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,
#7451
Chang Ming-che
#41094
Overall Influence
1914 - 1998 (84 years)
Chang Ming-che was a Taiwanese academic.
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Paul J Martin
#146998
Overall Influence
#7453
Vittorio Maniezzo
#147024
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#7454
Moshe Phillip
#147036
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#7455
Wei Shi
#147055
Overall Influence
#7456
Anne Canteaut
#122744
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Anne Canteaut is a French researcher in cryptography, working at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Paris. She studies the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric-key algorithms and S-boxes.
Go to Profile#7457
Dennis M. Donovan
#147067
Overall Influence
#7458
Lars Simon Rasmussen
#147069
Overall Influence
#7459
Diane Victor
#38827
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Diane Victor, is a South African artist and print maker, known for her satirical and social commentary of contemporary South African politics. Biography Victor was born in Witbank, South Africa. She received her BA Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1986.
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Mitsuru Itoh
#147076
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#7461
Martin T. Schechter
#147092
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#7462
Fan Zhu
#147094
Overall Influence
#7463
Henk Hogeveen
#147099
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
#7464
Hiroyuki Noji
#147106
Overall Influence
#7465
Tim Bell
#115050
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Timothy Clinton Bell is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education, computer music and text compression. In 2017, it was announced by SIGCSE that Bell would receive the 2018 award for 'Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education'.
Go to Profile#7466
Zhenan Sun
#147115
Overall Influence
#7467
Haixun Wang
#147118
Overall Influence
#7468
Anna Huttenlocher
#147122
Overall Influence
#7469
Anil Kumar Bajpai
#147127
Overall Influence
#7470
Douglas Christopher Burger
#147128
Overall Influence
#7471
Yongye Liang
#147129
Overall Influence
#7472
M. Ilyas Kamboh
#147141
Overall Influence
#7473
Matthias Nießner
#147159
Overall Influence
#7474
Diana Giannarelli
#147171
Overall Influence
#7475
Ulrich Maas
#147175
Overall Influence
#7476
Isaac Balberg
#147176
Overall Influence
#7477
Stefan Langerman
#93779
Overall Influence
Stefan Langerman false Swarzberg is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician whose research topics include computational geometry, data structures, and recreational mathematics. He is professor and co-head of the algorithms research group at the Université libre de Bruxelles with Jean Cardinal. He is a director of research for the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique .
Go to Profile#7478
Denis Wakefield
#147184
Overall Influence
#7479
Toshikazu Ushijima
#147192
Overall Influence
#7480
Shouhong Wang
#147197
Overall Influence
#7481
Liang Jiang
#147231
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7482
Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal
#147246
Overall Influence
#7483
Coco Fusco
#24231
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power through performance, video, interactive installations, and critical writing.
Go to Profile#7484
Dionissios Mantzavinos
#147253
Overall Influence
#7485
Gian Luca Foresti
#147265
Overall Influence
#7486
Lars Rejnmark
#147269
Overall Influence
#7487
Xing-quan Zhu
#147272
Overall Influence
#7488
Eduardo Fermé
#133277
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Eduardo Fermé is an Argentinian computer scientist and philosopher known for his work in belief revision and non monotonic reasoning. He is Full Professor at the University of Madeira. Career Fermé studied Computer Science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, graduating in 1991. After that, he obtained a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires under supervision of Carlos Alchourrón and Sven Ove Hansson in 1999. In 2011 he obtained a doctoral degree in philosophy from the Kungliga Tekniska högskolan under supervision of John Cantwell. He has more than 70 publicat...
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David P. French
#147314
Overall Influence
#7490
Hefa Cheng
#147324
Overall Influence
#7491
Subhasish Chaudhuri
#147326
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#7492
Takayuki Kanda
#147327
Overall Influence
#7493
James Edwin Smith
#147328
Overall Influence
#7494
Valerio Carelli
#147332
Overall Influence
#7495
Kiyoshi Nomura
#147338
Overall Influence
#7496
Mohammad Behshad Shafii
#147341
Overall Influence
#7497
Sam Durant
#38300
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores culture and politics, engaging subjects such as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism.
Go to Profile#7498
Giancarlo Lucchetti
#147347
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#7499
Mehdi Hedayati
#147352
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#7500
Mingdong Dong
#147359
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