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,
#7151
Makoto Yoko-o
#144486
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#7152
Antonio Criminisi
#144501
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#7153
Tao Zhou
#144505
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#7154
Dongrui Wu
#144506
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#7155
Boris Turk
#144526
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1964 - Present (62 years)
#7156
Ermete Antolini
#144529
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#7157
Jérôme Euzenat
#144535
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#7158
Giuseppe Musumeci
#144548
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
#7159
Susan Lea
#38187
Overall Influence
Professor Susan Lea is a chartered psychologist and academic, and was Vice-Chancellor at the University of Hull from 2017 to 2022. Previously she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich.
Go to Profile#7160
Gary J. Olsen
#144561
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#7161
Robert Vink
#144563
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#7162
Volker Vallon
#144569
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#7163
Gera Neufeld
#144570
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#7164
Takaaki Akaike
#144575
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#7165
Satoshi Ogawa
#144599
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#7166
Satoshi Kimura
#144603
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#7167
Jing Qin
#144605
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#7168
Yen Chen-hsing
#36247
Overall Influence
1912 - 2005 (93 years)
Yen Chen-hsing was a Chinese-born engineer, educator, and politician based in Taiwan. Early life and education Yen graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Beijing and moved to the United States in 1937 to continue his education. He earned a master's degree and doctorate from the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics at the University of Iowa in 1938 and 1941, respectively.
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Ronan Collobert
#144610
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#7170
Günter Reiter
#144624
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#7171
Philippe Courtet
#144637
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
#7172
Seong Baek-in
#46912
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Seong Baek-in is professor emeritus of linguistics at Seoul National University. His primary area of research is on the Manchu language. Career Seong served as a professor at Myongji University from March 1968 to May 1982. The translation of the Tale of the Nisan Shaman into Korean he made while there would prove to be an important reference for its later translation into English. In 1982, Seong moved to Seoul National University, where he held various positions including professor from September 1982 to February 1999, dean of the College of Humanities from September 1995 to August 1997, and...
Go to Profile#7173
Melanie Rieback
#113423
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Melanie R. Rieback is a computer scientist, chiefly known for her work regarding the privacy and security of radio-frequency identification technology. Personal life Melanie Rieback was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 26, 1978. and raised in Florida. Her parents are David John Rieback and Eileen Sharon Rieback who worked at Bell Labs.
Go to Profile#7174
Toshiharu Ninomiya
#144644
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#7175
Roberto Gambari
#144646
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#7176
Morris Karmazyn
#144663
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#7177
Wang-chien Lee
#144671
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#7178
Hidehiro Mizusawa
#144677
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#7179
Yogendra Kumar Mishra
#144682
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
#7180
Junken Aoki
#144708
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7181
Takema Fukatsu
#144725
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#7182
Michael I. Miller
#144733
Overall Influence
#7183
John F. Watts
#144734
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#7184
Paul J. Hanson
#144740
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#7185
Guoliang Xue
#144744
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#7186
Kumar Sharma
#144752
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#7187
Guido Governatori
#144761
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#7188
Mohammad Reza Barati
#144764
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#7189
Ángel Palomo
#144766
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#7190
Kenji Sakimura
#144769
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#7191
Hardeep Singh
#144770
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#7192
Pekka Huhtanen
#144782
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#7193
Marcelo Gottschalk
#144796
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#7194
Kuo-En Chang
#51533
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Kuo-En Chang is the president of Tunghai University and former president of National Taiwan Normal University. Born in 1958, Chang grew up in a fishing village of Keelung, Taiwan. After junior high school, he gave up "the chance to study at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University and chose to join the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan Institute of Technology for professional training." After the national compulsory military service, Chang spent a year on professional practice. He not only worked on lathes but also utility poles. Afterward...
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B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar
#144803
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#7196
Tung-Tai Lin
#54642
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Charles Tung-Tai Lin is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication at National Taiwan Normal University, NTNU , where he served as vice president from August 2011 to July 2014. His fields of interest include communication theories, research methodology, opinion survey, and social marketing.
Go to Profile#7197
Howard Amital
#144807
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Martin Zacharias
#144817
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#7199
Alexandru Cristian Telea
#144855
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#7200
Mohsen Rezaeian
#144877
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