The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
#5101
Christoph Busch
#123827
Overall Influence
#5102
Bernard Dan
#123864
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#5103
Klaus Tochtermann
#103729
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Klaus Tochtermann is a professor in the Institute for Computer Science at Kiel University and also the director of the ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
Go to Profile#5104
Paul Madden
#102893
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Paul Anthony Madden, is a British chemist and former Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford. Early life Madden attended St Bede's Grammar School, a Catholic boys' grammar school in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He gained BSc and DPhil degrees in chemistry at the University of Sussex. His doctoral thesis was titled "Reactive Scattering Calculations" and was completed in 1974.
Go to Profile#5105
Shahram Rezapour
#123886
Overall Influence
#5106
Eugene Haydn Walters
#123912
Overall Influence
#5107
Fausto Giunchiglia
#123914
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#5108
Rishikesh Narayanan
#39065
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Rishikesh Narayanan is an Indian neuroscientist, computer engineer and a professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the Indian Institute of Science. He is the principal investigator at the Cellular Neurophysiology Laboratory of MBU where his team is engaged in researches on experimental and theoretical aspects of information processing in single neurons and their networks. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian ...
Go to Profile#5109
Gaston Gonnet
#111908
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Gaston H. Gonnet is a Uruguayan Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to the Maple computer algebra system and the creation of a digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Go to Profile#5110
Harry Wechsler
#123935
Overall Influence
#5111
Yoshikatsu Kanai
#123937
Overall Influence
#5112
Lei Shu
#123942
Overall Influence
#5113
Jason Brandt
#123947
Overall Influence
#5114
Stephen E. D. Webb
#123969
Overall Influence
#5115
Yue Xiong
#123972
Overall Influence
#5116
Chuwa Tei
#123980
Overall Influence
#5117
Yan-ning Zhang
#123986
Overall Influence
#5118
Domenico Palli
#123999
Overall Influence
#5119
Yong Du
#124002
Overall Influence
#5120
Jochen Weiss
#124003
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
#5121
Raghupathy Sivakumar
#113526
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Raghupathy Sivakumar is a Professor and Wayne J. Holman Chair at Georgia Tech. Sivakumar grew up in Chennai, India. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science in 1996 from Anna University. After graduation, he moved to Champaign, Illinois, where he attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from which he graduated with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1998 and 2000 respectively. In August of 2000, he joined the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor.
Go to Profile#5122
Bruce Maggs
#83650
Overall Influence
Bruce MacDowell Maggs is an American computer scientist and professor at Duke University whose research interests include computer networks, distributed systems, and computer security. He was a founding employee and served as vice president for Research and Development for Akamai Technologies. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.
Go to Profile#5123
Qiang Liao
#124030
Overall Influence
#5124
Shoji Fukushima
#124042
Overall Influence
#5125
Jeff Trinkle
#82439
Overall Influence
Jeffrey C. Trinkle is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering department at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is known for his work in robotic manipulation, multibody dynamics, and automated manufacturing. He has bachelor's degrees in physics and engineering from Ursinus College and Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Texas A&M University. From 1998 to 2003 he was a research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in...
Go to Profile#5126
Hermann Kopetz
#106618
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Hermann Kopetz is a professor emeritus at Vienna University of Technology. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 1994 for contributions to fault-tolerant, real-time systems. He is a cofounder of the company TTTech.
Go to Profile#5127
Jitender Sareen
#124140
Overall Influence
#5128
Elina Ikonen
#124164
Overall Influence
#5129
Eduardo Fernández Camacho
#124180
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
#5130
Paul Dennis Miller
#124187
Overall Influence
#5131
Philippe Colson
#124191
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#5132
Philippe Brouqui
#124192
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#5133
Rainer Schulz
#124207
Overall Influence
#5134
Heather Kelley
#93956
Overall Influence
Heather Kelley is a media artist, writer and video game designer. She is a co-founder of the Kokoromi experimental game collective, with whom she produces and curates the annual Gamma game event promoting experimental games as creative expression in a social context. She regularly appears as a jury member for several computer gaming festivals . She is also a frequent public speaker at technology events.
Go to Profile#5135
Michael Bustin
#121621
Overall Influence
Michael Bustin, NIH Scientist Emeritus, was a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health . His research centers on the role of chromosomal proteins in chromatin function, epigenetic regulation, development, and disease.
Go to Profile#5136
Catherine Klersy
#124233
Overall Influence
#5137
Paul M. Weaver
#124247
Overall Influence
#5138
Lai Choy Heng
#84079
Overall Influence
Lai Choy Heng is Professor of Physics and the former Executive Vice-president , Yale-NUS College and Vice Provost at the National University of Singapore . He received his undergraduate as well as graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. He took up a position as post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen from 1978 to 1980 after which he joined National University of Singapore’s Department of Mathematics as a Lecturer. He then moved to the Department of Physics in 1981 which saw him rise through the ranks from senior lecturer to associate pro...
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Tadao Murata
#124318
Overall Influence
#5140
Andrew K Godwin
#124319
Overall Influence
#5141
Reid Hoffman
#80151
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and a co-founder of Inflection AI.
Go to Profile#5142
Bruce B Duncan
#124361
Overall Influence
#5143
Hadas Shachnai
#114100
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Hadas Shachnai is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in combinatorial optimization, including knapsack problems, interval scheduling, and the optimization of submodular set functions. She is a professor of computer science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and co-editor-in-chief of Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science.
Go to Profile#5144
Majid Sarrafzadeh
#124387
Overall Influence
#5145
Yoshiki Sawa
#124391
Overall Influence
#5146
Ben Warner
#72584
Overall Influence
Ben Warner is a British data scientist. Education Warner earned a PhD at University College London for research investigating single molecule spintronics. The research was supervised by Cyrus Hirjibehedin and was awarded the Marshall Stoneham prize.
Go to Profile#5147
Min Xiao
#124400
Overall Influence
#5148
James T Becker
#124404
Overall Influence
#5149
Giuseppe Costa
#124419
Overall Influence
#5150
Chin-Yew Lin
#124468
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