The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Maurice Isserman
#23562
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Maurice Isserman , formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a Professor of History at Hamilton College. He has written about the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. He co-authored a biography with Dorothy Ray Healey and authored a biography of Michael Harrington, both of whom were co-founders of Democratic Socialists of America. He has contributed editorials and book reviews to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Alpine Review.
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Margaret Doody
#23563
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Margaret Anne Doody is a Canadian author of historical detective fiction and feminist literary critic. She is professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame, and served as its director from 2001 to 2007.
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Arnold H. Buss
#23564
Overall Influence
1924 - 2021 (97 years)
Arnold Herbert Buss was a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin known for his work in aggression, temperament, self-consciousness and shyness. Career Buss received his B.A. from New York University in 1947 after serving as a medic in the United States Army during World War II and received his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1952. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Iowa from 1951 to 1952 and then served as the Chief Psychologist at Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital from 1952 to 1957. He was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1957 to 1965 and a professor at Rutgers University from 1965 to 1969.
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Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva
#23565
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Lola Islamovna Karimova-Tillyaeva is an Uzbek diplomat and daughter of Islam Karimov the former President of Uzbekistan and his wife, Tatyana Akbarovna Karimova. In 2012 she and her husband made it into Bilan magazine's list of Switzerland's 300 richest residents. Her older sister is business mogul Gulnara Karimova. She is also the founder of the perfume brand, The Harmonist Maison de Parfum.
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Jacinda Ardern
#23566
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Dame Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern is a New Zealand former politician who served as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party from 2017 to 2023. She was a Labour member of Parliament as a list MP from 2008 to 2017, and for Mount Albert from 2017 to 2023.
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Eugene Kamenka
#23567
Overall Influence
1928 - 1994 (66 years)
Eugene Kamenka was an Australian political philosopher and Marxist scholar. Biography Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and migrated to Australia with his parents in 1937. He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and after interrupting his studies went to Jerusalem where he married his first wife Miriam Mizrachi. Later, he returned to Sydney University by her encouragement to complete his degree and begin work on his later published thesis "The Ethical Foundations of Marxism" for the Australian national university, published 1962. Professor John Anderson of Sydney University wa...
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Ruth Kark
#23568
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Ruth Kark is an Israeli historical geographer and professor of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Kark is a well-known researcher and expert in the field of the historical geography of Palestine and Israel.
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Anne Anastasi
#23569
Overall Influence
1908 - 2001 (93 years)
Anne Anastasi was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work, Psychological Testing, remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the individual being tested and therefore to the responsibilities of the testers. She called for them to go beyond test scores, to search the assessed individual's history to help them to better understand their own results and themselves.
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Vikram Amar
#23570
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Vikram David Amar is an American legal scholar focusing on constitutional law, federal courts, and civil and criminal procedure. In August 2015, he became dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law.
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Yossi Shain
#23571
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Yossi Shain was a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu. He is also the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he also serves as head of TAU's School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy. He is also a full professor of comparative government and diaspora politics at Georgetown University, and the founding director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown. In 2007, he also served as president of Western Galilee College.
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John B. West
#23572
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (98 years)
Professor John B. West FRCP is a respiratory physiologist who made major research contributions in the area of ventilation-perfusion relationships in the lung. He led a medical research expedition to Mount Everest in 1981, which investigated the influence of altitude and exertion on human physiology.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#23573
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Denmark from November 2001 to April 2009 and the 12th Secretary General of NATO from August 2009 to October 2014. He became CEO of political consultancy Rasmussen Global and founded the Alliance of Democracies Foundation. He serves as a senior adviser to Citigroup. He also served as a senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group.
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Ib Madsen
#23574
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Ib Henning Madsen is a Danish mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. He is known for proving the Mumford conjecture on the cohomology of the stable mapping class group, and for developing topological cyclic homology theory.
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Norman L. Biggs
#23575
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Norman Linstead Biggs is a leading British mathematician focusing on discrete mathematics and in particular algebraic combinatorics. Education Biggs was educated at Harrow County Grammar School and then studied mathematics at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1962, Biggs gained first-class honours in his third year of the university's undergraduate degree in mathematics.1946–1952: Uxendon Manor Primary School, Kenton, Middlesex1952–1959: Harrow County Grammar School1959–1963: Selwyn College, Cambridge 1960: First Class, Mathematical Tripos Pt. I1962: Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos Pt. II; B.A. 1963: Distinction, Mathematical Tripos Pt.
