Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

Influential film critic Andrew Sarris, in his 1968 ranking of directors, lists Whale as " lightly likable ".

Influential film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, but was measured in his praise :" If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, Chungking Express works.

Influential English critic Roger Fry credited the wider public's acceptance of the Impressionists, especially Claude Monet, to Bastien-Lepage.

Influential art critic of the day, Sheldon Chaney, allows it 5 pictures in his book References.

Influential critics, above all John Ruskin, far from denouncing mediaeval obscurantism, praised the imagination and fantasy exemplified by its Gothic architecture, influencing the Pre-Raphaelites.

Influential figures such as Galen Clark, clergyman Thomas Starr King and leading landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted were among those who urged Senator John Conness of California to try to preserve Yosemite.

Influential examples include director John Cassavetes, who broke ground with his film Faces.

There is evidence of skirmishes in the area and Influential Parliamentarians such as John Pym were headquartered along with large numbers of troops for a period.

Recently, Hamza Yusuf was ranked as " the Western world's most influential Islamic scholar " by The 500 Most Influential Muslims, edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin, ( 2009 ).

Influential BBC disc jockeys such as John Peel and Kenny Everett were big boosters of the group.

Influential commentators included Walter Bagehot, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Anthony Trollope.

Influential Young Irelanders included Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Davis and John Blake Dillon, the three founders of The Nation.

Influential books like John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society ( 1958 ) and Michael Harrington's The Other America ( 1962 ) reinvigorated the discussions on poverty and working poverty in the United States.

Influential contemporary artists include Larry D. Alexander, Laylah Ali, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Mark Bradford, Edward Clark, Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Leonardo Drew, Mel Edwards, Ricardo Francis, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Jerry Harris, Richard Hunt, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Katie S. Mallory, M. Scott Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Joe Lewis, Glenn Ligon, James Little, Al Loving, Kerry James Marshall, Eugene J. Martin, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Howard McCalebb, Charles McGill, Thaddeus Mosley, Sana Musasama, Senga Nengudi, Joe Overstreet, Martin Puryear, Adrian Piper, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Gale Fulton Ross, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, Joyce Scott, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Renee Stout, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Stanley Whitney, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Fred Wilson, Richard Yarde, and Purvis Young, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Barkley Hendricks, Jeff Sonhouse, William Walker, Ellsworth Ausby, Che Baraka, Emmett Wigglesworth, Otto Neals, Dinga McCannon, Terry Dixon ( artist ), and many others.

* Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

A Letter to the Protestant Landholders of New South Wales, and in 1847 he followed up with, Popery in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere: and How to Check it Effectually: An Address to Evangelical and Influential Protestants of all Denominations in Great Britain and Ireland.

Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud ( NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007 ):

Influential collection of texts by Mills, Marcuse, Fanon, Cohn-Bendit, Castro, Hall, Althusser, Kolakowski, Malcolm X, Gorz & others.

Influential in other sports, Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959.

NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, Two NASA Space Flight Medals, 1990 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Award, Awarded Aviation Week & Space Technology Aerospace Laureate in Space and Missiles for 1991, Hispanic Engineer magazine 1992 Hispanic Engineer of the Year National Achievement Award, Aviation Week and Space Technology Citation for Aerospace Laureate in Space and Missiles for 1994, 1994 selected by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics, selected by Hispanic Magazine for the 1995 Hispanic Achievement Award in Science, 1995 inductee into the International Space Hall of Fame, Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Academy ; awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, and Air Training Command Master Instructor.

In addition, he is in the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau " Hospitality Hall of Fame "; International Civil Rights King Center " Walk of Fame "; Georgia State University Robinson College " Business Hall of Fame ", and Georgia Trend Magazine " Most Influential Georgian's Hall of Fame.

" He was featured in Times The 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2010, and has been called " the most successful politician of his time.

In 2007, Blanchett was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World and also one of the most successful actresses by Forbes magazine.

Beelzebub's Tales is included in Martin Seymour-Smith's 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, with the comment that it is "... the most convincing fusion of Eastern and Western thought has yet been seen.

Influential business publications such as The Economist consider the AK Party's government the most successful in Turkey in decades.

