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.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
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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Chien Ho
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Sheila Graber
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1940 - Present (86 years)
Sheila Graber is a British animator, artist and Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. She animated the children's television series Paddington, has taught in schools and universities, and has won numerous awards.
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Wojciech Samek
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1984 - Present (42 years)
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Andy J. Wellings
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Overall Influence
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Kazuyoshi Takeda
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Nkiru Nzegwu
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Nkiru Nzegwu is a Nigerian philosopher, painter, author, curator and art historian. She is Distinguished Professor for Research at State University of New York at Binghamton. Among Dr. Nzegwu’s areas of expertise are African aesthetics, philosophy, African feminist issues, multicultural studies in art, and digital publishing.
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Marco Salvatore
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Alexander Dyakonov
#140028
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Alexander Dyakonov is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Multiple winner of international competitions in applied data analysis.
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Michael J. Adams
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Franc Solina
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Franc Solina is a Slovenian computer scientist and university professor from Celje, Slovenia. Education After finishing the Bežigrad Grammar School in 1974 Solina enrolled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana where he graduated in 1979 and received in 1982 also his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering.
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Shosuke Kawanishi
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Michael Trick
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Michael Alan Trick is an operations researcher who studies combinatorial optimization, and is known for his work on sports scheduling, transportation scheduling, and social choice. He is the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Operations Research in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University , and dean of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.
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Jos van Hillegersberg
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Jos van Hillegersberg is a Dutch computer scientist, Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Twente, known for his contributions in the field of Enterprise resource planning.
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Betye Saar
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Overall Influence
1926 - Present (100 years)
Betye Irene Saar is an African American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity. Her work is considered highly political, as she challenged negative ideas about African Americans throughout her career; Saar is best known for her art work that critiques American racism toward Blacks.
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Shilong Pan
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Richard L. Hall
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David M. Potts
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
David Malcolm Potts is a professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London and the head of the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College. He has been a member of the academic staff at Imperial College since 1979, responsible for teaching the use of analytical methods in geomechanics and the design of slopes and earth retaining structures, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Peter Hedden
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Overall Influence
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Henry Koffler
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Henry Koffler was an Austrian-born American scientist, academic and artist. Early life Koffler was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1939, at the age of 17, he emigrated by himself to the United States. The second recipient of the International Scholar by the University of Arizona, Koffler received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Chemistry in 1943 from the University of Arizona, and from the University of Wisconsin, his M.S. in Microbiology in 1944 and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Biochemistry in 1947.
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Winfried Mönch
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Surya Nepal
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Horst Urbach
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
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David A. Maltz
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Bhiksha Raj
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Jukka S. Jurvelin
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Prashant K. Jain
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Prashant Jain is an Indian-born American scientist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign where his research laboratory studies the interaction of light with matter, designs nanoparticle catalysts, and develops methods for mimicking plant photosynthesis. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry, a TR35 inventor, a Sloan Fellow, a PECASE recipient, a Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby medalist, and a top-cited researcher in chemical sciences.
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Mikael Skoglund
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Xiaochun Cao
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Donna Harman
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Donna K. Harman is an American information retrieval researcher. She is a group leader in the Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Harman won the Tony Kent Strix award in 1999.
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Tadayoshi Kohno
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Tadayoshi Kohno is an American professor and scholar in the fields of data and computer security. He is the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access, and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
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Usha Chakravarthy
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Paolo Ferrari
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Yoshiaki Kiso
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D. Chu Miow Lin
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Alden Mason
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Overall Influence
1919 - 2013 (94 years)
Alden Lee Mason, was an American painter from Washington known for creating abstract and figurative artwork. Mason was a professor of art at the University of Washington for over 30 years. His painting are held in a number of public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Christian Jobin
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Jagdish Kumar Ladha
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Kelly Del Tredici
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Wataru Yasui
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Rassoul Dinarvand
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Krister Holmberg
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Wei Feng
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Marcel Worring
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Sriparna Saha
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Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran
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Jörg Sander
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Per Runeson
#140357
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
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Hoang Luong Pham
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Overall Influence
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Michael Langston
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Michael Allen Langston is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee. In several publications with Michael Fellows in the late 1980s, he showed that the Robertson–Seymour theorem could be used to prove the existence of a polynomial-time algorithm for problems such as linkless embedding without allowing the algorithm itself to be explicitly constructed; this work was foundational to the field of parameterized complexity. He has also collaborated with scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the computational analysis of genomics data and reco...
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Leila De Floriani
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Leila De Floriani is an American-Italian computer scientist and a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. She was formerly a professor at the University of Genova . She was the 2020 IEEE Computer Society President and the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics from 2015 to 2018.
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