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Omar Azziman
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Omar Azziman , is an advisor to Mohammed VI, King of Morocco. Life Azziman started out by studying law in Rabat and Paris, going on to obtain his PhD in law at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Since 1972 he has been Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister for Human Rights in the Lamrani and Filali governments. He was appointed Minister of Justice between 1997 and 2002 in the Filali and Youssoufi governments. In April 1998, Azziman launched a highly publicized investigation of some 60 ma...
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Miklos Udvardy
#23577
Overall Influence
1919 - 1998 (79 years)
Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy was a Hungarian-born Canadian biologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. He made significant contributions to various fields, including biogeography, evolutionary biology, ornithology, and vegetation classification. Udvardy published 191 papers and books including an influential text on zoogeography.
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Dragan Stojković
#23578
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Dragan Stojković , also known by the nickname Piksi , is a Serbian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of the Serbia national team. Stojković was a long time captain of the Yugoslavia national team and Red Star Belgrade, and is considered one of the greatest of all-time in Yugoslav and Serbian football.
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Firuz Kazemzadeh
#23579
Overall Influence
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Firuz Kazemzadeh was a Russian-born American historian who was professor emeritus of history at Yale University. Biography Firuz Kazemzadeh was born in Moscow to an Iranian father and a Russian mother. His father served in the Iranian embassy in Moscow. After completing his primary and secondary education in Moscow, Kazemzadeh and his family moved to Iran. In 1944, during the height of World War II, he travelled from Tehran to the United States and entered Stanford University, graduating with distinction in 1946 and obtaining an MA in 1947. In 1950 Kazemzadeh received a Ph.D. in Russian his...
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Joe Scarborough
#23580
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Charles Joseph Scarborough is an American television host, attorney, political commentator, and former politician who is the co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski. He previously hosted Scarborough Country on the same network. A former member of the Republican Party, Scarborough was in the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 1st district from 1995 to 2001. He was appointed to the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce in 2002. and was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was na...
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J. Michael Criley
#23581
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
John Michael Criley, MD, FACC, MACP, is Professor Emeritus at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles . Biography He has made a number of pioneering contributions to the field of cardiology and medical education of the physical examination. He was also instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Paramedic program in 1969.
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Michel Wedel
#23582
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Michel Wedel is the PepsiCo Chaired Professor of Consumer Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and a Distinguished University Professor, at the University of Maryland, College Park. He works on the development of statistical and econometric methods to analyze and predict consumer behavior, in addition to market segmentation and eye tracking research.
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Daniel L. Simmons
#23583
Overall Influence
Daniel L. Simmons is a professor of chemistry and former director of the Cancer Research Center at Brigham Young University . He was the discoverer of the COX-2 enzyme that is the target of celecoxib and other COX-2 inhibitors. He and BYU felt that Pfizer had not properly credited or paid them for Simmons work in this development and brought a suit against Pfizer.
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Karl Schlögel
#23584
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Karl Schlögel is a noted German historian of Eastern Europe who specialises in modern Russia, the history of Stalinism, the Russian diaspora and dissident movements, Eastern European cultural history and theoretical problems of historical narration.
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Lawrence Van Gelder
#23585
Overall Influence
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Lawrence Ralph Van Gelder was an American journalist and instructor in journalism who worked at several different New York City-based newspapers in his long career. Until 2010, he was senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times, as well as a film critic. Among the newspapers for which Van Gelder worked were the New York Daily Mirror, the New York Journal-American and the World-Journal-Tribune.
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Leo Sayer
#23586
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Gerard Hugh "Leo" Sayer is an English-Australian singer and songwriter who has been active since 1973. He has been an Australian citizen and resident since 2009. Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and he became a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the United Kingdom all reached the Top 10 – a feat first accomplished by his first manager, Adam Faith. His songs have been sung by other notable artists, including Cliff Richard , Roger Daltrey, and Three Dog Night.
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Mario Spezi
#23587
Overall Influence
1945 - 2016 (71 years)
Mario Spezi was an Italian journalist, author, illustrator, and caricaturist. He wrote the non-fiction true crime books Dolci Colline di Sangue and Il Mostro di Firenze . He was a co-author in the book The Monster of Florence A True Story with American author Douglas Preston. Additionally, he was credited by Preston for providing details used in the novel Brimstone.
