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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Stephen H. Kirby
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Val Murray Runge
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Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf
#133973
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Bruno Pereira
#133975
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Hitoshi Shimano
#133979
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Yasunori Okada
#133984
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Omer Farooq Rana
#133996
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#6058
Ajay Kohli
#88105
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Ajay K. Kohli is the Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on market orientation, marketing theory and marketing strategy. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing. He is a fellow of the American Marketing Association. He is among the 100 most cited authors in the fields of Business and Economics combined in a decade, and two of his articles are among the 10 most cited Journal of Marketing articles in a quarter century. He is represented in ISIHighlyCited.com, an ISI web site from the In...
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David L Robertson
#134011
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Goetz Graefe
#134013
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#6061
Ari Waisman
#134014
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#6062
Kazuo Iwama
#123366
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Kazuo Iwama is a Japanese computer scientist who works at Kyoto University. Topics in his research include stable marriage, quantum circuits, the Boolean satisfiability problem, and algorithms on graphs.
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Cauligi Srinivasa Pullman Raghavendra
#134022
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Charles Lawrence Zitnick
#134029
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Justin Cappos
#104705
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1977 - Present (49 years)
Justin Cappos is a computer scientist and cybersecurity expert whose data-security software has been adopted by a number of widely used open-source projects. His research centers on software update systems, security, and virtualization, with a focus on real-world security problems.
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Mark A. Ragan
#134053
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Mario Boccadoro
#134072
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#6068
Steven Riley
#114839
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Steven Riley is a professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London. He is a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group of SAGE. External links https://twitter.com/srileyidd?lang=enhttps://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Steven-Riley-39361468https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-4804
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Nicola Segata
#134093
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Sergio Papa
#134114
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1935 - Present (91 years)
#6071
David S. Ebert
#128553
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1964 - Present (62 years)
David S. Ebert is a computer scientist, holding the position of Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Purdue University. Ebert's research focuses on computer graphics and visualization. Currently, he is the director of U.S. DHS Center of Excellence in Visual Analytics . and Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
Go to Profile#6072
Takayoshi Ohkubo
#134130
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#6073
Koichi Sasada
#122639
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Koichi Sasada is a Japanese computer scientist and a Ruby core committer. Formerly a member of Matz's team at Heroku, he will continue development on the Ruby interpreter. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo from 2008 to 2012. He was responsible for the development of YARV.
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Torsten Hoefler
#134157
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Charles Simonyi
#89698
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software architect. He started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office. He co-founded and led Intentional Software , with the aim of developing and marketing his concept of intentional programming.
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Kohji Tashiro
#134190
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Karel Kostev
#134202
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Sheldon Brown
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Sheldon Brown is an American artist and former Professor of Computer Art at the University of California, San Diego where he held the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair of Digital Media and Learning. He was the founding director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, a co-founder of the California Institute of Information Technologies and Telecommunications, where he was Artist-in-Residence, and he was the site director of the Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research at UCSD. He has been a Visiting Arts Professor at NYU Shanghai, an Ho...
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Somnath Chatterji
#134212
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Bruno Trimarco
#134234
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1954 - Present (72 years)
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Eric Hunter
#134237
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Paul Karoly
#134238
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#6083
Giovanni Sotgiu
#134251
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#6084
Walter Nance
#63608
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1933 - Present (93 years)
Walter Elmore Nance is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Genetics of the Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an internationally known expert in hereditary deafness, twin studies and genetic linkage analysis of both continuous and qualitative traits.
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Joseph C. Dunn
#134320
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Kunitoshi Iseki
#134323
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#6087
Fuyuan Xiao
#134345
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Rafael Esteban
#134346
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#6089
Kim D. Pruitt
#96806
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Kim Dixon Pruitt is an American bioinformatician. She is chief of the information engineering branch at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Pruitt led the development of the RefSeq gene database.
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Anthony D. McGuire
#134393
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Stephen G. Young
#134401
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Tsukasa Seya
#134405
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Yves Cherel
#134406
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#6094
Giuseppe Palleschi
#134407
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1948 - Present (78 years)
#6095
Douglas C. Noll
#134419
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Krystian Mikolajczyk
#134420
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#6097
Andrew P. Bradley
#134441
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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James Gips
#49457
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1946 - 2018 (72 years)
James Gips was an American technologist, academic, and author based in Boston. He was the John R. and Pamela Egan Professor of computer science and professor of information systems at Boston College.
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Martine Bagot
#134460
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M Watanabe
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