The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
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List of the most influential people
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John Sykes
#33663
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
John James Sykes is an English guitarist, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Tygers of Pan Tang. He has also fronted the hard rock group Blue Murder and released several solo albums.
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Lucian Croitoru
#33664
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Lucian Croitoru is a Romanian economist. On October 15, 2009, following the defeat of Emil Boc's government through a motion of no confidence, President Traian Băsescu nominated Croitoru to be Prime Minister of Romania. The nomination was opposed by a majority of Parliament, which adopted a declaration asking for his withdrawal, and vowing support for the candidature of Klaus Iohannis. Croitoru assembled a proposed cabinet, but this was voted down by Parliament on November 4.
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Peter Martin
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Overall Influence
Peter Martin is an Australian economist, journalist and commentator. Career Raised in Adelaide, Martin studied Economics at Flinders University, where he earned a BEc. Martin spent a period of time employed by the Commonwealth Treasury Department. In 2019 he was appointed a visiting fellow at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy.
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Paul Davis
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Overall Influence
Paul Davis is a British-American software developer best known for his work on audio software for the Linux operating system, and for his role as one of the first two programmers at Amazon.com. Davis grew up in the English Midlands and in London. After studying molecular biology and biophysics, he did post-graduate studies in computational biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and EMBL in Heidelberg.
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Fernando Pérez
#33667
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Fernando Pérez is a Colombian-American physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award . He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.
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Mary Carruthers
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Mary J. Carruthers is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at New York University. She also teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is formerly a professor at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois.
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Charles Stewart III
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Charles Stewart III is an American political scientist, currently the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Kostiantyn Tyshchenko
#33670
Overall Influence
1941 - 2023 (82 years)
Kostiantyn Mykolayovych Tyshchenko was a Ukrainian linguist, teacher, translator, Doctor of Philology , and professor . Tyshchenko is the author of more than 240 works on metatheory of linguistics, sign theory of language, linguistic laws, optimization of morphological descriptions of languages, linguopedagogy, problems of language development, Romance and Oriental linguistics, as well as series of articles on studies of German, Slavic, Celtic, Basque, Finnish and Altaic languages. Teacher and polyglot speaking more than two dozen different languages. He lectures on general linguistics and conducts practical courses in French, Italian, Persian, Finnish, Basque, Welsh, and other languages.
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Paula Hawthorn
#33671
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Paula Birdwell Hawthorn is an American computer scientist. She is recognised as an expert and pioneer in database systems. She has also founded organisations for women in computer science and created affirmative action programs to support students in the field.
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David H. Sanford
#33672
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
David H. Sanford was a professor of philosophy at Duke University. He specializes in perception and metaphysics. Sanford studied at Cass Technical High School, Oberlin College and at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966, taught at Dartmouth College from 1963 to 1970, and joined the Duke Faculty in 1970. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Oregon.
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Alan Bernstein
#33673
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Alan Bernstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and President Emeritus of CIFAR, where he served as President and CEO from 2012 to 2022. A Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, he is also a Fellow and Member of the Standing Committee for Science Planning at the International Science Council . Bernstein is recognized as a leader in health research, science policy, mentorship and organizational leadership.
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Peja Stojaković
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Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Predrag Stojaković , known by his nickname Peja , is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who was most recently the assistant general manager and director of player personnel and development of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association . He was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Manfred G. Schmidt
#33675
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Manfred G. Schmidt is professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. Education After studying political science and English studies, Manfred G. Schmidt received his PhD in political science from the University of Tübingen, directed by Gerhard Lehmbruch. He received his postdoctoral degree from the University of Konstanz in 1981.
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Brad Friedel
#33676
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Bradley Howard Friedel is an American professional soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Friedel played 84 games for the United States national team between 1992 and 2005, and represented his country at three FIFA World Cup tournaments. He is the current holder of the Premier League record for most consecutive appearances with 310, a feat he achieved during spells at Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur. Until he was left out of the Tottenham team on October 7, 2012, the last Premier League games Friedel missed were Blackburn's final two fixtures of the 200...
