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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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Maodess Ma
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Muhammad Ali Babar
#147779
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Rong Guo
#147787
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David M. Post
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David M. Post is a research scientist and academic administrator. He is currently a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and the Vice President ., Dean of Faculty, and Visiting Wong Ngit Liong Professor at Yale-NUS College, the first liberal arts college in Singapore. Post is an aquatic ecologist who studies food webs, evolution, and stable isotopes in lakes and rivers in Connecticut and Kenya.
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Daniel Jaque
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Doron A. Peled
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Doron A. Peled is a computer science Professor at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests include formal methods, model checking, program synthesis and runtime verification. With Edmund M. Clarke and Orna Grumberg, he is the coauthor of the book Model Checking and the author of the book Software Reliability Methods .
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James A. Reggia
#147808
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Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron
#147856
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Satoshi Awaji
#147857
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#7560
Wei You
#147858
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Muhammad Zubair
#147869
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#7562
Ed Paschke
#18459
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1939 - 2004 (65 years)
Edward Francis Paschke was an American painter of Polish descent. His childhood interest in animation and cartoons, as well as his father's creativity in wood carving and construction, led him toward a career in art. As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he was influenced by many artists featured in the museum's special exhibitions, in particular the work of Gauguin, Picasso and Seurat.
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Guido Grosse
#147942
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1976 - Present (50 years)
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Corrado Di Natale
#147947
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Wolfgang Heidrich
#147962
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Mervyn Deitel
#147969
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Sébastien Marcel
#147973
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Cha Meeyoung
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1979 - Present (47 years)
Cha Meeyoung, sometimes known as Mia, is an associate professor at KAIST in the School of Computing and a chief investigator in the Pioneer Research Center for Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the Institute for Basic Science. Her research focuses on network and data science with an emphasis on modeling, analyzing complex information propagation processes, machine learning-based computational social science, and deep learning. She has served on the editorial boards of the journals PeerJ and ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
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Chen‐ching Liu
#147983
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Samir Khuller
#147992
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László Bélády
#135184
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1928 - 2021 (93 years)
László "Les" Bélády was a Hungarian computer scientist notable for devising the Bélády's Min theoretical memory caching algorithm in 1966 while working at IBM Research. He also demonstrated the existence of a Bélády's anomaly. During the 1980s, he was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
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Ben Shen
#147997
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Toshiaki Enoki
#148005
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David L. Waltz
#148006
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Jaco de Bakker
#109629
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1939 - 2012 (73 years)
Jacobus Willem de Bakker was a Dutch theoretical computer scientist and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Biography De Bakker studied mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. At the last he obtained his doctorate in 1967 under Aad van Wijngaarden for the thesis: Formal Description of Programming Languages: with an application to the definition of ALGOL 60. Since 1964 he was already working as a scientist at the time named Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam . He was later head of the computer science department, lead the Cluster Software Engineering and was since 2002 a CWI Fellow.
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Joseph Yuk-tong Leung
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Pradeep Dubey
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Pradeep Dubey is an Indian game theorist. He is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook , and a member of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He also holds a visiting position at Cowles Foundation, Yale University. He did his schooling at the St. Columba's School, Delhi. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Cornell University and B.Sc. from the University of Delhi. His research areas of interest are game theory and mathematical economics. He has published, among others, in Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory , and Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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Capucine Picard
#148023
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1971 - Present (55 years)
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Takeshi Fujita
#148025
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Alessandra Carattoli
#148042
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Sudhir Malik
#148043
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Thomas Zeller
#148044
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Beuy Joob
#148049
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Jia-jun Bu
#148064
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Qian Qian
#148072
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George Weiss
#148080
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Lale Say
#148089
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Tanuj Kanchan
#148095
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Hiroyasu Furukawa
#148118
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Huma Mulji
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Huma Mulji is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Asia Society Museum. She received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2013. Life Huma Mulji was born in 1970 in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1995, she completed a BFA at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan, and in 2010, received an MFA from Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany.
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Robert Mangold
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1937 - Present (89 years)
Robert Mangold is an American minimalist artist. He is also father of film director and screenwriter James Mangold. Early life and education Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York. His mother, Blanche, was a department store buyer, and his father, Aloysius Mangold, worked at an organ factory. He first trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1956 to 1959, and then at Yale University, New Haven, .
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Siamak Daneshmand
#148151
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Brendan P. Bradley
#148170
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Satoshi Ogawa
#148171
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Attilio Orazi
#148176
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Kristina Schoonjans
#148183
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Thomas Zwick
#148188
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Kohei Shitara
#148197
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Ilhyong Ryu
#148202
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Ralf Tiedemann
#148203
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