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,
#6701
Marc A. Judson
#140365
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#6702
Guido Rindi
#140371
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#6703
Lauren Wilcox
#131311
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Lauren G. Wilcox is an American professor and researcher in responsible AI, human–computer interaction, and health informatics, known for research on enabling community participation in technology design and development and her prior contributions to health informatics systems.
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Avadhesha Surolia
#140374
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#6705
Jeffrey Rushen
#140376
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1953 - Present (73 years)
#6706
Haecheon Choi
#140389
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#6707
Shmuel Muallem
#140400
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#6708
Qiang Shen
#140403
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#6709
Franco Cecchi
#140425
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1949 - Present (77 years)
#6710
Luigi Bartalena
#140430
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#6711
Amitava Konar
#140431
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#6712
James Simon
#120402
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1952 - Present (74 years)
James Simon is a journalist, college professor and dean, and now public administrator. In November 2020, he was elected to a four-year term as Democratic Registrar of Voters in Stratford CT Academia career Simon began his teaching career as an adjunct professor in the communication department at Rutgers University. After receiving his doctorate, he became an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific in 1994. He moved to Fairfield University in 1997, starting the journalism program in the English Department, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2001.
Go to Profile#6713
Holger Gohlke
#140446
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#6714
Nicholas Asher
#140447
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1954 - Present (72 years)
#6715
Hamid Band
#140452
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#6716
Zetian Mi
#140455
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#6717
Opher Etzion
#117405
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Opher Etzion is an Israeli author and computer scientist. He has been instrumental in the development of the complex event processing area of computer science. Professional background Etzion was the Chief Scientist of Event Processing at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. Previously, he was Lead Architect of Event Processing Technology at IBM Websphere and a Senior Manager at the IBM Research Division, managing a department that has pioneered projects shaping the field of event processing. He is also the founding chair of the Event Processing Technical Society.
Go to Profile#6718
Akihiro Kusumi
#140484
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#6719
Julian Hopkin
#39128
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Julian Hopkin CBE FRCP FMedSci FLSW is a physician, researcher and medical teacher. In 2004, he became the founding Head of the new Medical School at Swansea University. He is now Professor of Experimental Medicine at Swansea University Medical School and Honorary Physician at the Abertawe-Bro-Morgannwg University Hospital. He was appointed a CBE in 2011 for his services to medicine.
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Abraham Marmur
#140491
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#6721
Ikuo Konishi
#140532
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#6722
Masayasu Kojima
#140535
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#6723
Claes Göran Tropé
#140539
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
#6724
Michael F. Cohen
#140541
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#6725
Henning Müller
#140561
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6726
Thomas Ede Zimmermann
#140577
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#6727
Marwan M. Krunz
#140604
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#6728
Noboru Nakamura
#140622
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#6729
Daniel P. Huttenlocher
#140634
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#6730
Gates SJ Jr
#140641
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#6731
Mahta Moghaddam
#75890
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Mahta Moghaddam is an Iranian-American electrical and computer engineer and William M. Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Moghaddam is also the president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and is known for developing sensor systems and algorithms for high-resolution characterization of the environment to quantify the effects of climate change. She also has developed innovative tools using microwave technology to visualize biological struct...
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Francesco Ricci
#140676
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
#6733
Michael Soyka
#140685
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#6734
Walter H. Pitts
#140686
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#6735
George R. Dubyak
#140707
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#6736
Muredach P. Reilly
#140726
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#6737
Samir Kumar Pal
#140752
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#6738
James Douglas Engel
#140761
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#6739
Carlo Foresta
#140779
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#6740
Glenn Heller
#140787
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#6741
Nicholas Negroponte
#89594
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Nicholas Negroponte is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association . Negroponte is the author of the 1995 bestseller Being Digital translated into more than forty languages.
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Motonobu Goto
#140801
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#6743
Eugene C. Freuder
#140833
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#6744
Angelo Fontana
#140834
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#6745
Qingsong Gu
#140840
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#6746
Vivienne Sze
#122232
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Vivienne Sze is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist whose research focuses on low-power electronics and on the trade-offs between energy use and computing power in the combined design of software and hardware, for applications including video coding and deep neural networks. She is an associate professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where she heads the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group.
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Tsuyoshi Kimura
#140861
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#6748
Sorelle Friedler
#74940
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Sorelle Alaina Friedler is an American computer scientist who is an Associate Professor at Haverford College. She is the co-founder Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Her research seeks to prevent discrimination in machine learning.
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Guy Beauchamp
#140877
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Michael C. Schatz
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