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,
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Mrinal Kanti Sen
#54346
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Mrinal Kanti Sen , an Indian-American geophysicist is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology at the Jackson School of Geosciences of the University of Texas at Austin. He holds joint appointment with the Institute for Geophysics and the Department of Geological sciences . Since 2016, he has been serving as the head of the energy research division at UTIG. He has been a pioneer in the field Seismic Wave Propagation and Inverse Theory applied to Geophysical Problems. He has published more than 180 papers, and two books, and supervised over 50 graduate students. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.
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Guido Gerig
#124516
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Andrew William Fitzgibbon
#124536
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#5154
Asher Ornoy
#124545
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Baining Guo
#124548
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#5156
Hannu Toivonen
#123622
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Hannu Tauno Tapani Toivonen is a Finnish computer scientist and professor at the University of Helsinki. Research and teaching Hannu Toivonen's research area is artificial intelligence and data science, especially data mining and computational creativity, along with their applications. He was chair of the programme committee for The International Conference on Computational Creativity in 2015 and for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in 2014.
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Rong Jin
#124550
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Bruno Reichart
#124552
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#5159
Victor Mbarika
#101515
Overall Influence
Victor Mbarika is an American professor from Cameroon. He is currently the Stallings International Distinguished Scholar and MIS professor at East Carolina University within the University of North Carolina System, in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. He is the President, Board of Trustees of the ICT University.
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Toshiro Fujita
#124578
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Harry Hemingway
#124579
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#5162
Mitsuhiro Okano
#124583
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Hideki Hashimoto
#124590
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#5164
Sujit Dey
#102041
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sujit Dey is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at the University of California, San Diego. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to the design and testing of low-power systems and system-on-chips.
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Fabio Rocca
#124606
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Zhihua Yang
#124624
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#5167
Hinrich Gronemeyer
#124639
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
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Pericles A. Mitkas
#71553
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Pericles A. Mitkas is a Greek university lecturer in electronic and computer engineering. He holds American as well as Greek nationality and is Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . He was elected as President of both the Black Sea Universities Network and the Balkan Universities Network from 2018 to 2020.
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Carmine Infantino
#31063
Overall Influence
1925 - 2013 (88 years)
Carmine Michael Infantino was an American comics artist and editor, primarily for DC Comics, during the late 1950s and early 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comic Books. Among his character creations are the Black Canary and the Silver Age version of DC superhero the Flash with writer Robert Kanigher, the stretching Elongated Man with John Broome, Barbara Gordon the second Batgirl with writer Gardner Fox, Deadman with writer Arnold Drake, and Christopher Chance, the second iteration of the Human Target with Len Wein.
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Elliot McVeigh
#82373
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Elliot R. McVeigh is a professor of bioengineering, Medicine and Radiology at the University of California, San Diego . His research utilises low dose CT imaging and MR imaging techniques to identify those people at substantially higher risk for heart attacks.
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Xiaosheng Fang
#124678
Overall Influence
#5172
Alfred Stein
#124686
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#5173
Sergey Shorgin
#101301
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Sergey Shorgin is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor, a scientist in the field of informatics, a poet, a translator of poetry. Biography He graduated from the faculty MSU CMC . He defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences . He defended his thesis «Defining Insurance Tariffs: Stochastic Models and Methods of Evaluation» for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences . Was awarded the title of professor . Published more than 100 scientific papers, including articles in leading scientific journals.
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Teri Klein
#91797
Overall Influence
Teri E. Klein is an American professor of Biomedical Data Science and Medicine at Stanford University. She is known for her work on pharmacogenomics and computational biology. Education Klein has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco . In 2000 she started a position at Stanford University where, as of 2022, she holds the position of professor .
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Yuliang Zheng
#118153
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Yuliang Zheng is the Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is best known for inventing the Signcryption cryptographic primitive that combines the digital signature and encryption operations into one single step. He also invented the HAVAL hash function, SPEED cipher, and STRANDOM pseudo-random number generator.
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Haruo Hosoya
#124724
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Yuqing Wang
#124726
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Guang Ning
#124735
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#5179
Johannes F. Imhoff
#124740
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
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Francesco Rodeghiero
#124753
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#5181
Emmanuel Stamatakis
#124754
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#5182
Paul J. Valdes
#124756
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#5183
Toshihiko Baba
#124761
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James F. Blinn
#124768
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#5185
Qingsong Xu
#124772
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#5186
Dominique Schols
#124783
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#5187
Elizabeth Krupinski
#107402
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Elizabeth Anne Krupinski is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research of Radiology & Imaging Sciences at Emory University. She works on the perception of medical images and decision-making. Dr. Krupinski is a Fellow of SPIE, Fellow of the Society Imaging Informatics in Medicine , Fellow of the American Telemedicine Association and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering . She has previously served as Chair for the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Chair of SIIM, President of the American Telemedicine Association, President of the Medical Image Perception Society an...
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Soo‐chang Pei
#124829
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Takao Mori
#124852
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#5190
Joydeep Dutta
#124859
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
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Bram Dijkstra
#24074
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Bram Dijkstra is an American author, literary critic and former professor of English literature. Dijkstra wrote seven books on various literary and artistic subjects concerning writing. He also curates art exhibitions and writes catalog essays for San Diego art museums.
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Bruno A. Olshausen
#124891
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Masafumi Kitakaze
#124916
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Gregoris Mentzas
#81593
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Gregoris Mentzas is a Greek scientist and Professor of Management Information Systems at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is Director of the Information Management Unit, a multi-disciplinary research group at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems.
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Peter Martus
#124922
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Cοnstantine Stephanidis
#124925
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Naftali Kaminski
#124936
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Christoph Reiners
#104980
Overall Influence
Christoph Reiners is a German nuclear medicine physician and hospital manager. He is a senior professor of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg. Education and career Reiners studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Vienna. After changing to Kiel, he attended as a medical student in 1968 courses in computer science. This excited him so much that he chose the university for his clinical studies, whether there was a computer. He finalized his studies in 1971 at University of Würzburg, one of at that time only five universities in Germany with computers. For his doctora...
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Salman Azhar
#124994
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Masahiro Sugiura
#125011
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