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Takeshi Obata
#33677
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Takeshi Obata is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He first gained international attention for Hikaru no Go with Yumi Hotta, but is better known for Death Note and Bakuman with Tsugumi Ohba. Obata has mentored several well-known manga artists, including Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin fame, Black Cat creator Kentaro Yabuki, and Eyeshield 21 artist Yusuke Murata.
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Edwin E. Wagner
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Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
Edwin E. Wagner is the principal proponent and author of "The Hand Test". Wagner has written over 200 publications in psychology including manuals, reviews, monographs, books and journal articles. Born in 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a B.A. in psychology , M.A. in psychology and Ph.D. in psychology all from Temple University. Wagner's academic appointments include instructor at Pennsylvania State University and Temple University, Professor Emeritus at University of Akron, and Dean at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Aguri Suzuki
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, his best result being third place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. He then became involved in team ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship and the IRL in partnership with Mexican racer Adrian Fernandez. He was the owner of the Super Aguri F1 team, which participated in Formula One from to . He then went on to form Team Aguri, which raced in Formula E from 2014 to 2016.
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Robert L. Byer
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Robert Louis Byer is a physicist. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 1994 and of the American Physical Society in 2012. He currently is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has conducted research and taught classes in lasers and nonlinear optics at Stanford University since 1969. He has made numerous contributions to laser science and technology including the demonstration of the first tunable visible parametric oscillator, the development of the Q-switched unstable resonator Nd:YAG laser, remote sensing using tunable infrared sources and precision spectroscopy using Coherent Anti Stokes Raman Scattering .
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R. Palmer Beasley
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Overall Influence
1936 - 2012 (76 years)
Robert Palmer Beasley was an American physician, public health educator and epidemiologist whose work on hepatitis B involved extensive investigations in Taiwan. That work established that hepatitis B virus is a primary cause of liver cancer and that hepatitis B virus is transmitted from mother to infant during childbirth. Beasley and his colleagues also proved that HBV mother-to-infant transmission is preventable by at-birth vaccination. Due to this work, the World Health Assembly designated HBV as the seventh global vaccine in 1992. He later became the author of HBV immunization policies f...
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Hongjie Dai
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Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Hongjie Dai is a Chinese–American nanotechnologist and applied physicist. He is the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. A leading figure in the study of carbon nanotubes, Dai is ranked as one of the top chemists in the world by Science Watch. He is currently the scientific advisor and co-founder to Nirmidas Biotech, Inc., which aims to commercialize his breakthrough research on NIR-II dyes and plasmonic gold to applications in healthcare and in vitro diagnostics.
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Gina Berriault
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Overall Influence
1926 - 1999 (73 years)
Gina Berriault , was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Berriault was born in Long Beach, California, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration from him, using his stand-up typewriter to write her first stories while still in grammar school.
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Armen Der Kiureghian
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Armen Der Kiureghian , is an Iranian-born Armenian-American academic, one of the founders of the American University of Armenia, where he served as the president from 2014 to 2019. He is the professor of civil engineering at the University of California.
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Eric Mangini
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Eric Anthony Mangini is a former American football coach and current television sports analyst. Mangini is a former head coach, having served as the coach of the New York Jets from 2006 until 2008 and the Cleveland Browns in 2009 and 2010. After departing Cleveland, Mangini became an NFL analyst for ESPN. He returned to coaching with the San Francisco 49ers, starting in 2013 as the team's tight ends coach before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2015, only to be fired in 2016 by new head coach Chip Kelly. Mangini then became an analyst for Fox Sports 1.
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Marika Vicziany
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Overall Influence
Marika Vicziany is a professor of Asian Political Economy at Political and Social Inquiry , Monash University. She is a Former Director of the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A PhD from SOAS, University of London, she is an expert in South Asian studies. Her current research interests include regional and human security, rise of India and China and the cultural and religious issues particularly related to Hinduism and Islam.
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John Turner
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
James John Turner Phillips was an English lyricist who used the pen name John Turner. Biography He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company, whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. He would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons".
