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,
#5301
Mark Phillips
#126127
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#5302
Ys S. Yang
#126141
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#5303
Stewart Wilson
#126143
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#5304
John M. Carpenter
#126144
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#5305
Rafat Siddique
#126145
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#5306
John Russell
#27576
Overall Influence
1919 - 2008 (89 years)
John Russell CBE was an English art critic. Life and career John Russell was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England, in 1919. He attended St Paul's School and then Magdalen College, Oxford. He was an unpaid intern at the Tate Gallery in 1940, but moved to the country after the gallery was bombed. During World War II he worked in Naval Intelligence for the Admiralty. There he met Ian Fleming, who helped to secure Russell a reviewing position at The Sunday Times. Russell succeeded a fired critic at The Sunday Times in 1950.
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Patrick Neven
#126164
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#5308
Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan
#126165
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#5309
Radu Marculescu
#109087
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Radu Marculescu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Laura Jennings Turner Chair in Engineering. He moved to the University of Texas from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a professor from 2000 to 2019.
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Shengwei Mei
#126180
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Shengwei Mei is a professor of electrical engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his work on the robust control and complexity analysis of power systems.
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Kazuhiko Nakagawa
#126186
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#5312
Stephan Olariu
#126187
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#5313
Lutz Heinemann
#126196
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#5314
Mike Fraser
#61985
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Mike Fraser FRSA is a British computer scientist. He is Head of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. Life and career Fraser was a student at University of Nottingham from 1993 until 1996 where he acquired his bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He also attained a PhD in Computer Science from the same institution during 1997 and 2000.
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Kaoru Hirota
#126208
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#5316
Otto C. Boerman
#126219
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#5317
Eduard Gröller
#121428
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Eduard Gröller' is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Technische Universität Wien. Life Dr. Gröller received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology in 1993. Since 1994 he has been working at the research area Computer Graphics , which he also heads since 2019. He has lectured on visualization at several other universities . He was a scientific proponent and is currently a key researcher at the VRVis Research Center
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Timothy David Colmer
#126237
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#5319
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
#126249
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#5320
Mohammed Amine Smaili
#61781
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Mohammed Amine Smaili is a Muslim theologian and specialist in international Muslim dogma and comparative religion. Smaili was made professor at Mohammed V University in Morocco and has held several positions, including Director of the Office of the Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs.
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Dongxiao Zhang
#126269
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#5322
Naoto Minamino
#126294
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#5323
Susan Louise Shatter
#63415
Overall Influence
1943 - 2011 (68 years)
Susan Louise Shatter was an American landscape painter. Shatter painted landscapes in both oil and watercolor, preferring the earth tones of volcanic canyons or rocky coastlines rather than the green pastoral settings more traditionally associated with the genre. Winged Shadow, Waimea Canyon, Kauai, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art demonstrates her modernist approach to barren landscapes. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art , the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy Museum and Schoo...
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Victor O. K. Li
#126307
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#5325
Masao Fukushima
#126331
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#5326
Jang Wook Choi
#126338
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#5327
Kentaro Yamaguchi
#126341
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#5328
Ignacy Misztal
#126345
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#5329
Chuan Yi Tang
#126346
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#5330
Florian Kronenberg
#126361
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#5331
Bijendra Singh
#126377
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#5332
Graeme Hirst
#126382
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1952 - Present (74 years)
#5333
Murat Yücel
#126400
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1980 - Present (46 years)
#5334
Salvatore Greco
#126411
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1965 - Present (61 years)
#5335
James Tin-yau Kwok
#126413
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#5336
Hiroshi Kimura
#126414
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#5337
John D. Salamone
#126442
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#5338
Douwe van Sinderen
#126449
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#5339
Jonathan Winters
#30103
Overall Influence
1925 - 2013 (88 years)
Jonathan Harshman Winters III was an American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist. He started performing as a stand up comedian before transitioning his career to acting in film and television. Winters received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, and Primetime Emmy Award as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the American Academy of Achievement in 1973, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1999.
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Michael Beetz
#126456
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#5341
Abhimanyu Garg
#126458
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#5342
Martin H. Schultz
#126460
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#5343
Graham Patrick Taylor
#126462
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#5344
Mohammad Ali Moni
#65412
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Mohammad Ali Moni is a Bangladeshi computer engineer, researcher and data analyst. He has done research in various institutions including University of New South Wales, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and so on. He is research fellow in the Cancer Research Network of Faculty of Medicine in Sydney University and bone division of Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
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Youssef Rouphael
#126490
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#5346
Slobodan Grubačić
#98458
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Slobodan Grubačić was Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade. He is an elected member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Father of Andrej Grubacic. Son of Emilija Grubačić and Kosta Grubačić.
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Andreas Zeller
#126526
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#5348
Rineke Verbrugge
#58974
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Laurina Christina Verbrugge is a Dutch logician and computer scientist known for her work on interpretability logic and provability logic. She completed her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1993 under the supervision of Dick de Jongh, Anne Troelstra, and Albert Visser.
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Seishi Ogawa
#126550
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Bang Wong
#16802
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Bang Wong is the creative director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard University. He is considered "one of the leading innovators at the interface of art and medicine" by Nature Medicine, and is a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and board member of the Association of Medical Illustrators. He holds a master of science in immunology and a master of arts in medical and biological illustration from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he also serves as an adjunct assistant professor. In 2010, he launched a monthly column in Nature Methods about the visual presentation of sc...
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