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,
#7601
Farooq Anwar
#148212
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#7602
Anand Nayyar
#148215
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#7603
Motohiro Takeya
#148232
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#7604
Oscar Corcho
#148237
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
#7605
Massimo Negrini
#148247
Overall Influence
#7606
Vittorio Pengo
#148267
Overall Influence
#7607
Xiuling Li
#111533
Overall Influence
Xiuling Li is an distinguished electrical and computer engineering professor in the field of nanostructured semiconductor devices. She is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fellow of the Dow Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was a Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Rolf Adolfsson
#148277
Overall Influence
#7609
David K. Shay
#148278
Overall Influence
#7610
Zvi Kam
#148282
Overall Influence
#7611
Verena Rieser
#130779
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Verena Rieser is a German computer scientist specialising in natural-language generation, including conversational modelling as well as studies of how gender cues in synthetic language can trigger biases in the people who interact with them. She is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where she directs the Natural Language Processing Laboratory.
Go to Profile#7612
Shailendra Kumar
#148302
Overall Influence
#7613
Riccardo Vigneri
#148303
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#7614
Ulrich Neumann Neumann
#148306
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#7615
Filippo Belardelli
#148321
Overall Influence
#7616
Andrea Frome
#117562
Overall Influence
Andrea Frome is an American computer scientist who works in computer vision and machine learning. Education Frome attended the University of Mary Washington for her undergraduate work, receiving a BS in environmental science in 1996. After a few years working in environmental consulting, she changed fields to computer science. She received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in 2007 under the supervision of Jitendra Malik.
Go to Profile#7617
Siladitya Bhattacharya
#148333
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#7618
Robert E. Jordon
#91252
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Robert E. Jordon is Dermatologist who retired in January 2016 as a Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was previously a resident and faculty member of Mayo Clinic before he was recruited to be the Chair of Dermatology at Medical College of Wisconsin. He served as the Chair of the Department of Dermatology at UTHSC from 1982 to 2002, and was succeeded by Ronald P. Rapini. While he was a medical student at the University of Buffalo, he and E. H. Beutner discovered that pemphigus is an autoimmune disease; a finding they subsequently published in 1964.
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Camelia Suleiman
#47841
Overall Influence
Camelia Suleiman is an American academic who currently serves as associate professor at Michigan State University. She has also served as the Academic Director of the school's Arabic Flagship Program and led the Arabic Program from 2012 to 2020. She has published Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception and The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis . Her third book is Arabic between State and Nation: Israel, the Levant and Diaspora .
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Satoshi Morita
#148344
Overall Influence
#7621
Shiroh Futaki
#148352
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#7623
Christian Herder
#148360
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#7624
Grenfell N. Patey
#148365
Overall Influence
#7625
Mavinkere Rangappa Sanjay
#148374
Overall Influence
#7626
Patrick Rossignol
#148385
Overall Influence
#7627
Julie McCann
#119335
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Julie Ann McCann is a Northern Irish computer scientist who is a professor at Imperial College London. She is the leader of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018.
Go to Profile#7628
Sobha Sivaprasad
#148388
Overall Influence
#7629
Fabiola Atzeni
#148389
Overall Influence
#7630
Geoffrey J. Lindeman
#148399
Overall Influence
#7631
Darius Moradpour
#148402
Overall Influence
#7632
Marinus A. Kaashoek
#148403
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#7633
Riccardo Bellazzi
#148440
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#7634
Priit Pärn
#77450
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Priit Pärn is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his career in animation began when he accepted Rein Raamat's proposal to make a design for Kilplased . After a brief apprenticeship in Joonisfilm, he directed his first film Is the Earth Round? in 1977.
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Nicoletta Pellegrini
#148446
Overall Influence
#7636
Takayoshi Nakano
#148458
Overall Influence
#7637
Lu Qi
#148471
Overall Influence
#7638
Jens Nørkær Sørensen
#148527
Overall Influence
#7639
Michael L. Hair
#148556
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
#7640
Jinbo Hu
#148569
Overall Influence
#7641
Qinghong Zhang
#148579
Overall Influence
#7642
Julien Labreuche
#148593
Overall Influence
#7643
Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani
#66071
Overall Influence
Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani, is a Nigerian Chartered Librarian and the immediate past University Librarian of Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka . She is a Professor of Library and Information Science. Her tenure as a University Librarian at Nnamdi Azikiwe Library was between March 2014-March 2019. She is the first female University Librarian since the inception of Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria Nsukka. In April, 2021, Dr. Ilo Promise Ifeoma took over as the current University Librarian of Nnamdi Azikiwe Library,
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Alfredo Falcone
#148611
Overall Influence
#7645
Toshiaki Iba
#148612
Overall Influence
#7646
Neil Blumberg
#148617
Overall Influence
#7647
Jay Pratt
#148620
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7648
Andrea Mombelli
#148624
Overall Influence
#7649
Wenwu Zhu
#148637
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#7650
John G. Spray
#148642
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