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,
#7301
Fernando De La Torre
#145838
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#7302
Gordon E. Andrews
#145839
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#7303
Gangliang Huang
#145848
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#7304
Nemai Chandra Karmakar
#145853
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#7305
Mujahid Abbas
#145857
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#7306
Neil A. Martin
#145866
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#7307
Sumanta Banerjee
#145879
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#7308
Alessandro Cimatti
#145896
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#7309
Ben Yanbin Zhao
#145933
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#7310
Bobi Jones
#34335
Overall Influence
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Robert Maynard Jones , generally known as Bobi Jones, was a Welsh Christian academic and one of the most prolific writers in the history of the Welsh language. A versatile master of poetry, fictional prose and criticism, he was born in Cardiff in 1929, educated at the University of Wales, Cardiff and University College Dublin. Jones held the chair in Welsh language at Aberystwyth from 1980 until his retirement. He died on 22 November 2017.
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Behzad Rezaei
#145943
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#7312
Hubert Vidal
#145950
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#7313
Mark Dion
#17865
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. His work examines the manner in which prevalent ideologies and institutions influence our understanding of history, knowledge and the natural world. The job of the artist, according to him, is to "go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention". By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contempor...
Go to Profile#7314
Robert J. Van Glabbeek
#145958
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#7315
Pulok Kumar Mukherjee
#145967
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#7316
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini
#101126
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini is an Italian logician and theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include type theory and intersection type disciplines, lambda calculus, and programming language semantics. She is a professor emerita at the University of Turin.
Go to Profile#7317
Cătălin Bălescu
#58098
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Cătălin Bălescu is a Romanian visual artist and a university professor at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest. Bălescu is the rector of The National University of Arts in Bucharest . He is a member of the permanent staff of the Doctoral Studies section within The National University of Arts in Bucharest, and has coordinated doctoral dissertations ever since 2010.
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Uwe Siebert
#145970
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#7319
Michael Grubb
#145971
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#7320
Gregory Peter Mori
#145993
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#7321
James m. Mcqueen
#145995
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#7322
Alexander Leemans
#146012
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#7323
Innocent Kamwa
#134675
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Innocent Kamwa is a Canadian electrical engineer who is a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Decentralised Sustainable Electricity Grids for Smart Communities at Université Laval. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
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Goran Ungar
#146015
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#7325
Peter Thomsen
#146021
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#7326
Roy Want
#144350
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Roy Want is a computer scientist born in London, United Kingdom in 1961. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1988 for his work on multimedia Distributed Systems; and is known for his work on indoor positioning, mobile and ubiquitous computing, automatic identification and the Internet of Things . He lives in Silicon Valley, California, and has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and articles on mobile systems, and holds 100+ patents. In 2011 he joined Google as a senior research scientist, and is in the Android group. Previous roles include senior principal engineer at Intel...
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Yvesle Traon Le Traon
#146038
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#7328
Adnan Koucher
#53089
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Prof. Dr. Adnan Koucher is an Iraqi scholar. Adnan Koucher was born and grew up in Mosul, Iraq. After obtaining B.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry at the University of Mosul, he went to the UK and obtained MSc degree in Rural Social Development from the University of Reading in 1984.
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Marco Gruteser
#146051
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#7330
Kenneth A. Perkins
#146052
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7331
Robert J. K. Jacob
#146065
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#7332
Robert M. Hirsch
#82760
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1928 - Present (98 years)
Robert M. Hirsch is a research hydrologist and a former Associate Director for Water of the U.S. Geological Survey. As Associate Director , he was responsible for the water science programs of the USGS. These include water-related research, the collection of data on rivers and ground water, assessments of water quantity and quality. He served as the leader of USGS water science from 1994 to 2008 when Dr. Hirsch transitioned to the USGS National Research Program to rededicate himself to advancing the science on critical issues of climate change and long-term trends in water resources.
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Martin Wahl
#146092
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7334
Abraham Fingerhut
#146096
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#7335
Yossi Matias
#125015
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Yossi Matias is an Israeli-American computer scientist, entrepreneur and Google executive. Matias is Vice President, Engineering & Research at Google, and the founding managing director of Google's Center in Israel. He is on the leadership team of Google's Research, the global exec lead overseeing Google’s Health AI, Crisis Response and Climate AI efforts, and leads efforts in Conversational AI. For over a decade he was on the leadership team of Google’s Search, building and leading efforts including Google Trends, Google Autocomplete, Search Console, and Search experiences in weather, sports...
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Giuseppe Cirino
#146100
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#7337
Nancy R. Mead
#99519
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1942 - Present (84 years)
Nancy Rose Mead is an American computer scientist. She is known for her contributions to security, software engineering education and requirements. Background and education Mead spent her childhood in New Jersey, growing up in a 2nd generation Armenian immigrant family. She had an early interest in mathematics. This led to a mathematics major at New York University. from which she received a BA in mathematics and French in 1963, and an MS in mathematics in 1967. Mead received her PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the Polytechnic Institute of New York . Her thesis, "Complexity Measures for Sys...
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Stephen M. Rappaport
#146118
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#7339
Emanuele Marzetti
#146127
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#7340
Frank Krumeich
#146139
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#7341
Nicolas Mangold
#146143
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#7342
Thippa Reddy Gadekallu
#146152
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#7343
Ryotaro Arita
#146156
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#7344
James Andrew Bagnell
#146168
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#7345
Janusz Błasiak
#146175
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7346
Gerald Maurer
#146180
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#7347
Hairong Qi
#146197
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#7348
Robert Harvey
#7672
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Robert Harvey is a literary scholar, philosopher, and academic. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He lectures in aesthetics, comparative literature, philosophy, and theory. His research and publications are primarily concerned with the interpenetrations of literary and philosophical discourses.
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Takayuki Yoshino
#146207
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#7350
Benjamin Rusak
#146214
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