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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Asit Baran Mandal
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William G. Dyer
#55137
Overall Influence
1925 - 1997 (72 years)
William Gibb Dyer was an American educator who served as the fourth Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University . He received a B.A. from BYU in 1950, followed by a M.A. from the same institution two years later. In 1955 he earned a Ph.D. in Social psychology from the University of Wisconsin.
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William Jungers
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Hjalmar Laudon
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Toshio Kitamura
#136154
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Jon George Rokne
#136169
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Jon George Rokne from the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 "for contributions to computer graphics and geographic information systems".
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Hakon Leffler
#136173
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Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
#136175
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#6259
Ugo Testa
#136189
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
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Andreas Daiber
#136192
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Po Keung Wong
#136194
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Michele Maio
#136196
Overall Influence
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Noah Comet
#38442
Overall Influence
Noah Comet is a professor of English literature at the United States Naval Academy. He specializes in Nineteenth Century British Literature. He is known for his book called Romantic Hellenism and Women Writers from Macmillan and several scholarly articles, among them essays in The Wordsworth Circle and the Keats-Shelley Journal on poets Letitia Landon and Felicia Hemans, and articles on John Keats and Lord Byron, including a 2016 essay on Byron's influence on early explorations of Yellowstone. He has also written essays on nature and ecotourism for The New York Times, The Denver Post, and T...
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Luis Alberto García-Rodríguez
#136232
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Christoph E. Schreiner
#136258
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Francesco Longo
#136262
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Michael P. Washburn
#136268
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Audun Jøsang
#136271
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#6269
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
#136281
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
#6270
Makoto Takizawa
#136287
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
#6271
Om P. Bahl
#64797
Overall Influence
1927 - 2004 (77 years)
Om Praksh Bahl was an Indian-American molecular biologist, academic and a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York. He was known for his studies on Human chorionic gonadotropin, popularly known as the pregnancy hormone. He was associated with the World Health Organization as an adviser to their Population Council and was a member of the Population Research Committee of the National Institutes of Health. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1973, for his contributions to science and engineering.
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Akio Inui
#136305
Overall Influence
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Yuji Kamiya
#136332
Overall Influence
#6274
Sandra A. Edwards
#136343
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
#6275
B. S. Sahay
#27166
Overall Influence
Prof. B. S. Sahay is the Founder Director, Indian Institute of Management Jammu. He was the Founder Director of Indian Institute of Management Raipur, Management Development Institute , Gurgaon and Institute of Management Technology , Ghaziabad. Sahay completed his BTech from BIT Sindri and received his MTech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
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John L. Bowman
#136344
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Michael Groll
#136349
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
#6278
Giuseppe Leone
#136352
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Samuel G. Jacobson
#136363
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Kadangode K. Ramakrishnan
#136365
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Muhammad Khurram Khan
#136370
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Rolf Sprengel
#136393
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Michael J. Quon
#136394
Overall Influence
#6284
Arthur Hall Smith
#122245
Overall Influence
1929 - 2013 (84 years)
Arthur Hall Smith was an American painter. Biography Smith grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where he received his first drawing instruction at an early age from his father, who was a naval architect. He studied at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he obtained a BFA. He received a Fulbright Fellowship upon graduation and went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, École du Louvre, and the Institute d'Art et Archeologie. While in Paris, he also studied privately with Stanley William Hayter. He did graduate study at the University of Washington and also privately studied with Mark Tobey. S...
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Sherry Towers
#57665
Overall Influence
Sherry Towers is an American and Canadian statistician and data scientist working as an independent consultant and an affiliate scholar with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany following a seven year position as a faculty research associate at Arizona State University. Towers is perhaps best known for her study of the contagion effect of mass shootings. She is also the founder and owner of Towers Consulting LLC, a consulting company that provides visual analytics, data mining, applied statistics, and computational modeling services to industry, academia, and t...
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Jason Hong
#136461
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Vitor Mendes Pereira
#136462
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Fabrice Carrat
#136467
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#6289
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas
#36790
Overall Influence
1906 - 1994 (88 years)
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas , also known as Nikos Ghika, was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, International Association of Art Critics.
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Takao Hanawa
#136488
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Larissa Shamseer
#136489
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6292
Gilberto Câmara
#61262
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Gilberto Câmara is a Brazilian computer scientist and is currently serving as the Secretariat Director for the Group on Earth Observations . He is a former director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research . He was head of INPE's Image Processing Division from 1991 to 1996 and Director for Earth Observation from 2001 to 2005.
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Junchi Yan
#136503
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Angela Y. Wu
#108718
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Angela Yuen Wu is an American computer scientist, a professor emerita at American University. She is known for her research in computer vision and computational geometry, and especially for her highly cited publications on k-means clustering and nearest neighbor search. Other topics in her research include embeddings of tree-structured parallel systems into the hypercube internetwork topology and voxel-based object representations.
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Robert Snoeck
#136510
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Kazuo Minematsu
#136518
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Fabio Facchetti
#136561
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#6298
Yannis Manolopoulos
#136566
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#6299
Daniel Reisner
#38217
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Colonel Adv. Daniel Reisner is the former Head of the International Law Branch of the Israel Defense Forces Legal Division, and a partner with Herzog, Fox & Neeman. External links Herzog, Fox & Neeman bioMartindale-Hubbell bio
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Taroh Kinoshita
#136586
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