The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
#24801
Charles H. Kraft
#24812
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Charles H. Kraft is an American anthropologist, linguist, evangelical Christian speaker, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, where he taught primarily in the school's spiritual-dynamics concentration. In the domain of religion, his work since the early 1980s has focused on inner healing and spiritual warfare. He joined Fuller's faculty in 1969. In the 1950s he served as a Brethren missionary in northern Nigeria. He has served as a professor of African languages at Michigan State University and UCLA, and taught anthropology part-time at Biola University.
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Mary Kelly
#24813
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer. Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installationss and theoretical writings. Kelly's work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate interests of artists of the 1980s. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she is considered among the most influential contemporary artists working today. Kelly is Judge Widney Professor at the USC Roski School of Art and Design of the University of Southern California. She was previousl...
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Eric Friedlander
#24814
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Eric Mark Friedlander is an American mathematician who is working in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, algebraic K-theory and representation theory. Friedlander graduated from Swarthmore College with bachelor's degree in 1965 and in 1970 received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Michael Artin, . He was a postdoctoral instructor at Princeton University: a lecturer in 1971 and assistant professor in 1972. From 1973 to 1974, he was, through the US exchange program, at France, in particular at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. In ...
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Frank Magid
#24815
Overall Influence
1931 - 2010 (79 years)
Frank Magid was an American marketing consultant, widely known for introducing the "Action News" format of evening local TV news, and was an original developer of Good Morning America. Time magazine named Magid "the nation's leading television news doctor" in 1977, and he became the namesake of the term "Magidized".
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Amul Thapar
#24816
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was President Donald Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States...
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Bill Kreutzmann
#24817
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
William Kreutzmann Jr. is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to perform with former members of the Grateful Dead in various lineups, and with his own bands BK3, 7 Walkers and Billy & the Kids.
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Martin McKee
#24818
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Clifford Martin McKee, CBE , is professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Biography He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and trained as a doctor at The Queen’s University of Belfast, qualifying in 1979 and specialized initially in internal medicine at the Belfast City Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital between 1979 and 1985, before moving into public health. McKee currently lives in London with his wife Dorothy and two daughters.
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Kenneth O. Hall
#24819
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Sir Kenneth Octavius Hall served as the governor-general of Jamaica from 16 February 2006 to 26 February 2009. He was Jamaica's fifth governor-general since independence in 1962. Early life and education Hall was born in Lucea, Jamaica and attended Rusea's High School. Hall holds a Bachelor's degree in History, a post-graduate diploma in International Relations, and a PhD in History from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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R. Leonard Brooks
#24820
Overall Influence
1916 - 1993 (77 years)
Rowland Leonard Brooks was an English mathematician, known for proving Brooks's theorem on the relation between the chromatic number and the degree of graphs. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and also worked with fellow Trinity students W. T. Tutte, Cedric Smith, and Arthur Harold Stone on the problem of "Squaring the square" , both under their own names and under the pseudonym Blanche Descartes.
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Dale Purves
#24821
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Dale Purves is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences where he remains Research Professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, and the department of Philosophy at Duke University. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1960 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1964. After further clinical training as a surgical resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, service as a Peace Corps physician, and postdoctoral training at Harvard and University College London, he was appointed to the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973.
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Aniruddha M. Gole
#24822
Overall Influence
A. M. Gole is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Since 1992, he is also the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Power Systems Simulation.
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Maria Velho da Costa
#24823
Overall Influence
1938 - 2020 (82 years)
Maria de Fátima de Bivar Velho da Costa was a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part in the Portuguese Feminist Movement, and became one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portugesas , together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barreno. The authors, known as the "Three Marias," were arrested, jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972, during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation ...
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Xavier Casals
#24824
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Xavier Casals Meseguer is a Spanish historian specialized in the field of the far-right. Biography Born in 1963 in Barcelona, he has authored several works about the Far right, featuring studies both about the Spanish Neo-nazi and far right scene, as about an international comparative context. He has co-authored a biography of Miguel Primo de Rivera. He also has studied the phenomenon of populism.
