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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Marcello Rotondo
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Anastasios Bakirtzis
#114141
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1956 - Present (70 years)
Anastasios Bakirtzis is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to optimization of power systems operation and scheduling.
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Feng Lin
#137632
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Giacomo Indiveri
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Onisimo Mutanga
#137662
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Tatsuya Akutsu
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Nigel Parton
#137679
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Hu-jun Bao
#137685
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Stuart J. Barnes
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Patterson Hume
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1923 - 2013 (90 years)
James Nairn Patterson "Pat" Hume was a Canadian professor and science educator who has been called "Canada's pioneer of computer programming". He was a professor of Physics and of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and he served as the second Master of Massey College from 1981 to 1988.
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Ole Haagen Nielsen
#137705
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Res Ingold
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Res Ingold is a Swiss contemporary artist. He is known for his superfiction airline company Ingold Airlines he started in 1982. Res Ingold is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Exhibitions and actions In 1993, he participated to the group show Business Art Business at the Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherland, curated by Frans Has. Other artists invited included Banca di Oklahoma, Int Fish-Handel Servaas, Mark Kostabi, Name Diffusion , Philippe Cazal, Premiata Ditta, and Tecnotest.In 2000/2001 the exhibition ingold airlines - more than miles took place at Zeppelin Museum Fried...
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Frank Stephan
#137723
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James Louis Dye
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Robert Marcus
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Kozo Fujii
#137745
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Takeo Igarashi
#137747
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Hideki Yorimitsu
#137786
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Keith Brew
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Lizhe Wang
#137811
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1974 - Present (52 years)
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Robert F Miller
#137820
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Michael Eisenhut
#137828
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Ido D. Dagan
#137833
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Katsumi Midorikawa
#137837
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Yehuda Lindell
#137838
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Christopher Callison-burch
#137844
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Mamoru Fujitsuka
#137847
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Supa Pengpid
#137853
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Kenneth Davey
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1932 - 2021 (89 years)
Kenneth Jackson Davey OBE was Emeritus Professor at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham and former Senior Adviser to the Local Government and Public Service reform Initiative of the Open Society Foundations.
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Kunio Miki
#137888
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John J. Lewandowski
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Christine Harrison
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Christine J. Harrison is a Professor of Childhood Cancer Cytogenetics at Newcastle University. She works on acute leukemia and used cytogenetics to optimise treatment protocols. Early life and education Harrison attended an all girls school, where she was encouraged to become a nurse or a teacher. Harrison went to work at GlaxoSmithKline, before returning to education and securing her A-Levels. She was appointed as a research technician at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research. She was encouraged to attend university, and studied zoology at the University of Manchester. She remained there for her postgraduate studies, and earned a PhD in cell biology in 1978.
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Shaobing Peng
#137907
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S. M. Haridi
#137908
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Alice S. Carter
#137917
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Bastiaan Quast
#112285
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Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch Machine learning researcher. He is the author and lead maintainer of the open-source rnn and transformer deep-learning frameworks in the R programming language, and the datasets.load GUI package, as well as R packages on Global Value Chain decomposition & WIOD and on Regression Discontinuity Design. Quast is a great-great-grandson of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Asser.
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Koushik Sen
#137937
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Margarita Chli
#112637
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1983 - Present (43 years)
Margarita Chli is an assistant professor and leader of the Vision for Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. Chli is a leader in the field of computer vision and robotics and was on the team of researchers to develop the first fully autonomous helicopter with onboard localization and mapping. Chli is also the Vice Director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Her research currently focuses on developing visual perception and intelligence in flying autonomous robotic systems.
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Harri Sievänen
#137947
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Masaki Takata
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Franz Dieter Fischer
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Graeme S. Cumming
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Jong Hyeok Park
#137986
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Deborah Joseph
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Deborah A. Joseph is an American computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry, computational biology, and computational complexity theory. She is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Chis J. Date
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Christian Bizer
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1973 - Present (53 years)
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Gary Hill
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Often viewed as one of the foundational artists in video art, based on the single-channel work and video- and sound-based installations of the 1970s and 1980s, he in fact began working in metal sculpture in the late 1960s. Today he is best known for internationally exhibited installations and performance art, concerned as much with innovative language as with technology, and for continuing work in a broad range of media. His longtime work with intermedia explores an array of issues ranging from the physicality of language, synesthesia and perceptual conundrums to ontological space and viewer interactivity.
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Fengnian Xia
#138042
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Aurelio Tobías
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Pedram Argani
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