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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Trevor Sharp
#127153
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Chunmiao Zheng
#127168
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#5403
Alain Marty
#127180
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#5404
Stephen. M. Pizer
#127189
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#5405
Ross T. Whitaker
#91174
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Ross T. Whitaker is an American computer scientist and Director of the University of Utah School of Computing. Biography Whitaker graduated summa cum laude in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986. Following college, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group for two years before entering the computer science PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. He graduated in 1993, after which he worked at the European Computer-Industry Research Center in Munich, Germany.
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Peter
#37516
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Peter was a Bulgarian nobleman who held the high title of sevastokrator around 1253. He married a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. He ruled significant territories in Bulgaria during the reign of his brother-in-law, Michael II Asen.
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Qi Jin
#127293
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#5408
Kristian Reich
#127321
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#5409
Siglinda Perathoner
#127342
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#5410
Charles Nicholson
#127346
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Hude Quan
#127364
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#5412
Atsushi Ochiai
#127374
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#5413
Urban Lendahl
#127376
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#5414
Mayank Goyal
#127387
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#5415
Leonard Barolli
#127388
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#5416
Maurizio Cattelan
#6185
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian visual artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him being frequently labelled as a joker or prankster of the art world. Self-taught as an artist, Cattelan has exhibited internationally in museums and Biennials.
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Eddy Fan
#127413
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#5418
Sylvain Houle
#127424
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#5419
Snehashish Chakraverty
#127439
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1963 - Present (63 years)
#5420
Katsushi Tokunaga
#127449
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#5421
Stefan Luding
#127450
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#5422
Han Hsiang-ning
#38391
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Han Hsiang-ning is a Taiwanese-American artist. He emigrated to New York from Taiwan in 1967. He joined the O.K. Harris Works of Art from 1971 until 1984. Han has participated in many prominent museum exhibitions. He often uses spray painting and paints photo-realistic street scenes.
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Sarah E. Pinder
#127459
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Michael Goldsmith
#118766
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Michael Goldsmith is a British computer scientist, senior research fellow and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, England. He is a member of Oxford University's Department of Computer Science. He is an associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Centre, and an Oxford Martin Fellow of The Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. He is a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
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Sanjit A. Seshia
#127487
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#5426
Frank Buttgereit
#127488
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#5427
Kent Beck
#127499
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#5428
Brian Carpenter
#104522
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Brian Edward Carpenter is a British Internet engineer and a former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force , the Internet Architecture Board , and the Internet Society. Early life and education Carpenter was born in Leicester, England, and was educated at the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester. He earned a master's degree in physics from Downing College at Cambridge University, and MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from The University of Manchester.
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Josip Car
#127513
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Nassim Kamar
#127521
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Charles Peter Elkan
#127522
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Roger Stephan
#127527
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#5433
Glenn Regehr
#127531
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#5434
Nigel Curtis
#127541
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#5435
Sergei Tretiak
#127542
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1968 - Present (58 years)
#5436
Antonio Pich
#127543
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#5437
Satoshi Uematsu
#127556
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#5438
John Romero
#96787
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1967 - Present (59 years)
Alfonso John Romero is an American director, designer, programmer and developer in the video game industry. He is a co-founder of id Software and designed their early games, including Wolfenstein 3D , Doom , Doom II , Hexen and Quake . His designs and development tools, along with programming techniques developed by id Software's lead programmer, John Carmack, popularized the first-person shooter genre. Romero is also credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch".
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Brian Charles Greensborough Williams
#127563
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Wei-ming Hu
#127575
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#5441
Mingxi Yang
#127586
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#5442
Anton Neuwirth
#57368
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1921 - 2004 (83 years)
Anton Neuwirth was a Slovak medical doctor, political prisoner, Member of Parliament, Presidential candidate and ambassador. Early life, education and family Neuwirth was born on 22 January 1921 in Chalmová, Bystričany. He grew up in Kapušany, Žilina and Bojnice.
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Raymond W. Lam
#127612
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Pavol Hell
#48109
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Pavol Hell is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, born in Czechoslovakia. He is a professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University. Hell started his mathematical studies at Charles University in Prague, and moved to Canada in August 1968 after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He obtained his MSc from McMaster University in Hamilton, under the joint supervision of Gert Sabidussi and Alex Rosa, and his PhD at the Universite de Montreal, with Gert Sabidussi. In his PhD research he pioneered, on the suggestion of Gert Sabidussi, the study of graph retracts. He desc...
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Setsuko Komatsu
#127641
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#5446
Blake Alexander Simmons
#127650
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Dhiraj K. Pradhan
#127653
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#5448
Andreas R. Dengel
#127665
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#5449
Adriano V Barbosa
#127670
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Michael Schloter
#127685
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