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Christos Pantelis
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Overall Influence
Professor Christos Pantelis is an Australian professor of medicine who is the Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. Profile Prof. Christos Pantelis is an Australian of Greek background. He completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne and trained at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. Two years later, in 1979, he commenced his training in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England. During his training, he spent 18 months as a Research Registrar at University College Hospital to undertake an epidemiological study of schizophrenia in Inner London. He was appointed as a lecturer at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School in 1988.
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Byron Miranda
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Overall Influence
Byron Miranda is an American television journalist. The five-time Regional Emmy Award-winner, currently morning meteorologist on WPIX in New York City. Personal background A California native, Miranda served in the United States Air Force and worked as an air traffic controller in Korea. After the Air Force, Miranda attended California State University, East Bay, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. To support his family, Miranda joined the Oakland Police Department. Miranda is the father of one daughter, Briana, a merchandise display expert, who lives in San Franci...
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Jeanine Pirro
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Jeanine Ferris Pirro is an American television host, author, and a former New York State judge, prosecutor, and politician. Pirro was the host of Fox News Channel's Justice with Judge Jeanine until 2022 when she became a co-host of The Five. She was a frequent contributor to NBC News, including regular appearances on The Today Show. She was also the first female judge elected in Westchester County, New York.
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Delia Jarrett-Macauley
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Delia Jarrett-Macauley , also known as Dee Jarrett-Macauley, is a London-based British writer, academic and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage. Her debut novel, Moses, Citizen & Me, won the 2006 Orwell Prize for political writing, the first novel to have been awarded the prize. She has devised and presented features on BBC Radio, as well as being a participant in a range of programmes. As a multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature and cultural politics, she has taught at Leeds University, Birkbeck, University of London, and other educational establishments, most recently as a fellow in English at the University of Warwick.
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John Emerton
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
John Adney Emerton, was a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1995. Early life and education Emerton was born on 5 June 1928. He studied theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. From 1950 to 1952, he trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1954. The following year, in 1955, the University of Cambridge also granted him MA status.
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Terry Belanger
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Terry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School , an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia , where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.
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Steven J. Miller
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Steven Joel Miller is a mathematician who specializes in analytic number theory and has also worked in applied fields such as sabermetrics and linear programming. He is a co-author, with Ramin Takloo-Bighash, of An Invitation to Modern Number Theory , with Midge Cozzens of The Mathematics of Encryption: An Elementary Introduction , and with Stephan Ramon Garcia of ``100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection . He also edited Theory and Applications of Benford's Law and wrote The Mathematics of Optimization: How to do things faster and ``The Probability Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Chance .
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Robert Bates
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Robert Hinrichs Bates is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government in the Departments of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. From 2000–2012, he served as Professeur associé, School of Economics, University of Toulouse.
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Hiro Sachiya
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Overall Influence
1936 - 2022 (86 years)
Hiro Sachiya was a Japanese religious scholar and a popular contemporary writer of Buddhism. His birth name is Yoshihiko Masuhara. He was born in Osaka Prefecture and studied Indian philosophy at University of Tokyo, graduating in 1960. Under the pen name Hiro Sachiya , he has written more than 400 books and articles. His interest in religion is not limited to Buddhism. He is mostly known for his comparative studies in all religions including Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism.
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Yves Leterme
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is a Belgian politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party . He was the prime minister of Belgium, from November 2009 to December 2011. Leterme was the prime minister from March 2008 to December 2008. He has been the minister of Foreign Affairs, deputy prime minister and minister of Budget, Institutional Reforms, Transport and the North Sea in the Belgian federal government. He is a former minister-president of Flanders and Flemish minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Despite his French name, Leterme is Flemish. He is fluent in Dutch, French...
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Charles E. Silberman
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2011 (86 years)
Charles Eliot Silberman was an American journalist and author. Silberman was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After service in the Pacific during World War II, he gained a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1946 and also undertook graduate studies at Columbia. Subsequently, he taught at Columbia and City College of New York before joining Fortune magazine in 1953 where he remained until the early 1970s.
