The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Christoph Helmut Keitel
#37863
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Christoph Helmut Keitel is a German physicist, presently a director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and an honorary professor at Heidelberg University. Keitel studied physics and mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover and physics at the University of Munich, where he graduated in 1990. As a PhD student, he worked with G. Süssmann, mainly supervised by Marlan O. Scully and L. M. Narducci.
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Tyron Woodley
#37864
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Tyron Woodley is an American former mixed martial artist and professional boxer. He is a former UFC Welterweight Champion who defended his title four times. A professional since 2009, Woodley also competed at Strikeforce and was an NCAA Division I collegiate wrestler for the Missouri Tigers, becoming a two-time All-American and Big 12 Conference champion.
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Stewart Ainsworth
#37865
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Stewart Ainsworth is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes.
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Vincent Rotello
#37866
Overall Influence
Vincent Rotello is an American materials scientist and engineer currently the Charles A. Goessmann Professor of Chemistry and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the current Editor-in-Chief of American Chemical Society's Bioconjugate Chemistry. He joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 1993, and has been the recipient of the NSF CAREER and Cottrell Scholar awards, as well as the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, the Sloan Fellowships. More recently, he has received the Langmuir Lectureship , and in 2016 he received the Transfo...
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Juliana Geran Pilon
#37867
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Juliana Geran Pilon is a Romanian-born naturalized American writer. She is currently a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. She previously was professor of politics and culture and director of the Center for Culture and Security at The Institute of World Politics.
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Vikramaditya Khanna
#37868
Overall Influence
Vikramaditya Khanna is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, and the founding and current editor of the India Law Abstracts and the White Collar Crime Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network.
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J. Mordaunt Crook
#37869
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Joseph Mordaunt Crook, , generally known as J. Mordaunt Crook, is an English architectural historian and specialist on the Georgian and Victorian periods. He is an authority on the life and work of the Victorian architect William Burges, his biography published in 1981, and reissued in 2013, has been described as "one of the most substantial studies of any Victorian architect".
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Stanislas Leibler
#37870
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Stanislas Leibler is a French–American theoretical and experimental biologist and physicist. He is Systems Biology Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Gladys T. Perkin Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Living Matter at the Rockefeller University.
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Zvi Galor
#37871
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Dr. Zvi Galor , born in 1939, is an Israeli expert on cooperatives. Biography Born in 1939 in Kfar Vitkin, Zvi Galor earned his bachelor's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1966. In 1987 he obtained his master's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with honors, and in 2017, at the age of 78, received his doctoral degree from Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan. From 1980 to 2002, Galor served as the pedagogical director of the English and French internships at the International Institute for Labour, Development and Cooperative Studies in Tel Aviv , which in 1994 became part of the International Institute of the Histadrut.
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Chris Cuomo
#37872
Overall Influence
Chris Cuomo is the Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Institute for African-American Studies, and the Institute for Native American Studies Before moving to the University of Georgia, Cuomo was the Obed J. Wilson Professor of Ethics at the University of Cincinnati.
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Lev Kerbel
#37873
Overall Influence
1917 - 2003 (86 years)
Lev Yefimovich Kerbel was a Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works. Kerbel's creations included statues of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to socialist and the Third World countries across the world.
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Robin Cook
#37874
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Robert Brian "Robin" Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide.
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Elizabeth Bailey
#37875
Overall Influence
1938 - 2022 (84 years)
Elizabeth Ellery Bailey was an American economist. She was the John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bailey studied deregulation, market competition and regulatory capture through her career and contributed to the deregulation of the airline industry in the United States in the late 1970s.
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Brent Spiner
#37876
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the android Data on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation , four subsequent films , and Star Trek: Picard . In 1997, he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact, and was nominated in the same category for portraying Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day, a role he reprised in Independence Day: Resurgence. Spiner has also enjoyed a career in the theater and as a musician.
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Ruth A. David
#37877
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Ruth A. David is an American engineer. While at the CIA, David was responsible for encouraging the agency to pursue partnerships with the private sector and designed a proposal to procure technology at the stage of development from the private sector. She has been awarded the CIA Director's Award, the Defense Intelligence Agency Director's Award, the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the National Reconnaissance Officer's Award for Distinguished Service, and the National Security Agency Distinguished Service Medal.
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Paul Antony
#37878
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Paul Antony is a physician executive and former Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America . He left PhRMA to serve as CEO of Callidus Biopharma until its acquisition by Amicus Therapeutics .
