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,
#6101
Gautam Das
#100692
Overall Influence
Gautam Das is a computer scientist in the field of databases research. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow . He is a Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Associate Dean of Research of College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, and director of the Database Exploration Laboratory at the CSE department at UTA. His is known for his work in databases, data mining, computational geometry, and algorithms.
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Kenji Matsuda
#134508
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6103
Tom Murphy VII
#123290
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Thomas Walter Murphy VII , also known as Tom 7 or by his YouTube handle of suckerpinch, is a computer scientist and YouTuber who is known for various computer-science and engineering projects, including an artificial intelligence to play NES games, "reverse-emulating" the NES to play SNES games, and a recut of Star Wars: Episode IV in alphabetical order. He also contributes papers to annual satirical computer science conference SIGBOVIK.
Go to Profile#6104
Liu Jingnan
#39729
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Liu Jingnan is a Chinese geodesist and educator. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping , and worked at Hunan Provincial Coalfield Physical Test Team, Xiangtan Mining Institute and Wuhan University. In 1999, he was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He served as the President of Wuhan University from 2003 to 2008, and the inaugural Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University from 2012.
Go to Profile#6105
Werner Guenther Daniel
#134557
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#6106
Festus Victor Bekun
#134571
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#6107
Richard Rogers
#134577
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#6108
Bhramar Mukherjee
#105274
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Bhramar Mukherjee is an Indian-American biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher. She is the John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor and the Chair of Department of Biostatistics, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan. She serves as the associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Mukherjee holds a Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow position at the Biostatistics Unit of the Medical Research Council, working on the theme of population health at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Go to Profile#6109
Dongsheng Wen
#134608
Overall Influence
#6110
Ravindra Kumar Garg
#134612
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#6111
Anthony H. Futerman
#134618
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#6112
Agnès Varda
#17812
Overall Influence
1928 - 2019 (91 years)
Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing women's issues, and other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style.
Go to Profile#6113
Valter Torri
#134643
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#6114
Anders Wallin
#134662
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#6115
Peter Langer
#134688
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#6116
Kazutaka Katoh
#134696
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6117
Mauro Piacentini
#134703
Overall Influence
#6118
Roger Marchant
#134712
Overall Influence
#6119
Eugene Kaspersky
#101228
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.
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Suksun Horpibulsuk
#134732
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#6121
Carles Sierra
#134743
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#6122
Giuseppe Basso
#134749
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#6123
Reza Shaker
#134755
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#6124
Alain Abran
#134756
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
#6125
Ronald Paxton-sheets Mahler
#134760
Overall Influence
#6126
Jingdong Wang
#134799
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#6127
Alain Krief
#134804
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#6128
Donald D. Brown
#32064
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Donald David Brown was an American biologist and one of the founders of molecular embryology. Early life Brown was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dr. Albert Brown, an ophthalmologist, and Louise Rauh.
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Vasso Apostolopoulos
#134815
Overall Influence
#6130
Knud Erik Bach Knudsen
#134819
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#6131
Satinder Kaur Brar
#134828
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#6132
Huadong Ma
#134839
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#6133
Israel Goldberg
#134845
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#6134
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles
#121763
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Gustavo Caetano-Anollés is Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an expert in the field of evolutionary and comparative genomics.
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Hisataka Kobayashi
#134860
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#6136
Haruhiko Koseki
#134901
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6137
Daniel Razansky
#134905
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#6138
Rafael Perera
#134912
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#6139
Emmanuel Dupoux
#134917
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#6140
Mark Johnston
#134925
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#6141
Makoto Arita
#134954
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#6142
Boualem Benatallah
#134968
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#6143
Joseph Seffi Naor
#122844
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Joseph Seffi Naor is an Israeli professor of computer science and an author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles which were published in such journals as Journal of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and SIAM Journal on Computing among others.
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Chris Johnson
#98875
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Chris Johnson is an American fine art photographer, educator, author, curator, video and installation artist working primarily with themes related to personal history, chance operations and social justice. He is a professor of photography at the California College of the Arts. His photographic work has been shown in a solo exhibition at Monterey Museum of Art. Johnson's video work in collaboration with the Question Bridge team has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Brooklyn Museum and Portland Art Museum.
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Marina Cella
#134982
Overall Influence
#6146
Joshua Zhexue Huang
#135060
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#6147
Hiroshi Sakagami
#135065
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#6148
Helen Purchase
#135069
Overall Influence
Helen C. Purchase is a researcher in information visualization, graph drawing, and human–computer interaction. She has held academic appointments at The University of Queensland , The University of Glasgow and Monash University .
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David M. Margolis
#135081
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#6150
Feng Pan
#135083
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