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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Zhou Cheng Wang
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Peter A. Clarkson
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Anuradha Annaswamy
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Anuradha M. Annaswamy is a computer scientist noted for her research on adaptive control theory and smart grids. Since 1996, she has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, Annaswamy is a senior research scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and directs the Active Adaptive Control Laboratory .
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Joseph Beyene
#137188
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Kamal Dua
#137193
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Wayne Powell
#137194
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Walter Vetter
#137196
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Robert William Elwood
#137214
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Richard Sutton
#137215
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Sara Gandini
#137229
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Goki Eda
#137243
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Michael Hesse
#137259
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Erik Smolders
#137275
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Susan Wonnacott
#137277
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Thierry Soussi
#137288
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
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Didier Leys
#137289
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Herbert Zimmermann
#137290
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Masashi Akiyama
#137299
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Kalevi Pihlaja
#137312
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Donald. G. Mitchell
#137319
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Chun-Hway Hsueh
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Chun-Hway Hsueh is a Taiwanese materials scientist. Hsueh studied physics at National Taiwan University, then switched to materials science as a graduate student at National Tsing Hua University and the University of California, Berkeley. He began working for Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1986. In 2002, he was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in materials science. Hsueh returned to Taiwan in 2008 to teach at National Taiwan University, and was appointed to a distinguished professorship within the school's Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2010. He has served as associate editor for several academic journals.
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Kiyohide Fushimi
#137323
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Vittorio Ferrari
#137350
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Hooman Kamel
#137357
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Jane Grimson
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Jane Grimson , is an Irish computer engineer. She is Fellow Emerita and Pro-Chancellor at Trinity College Dublin. Education Grimson attended Alexandra College Dublin. She was the first woman to graduate in engineering from Trinity College Dublin obtaining a first class honors degree and gold medal in 1970. She received a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1971, and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1981.
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Siu-ming. Yiu
#137372
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Juyang Weng
#137380
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Maurizio Sanguinetti
#137387
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Eric C. Beyer
#137391
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Chiarella Sforza
#137393
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#6381
Jeannine Mosely
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Jeannine Mosely holds a Ph.D. in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is known for her work as an origami artist. She is best known for her modular origami designs, especially her work using business cards. She has organized several crowd-sourced origami projects built from tens of thousands of business cards involving hundred of volunteers for each project. She is also known for her minimalist origami designs , curved crease models, and her invention of "or-egg-ami" models made from egg cartons.
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Hidetoshi Inoko
#137414
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Chun Yuan
#137419
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Minoru Isobe
#137420
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Robert Joseph Taylor
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Zhang Hongjiang
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Zhang Hongjiang is a Chinese computer scientist and executive. He served as CEO of Kingsoft, managing director of Microsoft Advanced Technology Center and chief technology officer of Microsoft China Research and Development Group . Hongjiang is currently Chairman of BAAI. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his technical contributions and leadership in the area of multimedia computing.
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Pingshan Luo
#137464
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Rosario Scopelliti
#137486
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Rahul Sukthankar
#137500
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Takashi Fujita
#137507
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George Vosselman
#137516
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Jinhui Tang
#137518
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Nobuhiro Suzuki
#137529
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Sang Joon Lee
#137543
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Mustafa Al-Bassam
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1995 - Present (31 years)
Mustafa Al-Bassam is a British computer security researcher, hacker, and co-founder of Celestia Labs. Al-Bassam co-founded the hacker group LulzSec in 2011, which was responsible for several high profile breaches. He later went on to co-found Chainspace, a company implementing a smart contract platform, which was acquired by Facebook in 2019. In 2021, Al-Bassam graduated from University College London, completing a PhD in computer science with a thesis on Securely Scaling Blockchain Base Layers. In 2016, Forbes listed Al-Bassam as one of the 30 Under 30 entrepreneurs in technology.
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Jianzhang Zhao
#137577
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Philippe Christen
#137601
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
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Kazumasa Wakamatsu
#137604
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Freda Stevenson
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Freda Kathryn Stevenson is a British immunologist and Professor at the University of Southampton. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000, and was the first British researcher to be awarded the American Society of Hematology Henry M. Stratton Medal.
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Meredith Ringel Morris
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