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Roy Barnes
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Roy Eugene Barnes is an American attorney and politician who served as the 80th governor of Georgia from 1999 to 2003. , he is the most recent Democrat to serve as governor of Georgia. A Democratic member of the Georgia Senate from 1974 to 1990, Barnes ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1990, losing to Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller in the Democratic primary. Barnes then served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1992 to 1998. He ran for governor again in 1998, handily winning the primary and general elections.
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Elliott Oring
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Elliott Oring is an American author of academic books primarily relating to the topics of folklore, humor, and cultural symbolism. Oring is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles, and serves on the Editorial Board of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. In 2010-2011 he was President of the International Society for Humor Studies.
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Naomi Leonard
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Overall Influence
Naomi Ehrich Leonard is the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is the director of the Princeton Council on Science and Technology and an associated faculty member in the Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and the Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology. She is the founding editor of the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems.
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Deian Hopkin
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin is an academic and historian, former vice chancellor and former President of the National Library of Wales. From 2013 to 2020, he served as Chair of Wales Remembers 1914-1918 and was expert adviser to the First Minister of Wales for the Centenary of the First World War. Hopkin was from 2001 until 2009 vice-chancellor and chief executive of London South Bank University, England. From 2011 to 2015, he was president of the National Library of Wales. He is a historian, originally from Wales and a fluent Welsh speaker.
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Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond is a physicist and essayist. Biography After high school in Cannes, Lévy-Leblond studied mathematics at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly , then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1958. A member of the Union of Communist Students from 1956, then of the Communist Party, he left in 1968 to become one of the leaders of the movement of radical political criticism of science . After a doctorate , then a doctorate in physical sciences at the University of Orsay in 1965, he was successively research fellow at the CNRS, lecturer at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, profe...
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Tony Bouza
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Overall Influence
1928 - Present (98 years)
Anthony Vila Bouza was an American police officer who served in the New York City Police Department and as police chief of the Minneapolis Police Department from 1980 to 1989. Biography Born on October 4, 1928, in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, Bouza came to the United States with his family at age nine. The family settled in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. He graduated from Manual Training High School in Brooklyn in 1947. He served in the U.S. Army, and then worked briefly in sales in the garment industry in Manhattan.
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The Fabulous Moolah
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2007 (84 years)
Mary Lillian Ellison was an American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers. She won the NWA World Women's Championship in 1956 and was the most prominent holder of the title for 28 years. She is overall an eight-time women's world champion and to this day holds the record as the longest reigning world champion in combination of all her reigns.
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Peter A. Freeman
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Peter A. Freeman is the founding dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, a position he held from 1990 to 2002. Freeman was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2002 to 2007.
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Scott W. Williams
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Scott Williams is a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Education Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Williams attended Morgan State University and earned his bachelor degree of Science in mathematics.
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Hans-Georg Rammensee
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Hans-Georg Rammensee is a German immunologist and cancer researcher. He has been Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Immunology at the University of Tübingen since 1996. Rammensee has contributed essentially to the research fields of MHC biology and tumor immunology and to the development of cancer immunotherapies.
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Adolf Seilacher
#33709
Overall Influence
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher was a German palaeontologist who worked in evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology for over 60 years. He is best known for his contributions to the study of trace fossils; constructional morphology and structuralism; biostratinomy, Lagerstätten and the Ediacaran biota.
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Stanisław Radziszowski
#33710
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Stanisław P. Radziszowski is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist, best known for his work in Ramsey theory. Radziszowski was born in Gdańsk, Poland, and received his PhD from the Institute of Informatics of the University of Warsaw in 1980. His thesis topic was "Logic and Complexity of Synchronous Parallel Computations". From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a visiting professor in various universities in Mexico City. In 1984, he moved to the United States, where he took up a position in the Department of Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Kristi Anseth
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Kristi S. Anseth is the Tisone Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, an Associate Professor of Surgery, and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her main research interests are the design of synthetic biomaterials using hydrogels, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
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Regine Kahmann
#33712
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Regine Kahmann is a German microbiologist and was Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg from 2000 to 2019. She was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020.
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