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Carter Ham
#24825
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Carter Frederick Ham is a retired United States Army general who served as the second commander of United States Africa Command. As commander of Africa Command, he led Operation Odyssey Dawn, the initial United States role in the 2011 military intervention in Libya.
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Kay Warren
#24826
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Kay Barbara Warren is an American academic anthropologist, known for her extensive research and publications in cultural anthropology studies. Initially trained as an anthropologist specializing in field studies of Latin American and Mesoamerican indigenous cultures, Warren has also written and lectured on an array of broader anthropological topics. These include studies about the impacts on politically marginalized and indigenous communities of social movements, wars and political violence, transnationalism, and foreign aid programs. Warren holds an endowed chair as the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr.
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Johann Gasteiger
#24827
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Johann Gasteiger is a German Chemist and a Chemoinformatician on which he wrote and edited various books. Life Johann Gasteiger studied Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. He obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1971 with Professor Rolf Huisgen. After Postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley until 1972, he was an assistant professor at Technical University of Munich and received his Habilitation in 1979 under the mentorship of Professor Ivar Ugi. From 1994 until 2007 he was a professor at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in the "Computer-Chemie-Centrum", which he cofounded.
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Chia-ying Yeh
#24828
Overall Influence
1924 - Present (102 years)
Florence Chia-ying Yeh , also known as Ye Jiaying , Jialing , and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. She taught for twenty years at the University of British Columbia , and has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she has been teaching at Nankai University in Tianjin where she is the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.
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Rolf Sattler
#24829
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Rolf Sattler FLS FRSC is a Canadian plant morphologist, biologist, philosopher, and educator. He is considered one of the most significant contributors to the field of plant morphology and "one of the foremost plant morphologists in the world." His contributions are not only empirical but involved also a revision of the most fundamental concepts, theories, and philosophical assumptions. He published the award-winning Organogenesis of Flowers and nearly a hundred scientific papers, mainly on plant morphology. As well he has contributed to many national and international symposia and also org...
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Arthur C. Vailas
#24830
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Arthur C. Vailas is an American scientist and academic administrator who served as the 12th president of Idaho State University, from July 2006 to June 2018. Early life The son of Greek immigrants, Vailas was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He attended the University of New Hampshire on a football scholarship and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
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Mia Michaels
#24831
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Mia Michaels Melchiona is an American choreographer and judge on the television show So You Think You Can Dance. She has worked with Tom Cruise, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Madonna, Ricky Martin, Prince, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 2005 she choreographed Cirque du Soleil's world tour Delirium and Celine Dion's A New Day..., for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. In 2007 she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for her routine on "Calling You" during season two of So You Think You Can Dance. She won another Emmy Award during season five in 2010. She was a judge during season 7 with Adam Shankman and Nigel Lythgoe.
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Wacław Depo
#24832
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Wacław Tomasz Depo is a Polish Roman Catholic bishop, being the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Częstochowa since 2012. He was previously the bishop of the Diocese of Zamość-Lubaczów from 2006 to 2012.
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Rosalyn Scott
#24833
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Rosalyn P. Scott is an American thoracic surgeon known for her work in education and for being the first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon. Early life and education Scott was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey and was inspired to become a physician by both her father and uncle. Her father was a dentist, and his dental office was the source of Scott's early exposure to medicine where she helped on Saturday mornings by cleaning dental instruments, editing information on charts, and organizing patient documents. Scott's father suffered from a heart attack when she was in the third grade.
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Daniel A. Vallero
#24834
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Daniel A. Vallero is an American environmental author and scientist. He was born in East St. Louis, Illinois and grew up in Collinsville, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He also earned a masters in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Kansas and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University with a thesis on "“Dicarboximide Fungicide Flux to the Lower Troposphere from an Aquic Hapludult Soil”
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John H. Lienhard
#24835
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
John Henry Lienhard IV is Professor Emeritus of mechanical engineering and history at The University of Houston. He worked in heat transfer and thermodynamics for many years prior to creating the radio program The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Lienhard is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
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Martin Friedland
#24836
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Martin Lawrence Friedland, is a Canadian lawyer, academic and author. He received a BComm. , LL.B. , and honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto, and a PhD and LL.D from Cambridge University. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1960. He taught at Osgoode Hall Law School until 1965 when he joined the University of Toronto as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1968 and served as dean from 1972–1979.
