* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

The first influential writer to propose such an idea explicitly was Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his book Man a Machine ( L ' homme machine ).

Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Their daughter Helen Julia Hay, a writer and poet, married Payne Whitney of the influential Whitney family ; their children were U. S. ambassador John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson.

While not a notable orator, Jefferson was an indefatigable letter writer and corresponded with many influential people in America and Europe.

Highly influential writer, historian and philosopher.

Keynes, together with writer Lytton Strachey, had reshaped the Victorian attitudes of the influential Cambridge Apostles ; " since time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common ", wrote Bertrand Russell.

This trend received an extra boost in the 1980s and 1990s, when influential wine writer Robert M. Parker, Jr. started to award very high scores, up to the " perfect " score of 100 points, to wines of some Rhône producers.

Elia Kazan (; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003 ) was an American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as " one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history ".

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Many well-known people since their deaths have been discovered to enjoy spankings for erotic purposes or emotional gratification including renowned British Army officer T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), influential English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, TV broadcaster Frank Bough, and English writer John Mortimer.

The turning point for Pym came with an influential article in 1977 in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as " the most underrated writer of the 20th century ".

The writer Julia Kristeva was an influential voice in the turn of the century, contributing to Cultural Studies from the field of art and psychoanalytical French feminism.

The artist met and became friends with Desnos, perhaps the most beloved and influential surrealist writer, in 1925, and before long, they made plans to collaborate on a livre d ' artiste.

George William " Bill " James ( born October 5, 1949 ) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential.

The influential writer Émile Zola wrote a famous open letter titled " J ' accuse " ( " I accuse " ) published in the newspaper L ' Aurore on 13 January 1898.

Arguably the most influential book on informal economy is Hernando de Soto's El otro sendero ( 1986 ), which was published in English in 1989 as The Other Path with a preface by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.

Frantz Fanon ( July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961 ) was a Martinique-born French-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism.

* Stephen McNallen ( born 1948 ), influential Germanic Neopagan leader and writer

* 1638-Official ban of Christianity in Japan with death penalty ; The Fountain Opened, a posthumous work of the influential Puritan writer Richard Sibbes is published, in which he says that the gospel must continue its journey " til it have gone over the whole world.

Famous early residents include: Joshua H. Bean, brother of Judge Roy Bean and the first mayor of San Diego, CA ; Orlando C. Phelps, one of the few surviving members of the Mier Expedition ; Edwin Rainwater, hero of the Texas Revolution ; Edward R. Hord, an influential early South Texas statesman ; and John L. Haynes, a native Virginian politician and writer who was an outspoken anti-secessionist and strong proponent of Mexican-American rights.

Their critical theoretical work peaked on the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.

Their theoretical work peaked with the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle in which Guy Debord argued that the spectacle is a fake reality which masks capitalist degradation of human life.

Gang Starr released its first LP No More Mr. Nice Guy on Wild Pitch Records ; the group achieved a sizable following and released six critically acclaimed and influential albums from 1989 to 2003.

No More Mr. Nice Guy remains somewhat overshadowed by the highly influential debut albums by the aforementioned artists.

It was this scene, based out of Austin, that inspired performers like Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, whose poetic narratives owed much to the folk tradition and who proved enormously influential on younger Texan artists as Nanci Griffith and Steve Earle who inspired the later alternative country scene.

The Special Branch began compiling a " Black Book " of known perverts in influential Government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates.

Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was “ a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller .” Estimable reviews by such noted writers and literary critics as Anatole Broyard, Jerome Charyn, Guy Davenport, and Shelby Foote were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as “ Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O ' Connor .” The influential profile writer and music journalist Stanley Booth observed that Suttree was “ probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy ’ s books ... which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature .”

Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant.

Since his death, Parsons has been recognized as an extremely influential artist, credited with helping to found both country rock and alt-country.

Radley Balko has written that " Parsons may be the most influential artist yet to be inducted to either the Rock and Roll or Country Music Hall ( s ) of Fame.

Diego Velázquez, regarded as one of the most influential painters of European history and a greatly respected artist in his own time, cultivated a relationship with King Philip IV and his chief minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares, leaving us several portraits that demonstrate his style and skill.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

Allmusic said, " When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century ,"< ref >

He was influential in bringing the Bolognese artist Guercino to Rome, a landmark in the development of the High Baroque style.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

He is widely considered by many commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be the greatest and most influential martial artist of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century.

After the war, Jones entered the Westminster School of Art, where he developed an interest in Post-Impressionism and studied under the British artist Walter Sickert, among other influential teachers.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a movie written by John Cameron Mitchell, mentions Nico as an influential artist in its song, " Midnight Radio ".

An influential character in the film is the beatnik poet, who convinces the group to accept the busboy as a significant artist.

" However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most " stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature.

Another influential philosopher writing on fine art was Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who emphasized the idea of the artist belonging to the spirit of his time, or zeitgeist.

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.

The Solti Ring was voted best recording of all time by readers of the influential magazine Gramophone and Luciano Pavarotti remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career.

André Franquin ( 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997 ) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series ' golden age.

* Bolesław Leśmian ( 1877 – 1937 )-was a Polish poet, artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature, one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland.

Established artists often pay homage to artists or songs that inspired them before they started their careers or musicians who in some way helped them enter show business by recording their own versions of tunes associated with that artist ( See, for example, I Remember Tommy ) or performing tunes associated with their favourite influential musician ( s ) in their own live performances for variety.

He has been described as the most influential bandes dessinées artist after Hergé.

The most successful and influential artist with whom he worked was guitarist and harmonica player Slim Harpo.

Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers.

The band signed to a division of Chrysalis Records in the UK, and American distribution was picked up by influential label Delicious Vinyl, and N ' Dea Davenport ( who had signed an artist development deal with Delicious Vinyl ) joined the group.