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Red Schoendienst
#37879
Overall Influence
1923 - 2018 (95 years)
Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst was an American professional baseball second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball , and is largely known for his coaching, managing, and playing years with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played for 19 years with the Cardinals , New York Giants and Milwaukee Braves , and was named to 10 All Star teams. He then managed the Cardinals from 1965 through 1976 – the second-longest managerial tenure in the team's history . Under his direction, St. Louis won the 1967 and 1968 National League pennants and the 1967 World Series, and he was named National League Manager of the Year in 1967 and 1968.
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Alec Stokes
#37880
Overall Influence
1919 - 2003 (84 years)
Alexander Rawson Stokes was a British physicist at Royal Holloway College, London and later at King's College London. He was most recognised as a co-author of the second of the three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953 describing the correct molecular structure of DNA. The first was authored by Francis Crick and James Watson, and the third by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling.
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Johannes Quack
#37881
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Johannes Quack is a German ethnologist at the Goethe University Frankfurt whose primary field of study is religion. He is also the head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Diversity of Non-Religiosity” at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Mkhitar Djrbashian
#37882
Overall Influence
1918 - 1994 (76 years)
Mkhitar Djrbashian was a notable Armenian mathematician, who made significant contributions to the constructive theory of functions, harmonic analysis, theory of analytic functions and a fundamental contribution to the classical theory of univalent analytic functions. He was born in Yerevan in a family of refugees from the town Van of Western Armenia escaping from the Armenian genocide of 1915 in Turkey. Mkhitar Djrbashian created some well-known mathematical theories and did everything possible for the development of Armenian Mathematical School to the high international standards in many b...
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Miriam DeCosta-Willis
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2021 (87 years)
Miriam DeCosta-Willis was an American educator, writer, and civil rights activist. The first African-American faculty member at Memphis State University, having previously been denied admission to the school as a graduate student due to her race, she spent her career as a professor of Romance languages and African-American studies at a variety of colleges in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Washington, D.C., area. She published more than a dozen books throughout her career, largely dealing with Afro-Latino literature and Black Memphis history.
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Constance Bumgarner Gee
#37884
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Constance Bumgarner Gee is an American scholar, memoirist, animal rights activist, and advocate of the medical use of cannabis. She was the founder and director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University, and later an assistant professor at Brown University and tenured associate professor at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Higher Education: Marijuana at the Mansion, a 2012 memoir about her life as "first lady" of several American research universities, in which she writes of the no-holds barred corporate maneuverings of university leadership and hypo...
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Javier Gomá
#37885
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Javier Gomá Lanzón is a Spanish philosopher, writer and essayist, author of the Tetralogía de la ejemplaridad and a theatrical trilogy. He is also the Executive Director of the Juan March Foundation.
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Richard Arratia
#37886
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Richard Alejandro Arratia is a mathematician noted for his work in combinatorics and probability theory. Contributions Arratia developed the ideas of interlace polynomials with Béla Bollobás and Gregory Sorkin, found an equivalent formulation of the Stanley–Wilf conjecture as the convergence of a limit, and was the first to investigate the lengths of superpatterns of permutations.
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Joan van der Waals
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Overall Influence
1920 - 2022 (102 years)
Joan Henri van der Waals was a Dutch physicist. He was professor of experimental physics at Leiden University between 1967 and 1989. He specialized in molecular physics and clathrate hydrates. One of van der Waals's most significant contributions to the study of hydrates was a series of papers between 1953 and 1958, which eventually culminated in the 1959 publication of his paper on the canonical partition function for clathrates, along with J. C. Platteeuw. To create this partition function, van der Waals made a number of simplifying assumptions, most prominently that neighboring guest gas m...
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Dennis Taylor
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Dennis Taylor is a Northern Irish retired professional snooker player and current commentator. He is best known for winning the 1985 World Snooker Championship final, when he defeated the defending champion Steve Davis in one of the most famous matches in snooker history. Despite losing the first eight frames, Taylor recovered to win 18–17 in a dramatic duel on the last . The final's conclusion attracted 18.5 million viewers, setting UK viewership records for any post-midnight broadcast and for any broadcast on BBC Two that still stand.
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Brian Behan
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Overall Influence
1926 - 2002 (76 years)
Brian Behan was an Irish writer, public speaker, lecturer, and trade unionist. Early years Behan was born in Dublin, the son of Stephen Behan and Kathleen Behan , nephew of Peadar Kearney , younger brother of Brendan Behan and older brother of Dominic Behan. He is the father of the playwright and actress Janet Behan, journalist Rosemary Behan, writer and musician Ruth Behan, musician and poet Daniel Tobias Behan. and Linsey Jane Behan, solicitor.
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Eric Heiden
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Eric Arthur Heiden is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He won an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Heiden was the most successful athlete at those Olympic Games, single-handedly winning more gold medals than all nations except for the Soviet Union and East Germany . He is the most successful Winter Olympian from a single edition of any Winter Olympics. He delivered the Athlete's Oath at those same 1980 Games. His coach was Dianne Holum.
