The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
#31501
Davey Holmes
#31513
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Davey Holmes is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is the creator and executive producer of the television show Get Shorty on Epix. Career Holmes began his writing career in New York City with a production of his original play More Lies About Jerzy at the Vineyard Theatre starring Jared Harris, and later productions of the play in London at the New End Theatre and in Los Angeles at the Hayworth Theatre.
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Richard Hell
#31514
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Richard Lester Meyers , better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer. Hell was in several important early punk rock bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Their 1977 album Blank Generation influenced many other punk bands. Its title track was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time Top 10 punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported ...
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Mary Celine Fasenmyer
#31515
Overall Influence
1906 - 1996 (90 years)
Mary Celine Fasenmyer, RSM was an American mathematician and Catholic religious sister. She is most noted for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra. Biography Fasenmyer grew up in Pennsylvania's oil country, and displayed mathematical talent in high school. For ten years after her graduation she taught and studied at Mercyhurst College in Erie, where she joined the Sisters of Mercy. She pursued her mathematical studies in Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan, obtaining her doctorate in 1946 under the direction of Earl Rainville, with a dissertation entitled Some General...
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Jacques Laskar
#31516
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Jacques Laskar is a French astronomer. He is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research , and a member of Astronomy and dynamical systems of the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Computation of Ephemerides of the Paris Observatory. He received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994 and the Milutin Milankovic Medal in 2019. Since 2003, he is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Frank Moya Pons
#31517
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Dr. Rafael Francisco “Frank” Moya Pons is one of the leading contemporary historians of the Dominican Republic. He has published many important books in the history and cultural heritage of the country. One of his best-known works is Manual de historia dominicana , now in its tenth edition which is a staple work of Dominican historiography. In 1985 he authored the book Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish, in 1998 The Dominican Republic: A National History and in 2007 History of the Caribbean: plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world. He has also conducted much work into slave...
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Ruth Okediji
#31518
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Ruth Lade Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center. She also founded and serves as faculty director of Harvard Law School's Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies. Professor Okediji is an internationally renowned expert and scholar on intellectual property, trade and development. In 2017 she was appointed as part of the Creative Commons Board.
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Jacob K. Olupona
#31519
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Jacob Kehinde Olupona is a Nigerian-born American professor, writer, and scholar of religious studies. He is a professor of African Religious Traditions at the Harvard Divinity School with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. Olupona was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2023.
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
#31520
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Andrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill, is a British ancient historian, classical archaeologist, and academic. He is Professor of Roman Studies and Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He was Director of the British School at Rome between 1995 and 2009, and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from August 2009 to July 2013.
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Ron Darling
#31521
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Ronald Maurice Darling Jr. is an American former professional baseball player and current television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from to , most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that won the 1986 World Series. Since 2006, he has been the co-lead color commentator for Mets broadcasts on SNY alongside former teammate Keith Hernandez.
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Gus Poyet
#31522
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez known by his nickname Gus, is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former footballer. He is currently the head coach of the Greece national team. Poyet played as a midfielder and began his career with short spells at Grenoble and River Plate. He then spent seven years at Real Zaragoza, with whom he won the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In 1997, Poyet moved to Chelsea on a free transfer and helped the club win the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In 2001, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur, where he saw out the remainder of his career. He ...
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Robert L. Linn
#31523
Overall Influence
1938 - 2015 (77 years)
Robert Lee Linn was an American educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the understanding of educational assessments. He studied technical and policy issues relating to the application of test data, and the effects of high-stakes testing on teaching and learning. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, past president of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Measurement in Education , and former editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement. He completed his PhD and MA in educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Denis Leary
#31524
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Denis Colin Leary is an American actor and comedian. Born in Massachusetts, Leary first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV and through the stand-up specials No Cure for Cancer and Lock 'n Load . Leary began taking roles in film and television starting in the 1990s, including substantial roles in the films Judgment Night , Gunmen , Operation Dumbo Drop and Wag the Dog .
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Allen Mandelbaum
#31525
Overall Influence
1926 - 2011 (85 years)
Allen Mandelbaum was an American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awards in Italy and the United States.
