The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Megan Davis
#33313
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Megan Jane Davis is an Aboriginal Australian activist and international human rights lawyer. She was the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body, and was Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous, and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales. She is especially known for her work on the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
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Andrew Steane
#33314
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Andrew Martin Steane is Professor of physics at the University of Oxford. He is also a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He was a student at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he obtained his MA and DPhil.
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Reid Bryson
#33315
Overall Influence
1920 - 2008 (88 years)
Reid Bryson was an American atmospheric scientist, geologist and meteorologist. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed a B.A. in geology at Denison University in 1941 and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1948. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1948 he became the founder and first chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Meteorology and Center for Climatic Research. He was the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies in 1970.
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John Milius
#33316
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now , and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion , Conan the Barbarian , and Red Dawn . He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television series Rome .
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Knut Fægri
#33317
Overall Influence
1909 - 2001 (92 years)
Knut Fægri was a Norwegian botanist and palaeoecologist. Fægri was born in Bergen. He was the son of Major Ole A. Fægri and Gudrun Stoltz and the nephew of the botanist, natural scientist, and politician Jørgen Brunchorst .
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Barbaros Şansal
#33318
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Barbaros Şansal is a Turkish fashion designer and activist. Early life and career Şansal was born in 1957 in Turkey’s capital Ankara as the child of Sungur Tekin Şansal and Güner Eczacıbaşı. He studied Business Management at Marmara University and mastered in design and chromatics at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, before becoming an apprentice to prominent fashion designer Yıldırım Mayruk. Besides being a fashion designer, Şansal is also known as an LGBT rights advocate and an anti-war activist.
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Gary Sullivan
#33319
Overall Influence
Gary Sullivan is the host of the American nationally syndicated radio program At Home with Gary Sullivan. The show is syndicated by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, Inc. and is heard on many iHeart radio stations. It airs on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Michael Goldacre
#33320
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Michael John Goldacre is an Australian-born British medical doctor and academic. He has been a fellow of Magdalen College since 1985 and was awarded a Title of Distinction as Professor of Public Health at the University of Oxford in 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.
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Hans Fredrik Dahl
#33321
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Hans Fredrik Dahl is a Norwegian historian, journalist and media scholar, best known in the English-speaking world for his biography of Vidkun Quisling, a Nazi collaborationist and Minister President for Norway during the Second World War. His research is focused on media history, the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, and the Second World War. He served as culture editor of Dagbladet 1978–1985 and has been a board member of the paper since 1996. He was a professor at the University of Oslo 1988–2009, and is now a professor emeritus.
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Charles Arntzen
#33322
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Charles Joel Arntzen is a plant molecular biologist. His major contributions are in the field of "plant molecular biology and protein engineering, as well as the utilization of plant biotechnology for enhancement of food quality and value, for expression of pharmacological products in transgenic plants, and for overcoming health and agricultural constraints in the developing world."
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Forman S. Acton
#33323
Overall Influence
1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Forman Sinnickson Acton was an American computer scientist, engineer, educator and author. He was an emeritus professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Education Acton began his education in the Salem City School system. He left at the end of 9th grade to attend boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 1939. He then attended Princeton University, obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1943, and his Master of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1944.
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Lyudmila Karachkina
#33324
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is an astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. In 1978 she began as a staff astronomer of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. Her research at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory then focused on astrometry and photometry of minor planets. The Minor Planet Center credits her with the discovery of 130 minor planets, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. In 2004, she received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
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Lucy Chao
#33325
Overall Influence
1912 - 1998 (86 years)
Lucy Chao or Zhao Luorui was a Chinese poet and translator. Biography Chao was born on May 9, 1912, in Xinshi, Deqing County, Zhejiang, China. She married Chen Mengjia, an anthropologist and expert on oracle bones, in 1932. In 1944 Chao and Chen were awarded a joint fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study at the University of Chicago in the United States. Chao earned her PhD from the institution in 1948, for a dissertation on Henry James. Afterwards, she returned to China to teach English and North American literature at Yenching University, Beijing.
