christian J. Lambertsen
#10545
Overall Influence
1917 - 2011 (94 years)
Christian James Lambertsen was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare. Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers in 1940 and in 1944 and first called his invention breathing apparatus. Later, after the war, he called it Laru and finally, in 1952, he changed his invention's name again to SCUBA . Although diving regulator technology was invented by Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was unrelated to rebreathers, the current use of the word SCUBA is largely attributed to the Gagnan-Cousteau invention.
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Martin L. Leibowitz
#10546
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Martin L. Leibowitz is a financial researcher, business leader, and a managing director of Morgan Stanley. Career Before joining Morgan Stanley, Leibowitz was vice chairman and chief investment officer of TIAA-CREF from 1995 to 2004. Previously he had worked for 26 years for Salomon Brothers, rising to become its Managing Director in charge of research. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study. In April 2009 he was named adviser to the Board of Directors to Singapore's sovereign fund. In March 2012, he was appointed to The Rockefeller Foundation’s Board...
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Gary King
#10547
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Gary King is an American political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. King and his research group develop and apply empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.
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Gunnar Jarring
#10548
Overall Influence
1907 - 2002 (95 years)
Gunnar Valfrid Jarring was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist. Early life Jarring was born in Brunnby, Malmöhus County, Sweden, the son of Gottfrid Jönsson, a farmer, and his wife Betty . He had four siblings. Jarring earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lund University in 1928, a Licentiate Degree in 1931, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1933 with his dissertation Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre . The same year he was appointed docent in Turkish linguistics at Lund University. Jarring also served as curator of Helsingborgs-Landskrona Student Nation at Lund University in 1933. He taught Turkic languages at the university for the rest of the 1930s.
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Kathryn C. Thornton
#10549
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
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Richard Coates
#10550
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Richard Coates is an English linguist. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol, now emeritus. From 1977 to 2006 he taught at the University of Sussex, where he served as Professor of Linguistics and as Dean of the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences . From 1980 to 1989 he was assistant secretary and then secretary of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. He was honorary director of the Survey of English Place-Names from 2003 to 2019, having previously served as president of the English Place-Name Society which conducts the Survey, resuming this role in 2019.
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Rémi Brague
#10551
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Rémi Brague is a French historian of philosophy, specializing in Islamic, Jewish, and Christian thought of the Middle Ages. He is professor emeritus of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Sorbonne, and Romano Guardini chair of philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Robert Byron Bird
#10552
Overall Influence
1924 - 2020 (96 years)
Robert Byron Bird was an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was known for his research in transport phenomena of non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory, and rheology. He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, was an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987.
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Phil Mickelson
#10553
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer who currently plays in the LIV Golf League. He has won 45 events on the PGA Tour, including six major championships: three Masters titles , two PGA Championships , and one Open Championship . With his win at the 2021 PGA Championship, Mickelson became the oldest major championship winner in history at the age of 50 years, 11 months, and 7 days. He is nicknamed Lefty, as he plays left-handed.
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Wendell Fleming
#10554
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (98 years)
Wendell Helms Fleming was an American mathematician, specializing in geometrical analysis and stochastic differential equations. Fleming received in 1951 his PhD under Laurence Chisholm Young at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a thesis entitled Boundary and related notions for generalized parametric surfaces. Fleming was a professor at Brown University, where he retired in 2009 as professor emeritus.
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Alan Charles Kors
#10555
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Alan Charles Kors is Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching. Kors graduated A.B. summa cum laude at Princeton University in 1964, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in European history at Harvard University.
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Derryn Hinch
#10556
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Derryn Nigel Hinch is a New Zealand-born media personality, politician, actor, journalist and published author. He is best known for his career in Australia, on Melbourne radio and television. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 2016 to 2019.
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Anthony French
#10557
Overall Influence
1920 - 2017 (97 years)
Anthony Philip French was a British physicist. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography French was born November 19, 1920, in Brighton, England. French won a scholarship to study at Sydney Sussex College at Cambridge University, receiving his B.A. in physics in 1942.
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Lawrence E. Blume
#10558
Overall Influence
Lawrence E. Blume is the Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics and Professor of Information Science at Cornell University, US. He is a visiting research professor at IHS Vienna and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as co-director of the economics program and on the institute's steering committee. He teaches and conducts research in general equilibrium theory and game theory, and also has research projects on natural resource management, network design, and evolutionary processes in markets and games. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, he received a BA in economics from Washington University in St.
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David Gascoyne
#10559
Overall Influence
1916 - 2001 (85 years)
David Gascoyne was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement, in particular the British Surrealist Group. Additionally he translated work by French surrealist poets. Early life and surrealism Gascoyne was born in Harrow the eldest of three sons of Leslie Noel Gascoyne , a bank clerk, and his wife, Winifred Isobel, née Emery . His mother, a niece of the actors Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery, was one of two young women present when the dramatist W. S. Gilbert died in his lake at Grim's Dyke in May 1911. Gascoyne grew up in England and Scotland, attending Salisbury Cathedral School and London's Regent Street Polytechnic.
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Timberlake Wertenbaker
#10560
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others. She has been described in The Washington Post as "the doyenne of political theatre of the 1980s and 1990s".
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