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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Ljupčo Kocarev
#76776
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Ljupčo Kocarev is a Macedonian scientist, academic and professor of physics and electrical engineering and the President of the national Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Curriculum vitae He completed his primary, secondary and higher education in his hometown Skopje in Northern Macedonia. He holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and a doctorate from the Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Science in Skopje.
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Koji Kimata
#127725
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Henrik Galbo
#127726
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Jesper Møller
#125513
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Jesper Møller is a Danish mathematician. He is a professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University, where he conducts research and teaching in mathematical statistics and probability theory. In 2012, he created the Bachelor and Master's Programmes in Mathematics and Technology at Aalborg University.
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Xitao Fan
#127739
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#5456
Arnold J.M Driessen
#127760
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#5457
Hideaki Takagi
#127765
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
#5458
Kai Nagel
#127768
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#5459
Motomu Kanai
#127780
Overall Influence
#5460
Ken-ichi Kanatani
#127790
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#5461
Dapeng Cao
#127791
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Felisa Verdejo
#118538
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
María Felisa Verdejo Maillo , known as Felisa Verdejo, is a university professor in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at UNED. She is one of the Spanish pioneers in natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
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Carlos Blanco
#127823
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
#5464
Hing Cheung So
#127826
Overall Influence
#5465
Takeshi Sakurai
#127844
Overall Influence
#5466
Wayne W. C. Luk
#127849
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#5467
Thomas Lukasiewicz
#127861
Overall Influence
#5468
Bernd Jähne
#127862
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
#5469
William W. Hager
#127874
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#5470
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat
#100315
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a French computer scientist, who works as a director of research at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation . He is an invited professor of computational geometry at the Collège de France, holding the Chair in Informatics and Computational Sciences for 2016–2017.
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Hisanori Shinohara
#127886
Overall Influence
#5472
Myra Wilson
#69139
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Myra S. Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is a senior lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her research interests are in the broad area of robotics, and she also teaches in the field.
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Stavros Petrou
#127897
Overall Influence
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Georges Gonthier
#70001
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Georges Gonthier is a Canadian computer scientist and one of the leading practitioners in formal mathematics. He led the formalization of the four color theorem and Feit–Thompson proof of the odd-order theorem.
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Christof Paar
#127926
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#5476
Masashi Fukayama
#127948
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#5477
Changsheng Xu
#127949
Overall Influence
#5478
Nobuo Sekine
#70932
Overall Influence
1942 - 2019 (77 years)
was a Japanese sculptor who resided in both Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California. A graduate of Tama Art University, he was one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, arranging them or interacting with them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states.
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Andrea Zittel
#31020
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Andrea Zittel is an American artist based in Joshua Tree, CA whose practice encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation that explores the questions "How to live?" and "What gives life meaning?"
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Andrew Niikondo
#61062
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Andrew Niikondo is a Namibian academic. He is the pro-vice-chancellor for academic affairs of the Namibia University of Science and Technology and the chairperson of the think tank of SWAPO. Education and early life Niikondo was born on 15 January 1962 in Onantsi near Ondangwa in Ovamboland, today Namibia's Oshana Region. He quit school at the age of 17 in order to join the People's Liberation Army of Namibia . He went into Angolan exile and was trained at Lubango. He became an officer of the artillery for PLAN under Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah and only returned to Namibia a decade later. In 2018 Niikondo published a book, Are you a Person or a Ghost?, detailing his experiences in exile.
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Yasuhiko Tomino
#127980
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#5482
Yoshiharu Matsuura
#128001
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#5483
Markus Sauer
#128019
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#5484
Adnan Y. Darwiche
#128021
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#5485
Bruno Sangro
#128027
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#5486
Dahua Lin
#128031
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#5487
Michel Dupuis
#128044
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#5488
Anisur Rahman
#128049
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Oded Regev
#128060
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#5490
Olivier Piguet
#128077
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Fabio Facchinetti
#128103
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
#5492
Richard Diebenkorn
#9266
Overall Influence
1922 - 1993 (71 years)
Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.
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Alessandro Bressan
#128117
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David Fell
#97560
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
David A. Fell is a British biochemist and professor of systems biology at Oxford Brookes University. He has published over 200 publications, including a textbook on Understanding the control of metabolism in 1996.
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Xavier Pennec
#128161
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Xinbo Ruan
#78352
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Xinbo Ruan is from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to switching-mode power converter topologies and modulation strategies.
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Hirohito Kita
#128168
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Koji Takeuchi
#128195
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#5499
Clement Joseph Mcdonald
#128201
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Hiroshi Shimizu
#128208
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