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Jere Brophy
#33326
Overall Influence
1940 - 2009 (69 years)
Jere Edward Brophy was an American educational psychologist and University Distinguished Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. He received the E. L. Thorndike Award in 2007. Life and career Brophy was born in Chicago, Illinois. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Chicago, he spent additional eight year at the University of Texas before joining Michigan State University faculty in 1976 as professor and senior researcher in the Institute of Research on Teaching. He then served as co-director of the Institute of Research on Teaching from 1981 to 1994 a...
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René Schoof
#33327
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
René Schoof is a mathematician from the Netherlands who works in number theory, arithmetic geometry, and coding theory. He received his PhD in 1985 from the University of Amsterdam with Hendrik Lenstra . He is now a professor at the University Tor Vergata in Rome.
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Brian Nelson
#33328
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Brian Nelson is a professor emeritus of French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Nelson graduated with an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and did postgraduate work at Oxford University where he obtained his D.Phil. in 1979. Before going to Monash he taught one year in Paris and several years at the University of Wales Aberystwyth . In 1986, he became professor at Monash and retired in 2008. Nelson taught modern French literature and cultural history, and literary translation.
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Edith Irby Jones
#33329
Overall Influence
1927 - 2019 (92 years)
Edith Irby Jones was an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Julian Casablancas
#33330
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Julian Fernando Casablancas is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band The Strokes, with whom he has released six studio albums since their founding in 1998. Casablancas released a solo studio album, Phrazes for the Young, in 2009, and has released two albums with the experimental rock band The Voidz.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
#33331
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016. Ilves worked as a diplomat and journalist, and he was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s. He served in the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2002. Later, he was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006. He was elected as President of Estonia by an electoral college on 23 September 2006 and his term as President began on 9 October 2006. He was reelected by Parliament in 2011.
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Jerry Harrison
#33332
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jeremiah Griffin Harrison is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his professional music career as a member of the band the Modern Lovers, before becoming keyboardist and guitarist for the new wave group Talking Heads. In 2002, Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads.
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Peter Connolly
#33333
Overall Influence
1935 - 2012 (77 years)
Peter William Connolly FSA was a British scholar of the ancient world, Greek and Roman military equipment historian, reconstructional archaeologist and illustrator. He was a regular contributor to such periodicals as the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies and Roman Frontier Studies.
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James Matthews
#33334
Overall Influence
1929 - Present (97 years)
James Matthews is a South African poet, writer and publisher. During the Apartheid era his poetry was banned, and Matthews was detained by the government in 1976 and for 13 years was denied a passport.
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John A. White
#33335
Overall Influence
1939 - 2015 (76 years)
John Austin White Jr is an American academic who was the fourth chancellor of the University of Arkansas. He succeeded Daniel Ferritor in 1997 after previously serving as the dean of Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Engineering. As chancellor, White transformed the University of Arkansas; including the $1 billion "Campaign for the 21st Century" capital campaign, which created the University of Arkansas Honors College, endowed the University of Arkansas Graduate School and UA Libraries, added 132 tenured faculty, 1738 scholarships and fellowships, funded millions of dollars of brick and mortar improvements, and grew the university by almost every academic statistic.
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Kenny Jackett
#33336
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Kenneth Francis Jackett is a former professional football player and manager, who is currently Director of Football at club Gillingham. A skilful left-footed player, able to play in defence or midfield, Jackett was capped 31 times for Wales. He spent his entire playing career at Watford before his career was ended by injury at the age of 28. Having moved on to the club's coaching staff, he began his managerial career during the 1996–97 season.
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Richard E. Grant
#33337
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Richard E. Grant is a Swazi and English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I . Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? , winning various awards including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He also received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
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Yvonne Hirdman
#33338
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Yvonne Hirdman is a Swedish historian and gender researcher. She has received many awards for her work including the August Prize. Early years and education Yvonne Hirdman is the daughter of the language teacher Einar Hirdman and Charlotte Hirdman, born Schledt , and granddaughter of Gunnar and Maj Hirdman. She is the mother of Anja Hirdman and sister of Sven Hirdman. She grew up in Hökarängen, Malmberget. and Oskarshamn. She received a bachelor's degree in 1968 and PhD in 1974 at Stockholm University with the thesis of Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti 1939–1945 .