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Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
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Overall Influence
1990 - Present (36 years)
Hamid Naderi Yeganeh is an Iranian mathematical artist and digital artist. He is known for using mathematical formulas to create drawings of real-life objects, intricate and symmetrical illustrations, animations, fractals and tessellations. Naderi Yeganeh uses mathematics as the main tool to create artworks. Therefore, his artworks can be totally described by mathematical concepts. Mathematical concepts he uses in his work include trigonometric functions, exponential function, Fibonacci sequence, sawtooth wave, etc.
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Dolores Sloviter
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Dolores Korman Sloviter was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Education and career Born to a Jewish-American family in 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sloviter attended Philadelphia High School for Girls. She graduated from Temple University in 1953 with a bachelor's degree and received her Bachelor of Laws in 1956 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as a Comments Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She was a law clerk for the City of Philadelphia Law Department in 1955. Sloviter was in ...
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Jacqueline Taylor
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Jacqueline Taylor was the provost and vice president for academic affairs at The College of New Jersey from 2013-2018. Biography Jacqueline Taylor was born in Kentucky, 1951. After receiving her bachelor's in English and communications arts from Georgetown College and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas in Austin, Taylor completed the Management Development program at Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1996.
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Toshisada Nishida
#37894
Overall Influence
1941 - 2011 (70 years)
Toshisada Nishida was a Japanese primatologist who established one of the first long term chimpanzee field research sites. He was the first to discover that chimpanzees, instead of forming nuclear family-like arrangements, live a communal life with territorial boundaries. His discoveries of the medicinal use of plants by wild chimpanzees helped form the basis of the field of zoopharmacognosy.
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Elizabeth Miller
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Elizabeth Russell Miller was a Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She resided in Toronto. In her early academic career, she focused on Newfoundland literature, primarily the life and work of her father, well-known Newfoundland author and humorist Ted Russell. Beginning in 1990, her major field of research was Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, its author, sources and influence. She published several books on the subject, including Reflections on Dracula, Dracula: Sense & Nonsense, a volume on Dracula for the Dictionary of Literary Biography and, most recently, Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition with Robert Eighteen-Bisang.
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Jonathan Petropoulos
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jonathan Petropoulos is an American historian who writes about National Socialism and, in particular, the fate of art looted during World War II. He is John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Before his 1999 appointment to Claremont McKenna College, Petropoulos taught at Loyola College in Maryland.
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Daniel S. Rokhsar
#37897
Overall Influence
Daniel S. Rokhsar is a professor in the departments of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley and Head of the Plant Genomics Program at the Joint Genome Institute of the United States Department of Energy. His research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of animals by combining computational genome analysis with comparative developmental biology. Rokhsar received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University with doctoral advisors N. David Mermin and James Sethna, and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1989.
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Denis Le Bihan
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Denis Le Bihan is a medical doctor, physicist, member of the Institut de France , member of the French Academy of Technologies and director since 2007 of NeuroSpin, an institution of the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission in Saclay, dedicated to the study of the brain by magnetic resonance imaging with a very high magnetic field. Denis Le Bihan has received international recognition for his outstanding work, introducing new imaging methods, particularly for the study of the human brain, as evidenced by the many international awards he has received, such as the Gold Medal of the...
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Sigal G. Barsade
#37899
Overall Influence
1965 - 2022 (57 years)
Sigal G. Barsade was an Israeli-American business theorist and researcher, and was the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to research, she worked as a speaker and consultant to large corporations across a variety of industries, such as Coca-Cola, Deloitte, Google, IBM, KPMG and Merrill Lynch, healthcare organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline and Penn Medicine, and public and nonprofit corporations such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Barsade co-chaired a task f...
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Diana Balmori
#37900
Overall Influence
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Diana Balmori Ling was a landscape and urban designer. She was the founder of the landscape design firm Balmori Associates. Early life and education Born in Gijón, Spain, Diana Balmori spent most of her childhood in Spain and England before her family settled in Argentina. Her mother Dorothy Ling was a musician and musicologist. Her father Clemente Hernando Balmori was a linguistic expert. At an early age Balmori learned to sing, dance, play piano, and her parents encouraged her to explore a wide range of mediums. She brought many of these influences with her into the design world.
