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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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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Xifen Yan
#136589
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Mikio Furuse
#136597
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M. Ichael S. T. Urner
#136599
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#6304
Naoki Sugimoto
#136601
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#6305
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
#41820
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Ram Ramaswamy is an Indian scientist and professor of chemistry at JNU. Education and career He obtained his B.Sc. in chemistry from Loyola College, Chennai, then M.Sc. in chemistry from the IIT, Kanpur, and Ph.D. from Princeton University where he worked under the supervision of Herschel Rabitz. He then moved to California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he was between 1978 and 1980, working with Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus.
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Gautam Srivastava
#136685
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#6307
David Barnard
#68197
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1951 - Present (75 years)
David T. Barnard is a Canadian computer scientist, academic, and, from 2008 to 2020, the 11th president and vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. He was chair of Universities Canada. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975 , and a Ph.D. in 1981 all in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. He started his academic career at Queen's University in 1977 eventually becoming a Professor in the Computing and Information Science Department. In 1996, he was appointed Vice-President and Controller at the University of Regina. From 1998 to 2005, he was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina.
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Franz Grieser
#136700
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#6309
Arthur Boyd
#16434
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1920 - 1999 (79 years)
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion , now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.
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Raheem Beyah
#97271
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1976 - Present (50 years)
Raheem Beyah is an American computer engineer, researcher, and educator. As of January 15, 2021 he is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to becoming the Dean, he was the vice president for Interdisciplinary Research and the Motorola Foundation Professor and the executive director of Georgia Tech's online masters in cyber security program. Beyah is also the co-founder and chair of industrial security company Fortiphyd Logic, Inc.
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Byoung Chul Cho
#136745
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#6312
Ulrich John
#136750
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#6313
Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
#136758
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Nicholas F. Taylor
#136759
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#6315
Ning Li
#136764
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#6316
Joshua Denny
#129927
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Joshua Charles Denny is an American physician and medical researcher who is the chief executive officer of the All of Us research program at the National Institutes of Health, where he has worked since 2020. He previously served as Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, founding Director of the Center for Precision Medicine, and Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American College of Medical Informatics.
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Xavier Forns
#136776
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#6318
Christopher John Harris
#136790
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#6319
Chunxiao Jiang
#136806
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#6320
Qin Zhong
#136824
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#6321
David Matula
#113936
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1937 - Present (89 years)
David William Matula is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.
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H. V. Thulasiram
#64532
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1971 - Present (55 years)
Hirekodathakallu Venkataramaiah Thulasiram is an Indian bioorganic chemist, chemical biologist and a principal scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. he is known for his studies in the fields of biocatalysis and organic synthesis, specifically on isoprenoid biosynthesis. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2015.
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Clayton D. Scott
#136895
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#6324
Jong‐hwan Kim
#136896
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#6325
Bror Jonsson
#136902
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#6326
Daved H. Fremont
#97462
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Daved H. Fremont is a professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with dual appointments in the Departments of Pathology and Immunology/Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. He is currently director of the Computational and Molecular Biophysics Program. Fremont is also a principal investigator in the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Disease and his laboratory has deposited structures of proteins from several major human pathogens to the protein data bank .
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Sasha Madronich
#136913
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#6328
Enrico Maggi
#136937
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#6329
David G. Lloyd
#136945
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Ashok Mulchandani
#136961
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Robert Maki
#116981
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Robert Maki is an American medical oncologist, Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, He is a specialist in the management of and translational research regarding sarcoma, the group of connective tissue malignancies that include leiomyosarcoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumor , liposarcoma, angiosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, desmoid tumor and many others.
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Christian Rüssel
#136991
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Yacine Rezgui
#137024
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#6334
Ani Nenkova
#110131
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Ani Nenkova is Principal Scientist at Adobe Research, currently on leave from her position as an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on developing computational methods for analysis of text quality and style, discourse, affect recognition, and summarization.
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William D. Rawlinson
#137042
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#6336
Xiangyang Xue
#137045
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#6337
Valeria De Antonellis
#129486
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Valeria De Antonellis is Professor Emeritus at University of Brescia, Italy, since February 2021. Previously she was a professor of computer science and engineering at University of Brescia, Italy, where she led the research group on "Databases, Information Systems and Web" at Department of Information Engineering.
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Ian Chau
#137065
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Richard F. Kefford
#137071
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Thomas F. Koetzle
#137083
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Tristan Guillot
#137100
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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Torsten Pietsch
#137111
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#6343
Kristi Reynolds
#137121
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#6344
Naftali Raz
#137133
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#6345
Andrew Adewale Alola
#137144
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#6346
Syed I. Ahson
#98638
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Syed I Ahson is a computer science professor, education management professional, researcher, and author. He specialises in multiple areas, including bioinformatics, computational biology, and Web 2.0. Ahson graduated from University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a National Merit Scholarship Award, India . He also won a British Council Overseas Scholarship Award for Ph.D. . He later taught in Saudi Arabia and India. His recent posting was at Patna University, Bihar as pro-Vice chancellor. While there he enacted educational reforms amide political chaos and bureaucracy.
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Ronald de Wolf
#121165
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Ronald Michiel de Wolf is a Dutch Computer Scientist, currently a Senior Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and a professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam .
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Paul Proost
#137157
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Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
#137159
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Yogesh Dwivedi
#137167
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