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,
#7251
Masaru Kitsuregawa
#145393
Overall Influence
#7252
Peter Dubruel
#145404
Overall Influence
#7253
Howard L. Kaufman
#145405
Overall Influence
#7254
Omer Levy
#145418
Overall Influence
#7255
Graham J. Hart
#145419
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#7256
Evangelos E. Milios
#145421
Overall Influence
#7257
Mitsutoshi Nakajima
#145425
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7258
Jian-zhong Li
#145437
Overall Influence
#7259
Ping Xu
#145438
Overall Influence
#7260
Weinan Zhang
#145454
Overall Influence
#7261
Yutaka Yatomi
#145465
Overall Influence
#7262
Joakim Wincent
#145494
Overall Influence
#7263
Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis
#145499
Overall Influence
#7264
Philippe Michaud
#145526
Overall Influence
#7265
Nicholas Lancaster
#145529
Overall Influence
#7266
David A. Hood
#132906
Overall Influence
David A. Hood is a Canadian exercise physiologist and Director of the Muscle Health Research Centre at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a professor and holder of an NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in Cell Physiology. Hood is credited with making significant research advances in understanding of the biology of exercise, mitochondria and muscle health.
Go to Profile#7267
Simmy Bank
#145538
Overall Influence
#7268
Uwe Aickelin
#145550
Overall Influence
#7269
Axel Petzold
#145565
Overall Influence
#7270
Balaram Mukhopadhyay
#67137
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Balaram Mukhopadhyay is an Indian Bengali carbohydrate chemist and a professor at the department of chemical sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. Balaram is mainly known for his work in the field of synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. He was given the Excellence in Carbohydrate Research Award by the Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists India in 2018 for his contribution towards field of carbohydrates.
Go to Profile#7271
Peter Vollenweider
#145574
Overall Influence
#7272
Ayorkor Korsah
#116884
Overall Influence
G. Ayorkor Korsah is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Robotics at Ashesi University in Ghana. Early life and education Korsah grew up in Ghana and Nigeria, and as a child, she wanted to be an astronaut and an engineer.
Go to Profile#7273
Thierry Van Cutsem
#145592
Overall Influence
#7274
Manabu Fujimoto
#145593
Overall Influence
#7275
Takuji Okusaka
#145598
Overall Influence
#7276
Liangli Zheng
#145613
Overall Influence
#7277
Guillaume Maurin
#145622
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
#7278
Vincent Lepetit
#138538
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Vincent Lepetit is a French computer scientist, professor at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. He received his PhD degree in computer vision in 2001 from the University of Nancy. Lepetit leads a research group in computer vision for augmented reality at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, TU Graz. He was formerly professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at the same institution from February 2014 to December 2016. He is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Go to Profile#7279
Michele Bugliesi
#126968
Overall Influence
Michele Bugliesi is Full Professor in Computer Science in the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has been elected Rector of this University for the mandate 2014-2015 to 2019-2020. Scientific activity Michele Bugliesi works on analysis and formal systems in informatics, with publications on models of communications and logic programming.
Go to Profile#7280
Amos Fiat
#145641
Overall Influence
#7281
Hero Jan Heeres
#145649
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#7282
Seiji Shioda
#145670
Overall Influence
#7283
Fakher Rahim
#145678
Overall Influence
#7284
Pico Caroni
#145679
Overall Influence
#7285
Dan Bricklin
#96388
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Daniel Singer Bricklin is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix, which he left in 2004. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of Alpha Software.
Go to Profile#7286
Zeynep Akata
#143161
Overall Influence
Zeynep Akata is a professor of computer science at the University of Tübingen where she leads the Explainable Machine Learning group. Akata is also a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen.
Go to Profile#7287
Aristides Gionis
#145713
Overall Influence
#7288
Vincent Conitzer
#145725
Overall Influence
#7289
David Zipser
#145749
Overall Influence
#7290
Nichole Pinkard
#111792
Overall Influence
Nichole Pinkard is an American computer scientist and associate professor of learning sciences and faculty director of the Office of Community Education Partnerships in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern. She is helping lead a collaboration with Apple and the Chicago Public School system to teach computer programming to teachers.
Go to Profile#7291
Isamu Okamoto
#145761
Overall Influence
#7292
Filippo Maggi
#145762
Overall Influence
#7293
Abdelrahman M. Elghandour Osama F. Mohamed
#145772
Overall Influence
#7294
Iacopo Olivotto
#145787
Overall Influence
#7295
J. David Parkes
#145791
Overall Influence
#7296
Munetaka Akita
#145804
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7298
Gianfranco Chicco
#145824
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#7299
Vitaly Shmatikov
#145835
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#7300
Willa Ann Hsueh
#145837
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