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,
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Michael Weinert
#147367
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Holger Hermanns
#147369
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#7503
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
#147372
Overall Influence
1987 - Present (39 years)
#7504
Maren Hassinger
#48169
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Maren Hassinger is an African-American artist and educator whose career spans four decades. Hassinger uses sculpture, film, dance, performance art, and public art to explore the relationship between the natural world and industrial materials. She incorporates everyday materials in her art, like wire rope, plastic bags, branches, dirt, newspaper, garbage, leaves, and cardboard boxes. Hassinger has stated that her work “focuses on elements, or even problems—social and environmental—that we all share, and in which we all have a stake…. I want it to be a humane and humanistic statement about our...
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Tove Agner
#147391
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Virginia L. Miller
#147394
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Michalis Faloutsos
#147399
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Sumi Helal
#98710
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Dr. Abdelsalam Helal is a computer scientist who was born in Suez, Egypt. He graduated from Alexandria University in 1982. He is best known for his work in Pervasive Computing, Mobile computing and the Internet of Things, and their human-centric applications in the domains of aging, personal health and disability. He is a professor at the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida and the director of its Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory
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Alex Acero
#147414
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#7510
Norbert Stock
#147429
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#7511
Yrjoe Aunus Olavi Neuvo
#147436
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Lynne E. Parker
#147443
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#7513
Kensaku Mori
#147451
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#7514
Yoshichika Otani
#147458
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#7515
ChoKyun Rha
#86145
Overall Influence
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
ChoKyun Rha was a Korean-born American food technologist, inventor, and professor of biomaterials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She was the first Asian woman awarded tenure at MIT.
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Kamal Shah
#147469
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Byoung-tak Zhang
#147471
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#7518
Winship Herr
#147477
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7519
Hamida Hammad
#147493
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
#7520
Chong Lin
#147501
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#7521
Satish C. Kalhan
#147508
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#7522
Kathleen Janee Green
#147513
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#7523
Keith D. Robertson
#147519
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#7524
Gary Tse
#147527
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#7525
Wynne Hsu
#147532
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#7526
Ben Van Calster
#147535
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#7527
Paul Sorajja
#147539
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#7528
Frank Kee
#147554
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#7529
Kunihiro Kuwajima
#147563
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#7530
Fan Xia
#147564
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#7531
Milena Corredig
#147566
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#7533
Christopher Rowan Hatton
#147577
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7534
Elliott M. Ross
#147579
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#7535
Jin-Kao Hao
#147588
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#7536
Yoshihisa Kashima
#147591
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#7537
Tanzima Hashem
#75799
Overall Influence
Tanzima Hashem, a Bangladeshi professor at BUET, is one of the five women scientists from the developing world who won Elsevier Foundation Awards in 2017. Her research focuses on maintaining user privacy while location-based services are being accessed. She is also noted for organizing the first workshop in Bangladesh on women in computing in 2014.
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Jean Shin
#59749
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Jean Shin is an American artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is known for creating elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations using accumulated cast-off materials. Personal life Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to the United States when she was 6 years old, growing up in Bethesda, Maryland. Both of her parents who had been professors in Seoul took various jobs after moving to the Washington, D.C. area, eventually owning a supermarket and liquor store.
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Giuseppe Toscani
#147626
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Matthew Berriman
#147635
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Hirofumi Tanaka
#147638
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#7542
Setsuhisa Tanabe
#147663
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#7543
Pierre Deslongchamps
#147673
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#7544
Ranjan Duara
#147674
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#7545
Kathrin Junge
#147680
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#7546
Sylvia Christakos
#147687
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#7547
Michael Weitzman
#59666
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Michael Weitzman is an American pediatrician specializing in public health and policy. He is known for his research focusing on the social and environmental determinants of child health. He has published over 150 articles in medical and scientific journals on the damaging effects of second-hand smoke, lead exposure, and countless other determinants of children's health and behavior. From 1999-2005 he served as the executive director of the Center for Child Health Research, a national research institute created by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Patrick Van Dijck
#147719
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Michael N. Diringer
#147728
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Junyu Dong
#147729
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