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Paolo Malanima
#24837
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Paolo Malanima is an Italian economic historian, Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, and former director of the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies in Naples. Malanima's main research interests are long-term developments in economic history, particularly the performance of the Italian economy since Classical antiquity, history of energy and global history.
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Egbert Myjer
#24838
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Egbert Myjer is a Dutch judge. He served on the European Court of Human Rights, elected in respect of the Netherlands, between 1 November 2004 and 31 October 2012. Since 1 March 2013 he is serving his first five-year term as a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists. He was appointed as a board member of the International Service for Human Rights in May 2013.
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Thomas Wiegand
#24839
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Thomas Wiegand is a German electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC video coding standards. For H.264/AVC, Wiegand was one of the chairmen of the Joint Video Team standardization committee that created the standard and was the chief editor of the standard itself. He was also a very active technical contributor to the H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC video coding standards. Wiegand also holds a chairmanship position in the ITU-T VCEG of ITU-T Study Group 16 and previously in ISO/IEC MPEG standardization organizations. In July 2006, video coding work of the ITU-T was jointly led by Gary J.
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Ronald Tiersky
#24840
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Ronald Tiersky is the Joseph B. Eastman Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Career Tiersky taught political science and European Studies at Amherst for four decades. During 1980-82 he was Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies center in Bologna, Italy. He was associated over the years with the Paris Centre d’études des relations internationales .
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Takuma Sato
#24841
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Takuma Sato, nicknamed "Taku", is a Japanese professional racing driver. He competes part-time in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 11 Honda for Chip Ganassi Racing. Sato is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the event in 2017 and 2020. He was the first Asian driver to win the Indianapolis 500, and the twentieth driver to win the race more than once. Before winning the Indianapolis 500, Sato became the first Japanese-born driver to win an IndyCar Series race when he won the 2013 Grand Prix of Long Beach.
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Nikil Jayant
#24842
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Nikil S. Jayant is an Indian-American communications engineer. He was a researcher at Bell Laboratories and subsequently a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1970.
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Lou Lamoriello
#24843
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Louis A. Lamoriello is an American professional ice hockey executive who is the president of hockey operations and general manager for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League . He was formerly general manager of both the New Jersey Devils and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Lamoriello's tenure as general manager of the New Jersey Devils from 1987 to 2015 was the third-longest by an NHL general manager with a single team, following those of Conn Smythe and Art Ross. Lamoriello resigned from New Jersey on May 4, 2015, and became the 16th general manager of the Maple Leafs on July 23 of th...
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Marjatta Hietala
#24844
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Marjatta Hietala is a Finnish historian specialising in urban history and the history of innovations. She is professor emerita of General History at the University of Tampere. Hietala introduced in Finland the study of innovations and international contacts. She has held a range of positions of trust both in Finland and internationally.
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Richard L. Schmalensee
#24845
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Richard Lee "Dick" Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Department of Economics at MIT. He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
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Jon Lovitz
#24846
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Jonathan Michael Lovitz is an American actor and comedian. Lovitz is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. Outside of SNL, he starred as Jay Sherman in The Critic and played a baseball scout in A League of Their Own. He has performed in 20 episodes of The Simpsons.
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Marc Fisher
#24847
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Marc Fisher is a senior editor for The Washington Post, where he writes about national, foreign and local issues. He was previously a Post enterprise editor, leading a team of writers experimenting with new types of storytelling. Fisher wrote a local column for the Post and another about radio, music and culture titled "The Listener."
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James I. Robertson Jr.