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Nicola Sturgeon
#23588
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from 2014 to 2023. She has served as a member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region, and as the member for Glasgow Southside from 2007.
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Martin J. Fettman
#23589
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Martin Joseph Fettman is an American pathologist and researcher who flew on NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-58 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist. Personal data Born December 31, 1956, Brooklyn, New York. Married to Heather Connally DVM MS DACVECC. Recreational interests include scuba diving, amateur radio, flying, bicycling, pistol marksmanship, camping and mountain hiking, photography, travel, reading , and music . His mother, Mrs. Elaine Fettman Peck, resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his stepfather, Mr. Harold Peck. His father, Mr. Bernard P. Fettman, is deceased.
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel
#23590
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel Der Verlorene . Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze.
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William Colepaugh
#23591
Overall Influence
1918 - 2005 (87 years)
William Curtis Colepaugh was an American who, following his 1943 discharge from the U.S. Naval Reserve , defected to Nazi Germany in 1944. While a crewman on a repatriation ship that stopped off in Lisbon, Colepaugh defected at the German consulate. Colepaugh had attended Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey.
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Olivier Roy
#23592
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Olivier Roy is a French political scientist, professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published articles and books on secularisation and Islam including "Global Islam", and The Failure of Political Islam. He is known to have "a different view of radical Islam" than some other experts, seeing it as peripheral, Westernized and part of a radicalized and "virtual" rather than pious and "actual" Muslim community. More recently he has written on the Charlie Hebdo shooting, and the November 2015 Paris attacks.
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Chance the Rapper
#23593
Overall Influence
1993 - Present (33 years)
Chancelor Johnathan Bennett , known professionally as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Chicago, Bennett released his debut mixtape 10 Day in 2012. He gained mainstream recognition in 2013 following the release of his second mixtape, Acid Rap. His third mixtape, Coloring Book , was released to further critical acclaim and commercial success as it peaked at number eight on the Billboard 200. The mixtape also earned a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, while a song off the album "No Problem" won Best Rap Performance; it became the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy Award.
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Patrick J. Geary
#23594
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Patrick J. Geary is an American medievalist. He is a professor emeritus of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2004 to 2011, he also held the title of Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jerry Tarkanian
#23595
Overall Influence
1930 - 2015 (85 years)
Jerry Tarkanian was an American basketball coach. He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools. He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, leading them four times to the Final Four of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, winning the national championship in 1990. Tarkanian revolutionized the college game at UNLV, utilizing a pressing defense to fuel its fast-paced offense. Overall, he won over 700 games in his college coaching career, only twice failing to win 20 games, while never having a losing season. Tarkanian...
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Erik Sandewall
#23596
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Erik Sandewall is a Swedish Professor in the Chair of Computer Science at Linköping University since 1975. He is known for his pioneering research in artificial intelligence. Education Erik Sandewall received the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Uppsala University in 1964 and 1969 respectively.
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John Hajnal
#23597
Overall Influence
1924 - 2008 (84 years)
John Hajnal FBA , was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics . Hajnal is best known for identifying, in a landmark 1965 paper, the historical pattern of marriage of northwest Europe in which people married late and many adults remained single. The geographical boundary of this unusual marriage pattern is now known as the Hajnal line.
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Paul-Peter Tak
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Overall Influence
Paul-Peter Tak M.D. PhD FMedSci is an immunologist and academic specialising in the fields of internal medicine, rheumatology and immunology. Tak has been the President & CEO of Candel Therapeutics since September 2020.
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Michael P. Collins
#23599
Overall Influence
Michael Patrick Collins is a Canadian structural engineer whose research is focused on the design and evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete buildings, bridges, nuclear containment structures and offshore oil platforms.
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Craig Biggio
#23600
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Craig Alan Biggio is an American former baseball second baseman, outfielder and catcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros, from 1988 to 2007. A seven-time National League All-Star often regarded as the greatest all-around player in Astros history, he is the only player ever to be named an All-Star and to be awarded Silver Slugger Award at both catcher and second base. With longtime teammates Jeff Bagwell and Lance Berkman, he formed the core of the "Killer B's" who led Houston to six playoff appearances from 1997 to 2005, culminating in the franchise's first World Series appearance in 2005.
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Dolores Hayden
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.