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Lotta Lotass
#33339
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Britt Inger Liselott "Lotta" Lotass Hagström is a Swedish writer. She holds a PhD of Comparative literature from the University of Gothenburg, and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Lotass made her literary debut in 2000, and two years later published her doctoral dissertation on Swedish writer Stig Dagerman. On 6 March 2009, Lotass was officially announced to succeed late Sten Rudholm at Seat No.1 at the Swedish Academy. Lotass took her seat on the 18-member assembly on 20 December 2009.
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Damian Milton
#33340
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Damian Elgin Maclean Milton is a British sociologist and social psychologist who specialises in autism research and an autism rights advocate. He is a lecturer at the University of Kent as well as a consultant for the United Kingdom's National Autistic Society and has academic qualifications in sociology, psychology, philosophy, and education.
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Fred Frith
#33341
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. He was also a member of the groups Art Bears, Massacre, and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, the Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Mike Patton, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell, Iva Bittová, Jad Fair, Kramer, the ARTE Quartett, and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including Traffic Continues and Freedom in Fragments .
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Jon Kyl
#33342
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Jon Llewellyn Kyl is an American politician and lobbyist who served as a United States Senator for Arizona from 1995 to 2013 and again for four months in 2018. A Republican, he held both of Arizona's Senate seats at different times, serving alongside John McCain during his first stint. Kyl was Senate Minority Whip from 2007 until 2013. He first joined the lobbying firm Covington & Burling after retiring in 2013, then rejoined in 2019.
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Józef Szajna
#33343
Overall Influence
1922 - 2008 (86 years)
Józef Szajna was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist. During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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Peter Goadsby
#33344
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Peter Goadsby FRS FRACP FRCP is an Australian neuroscientist who is Director of the National Institute for Health Research - Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Neurology at King's College London. His research has focused particularly on the mechanism and alleviation of migraine and cluster headaches.
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Robert G. Hoyland
#33345
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Robert G. Hoyland is a historian, specializing in the medieval history of the Middle East. He was a student of historian Patricia Crone and was a Leverhulme Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is currently Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, having previously been Professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies and a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews and UCLA.
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Nicko McBrain
#33346
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden since 1982. Having played in small pub bands since 1966 from the age of 14, McBrain paid his bills after leaving school with session work before he joined a variety of artists, such as Streetwalkers in 1975, Pat Travers, and the French political band, Trust. He joined Iron Maiden , in time to debut on their fourth album Piece of Mind , and has remained with them since, contributing to a total of fourteen studio releases, as well as being the third-longest serving member of the ...
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Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
#33347
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia is an Italian physicist of the University of Naples Federico II who works on quantum gravity. He is the first proposer of doubly special relativity, that is the idea of introducing the Planck length in physics as an observer-independent quantity, obtaining a relativistic theory . The principles of doubly special relativity probably imply the loss of the notion of classical spacetime; this led Amelino-Camelia to the study of non-commutative geometry as a feasible theory of quantum spacetime. Amelino-Camelia is the initiator of "quantum-gravity phenomenology", for bein...
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Utpal Banerjee
#33348
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Utpal Banerjee is a distinguished professor of the department of molecular, cell and developmental biology at UCLA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and obtained his Master of Science degree in physical chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. In 1984, he obtained a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology where he was also a postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Seymour Benzer from 1984-1988.
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Eli Y. Adashi
#33349
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Eli Y. Adashi is an American physician-scientist-executive who served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University. Adashi is presently a tenured Professor of Medical Science with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Association of American Physicians . Adashi is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Hastings Center Ethics Research Institute, and the Royal Society of Medicine.
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Heather Ann Thompson
#33350
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. Thompson won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2016 Bancroft Prize, and other awards for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
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Sonia Livingstone
#33351
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Sonia Livingstone is a leading British scholar on the subjects of children, media and the Internet. She is Professor of Social Psychology and former head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. While Livingstone’s research has evolved since the start of her career in the 1980s, her recent work explores media and communication in relation to society, children and technology. Livingstone has authored or edited twenty-four books and hundreds of academic articles and chapters. She is known for her continued public engagement about her...
