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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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,
#7351
Benjamin Doerr
#146217
Overall Influence
#7352
Dominique Sanglard
#146220
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7353
Matthias Huss
#146234
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
#7354
Yoshiji Takemoto
#146245
Overall Influence
#7355
Karthikeyan Rajagopal
#146288
Overall Influence
#7356
Sylvie Lorente
#54490
Overall Influence
Sylvie Lorente is a French mechanical engineer known for her research on the thermodynamics and fluid mechanics of porous media, and in particular for her work on the constructal theory of flows and their dynamic evolution. She is College of Engineering Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Villanova University, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, professor at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse, and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria.
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Takanari Kitazono
#146302
Overall Influence
#7358
Saisamorn Lumyong
#146309
Overall Influence
#7359
Ahmad Shaabani
#146310
Overall Influence
#7360
Peter Jeffrey Burt
#146313
Overall Influence
#7361
Harold Powers
#89408
Overall Influence
1928 - 2007 (79 years)
Harold Stone Powers was an American musicologist, ethnomusicologist, and music theorist. Career Born in New York City on August 5, 1928, he earned his B.Mus. in piano from Syracuse University in 1950 and an MFA in composition and musicology from Princeton University in 1952. As a Fulbright Fellow, he studied Indian music in Madras for two years before continuing at Princeton where he received a Ph.D. in musicology. His dissertation was on “The Background of the South Indian Raga System.” Powers taught at Harvard University from 1958 to 1960 and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1...
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Ghassan Hamarneh
#146318
Overall Influence
#7363
Francesco Dentali
#146334
Overall Influence
#7364
Louis M. Luttrell
#146336
Overall Influence
#7365
Peter Pin-shan Chen
#146346
Overall Influence
#7366
Nicolas D. Georganas
#146347
Overall Influence
#7367
Wolfgang Buckel
#146353
Overall Influence
#7368
Rashidul Haque
#146366
Overall Influence
#7369
Antonio Rosato
#146382
Overall Influence
#7370
Hans Blomberg
#98946
Overall Influence
1919 - 2006 (87 years)
Hans Blomberg was a Finnish-Swedish pioneer and educator in automation technology. Of the people working in industrial automation in the early 2000s, most had been trained by him or by his students.
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Paul T. Finger
#146386
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7372
Dana S. Richards
#28706
Overall Influence
Dana S. Richards is a writer, mathematics popularizer and Associate Professor in Computer Science at George Mason University. His research interests include comparisons of protein sequences, Steiner tree algorithms, information dissemination in networks, parallel heuristics, methodology for computationally intractable problems and parallel algorithms for median filters. He is the longtime bibliographer of polymath Martin Gardner.
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Enrico Macii
#146388
Overall Influence
#7374
Christophe Diot
#146397
Overall Influence
#7375
Aravinda Prasad Sistla
#146411
Overall Influence
#7376
Alberto Leardini
#146429
Overall Influence
#7377
Janet Louise Taylor
#146437
Overall Influence
#7378
Xiang-zhong Ren
#146452
Overall Influence
#7379
Gregory P. Downey
#146466
Overall Influence
#7380
David A. Mills
#146468
Overall Influence
#7381
Takafumi Hirata
#146474
Overall Influence
#7382
Silvio Monfardini
#146475
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
#7383
Dominique Lison
#146481
Overall Influence
#7384
Q. M. Jonathan Wu
#146483
Overall Influence
#7385
Yehuda Koren
#146484
Overall Influence
#7386
Shi-min Hu
#146492
Overall Influence
#7387
Michael Hoffmeister
#146500
Overall Influence
#7388
Daniel H. O’leary
#146502
Overall Influence
#7389
Antonio Oliver
#146526
Overall Influence
#7390
Dukagjin Pupovci
#59109
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Dukagjin Pupovci is a Kosovo-Albanian professor, education expert and a critic of the education system in Kosovo. He has contributed to the development of important policy documents and has co-authored numerous studies and articles in the field of education and research in Kosovo.
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Andreas Rolf Zell
#146548
Overall Influence
#7392
Thiemo Voigt
#146555
Overall Influence
#7393
Alexander Y. Shin
#146576
Overall Influence
#7394
Kei Muro
#146579
Overall Influence
#7395
Yoshinobu Takakura
#146580
Overall Influence
#7396
Christoph Stiller
#146585
Overall Influence
#7397
Hidekazu Tsukamoto
#146599
Overall Influence
#7398
Ray Burggraf
#51107
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Ray L. Burggraf is an artist, color theorist, and Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at Florida State University. According to Roald Nasgaard, Burggraf's paintings exhibit "visual excitation...pulsating patterns, vibrating after-images, weird illusionistic spaces, multifocal opticality, executed with knife-edge precision...crisp and elegant and radiant with light." From a historical perspective, Burggraf's work is "nature evocative...reach[ing] back to the modernist landscape tradition of the Impressionists and of Neo-impressionists like Seurat, who, in the late-nineteenth century immersed th...
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Maslina Darus
#146620
Overall Influence
#7400
Yanfei Zhong
#146623
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