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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David Wolfe Corne
#130886
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Lidan Xu
#130904
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#5753
Richard E. Korf
#130952
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#5754
Mitsuo Ochi
#130961
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#5755
Ib Jarle Christensen
#130977
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#5756
Sanja Fidler
#130980
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#5757
Anna Vittoria Mattioli
#130995
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#5758
Ming Qiu Zhang
#131004
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#5759
Gerald Jay Sussman
#131008
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#5760
Piero Portincasa
#131023
Overall Influence
#5761
Shigang Chen
#97914
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Shigang Chen from the University of Florida in Gainesville was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to quality of service provisioning and policy-based security management in computer networks.
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Giovanni Pellacani
#131039
Overall Influence
#5763
Witold Kosiński
#101691
Overall Influence
1946 - 2014 (68 years)
Witold Kosiński was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist. He was the lead inventor and main propagator of Ordered Fuzzy Numbers . For many years Professor Witold Kosiński was associated with the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has also worked as the Vice-Chancellor of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology - PJIIT in Warsaw and the Head of the Artificial Systems Division at the PJIIT. Finally, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Technical Sciences, the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgo...
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Charles Dumontet
#131057
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#5765
Yoshinobu Onuma
#131071
Overall Influence
#5766
Nihal Ahmad
#131095
Overall Influence
#5767
Casper G. Schalkwijk
#131103
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#5768
Dieu Tien Bui
#131112
Overall Influence
#5769
Sigmar Polke
#7827
Overall Influence
1941 - 2010 (69 years)
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of them.
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Samir Jaber
#131118
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#5771
Daniel Axelrod
#131121
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#5772
Athanasios George Tzioufas
#131129
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#5773
Kelin Wang
#111911
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Kelin Wang is a senior research scientist and has worked for the Geological Survey of Canada since 1992. His research encompasses geodynamics and natural hazards, with major contributions in researching slow-slip events along the Cascadia subduction interface.
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Angelo Ravelli
#131143
Overall Influence
#5775
Liu Guosong
#22385
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Liu Kuo-sung is a Chineseese artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. Liu is widely regarded as one of the earliest and most important advocates and practitioners of modernist Chinese painting. He is also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.
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Giorgio Gabella
#131162
Overall Influence
#5777
John D. Gannon
#104562
Overall Influence
1948 - 1999 (51 years)
John D. Gannon was a prominent computer scientist, professor and chair of the department of computer science University of Maryland, at College Park. Gannon was a leading researcher in software engineering, specifically the specification, analysis, and testing of software systems.
Go to Profile#5778
Qiao-yan Wen
#131206
Overall Influence
#5779
Chris Q. Doe
#58918
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Chris Q Doe is a professor of Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the Institute for Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Doe did his PhD work with Corey Goodman at Stanford University, followed by postdoctoral fellowship with Matthew P. Scott at University of Colorado Boulder. He is a researcher in developmental biology known for his studies on neurogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster neural stem cell neuroblasts. His lab investigates the generation of neuronal diversity and neural circuit formation in Drosophila melanogaster. Doe is also a member of the...
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Dheeraj Sharma
#29112
Overall Influence
Dheeraj Sharma is a professor of management. He has been director of the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak since 2017, and is also a full professor on leave from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is honorary professor of Jawahar Lal Nehru University India and University of Delhi, India. He is former associate editor of journal of marketing channels
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Yin Xiao
#131221
Overall Influence
#5782
Alun Huw Davies
#117993
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Alun Huw Davies MA, DM, DSc, FRCS, FHEA, FEBVS, FLSW, FACPh, is a Welsh professor of vascular surgery at the Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and former President of Sections at Royal Society of Medicine.
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Yaniv Altshuler
#76603
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Yaniv Altshuler, is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, at the Human Dynamics group headed by professor Alex Pentland. In 2014 he co-founded Endor, an MIT spinoff, financially backed by Eric Schmidt, that offers analytics to help understand, predict, and influence the dynamics of human behavior.
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Suhny Abbara
#131261
Overall Influence
#5785
James J. Walker
#131265
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#5786
Richard Billingham
#22795
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Richard Billingham is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere.
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Ali. A. Ghorbani
#131283
Overall Influence
#5788
Paul M. Newman
#131298
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#5789
Wonpil Im
#95814
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Wonpil Im is professor of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at the Lehigh University and has been named the Presidential Endowed Chair in Health Science and Engineering. He has previously taught at University of Kansas. Wonpil Im has been appointed to KIAS scholar in 2016. Wonpil Im was a recipient of the 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Bao Yu Xia
#131327
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#5791
Shuguang Zhang
#131334
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#5792
Donald W. Bouldin
#131337
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#5793
Terence Dwyer
#131366
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#5794
Miroslav Strnad
#131373
Overall Influence
#5795
Declan Walsh
#131377
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
#5796
Keiichi Namba
#131381
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#5797
Alaide Chieffo
#131382
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#5798
Junji Terao
#131395
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#5799
Lawrence James Hubert
#131400
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#5800
Victor S. Lempitsky
#131403
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