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Louis Matheson
#23602
Overall Influence
1912 - 2002 (90 years)
Sir James Adam Louis Matheson KBE CMG was a British engineer and university administrator, who served as the first Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Early life Born in Huddersfield, Matheson studied engineering at Manchester University. Matheson graduated with a Bachelor of Science in engineering and a Master of Science from the University of Manchester, and a PhD from the University of Birmingham . After spending 6 years as a civil engineer from 1933 to 1938, he took up a position at the University of Birmingham and then the University of Melbourne, where he modernised the Melbourne University engineering curriculum.
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John DiMaggio
#23603
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
John William DiMaggio is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender on Futurama, Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Dr. Drakken on Kim Possible, Hak Foo in Jackie Chan Adventures, The Scotsman on Samurai Jack, Brother Blood on Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Shnitzel on Chowder, Fu Dog on American Dragon: Jake Long, Hammerhead and Sandman on The Spectacular Spider-Man, Aquaman on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, King Zøg on Disenchantment, Wakka and Kimahri in Final Fantasy X, Rath in the Ben 10 franchise, Crosshairs, Leadfoot, Transit and ...
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Arvind Rajaraman
#23604
Overall Influence
Arvind Rajaraman is an Indian-born theoretical physicist and string theorist. Rajaraman earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an associate professor at University of California, Irvine. The first time that India received any medals in International Mathematics Olympiad was in 1989, when four among six Indian participants received a bronze medal. Rajaraman was one of these four bronze medal winning participants. Rajaraman was also part of the UC Irvine team whose research contributed to the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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V. Sasisekharan
#23605
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Viswanathan Sasisekharan is an Indian biophysicist known for his work on the structure and conformation of biopolymers. He introduced the use of torsion angles to describe polypeptide and protein conformation, a central principle of the plot . Additionally, he was the first to introduce alternative models of DNA structure that provided insights beyond the standard double helix model. For his contributions to the biological sciences, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of India’s highest science awards, in 1978.
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Farhang Holakouee
#23606
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Farhang Holakouee–Naeinee , simply known as Farhang Holakouee, is an Iranian-born American radio personality, psychologist, sociologist, and economist. His radio program—hosted in the past by 670 KIRN, and currently by "Radio Hamrah"—offers relationship advice to callers in Persian. Holakouee was born in Shiraz, Iran, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Howard Maibach
#23607
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
Howard I Maibach is an American dermatologist, professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco . His major contributions include seminal work in wound management, and extensive work in patient care, dermatophysiology, dermatophamacology, and dermatotoxicology. In 2013, he was awarded the "Master Dermatologist Award" by the American Academy of Dermatology for his outstanding contributions to the practice and teaching of Dermatology.
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Ahmad Teebi
#23608
Overall Influence
1949 - 2010 (61 years)
Ahmad Said Teebi was a Palestinian, born in Lebanon, clinical geneticist who studied and practiced in several countries, ending his career in Canada and the United States. Biography Teebi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, to a family of Palestinian origin. He received his primary education in Lebanon and in Kuwait. He obtained his medical degree from Cairo University , then studied Pediatrics in Kuwait. He studied at University College of Dublin in 1976–77, receiving a Diploma of Child Health in 1977. He began his medical residency at the Kuwait Medical Genetics Center , then completed it at the University of British Columbia , and in the United States at Yale University .
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Trevor Rabin
#23609
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Trevor Charles Rabin is a South African musician, songwriter, and film composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a variety of artists. In 1972, he joined the rock band Rabbitt, which enjoyed considerable success in South Africa, and released his first solo album, Beginnings. In 1978, Rabin moved to London to further his career, working as a solo artist and a producer for various artists including Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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Richard Coyne
#23610
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Richard Coyne is a professor at the University of Edinburgh and author of several books on the implications of information technology and design, published by MIT Press, Routledge, and Bloomsbury Academic. His work is strongly influenced by the writings of the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer on hermeneutics and interpretation theory, particularly as developed by Coyne's colleague Adrian Snodgrass in the 1990s, and with whom he co-authored the book Interpretation in Architecture: Design as a Way of Thinking.
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Mary Beth Ruskai
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Mary Beth Ruskai was an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics with interest in mathematical problems in quantum physics. She was a Fellow of the AAAS, AMS, APS, and AWM. Education Ruskai was the daughter of Michael J. Ruskai and Evelyn M. Ruskai . She had three sisters. She graduated from Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio in 1965 with a BS in chemistry. She simultaneously received her M.A. in mathematics and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969. Her PhD thesis was about the N-Representability Problem.
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