#24848
Overall Influence
1930 - 2019 (89 years)
James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech. Early life and academic career Robertson was born on July 18, 1930, and raised in Danville, Virginia. He earned his bachelor's degree at Randolph-Macon College in 1955, and his master's degree and PhD. at Emory University in 1956 and 1959, respectively. He earned his Litt.D. at Randolph-Macon in 1980.
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz
#24849
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a fellow and President of the World Academy of Art and Science from 2008-2012.
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Ruth J. Williams
#24850
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Ruth Jeannette Williams is an Australian-born American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego where she holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Her research concerns probability theory and stochastic processes.
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Judith Reisman
#24851
Overall Influence
1935 - 2021 (86 years)
Judith Ann Reisman was an American conservative author, best known for her criticism and condemnation of the work and legacy of Alfred Kinsey. She has been referred to as the "founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement". During her career, Reisman occasionally served as a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. She held a Ph.D. in communications from Case Western Reserve University, and was a visiting professor of law at Liberty University.
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Rachel Yehuda
#24852
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Rachel Yehuda is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, the vice chair for veterans affairs in the psychiatry department, and the director of the traumatic stress studies division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She also leads the PTSD clinical research program at the neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center. In 2020 she became director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at Mount Sinai.
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Peter Kohlgraf
#24853
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Peter Kohlgraf is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Mainz since 2017. Life Kohlgraf was born the son of a mason and a nurse. After his Abitur in 1986 at the Dreikönigsgymnasium in Cologne, he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Bonn and for one semester in Salzburg. Kohlgraf graduated from university in 1991 and went to the seminary of the Archdiocese of Cologne. On June 19, 1993 he was ordained in Cologne Cathedral by the Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Kardinal Meisner – together with the later Archbishop of Hamburg Stefan Heße and the later suffragan bishop of Cologne, Dominikus Schwaderlapp.
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Jorge Sampaoli
#24854
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya is an Argentine football coach who was most recently the head coach of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo. Sampaoli started out as a youth player and eventually switched to management after a severe injury.
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Aurelio Galfetti
#24855
Overall Influence
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
Aurelio Galfetti was a Swiss architect. Biography Galfetti was born in Biasca, Ticino, on 2 April 1936. Together with Mario Botta, Luigi Snozzi, and Livio Vacchini, he is one of the foremost 20th-century architects from the Canton of Ticino.
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Liv Ullmann
#24856
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress. Recognised as one of the greatest actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent partner of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She acted in many of his films, including Persona , Cries and Whispers , Scenes from a Marriage , The Passion of Anna , and Autumn Sonata .
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Adam Curtis
#24857
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Adam Curtis is an English documentary filmmaker. Curtis began his career as a conventional documentary producer for the BBC throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The release of Pandora's Box marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history.
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Ric Ocasek
#24858
Overall Influence
1944 - 2019 (75 years)
Richard Theodore Otcasek , known as Ric Ocasek , was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor. He was the primary vocalist, rhythm guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the American new wave band The Cars. In addition to his work with The Cars, Ocasek recorded seven solo albums, and his song "Emotion in Motion" was a top 20 hit in the United States in 1986.
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Benjamin Wah
#24859
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Professor Benjamin Wan-Sang Wah is the Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as the former provost of this university. He was elected President of IEEE Computer Society in 2001.
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Roger Backhouse
#24860
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Roger Edward Backhouse, is a British economist, economic historian and academic. Since 1996, he has been Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham. Backhouse is an Associate Editor of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and is also Book Review Editor of the Economic Journal, an editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
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Bjarne Riis
#24861
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Bjarne Lykkegård Riis , nicknamed The Eagle from Herning , is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer who placed first in the 1996 Tour de France. For many years he was the owner and later manager of the Oleg Tinkov associated Russian UCI WorldTeam . Other career highlights include placing first in the Amstel Gold Race in 1997, multiple Danish National Championships, and stage wins in the Giro d'Italia. On 25 May 2007, he admitted that he placed first in the Tour de France using banned substances, and he was no longer considered the winner by the Tour's organizers. In July 2008, the To...
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