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.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Xue-qi Cheng
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Daniel Robey
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Harry Schachter
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1933 - Present (93 years)
Harry Schachter FRSC is a Canadian biochemist and glycobiologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Biography Harry Schachter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933, to Miriam Freund, a businesswoman, and to Ulrich Schachter, a dentist and medical doctor. Harry's father was the cousin of Austro-Hungarian and Romanian tenor and actor, Joseph Schmidt. The Schachter family fled the Nazis in 1938, escaping to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He attended secondary school at Saint Mary's College, placing first in Trinidad in the Cambrid...
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Shashikiran Kambhampati
#125548
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Rick N. Kazman
#125565
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Gianni Marone
#125568
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1947 - Present (79 years)
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Andrew J. Davison
#125575
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Jeffrey Shabanowitz
#125621
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Meikang Qiu
#125684
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James Curran
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James R. Curran is a computational linguist and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh. Research Curran's research focuses on natural language processing, making him one of the few Australian computational linguists. Specifically Curran's research has focused on the area of natural language processing known as combinatory categorial grammar parsing. In addition to his contributions to NLP, Curran has produced a paper on the development of search engines to assist in driving problem based learning.
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Stephen Birch
#125718
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Yvonne Rainer
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1934 - Present (92 years)
Yvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental. Her work is sometimes classified as minimalist art. Rainer currently lives and works in New York.
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Bas Kemp
#125746
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Peter J. Schmid
#125749
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Jeffrey F. Cohn
#125764
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Xuanjing Huang
#125765
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Meinolf Sellmann
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Meinolf Sellmann, born in Holzminden, Germany, computer scientist, best known for algorithmic research, with a special focus on self-improving algorithms, automatic algorithm configuration and algorithm portfolios based on artificial intelligence, combinatorial optimization, and the hybridization thereof.
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Johnson Stanley
#125779
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Michal Irani
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Michal Irani is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Education Irani received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subsequently, she was a member of the Vision Technologies Laboratory at the Sarnoff Research Center .
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Michael G. Vaughn
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Michael G. Vaughn is a professor of social work at the School of Social Work in the Saint Louis University School of Social Work where he is also the current director of the Ph.D. in social work program.
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Richard Moreau
#125796
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1951 - Present (75 years)
#5272
Daniela Berg
#125797
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Yolanda Picó
#125798
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Roland Martin
#125806
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Tuhina Neogi
#125808
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#5276
Wenshan Guo
#125832
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Nripendra Pratap Rana
#125853
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Hannah Francis Larochelle
#125863
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Yoshinao Oda
#125874
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Xiang-yang Li
#125890
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Stephen Warren
#124489
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1953 - 2021 (68 years)
Stephen T. Warren was an American geneticist and academic. He was the William Patterson Timmie Professor of Human Genetics and the Charles Howard Candler Chair of Human Genetics. He was the former Founding Chairman of the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University School of Medicine. He was an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1991 until 2002, when he resigned to found the Human Genetics department. Warren is well known for his work in the field of Human Genetics. His research was focused on the mechanistic understanding of fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of inherited developmental disability and autism.
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Gavin Turk
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1967 - Present (59 years)
Gavin Turk is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and was considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.
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Richard A. Lempicki
#125923
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Arindam Banerjee
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Rony Seger
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Alfredo Alberti
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Emanuele Trucco
#125964
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Antoni Tàpies
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1923 - 2012 (89 years)
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies was a Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist. Life The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni Tàpies Puig was born in Barcelona on 13 December 1923. His father was a lawyer and Catalan nationalist who served briefly with the Republican government. Due to this, Tàpies grew up in an environment where he was very much exposed to a cultural and social experiences of leaders in the Catalan public life and its republicanism. His maternal grandmother also exposed him to this world with her great involvement in civil and politic...
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Pablo Tamayo
#126029
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Elsebeth Lynge
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1948 - Present (78 years)
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Tomoyuki Kawada
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Tsutomu Shimada
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Jonathan Rosenberg
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Jonathan Rosenberg is a technologist noted for his work in IP communications. Network World has referred to him as "a pioneer [in] the development of the SIP protocol", and he was included in the 2002 TR35 list of the world's top under-35 innovators, as published by MIT Technology Review.
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Pascal Chanez
#126054
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Val C Sheffield
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Yong Rok Lee
#126067
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Irwin Nazareth
#126074
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1958 - Present (68 years)
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Lee Ratner
#126087
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Barbara B. Knowles
#126110
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Umberto Tachinardi
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Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MSc, Fellow ACMI, is a Brazilian-born chief information officer and biomedical informaticist. Trained by the founders of the prestigious Medical Informatics group of the Heart Institute of São Paulo University Medical School , he started his career developing biomedical signal processing systems on cardiology. Dr. Tachinardi pioneered the use of secure world-wide-web communications for transmission of medical records in 1994. In addition, he has devoted many years to innovate clinical practice through the development and deployment of integrated clinical information systems as CIO of the InCor and later as the CIO of the Secretary of Health, State of São Paulo.
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