On 2005 the Mexican government decided to place a statue of the producer in one of Mexico City's most important parks and on January, 2007 she appeared on People En Español < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s list of The 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the world.

In the book Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time, the authors describe Birdo as the most notable character in Super Mario Bros. 2 due to being the first transsexual character in video games.

Responsible for many iconic pop clips, Jake is perhaps most widely known for his acclaimed collaborations with Beyoncé including " Crazy in Love " and the brilliantly effective video for " Single Ladies ," recently listed by The Times at position number 3 in The 25 Most Influential Music Videos of all time.

The Daily Telegraph of London put Erickson on its " List of Most Influential US Conservatives ", giving him a rank of 69th most influential in 2007 and 65th in 2010.

In the 2007's Ethisphere list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics, WBCSD President Bjoern Stigson has been ranked 9th, which made him the 2nd most influential NGO leader.

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Michael H. Hart, in his hotly debated and widely copied book, " The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History " ( 1978 ) ranked Muhammad as the most influential, attributing this to the fact that Muhammad was successful in both the religious and political realms and had a significant role in the development of Islamic theology.

In 2008 and 2009, Orman was named to the Times Magazine list of 100 most influential people, the 2010 Forbes Magazine 100 most powerful women in the world, and 18th on the Forbes list of The Most Influential Women In Media.

Wolfson, who many consider to be the father and leader of the same-sex marriage movement, authored the book Why Marriage Matters ; America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, which Time Out New York magazine called, " Perhaps the most important gay-marriage primer ever written ..." He was listed as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

F. A. P Influential management and systems thinker pioneer Russel Ackoff suggested that the most important contribution of a first rate 21st century education is not content, but that we acquire the capability to learn and are motivated to do so throughout our lives.

In July 2007, India Abroad named him one of the 50 most Influential Indian Americans in the U. S.

He has often been named one of the most influential Christian leaders in America and was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America in 2005.

Influential figures in modern economic sociology include Fred L. Block, James S. Coleman, Mark Granovetter, Harrison White, Paul DiMaggio, Joel M. Podolny, Richard Swedberg and Viviana Zelizer in the United States, as well as Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot, or Jens Beckert in Europe.

Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns.

Influential drummers of the jazz tradition included Gene Krupa, " Papa " Jo Jones, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes, Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Joe Morello and many more.

The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( Taylor Publishing: Dallas, Texas, 1989 ), pp. 178 – 181, reprinted at website Religious Affiliation of Comics Book Characters: " The Significant Seven: History's Most Influential Super-heroes " < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ ref >

Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation.

The following year, the ACM ( Association for Computing Machinery ) PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing was renamed the Dijkstra Prize in his honour.

Influential criticisms of Fundamentalism include James Barr's books on Christian Fundamentalism and Bassam Tibi's analysis of Islamic Fundamentalism.

Influential early eco-anarchist workAnother important current, especially within French and Spanish individualist anarchist groups was naturism.

Influential Christian theologian C. S.

Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that " Nancy Davis delightful as gentle, plain, and understanding wife.

* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.

In 2007 and 2008, Allen was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World.

* In 2006 eWeek ranked PGP 9th in the 25 Most Influential and Innovative Products introduced since the invention of the PC in 1981.

Influential mathematicians such as Bing, Haken, Moise, and Papakyriakopoulos attacked the conjecture.

In 2008 Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.

Influential friends interceded on his behalf, and he was transferred to the War Records Office and discharged from the military on 9 June 1916.

Leading the Parade: Conversations with America's Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men, Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8108-5913-0

Influential stallions include Abglanz for the Hanoverian, Herbststurm who influenced the Oldenburg, Marco Polo for the Dutch Warmblood, the stallions Ibikus and Donauwind for the Danish Warmblood, and Polarstern for the Swedish Warmblood.

* April 13 – 14, 2008: Nature's Path Whidbey Island Marathon, a half and full marathon featuring Melanie McQuaid, an 3 time Xterra Championship and Dean Karnazes, Ultra marathon Man and Time Magazine's one of 100 Most Influential People.

Influential writers who have reached wide audiences include H. G. Wells, Oswald Spengler, Arnold J. Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, Christopher Dawson, and Lewis Mumford.