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Thom Loverro
#31526
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Thomas F. Loverro , is an American sportswriter. He was voted the Maryland sportswriter of the year in 2009 by the NSSA. He previously co-hosted a sports talk radio show on ESPN 980 radio in Washington called The Sports Fix. He is currently working at 106.7 The Fan.
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Wolfgang Krieger
#31527
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Wolfgang Krieger is a German mathematician, specializing in analysis. Krieger studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1959, where he obtained his doctorate in 1968 under Elmar Thoma with the thesis Über Maßklassen. Krieger studied at Harvard University from 1962 to 1965, earning a master's degree in 1964. From 1966 to 1968 he was a research assistant in Munich; and from 1968 assistant professor, from 1970 associate professor and from 1972 full professor at Ohio State University. For the academic year 1973–1974 he was a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen.
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Wolfgang P. Schleich
#31528
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Wolfgang P. Schleich is professor of theoretical physics and director of the quantum physics department at the University of Ulm. Education, work and career From 1980 to 1984, Wolfgang Schleich performed work on his diploma thesis and his Ph.D. with Marlan O. Scully at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, with an intermediate research visit at the Institute of Modern Optics, Albuquerque, from 1982 to 1983. After completion of his Ph.D., he performed post-doctorate research with John Archibald Wheeler at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Robert J. Behnke
#31529
Overall Influence
1929 - 2013 (84 years)
Dr. Robert J. Behnke was an American fisheries biologist and conservationist who was recognized as a world authority on the classification of salmonid fishes. He was popularly known as "Dr. Trout" or "The Trout Doctor". His seminal work, Trout and Salmon of North America, was published in 2002. He wrote a regular column for Trout Magazine, the quarterly publication of Trout Unlimited. He was a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and a professor at Colorado State University in the 1970s. He became a Professor...
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Rudolf Schnackenburg
#31530
Overall Influence
1914 - 2002 (88 years)
Rudolf Schnackenburg was a German Catholic priest and New Testament scholar. Joseph Ratzinger referred to him as "probably the most significant German-speaking Catholic exegete of the second half of the twentieth century."
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Irrfan Khan
#31531
Overall Influence
1967 - 2020 (53 years)
Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors in world cinema, Khan's career spanned over 30 years and earned him numerous accolades, including a National Film Award, an Asian Film Award, and six Filmfare Awards. In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. In 2021, he was posthumously awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Razan Ghazzawi
#31532
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Razan Ghazzawi is a Syrian-American blogger, campaigner and activist and currently a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex. She has been highly involved in the events during the Syrian Civil War, and has been particularly outspoken on activists' arrests and the violations of human rights committed by the Bashar al-Assad government. She was called "iconic blogger and leading activist" by The Telegraph. Jillian York wrote that Ghazzawi was "one of [her] heroes."
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Barry Fell
#31533
Overall Influence
1917 - 1994 (77 years)
Howard Barraclough Fell , better known as Barry Fell, was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. While his primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, Fell is best known for his pseudoarchaeological work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations. His writings on epigraphy and archaeology are generally rejected by those mainstream scholars who have considered them.
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Bertrand Tavernier
#31534
Overall Influence
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Bertrand Tavernier was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer. Life and career Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. He said his father's publishing of a wartime resistance journal and aid to anti-Nazi intellectuals shaped his moral outlook as an artist. According to Tavernier, his father believed that words were "as important and as lethal as bullets". Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker from the age of 13 or 14 years. He said that his cinematic influences included filmmakers John Ford, William Wellman, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo and Jacques Becker.
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Georg Luck
#31535
Overall Influence
1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Georg Hans Bhawani Luck was a Swiss classicist known for his studies of magical beliefs and practices in the Classical world. For over twenty years he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Andrei Monin
#31536
Overall Influence
1921 - 2007 (86 years)
Andrei Sergeyevich Monin was a Soviet and Russian geophysicist, mathematician, and oceanographer. Monin was known for his contributions to statistical theory of turbulence and atmospheric physics. He served as the Director of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was instrumental in developing the Shirshov Institute into one of the largest scientific centers for ocean and earth science studies.
