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,
#6601
Thomas P. Davis
#139471
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#6602
Maximilian Diehn
#139475
Overall Influence
#6603
Myung Kyungjae
#71911
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Myung Kyungjae is a biologist researching DNA repair pathways at the molecular level. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and the Director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located on the UNIST campus. He is on the editorial board of various peer-reviewed journals and is a member of multiple scientific societies.
Go to Profile#6604
Haq Nawaz Bhatti
#139484
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#6605
Cornelia Boldyreff
#114642
Overall Influence
Cornelia Boldyreff is very active in encouraging girls into computing, is a Council Member of The BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT , a Committee member of the BCSWomen and a visiting professor in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Greenwich in London.
Go to Profile#6606
Kazuhiko Takehara
#139499
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#6607
Zdeněk Sekanina
#139500
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#6608
Ingmar Blümcke
#139502
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#6609
Bryan Rodgers
#139516
Overall Influence
#6610
Alla Sheffer
#121671
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Alla Sheffer is a Canadian researcher in computer graphics, geometric modeling, geometry processing, and mesh generation, particularly known for her research on mesh parameterization and angle-based flattening. She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia.
Go to Profile#6611
Barna Saha
#117140
Overall Influence
Barna Saha is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist whose research interests include algorithmic applications of the probabilistic method, probabilistic databases, fine-grained complexity, and the analysis of big data. She is an associate professor and Jacobs Faculty Scholar in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Go to Profile#6612
Madhavan Swaminathan
#102829
Overall Influence
Madhavan Swaminathan is the John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Co-Design of Chip, Package, System, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Go to Profile#6613
Harry Trentelman
#117628
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Harry Trentelman is a full professor in Systems and Control at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen. From 1985 to 1991 he served as an assistant professor and as an associate professor at the Mathematics Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Groningen in 1985. His Ph.D. thesis was titled "Almost Invariant Subspaces and High Gain Feedback Mathematics Subject Classification: 93—Systems theory; control" which he defended following studying...
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Gao Sheng Huang
#139594
Overall Influence
#6615
Srđjan Čapkun
#139611
Overall Influence
#6616
Yoram Bresler
#139621
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#6617
Peter Gibbs
#139626
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#6618
Jackson R. Webster
#139630
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#6619
Eiichi Takahashi
#139642
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
#6620
Peter Staeheli
#139653
Overall Influence
#6621
Vikram Deshpande
#139659
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#6622
Yiqi Yang
#139700
Overall Influence
#6623
Barry Vercoe
#119876
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Barry Lloyd Vercoe is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer. He is best known as the inventor of Csound, a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers. SAOL, the underlying language for the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard, is also historically derived from Csound.
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Hang Xiao
#139716
Overall Influence
#6625
Shizuya Yamashita
#139724
Overall Influence
#6626
Josep Rizo
#139726
Overall Influence
#6627
Floris Groenendaal
#139730
Overall Influence
#6628
Toshinori Nakayama
#139748
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6629
Larry Gerace
#139749
Overall Influence
#6630
Loreto Carmona
#139771
Overall Influence
#6631
Chip Lord
#40709
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Chip Lord is an American media artist and Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz and residing in San Francisco. He is best known for his work with the alternative architecture and media collective known as Ant Farm, which he co-founded with Doug Michels in 1968. His work generally takes a satirical look at American myths and legends, they are often "nostalgic, but edged with an ironic detachment."
Go to Profile#6632
Abdelmonem A. Afifi
#139777
Overall Influence
#6633
Amin Mousavi Khaneghah
#139797
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
#6634
Mary Fernández
#115323
Overall Influence
Mary Fernández is an American computer scientist and activist for women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics . She is the president of MentorNet, an organization that helps mentors and students develop mentoring relationships.
Go to Profile#6636
Hui Xiong
#139818
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#6637
Lars Eckmann
#139843
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#6638
Roger Guilard
#139846
Overall Influence
#6639
Mohammad Amjad Kamal
#139856
Overall Influence
#6640
Jan Verelst
#94172
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Jan Verelst is a Belgian computer scientist, Professor and Dean of the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Antwerp, and Professor at the Antwerp Management School, known for his work on Normalized Systems.
Go to Profile#6641
Wolfgang Thomas
#139865
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
#6642
Thalachallour Mohanakumar
#139870
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#6643
Susan Hagness
#110047
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Susan Carol Hagness is an American electrical engineer and applied electromagnetics researcher. She is the Philip Dunham Reed Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Go to Profile#6644
Cunsheng Ding
#139887
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
#6645
Sara Bals
#127465
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Sara Bals is a Belgian nanoscientist known for her research on electron tomography and its application in the study of nanomaterials such as perovskite nanocrystals. She is a professor of electron microscopy for materials science at the University of Antwerp.
Go to Profile#6646
Hashem Rafii Tabar
#69521
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Hashem Rafii-Tabar is a British-Iranian professor and scientist within computational physics and nanoscience. He is primarily known for his contribution to the computational physics of nanostructures with important applications such as Carbon Nanotubes.
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Andrew W. Strong
#139912
Overall Influence
#6648
Koichi Node
#139925
Overall Influence
#6649
Vladimir Gorodetski
#134668
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Vladimir Ivanovich Gorodetski is a Russian Professor of Computer Science, Senior Researcher in Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science.
Go to Profile#6650
Vincenzo Ficarra
#139949
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