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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Xiaobo Sharon Hu
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Overall Influence
Xiaobo Sharon Hu is a Chinese-American computer scientist and engineer known for her work on hardware-software integration, power usage, and reliability of embedded systems design, including work on power- and temperature-aware scheduling algorithms. She has also published highly cited work on deep neural networks, the CORDIC algorithm for trigonometric calculations, and clocking of unconventional computer architectures. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
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Arash Karimipour
#126563
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Leia Stirling
#84251
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Leia Abigail Stirling is the Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the co-director of the human systems laboratory. She was elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Institute Fellow in 2019.
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Jianxin Zhao
#126579
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Haijun Jiao
#126594
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Yoshimasa Tanaka
#126605
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Naoki Yoshimura
#126619
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Yoshiharu Omura
#126642
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Dave Gibbons
#17537
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
David Chester Gibbons is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
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Rob Miles
#81920
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Rob Miles is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, and a former lecturer in programming C Sharp and other elements of software engineering at the University of Hull. Miles has given speeches worldwide on topics including C Sharp, Microsoft XNA, Windows Mobile development and embedded development using the .NET Micro Framework. He has written an XNA book, and he co-authored a book about the .NET Micro Framework with Donald Thompson.
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Xu Bing
#10760
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Xu Bing is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world. He is an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program in 1999 and the Fukuoka Prize in 2003.
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Lucien Wald
#126707
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Samuel Fosso Wamba
#126708
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Jordi Vila
#126739
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Praveen Linga
#95377
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Praveen Linga PhD , a chemical engineer, is a professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is an expert in clathrate hydrates or gas hydrates. He is also the co-founder of NewGen Gas Pte Ltd, a spin-off company that specialises in solidified natural gas technology via clathrate hydrates for natural gas storage and transport. He has been interviewed and has provided expert opinion and commentary in the media.
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Christian Cachin
#117846
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Christian Cachin is a Swiss cryptographer and professor of computer science at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In 2000 he founded the Cryptology ePrint Archive, an eprint repository for research in cryptology.
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Thor Edvardsen
#126770
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Sophie Laurent
#126799
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Samee Ullah Khan
#126814
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Michele Cavo
#126821
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#5371
Arthur Feldman
#108340
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Arthur Michael Feldman is an American cardiologist and the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Medicine in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, known for his research on heart failure. Among his previous positions include Harry S. Tack Professor and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Magee Chair of the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, and Executive Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Clinical and Translational Science and the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. In 2019, ...
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Kazunari Yoshizawa
#126822
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Rhett Kempe
#126824
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
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Tom Wesselmann
#10192
Overall Influence
1931 - 2004 (73 years)
Thomas K. Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Early years Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati. From 1949 to 1951 he attended college in Ohio; first at Hiram College, and then transferred to major in Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. He was drafted into the US Army in 1952, but spent his service years stateside. During that time he made his first cartoons, and became interested in pursuing a career in cartooning. After his discharge he completed his psychology degree in 1954, whereupon he began to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
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Bunsho Ohtani
#126834
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Patrick Garnero
#126837
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Atsuo Yamada
#126839
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Shamsuddin Shahid
#126849
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Mieczysław Warmus
#126855
Overall Influence
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Mieczysław Warmus was a Polish mathematician, a pioneer of computer science in Poland, professor, university lecturer, author of over a hundred scientific papers.
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Dianna Xu
#68836
Overall Influence
Yilun Dianna Xu is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research concerns the computational geometry of curves and surfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics. She is a professor of computer science at Bryn Mawr College where she chairs the computer science department.
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Theo Gevers
#126938
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Mohammad Reaza Rahimpour
#126946
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Masanobu Kano
#126953
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David J. Norris
#126960
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Trinad Chakraborty
#126971
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Patrick Pérez
#126973
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Christoph Leuschner
#126975
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
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Eric Andrew Finkelstein
#126997
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Maoguo Gong
#127009
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Ilias Kyriazakis
#127012
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Antoine Maignan
#127038
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
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Nagao Kobayashi
#127057
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Pieter Wesseling
#127059
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David E Levy
#127069
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Rens Bod
#91165
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Rens Bod is a professor in digital humanities and history of humanities at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the exploration of patterns and underlying principles in language, music, art, literature and history. He also investigates the history of pattern searching in the humanities from a supranational perspective, thereby giving an impulse to the new field of "history of the humanities". In addition, Bod explores the history of the human search for meaning and purpose, and the underlying patterns and principles therein.
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Hiromi Rakugi
#127108
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Jim Whitehead
#75802
Overall Influence
E. James Whitehead is Professor and Chair of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. He served as the Chair of the Computer Science department University of California, Santa Cruz from 2010 to 2014. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1989, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2000.
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Teiji Tominaga
#127128
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Reid G. Simmons
#127129
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Luigi Mariani
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