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David M. Crowe
#33352
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
David M. Crowe, Jr. is a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University and Professor Emeritus of History and Law at Elon University. He is a specialist in international criminal law, the Holocaust, the history of the Romani people in Eastern Europe and Russia, and 20th century China. He has served as an expert witness in court cases in the United States and Canada, and testified before the U.S. Congress’ Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the New York City Council’s Committee on Immigration. His numerous books have been translated into six languages.
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Marysol Castro
#33353
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Marysol Castro is a public address announcer at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. She is also an American broadcast journalist who is employed as a morning news anchor at WPIX in New York City, a weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS in 2011, and a features correspondent for the weekend edition of Good Morning America on ABC from 2004 to 2010. In June 2015, Castro joined New Haven-based WTNH-TV to fill in for weekday morning traffic reports and anchor until mid-November 2015. In January 2019, Castro joined the booth of the Android and iOS app BallparkDJ making it possible for any youth softball or baseball team to be announced by her professional voice.
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Irv Gotti
#33354
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. , professionally known as Irv Gotti , is an American DJ, music producer, record executive, and the CEO and co-founder of Murder Inc. Records. He is best known for producing multiple number-one records for Ashanti, Ja Rule, and Jennifer Lopez, as well as his collaborations with Jay-Z, DMX, and Kanye West. Gotti is also the creator of the BET series Tales.
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Yuei-An Liou
#33355
Overall Influence
Yuei-An Liou is a Taiwanese professor at the National Central University. Education Liu received a Bachelor of Science from the National Sun Yat-Sen University in 1987, and a Masters in Atmospheric and Space Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1994. He completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan in 1996.
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Sudesh Mishra
#33356
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sudesh Mishra is a contemporary Fijian-Australian poet and academic. Career Sudesh Mishra was born in Fiji into an Indo-Fijian family in Suva and educated at Shri Vivekananda High School in Nadi. Coming to Australia to study he studied at The University of Wollongong and went on to complete a Ph.D. in English literature at Flinders University. He has published several volumes of poetry, the first of which, Rahu , received the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1988. His writing commonly treats events in his home country, such as the 1987 coup, from an ironic perspective.
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Mary Joe Fernández
#33357
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player, who reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in both singles and doubles. In singles, Fernández was the runner-up at the 1990 and 1992 Australian Open, and the 1993 French Open. She also won a bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In doubles, she won the 1991 Australian Open with Patty Fendick and the 1996 French Open with Lindsay Davenport, plus two Olympic gold medals.
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Lance Liebman
#33358
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Lance Liebman is an American law professor. He is the former Dean of Columbia Law School, and served as the Director of the American Law Institute from May 1999 to May 2014. Education Liebman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1962, graduating summa cum laude with the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, and earned an M.A. in history from the University of Cambridge in 1964. He graduated magna cum laude in 1967 from Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review.
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Rafael Márquez
#33359
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Rafael "Rafa" Márquez Álvarez is a Mexican football coach and former player who played as a defender. He is the current head coach of Spanish team Barcelona Atlètic. Nicknamed El Káiser, he is regarded as the best defender in Mexico's history and one of the best Mexican players of all time.
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Robert France
#33360
Overall Influence
1960 - 2015 (55 years)
Robert Bertrand France was a Jamaica-born American computer scientist. Robert B. France was born in Jamaica on October 8, 1960, the eldest son of Robert W. and Jeanette France. He attended high school in Guyana and studied for a BSc degree in Natural Sciences at the University of the West Indies in Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics and receiving a first class degree in 1984. He then attended Massey University in New Zealand funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship, where he achieved a PhD degree in computer science in 1990. During the same year, he married Sheriffa R.
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Richard Lee Armstrong
#33361
Overall Influence
1937 - 1991 (54 years)
Richard Lee Armstrong was an American/Canadian scientist who was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension. He published over 170 scientific papers.
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Sienna Miller
#33362
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Sienna Rose Diana Miller is a British and American actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love , and was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Rising Star Award. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid ...
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