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Sergey Bubka
#31537
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Sergey Nazarovych Bubka is a Ukrainian former pole vaulter. He represented the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. Bubka was twice named Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News, and in 2012 was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame.
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Owen Hart
#31538
Overall Influence
1965 - 1999 (34 years)
Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling , World Championship Wrestling , and the World Wrestling Federation . He received most of his success in the WWF, where he wrestled under both his own name and the ring name The Blue Blazer.
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Frank Stagg
#31539
Overall Influence
1911 - 2001 (90 years)
Frank Stagg was a Southern Baptist theologian, seminary professor, author, and pastor over a 50-year ministry career. He taught New Testament interpretation and Greek at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary from 1945 until 1964 and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky from 1964 until 1978. His publications, recognitions and honors earned him distinction as one of the eminent theologians of the past century. Other eminent theologians have honored him as a "Teaching Prophet."
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Camila Giorgi
#31540
Overall Influence
1991 - Present (35 years)
Camila Giorgi is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, achieved on 22 October 2018. She is the current Italian No. 3. After winning her first ITF title in 2009, Giorgi made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. Giorgi reached the fourth round of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships in just her second appearance at the tournament. After her successful run at the championships, she made her top-100 debut in the WTA rankings. The following year, she followed it up with a third-round run at the Wimbledon Championships, and made her second Grand Slam fourth round at the US Open.
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Ginuwine
#31541
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin , better known by his stage name Ginuwine , is an American R&B singer and songwriter. He began his career as a member of Swing Mob in the early 1990s. He signed to Epic Records as a solo artist in the mid-1990s, and quickly rose to mainstream success following the release of his 1996 debut commercial single, "Pony". The song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and preceded his debut studio album, Ginuwine...The Bachelor which saw moderate but steady success upon release. His second album, 100% Ginuwine peaked within the top five on the Billboard 200 and its fo...
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Krste Asanović
#31542
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Krste Asanović from the University of California, Berkeley has written and co-authored many academic papers concerning computer architecture. , he is chairman of the Board of the RISC-V Foundation. Asanović was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to computer architecture. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to computer architecture, including the open RISC-V instruction set and Agile hardware".
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Flora D. Darpino
#31543
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Flora Diana Darpino is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and military lawyer who was the 39th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. She was the first woman to hold that position, which she held from September 4, 2013 to July 14, 2017.
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Milton Feng
#31544
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Milton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak in 2004. The paper discussing their work was voted in 2006 as one of the five most important papers published by the American Institute of Physics since its founding 75 years ago. In addition to the invention of transistor laser, he is also well known for inventions of other "major breakthrough" devices, including the world's fastest transistor and light-emitting transistor . As of May, 2009 he is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and holds the Nick Holonyak Jr. Endowed Chair Professorship...
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Geoff Palmer
#31545
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer OBE is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a human rights activist. He discovered the barley abrasion process while he was a researcher at Heriot-Watt University under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Anna M. Macleod. In 1998, Palmer became the fourth person, and the first European, to be honoured with the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction, considered the "Nobel prize of brewing".
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Gerry Mulligan
#31546
Overall Influence
1927 - 1996 (69 years)
Gerald Joseph Mulligan , also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositi...
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Lisa Murkowski
#31547
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator representing Alaska, having held that seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman, after Susan Collins of Maine. She became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
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Jennifer Crocker
#31548
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Dr. Jennifer Crocker is a professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Social Psychology at Ohio State University. She is also a former president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her publications are on the subject of self-esteem and the contingencies and interpersonal goals that individuals have that are a clear reflection of their level of self-esteem.
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Carl Raschke
#31549
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Carl A. Raschke is an American philosopher and theologian. Raschke is a Past Chair and Professor of Religious Studies Department at the University of Denver, specializing in continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion and the theory of religion. He was given the university lecturer award for 2020-2021. He is also listed with the affiliated faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
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Daniel T. Willingham
#31550
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Daniel T. Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia, where he is a professor in the Department of Psychology. Willingham's research focuses on the application of findings from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to K–12 education.
