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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Solange Inês Mussatto
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Minoru Nakano
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Krzysztof Wodiczko
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Krzysztof Wodiczko is a Polish artist known for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 80 such public projections in Australia, Austria, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
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Julia Schnabel
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Julia A. Schnabel is Professor in Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at Technische Universität München, Director of the Institute of Machine Learning in Biomedical Imaging at Helmholtz Zentrum München , and Chair of Computational Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King's College London. Previously, she was Associate Professor in Engineering Science at University of Oxford where she became Full Professor of Engineering Science in 2014.
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David R. Traum
#141822
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Gang Hua
#141846
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Robert Creasy
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1939 - 2005 (66 years)
Robert Jay Creasy was the project leader of the first full virtualization hypervisor, the IBM CP-40, which later developed into IBM's highly successful line of mainframe VM operating systems. Biography Robert J. Creasy was born on November 15, 1939, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He graduated from MIT in 1961, marrying Rosalind Reeves that year. After graduation, he worked as a programmer on the CTSS timesharing system and on Project MAC. Disappointed with the direction of MAC, when he heard that Norm Rasmussen, Manager of IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center, intended to build a time sharing sys...
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Adam Krzyzak
#112001
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Adam Krzyzak is a computer engineer from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for his contributions to nonparametric algorithms and classification systems for machine learning.
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Teizo Yoshimura
#141871
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Takashi Abe
#141876
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Gunter Saake
#141880
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1960 - Present (66 years)
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Vinod Vaikuntanathan
#141889
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Masao Matsuoka
#141894
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Rik Gosselink
#141895
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Kim Hoeckele
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Kim Hoeckele is a multimedia artist living in New York, New York whose mediums include performance art, photography, found objects and video art. Early life and education Kim Hoeckele received her B.F.A. in Photography from Georgia State University and received her M.F.A. in studio art from Hunter College in New York, in 2012.
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Michael D. King
#141904
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Ali Borji
#141920
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James William Gaynor
#141921
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Hieronim Jakubowski
#141941
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Lauro Tatsuo Kubota
#141943
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1964 - Present (62 years)
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Masaru Okabe
#141946
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Hermann Koepsell
#141949
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#6873
John M. Jumper
#101015
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
John Michael Jumper is an American senior research scientist at DeepMind Technologies. Jumper and his colleagues created AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence model to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequence with high accuracy. Jumper has stated that the AlphaFold team plans to release 100 million protein structures. The scientific journal Nature included Jumper as one of the ten "people who mattered" in science in their annual listing of Nature's 10 in 2021.
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Mark Liao
#114543
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Hong-yuan Mark Liao is a Taiwanese computer scientist specialized in the field of multimedia information processing and AI. Liao studied physics at National Tsing Hua University and completed a master's and doctoral degree in electrical engineering at Northwestern University.
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Yuchiao Chang
#141977
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Osamu Ohara
#141978
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Makoto Murakami
#142004
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George Demiris
#142005
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Israel Koren
#142029
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Guosheng Yin
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Guosheng Yin is a statistician, data scientist, educator and researcher in Biostatistics, Statistics, machine learning, and AI. Presently, Guosheng Yin is Chair in Statistics in Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. Previously, he served as the Head of Department and the Patrick S C Poon Endowed Chair in Statistics and Actuarial Science, at the University of Hong Kong. Before he joined the University of Hong Kong, Yin worked at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center till 2009 as a tenured Associate Professor of Biostatistics.
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Makoto Ando
#142050
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David Paré
#142061
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Robert Wille
#142064
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Jun Kaneko
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1942 - Present (84 years)
Jun Kaneko is a Japanese-born American ceramic artist known for creating large scale ceramic sculpture. Based out of a studio warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, Kaneko primarily works in clay to explore the effects of repeated abstract surface motifs by using ceramic glaze.
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Klemens Budde
#142089
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Mansun Chan
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Mansun Chan is an Alex Wong Siu Wah Gigi Wong Fook Chi Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, HKUST and Director of Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility/Adjunct Professor, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to CMOS device modeling.
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Keith A. Joiner
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Nicholas Carlini
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Nancy Lin
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Nancy Lin is an American oncologist who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research considers new diagnostic strategies and treatment pathways for HER2 positive breast cancer.
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Mehryar Mohri Mohri
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Qiang Ni
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Maddika Subba Reddy
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Maddika Subba Reddy is an Indian cell biologist and the head of the Laboratory of Cell Death and Cell Survival of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics. A Wellcome-DBT Senior Fellow, Reddy is known for his studies cell signaling and phosphatases. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017/18.
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Michael Lee Scott
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Sunil Sahu
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Sunil Kumar Sahu is Professor of Political Science at DePauw University. He has been a member of the Political Science department since 1988 and was the department chair for 10 years . Prior to DePauw, he taught Political Science at St. Xavier College in Chicago and Delhi University in India. A naturalized citizen of the United States, Sahu is a native of India. He was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in a politically active family—his father, a grandfather and two uncles were involved in India's independence movement. Sahu attended L.S. College in Muzaffarpur, where he was influenced by the facu...
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Atsushi Oshiyama
#142198
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Richard D. Schaller
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Jerzy W. Rozenblit
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1956 - Present (70 years)
Jerzy W. Rozenblit is a University Distinguished Professor and Raymond J. Oglethorpe Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. From 2003 to 2011 he served as the ECE Department Head. During his tenure at the University of Arizona, he established the Model-Based Design Laboratory with major projects in complex systems design hardware software codesign, modeling, and computer-aided minimally-invasive surgical training.
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Zhen Lei
#142214
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A. J. Bernheim Brush
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Alice Jane Bernheim Brush is an American computer scientist known for her research in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing and computer supported collaborative work . She is particularly known for her research studying and building technology for homes as well as expertise conducting field studies of technology. She is the co-chair of CRA-W from 2014 to 2017.
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Katherine A. Faust
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