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,
#7651
Jean H. Gallier
#148645
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Ronald Searle
#2705
Overall Influence
1920 - 2011 (91 years)
Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.
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Bernd Dr.-ing. Hamann
#148666
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#7654
William Kolby Smith
#148679
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
#7655
Victor Max Corman
#148684
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#7656
Manfredi Rizzo
#148692
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#7657
Thomas M. Brooks
#148694
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#7658
Feng Peng
#148704
Overall Influence
#7659
Jonathan Corcoran
#148707
Overall Influence
#7660
Wolfgang Ketter
#124337
Overall Influence
Wolfgang Ketter is Chaired Professor of Information Systems for a Sustainable Society at the University of Cologne. and a prominent scientist in the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent agents in the design of smart markets, including demand response mechanisms and in particular automated auctions. He is a co-founder of the open energy system platform Power TAC, an automated retail electricity trading platform that simulates the performance of retail markets in an increasingly prosumer- and renewable-energy-influenced electricity landscape.
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Nian Bing Li
#148719
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Shimon Whiteson
#148721
Overall Influence
#7663
Luis Martínez-López
#148742
Overall Influence
#7664
Federico Cappuzzo
#148746
Overall Influence
#7665
Xiao-feng Chen
#148749
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#7666
Armin Zittermann
#148752
Overall Influence
#7667
Lijbert Brussaard
#148761
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
#7668
Che Ok Jeon
#148764
Overall Influence
#7669
Yun Hau Ng
#148768
Overall Influence
#7670
Frank Brombacher
#148776
Overall Influence
#7671
Antonio Cherubini
#148794
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#7672
Bernardo Rudy
#148798
Overall Influence
#7673
David Schiff
#148808
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#7674
Mohamed Trari
#148811
Overall Influence
#7675
Daniela Galimberti
#148820
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
#7676
Julian Little
#148830
Overall Influence
#7677
Faith Ringgold
#9649
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
Faith Ringgold is an American painter, painting on different materials including fabric, a published author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.
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Rami G. Melhem
#148867
Overall Influence
#7679
Nicolas Kluger
#148876
Overall Influence
#7680
Yasumasa Arai
#148886
Overall Influence
#7681
Jun Shao
#148890
Overall Influence
#7682
Roch Guérin
#77181
Overall Influence
Roch Guérin is a French computer scientist. He is the Harold B. & Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and chair of the Computer Science & Engineering department at that university. Prior to that he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications Networks and professor of electrical and systems engineering and computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for 12 years at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
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Rei Ogawa
#148893
Overall Influence
#7684
Claes Dahlgren
#148896
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#7685
Massimo Levrero
#148903
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#7686
Kazuo Fujihara
#148908
Overall Influence
#7687
Giuseppe Gerna
#148910
Overall Influence
#7688
Laxmikant Kale
#110478
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Laxmikant V. Kale is the director of the Parallel Programming Laboratory and a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds department affiliations with the Beckman Institute and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Illinois.
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Paul Christakopoulos
#148920
Overall Influence
#7690
Yasuhiko Sugawara
#148924
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#7691
Johannes Attems
#148930
Overall Influence
#7692
Yasuo Kawaguchi
#148932
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#7693
Hisashi Yamanaka
#148935
Overall Influence
#7694
Mitsunori Ogihara
#148952
Overall Influence
#7695
Sven Apel
#148558
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Sven Apel is a German computer scientist and professor of software engineering at Saarland University. His research focuses on software product lines and configurable systems, domain-specific generation and optimization, software analytics and intelligence, as well as empirical methods and the human factor in software development.
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Maurizio Cossi
#148963
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#7697
Guang Meng
#148967
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#7698
Arend Heerschap
#148971
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#7699
Robert N. Jamison
#148978
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#7700
Sébastien Sauvé
#148984
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