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Derick Wood
#31551
Overall Influence
1940 - 2010 (70 years)
Derick Wood was an English computer scientist who worked for many years as a professor of computer science in Canada and Hong Kong. He was known for his research in automata theory and formal languages, much of which he published in collaboration with Hermann Maurer and Arto Salomaa, and also for his work in computational geometry.
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Søren Wichmann
#31552
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Søren Wichmann is a Danish linguist specializing in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, Mesoamerican languages, and epigraphy. Since June 2016, he has been employed as a University Lecturer at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, after having worked at different institutions in Denmark, Mexico, Germany and Russia, including, during 2003-2015, the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Nathan Filer
#31553
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Nathan Filer is a British writer best known for his debut novel, The Shock of the Fall. This won several major literary awards, including the Costa Book of the Year and the Betty Trask Prize. It was a Sunday Times Bestseller, and has been translated into thirty languages.
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Philippe Corcuff
#31554
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Philippe Corcuff is a French academic, full professor in political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon since October 1992 and member of the CERLIS laboratory since October 2003. Politically committed to the left, with a trajectory that took him from social democracy to pragmatic anarchism, via the ecologists and the New Anti-Capitalist Party, he defines himself as an “anti-globalization and libertarian activist”. He was a columnist for the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo from 2001 to 2004.
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Carl Cohen
#31555
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Carl Cohen was an American philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Cohen was co-author of The Animal Rights Debate , a point-counterpoint volume with Tom Regan; he is also the author of Democracy ; the author of Four Systems ; the editor of Communism, Fascism, and Democracy ; the co-author of Affirmative Action and Racial Preference , co-author of Introduction to Logic, 13th edition , and author of A Conflict of Principles: The Battle over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan .
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Christopher Stone
#31556
Overall Influence
Christopher Stone, an American criminal justice expert and Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the Open Society Foundations from 2012–2017, the global philanthropies of George Soros. Prior to assuming that position in July 2012, he served as the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2005–2012. While at Harvard University, Stone also served as the faculty chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and as the faculty director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
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Marc-André Fleury
#31557
Overall Influence
1984 - Present (42 years)
Marc-André Fleury is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League . Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League first overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Fleury played major junior for four seasons with the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, earning both the Mike Bossy Trophy as the league's top prospect and the Telus Cup as the top defensive player in 2003. He joined the Penguins in 2003–04 and during his 13 seasons with the team won Stanley Cup championships in 2009, 2016, and 2017. He received the William M.
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Liezel Huber
#31558
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Liezel Huber is a South African-American retired tennis player who represented the United States internationally since August 2007. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On 12 November 2007, she became the co-world No. 1 in doubles with Cara Black. On 19 April 2010, Huber became the sole No. 1 for the first time in her career.
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Toshiro Mifune
#31559
Overall Influence
1920 - 1997 (77 years)
Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor and producer. Considered one of the greatest actors of all time, Mifune is best known for starring in Akira Kurosawa's critically-acclaimed jidaigeki films such as Rashomon , Seven Samurai , Throne of Blood , The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo . He also portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy and one earlier Inagaki film, Lord Toranaga in the NBC television miniseries Shōgun, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in three different films.
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Hans Peter Richter
#31560
Overall Influence
1925 - 1993 (68 years)
Hans Peter Richter was a German author. He was born in Cologne, Germany, and went to Volksschule and Aufbauschule. He took part in World War II as a soldier with the highest military rank of lieutenant from 1942 to 1945. He lost his left arm because of an injury in the war.Richter studied psychology and sociology in Cologne, Bonn and Mainz from 1948 to 1952. He achieved his promotion as Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Tübingen in 1952. He focused on independent research activities for business enterprises and broadcasting corporations from 1953 to 1973.
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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
#31561
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and in Japanese, in addition to numerous articles. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Korean, Polish and Russian. Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études Avancées-Paris. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, its mi...
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Barry Brook
#31562
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Barry William Brook is an Australian scientist. He is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology. He was formerly an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change from 2007 to 2014. He was also Director of Climate Science at the Environment Institute.
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