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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Peter Lennie
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Fahd Jarad
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Robert Indiana
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1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Robert Indiana was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acquaintances in the art world. In 1965, Robert Indiana was invited to propose an artwork to be featured on the Museum of Modern Art's annual Christmas card. Indiana submitted several 12” square oil on canvas variations based on his LOVE image. The museum selected the most intense color combination in red, blue, and green. It became one of the most popular cards the museum has ever offered. Indiana continued to develop his LOVE series, and in 1966, worked with Marian Goodman of Multiples, Inc.
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Peter S. Thorne
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Stefan Wermter
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1961 - Present (65 years)
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Tao Xie
#138108
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Benjamin Rix Brooks
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Ebba Nexø
#138139
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1943 - Present (83 years)
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De N.g. Bruijn
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Umer Rashid
#138147
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Alan P. Koretsky
#138152
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Florian Lordick
#138160
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David Curtis
#138175
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Mitsuru Sasako
#138179
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Masahiro Kikuchi
#138184
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Jerry Kaplan
#138185
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Adriano Brandelli
#138190
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Enrico Martinoia
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Bernd Freisleben
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Raanan Shamir
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Mike Ashley
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Michael Raymond Donald Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction. He has a special interest in fiction magazines and has written a multi-volume History of the Science Fiction Magazine and a study of British fiction magazines, The Age of the Storytellers. He won the Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. In addition to the books listed below he edited and prepared for publication the novel The Enchantresses by Vera Chapman.
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Michał Szostak
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1980 - Present (46 years)
Michał Szostak , is an international concert organist, organologist, musicologist and researcher from Poland. A Doctor of Music Arts in organ performance, he studied organ performance at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw under Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński and organ improvisation at the Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra in Milan under Maestro Davide Paleari as well as management at Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw. As the first Pole, he received the certificate of The Royal College of Organists. He is a member of The American Guild of Organists and The Organ Historical S...
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William C Davis
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Guang Ye
#138240
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1966 - Present (60 years)
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Keji Zhao
#138267
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Jerome A. Feldman
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Jerome A. Feldman is professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2005 and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence since 1990.
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Yurong Liu
#138288
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Mauro Picardo
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Matthias Wilm
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Henry Tsang
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Henry Tsang is a contemporary Canadian artist. Life Tsang was born October 8, 1964, in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1968. He lives in Vancouver, where he teaches art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
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Naoki Ishiguro
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Georges F. Nagy
#138324
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Hanghang Tong
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Shaoqing Ren
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Akira Onuki
#138361
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Russell S Phillips
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Peter N. Belhumeur
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Ann Prentice
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Željko Reiner
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Sharon Daniel
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Sharon Daniel is a professor in the Film and Digital Media department and serves as chair for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Along with teaching classes about digital media, Daniel does field research for new media projects. Her essays have been published in analytical and research journals such as Sarai and Leonardo. Selected projects of Daniel's have been presented at festivals, including the Lincoln Center Festival, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, and the Corcoran Biennial.
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Vahid Vatanpour
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Stephen John Maybank
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Takanori Kanai
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Yugang Jiang
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Alešs Leonardis
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Willi Sauerbrei
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Andreas Nitsche
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Yannis Smaragdakis
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1972 - Present (54 years)
Yannis Smaragdakis is a Greek-American software engineer, computer programmer, and researcher. He is a professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens. He is the author of more than 130 research articles on a variety of topics, including program analysis, declarative languages, program generators, language design, and concurrency. He is best known for work in program generation and program analysis and the Doop framework.
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Dieter Grossmann
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1926 - Present (100 years)
Dieter Großmann , studied art at the Academy of Arts, Berlin/Germany at Professor Tank and Professor Speidel from 1948 - 1952. From 1974 to 1992 he taught painting the nude at the Academy of Adult Education Courses and at the Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. He was born in Frankfurt an der Oder.
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Francesco Maisano
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