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,
#5851
Ulrich Stimming
#131988
Overall Influence
#5852
Bharat Kumar. Bhargava
#131997
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#5853
Peyton Jacob
#132000
Overall Influence
#5854
Prashant Kesharwani
#132004
Overall Influence
#5855
Scott King
#88479
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Scott King is a graphic designer and visual artist. Past experiences include Art Director of i-D and Creative Director of Sleazenation magazines, for which he was awarded 'Best Cover' and 'Best Designed Feature of the Year' prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner 'CRASH!' with writer and historian Matt Worley.
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Glenn E. Smith
#132074
Overall Influence
#5857
Andrew J. Jarvis
#132078
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#5858
Jan Dibbets
#19717
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Jan Dibbets is an Amsterdam-based Dutch conceptual artist. His work is influenced by mathematics and works mainly with photography. Life and career In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he started as an art teacher at the Tilburg Academy and studied painting with Jan Gregoor in Eindhoven. He had his first solo exhibition in 1965 at Amsterdam's Galerie 845 and subsequently abandoned painting in 1967. At that same period, he visited London and met Richard Long and other artists working with land art. He returned to Amsterdam, incorporated land-art based theories into his work and began to use phot...
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Robin Thompson
#132097
Overall Influence
#5860
Bernhard Pfahringer
#132103
Overall Influence
#5861
Elizabeta Nemeth
#132112
Overall Influence
#5862
Charles Severance
#63023
Overall Influence
Charles Russell Severance, popularly known as Dr Chuck, is an American computer scientist and academic who currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan, he runs https://www.wa4e.com/.
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Gerrit Boschloo
#132164
Overall Influence
#5864
Alex Chichung. Kot
#132170
Overall Influence
#5865
George Ledin
#103715
Overall Influence
George Ledin, Jr. is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science at Sonoma State University. Ledin's teaching of computer security at Sonoma State has been controversial for its inclusion of material on how to write malware. Ledin is a strong critic of the antivirus software industry, whose products he considers almost useless. Ledin also helped found the computer science program at the University of San Francisco, and published several books on computing in the 1970s and 1980s.
Go to Profile#5866
Mayeen Uddin Khandaker
#132228
Overall Influence
#5867
Stefania Pittaluga
#132233
Overall Influence
#5868
Filip De Turck
#132238
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
#5869
David G. Kleinbaum
#132252
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
#5870
Bruno Gottstein
#132257
Overall Influence
#5871
Frederik Nevens
#132285
Overall Influence
#5872
Christopher John C. Burges
#132287
Overall Influence
#5873
Maria Benedetta Donati
#132293
Overall Influence
#5874
Johannes Fürnkranz
#132299
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
#5875
Zygmunt Vetulani
#96171
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Zygmunt Władysław Vetulani is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in language engineering and artificial intelligence, professor of technical sciences and professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University where he is also Head of the Department of Information Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.
Go to Profile#5876
Thomas Langer
#132324
Overall Influence
#5877
Haruki Nakamura
#132326
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#5878
Kunihiro Ichimura
#132345
Overall Influence
#5879
Yongli Gao
#132348
Overall Influence
#5880
Fabio Marra
#132351
Overall Influence
#5881
James Mullins
#132359
Overall Influence
#5882
Adriano Lazzarin
#132371
Overall Influence
#5883
Bidyut Baran Saha
#132387
Overall Influence
#5884
Benedetto Vitiello
#132388
Overall Influence
#5885
Johanna Pirker
#111131
Overall Influence
1988 - Present (38 years)
Johanna Pirker is an Austrian computer scientist, educator, and game designer at Graz University of Technology and professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a focus on games research, virtual reality and data science. Pirker was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in the category Science & Healthcare for her efforts in improving digital education with virtual reality environments and games. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her dissertation was supervised by the Austrian e-learning expert Christian Gütl and MIT professor of physics John Winston Belcher. She is involved in various efforts to educate about the potential of video games.
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Michael Markl
#132425
Overall Influence
#5887
Hung Liu
#39031
Overall Influence
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
Hung Liu was a Chinese-born American contemporary artist. She was predominantly a painter, but also worked with mixed-media and site-specific installation and was also one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States.
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Emad A. Rakha
#132457
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#5889
Gabriele Varani
#132474
Overall Influence
#5890
Claude Carlet
#132478
Overall Influence
#5891
Naoki Toshima
#132479
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#5892
Jishan Wu
#132483
Overall Influence
#5893
Sebastian Ventura
#132500
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#5894
Gabriel Wainer
#131175
Overall Influence
Gabriel A. Wainer is a Canadian/Argentinian computer scientist known for his work in modeling and simulation. He is a Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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Steffen Thiel
#132512
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#5896
Ivo L. Hofacker
#132519
Overall Influence
#5897
Toshikazu Hirao
#132546
Overall Influence
#5898
Satoshi Nakamura
#95740
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
is a professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He is also an honorary professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Nakamura's current research interests include speech-to-speech translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems, multi-modal communication, and brain activity sensing in linguistics.
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Jay Shankar Singh
#132562
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
#5900
Giovanni Landoni
#132563
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