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William H. Friedland
#37901
Overall Influence
1923 - 2018 (95 years)
William Herbert Friedland was an American sociologist. Friedland was of Russian Jewish descent and grew up in Staten Island. After attending Wagner College, he moved to Detroit and worked at automobile factories for a decade, namely for the Hudson Motor Car Company and Ford Motor Company. Allied with Max Shachtman's third camp, Friedland was also active as a labor organizer for the United Auto Workers and Congress of Industrial Organizations. He was introduced to Joe Glazer by Bill Kemsley. Friedland and Glazer recorded songs of the labor movement, releasing two albums together. Friedland le...
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Frederick Wilhelmsen
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Overall Influence
1923 - 1996 (73 years)
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen was a Catholic philosopher known for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition. He also was a political commentator, assessing American politics and society from a traditionalist perspective, and a political thinker, addressing what he perceived to be the failings of secular-liberal democracy. He principally was a professor at the University of Dallas from 1965 to his death in 1996. He also taught at the University of Santa Clara, the Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and lectured and taught classes at many other universities.
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Heinz D. Kurz
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Heinz D. Kurz is professor of economics at the University of Graz. Selected publications with Neri Salvadori as editor: The Elgar Companion to David Ricardo. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, England 2015, .Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens, Beck, München 2013, .with Richard Sturn: Die größten Ökonomen. Adam Smith. UTB, Stuttgart 2012, .with Richard Sturn: Schumpeter für jedermann. Von der Rastlosigkeit des Kapitalismus. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, .as editor: Klassiker des ökonomischen Denkens. Band 1, Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2008, und Band 2, München 2009, .as editor: David Ricardo: Über die Grundsätze der politischen Ökonomie und der Besteuerung.
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Łukasz Kubot
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Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Łukasz Kubot is a Polish professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2014 Australian Open with Robert Lindstedt, as well as the 2017 Wimbledon Championships with Marcelo Melo. Kubot has won 27 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including four at Masters 1000 level, all alongside Melo. The pair also finished runners-up at the 2018 US Open and 2017 ATP Finals. In January 2018 he became world No. 1 for the first time, the first Polish player ever to do so in singles or doubles.
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Louis O. Coxe
#37905
Overall Influence
1918 - 1993 (75 years)
Louis Osborne Coxe was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his "long, powerful, quiet accomplishment, largely unrecognized, in lyric poetry." He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, which opened on Broadway in 1951.
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Ursula Coope
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Overall Influence
Ursula Charlotte Macgillivray Coope FBA is a British classical scholar, who is an expert in the study of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and ethics, as well as on Neoplatonism. She is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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Ernesto Morgado
#37907
Overall Influence
Ernesto M. Morgado is a Portuguese computer scientist and software entrepreneur. He has served as Associate Professor of computer science and engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico since 1992. He was one of the people behind the creation of the Computer Science and Engineering degree of Instituto Superior Técnico , in 1988, and one of the founders of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering there in 1998.
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J. Colin Dodds
#37908
Overall Influence
J. Colin Dodds was the President of Saint Mary's University, Halifax, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Career Dodds began teaching Finance at Saint Mary's University in 1982 and went on to become Department Chairperson, Director of the MBA Program, and Dean of the Sobey School of Business .
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Gai Eaton
#37909
Overall Influence
1921 - 2010 (89 years)
Charles le Gai Eaton was a British diplomat, writer, historian, and Sufi Islamic scholar. He is perhaps best known for his 1994 book, Islam and the Destiny of Man. Life and career Early life Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and raised in London under the name Gai, Eaton was the son of the married Francis Errington and his mistress, Ruth; to hide her son's illegitimacy, Ruth claimed that she had been married to a Canadian, Charles Eaton , and that Charles had fathered the child. Eaton knew Errington only as a friend of the family until the age of 16, when his mother revealed the truth of his parentage.
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Édouard Molinaro
#37910
Overall Influence
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
Édouard Molinaro was a French film director and screenwriter. Biography He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles . Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although after 1985 he had almost exclusively been producing works for television.
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Joe Jackson
#37911
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
David Ian "Joe" Jackson is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Having spent years studying music and playing clubs, he scored a hit with his first release, "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", in 1979. It was followed by a number of new wave singles, before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". Jackson is associated with the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 20 studio albums and received five Grammy Award nominations.
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Lin Ming-chang
#37912
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Lin Ming-chang is a Taiwanese chemist. Born in Zhaomen, Xinpu, Hsinchu, on 24 October 1936, Lin Ming-chang attended Hsinchu Senior High School and graduated from National Taiwan Normal University before pursuing graduate study under Keith J. Laidler at the University of Ottawa. After completing his postdoctoral research in Ottawa, Lin joined Simon H. Bauer at Cornell University in 1967. Lin moved to the United States Naval Research Laboratory in 1970. While working at the NRL, Lin received a Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1979, followed by a Guggenheim fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt Award in 1982.
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