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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Davide Barreca
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Kohta Murase
#149486
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Riccardo Scattolini
#149494
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Georges Khoury
#149496
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Xiaoqiang Lu
#149498
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Jacques Schrenzel
#149510
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Steen Krenk
#149511
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Herbert Herzog
#149532
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Svetlana Lazebnik
#149549
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Markus Raderer
#149550
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Amitava Dasgupta
#149553
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Natalia Sobczak
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1956 - Present (70 years)
Natalia Sobczak is a professor of materials engineering at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 2023–2026 term. She specializes in the physicochemistry of metals and alloys, physical metallurgy and heat treatment, foundry engineering, and the practice and theory of metal composites.
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Martin Peter Grobusch
#149564
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Pascal Retailleau
#149570
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Hiroshi Takeshima
#149586
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Ali Nokhodchi
#149588
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Tetsu Tatsuma
#149594
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Claudine Berr
#149602
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Esben Agerbo
#149606
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Stephen J. Barnes
#149622
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Umile Giuseppe Longo
#149631
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Andreas Weigend
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Andreas Sebastian Weigend is the author of the book Data for the People . He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, Digitalrat. Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn and received a PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1991. He was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com.
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Hervé Fernandez
#149638
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Emily S. C. Ching
#97247
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Emily Shuk Chi Ching is a Hong Kong theoretical physicist based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She researches fluid turbulence and has been elected as a fellow of the Institute of Physics and American Physical Society.
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Silvia Miksch
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Silvia Miksch is an Austrian computer scientist working in information visualization, particularly for time-oriented and medical data. She is head of the Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology at TU Wien.
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Yi-cheng Zhang
#149651
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Ofir Turel
#149658
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Shijian Lu
#149669
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Douglas L. Rosene
#149671
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Degang Chen
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Degang Chen professor at Iowa State University, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to testing of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
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Grant N. Pierce
#149699
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Ross William Griffiths
#149704
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Weiya Zhang
#149707
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#7784
Rajeev Rastogi
#149713
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Wiebe Van Der Hoek
#149755
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#7786
Chihiro Sasakawa
#149758
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Symeon Papavassiliou
#149759
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Akira Nishiyama
#149764
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1955 - Present (71 years)
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Ming Yuan
#149765
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Giovanni Neri
#149777
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Thomas Dierks
#149798
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Jun Shimazaki
#149799
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Gottfried O. H. Naumann
#149804
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Mario Salmona
#149825
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Jane Veeder
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Jane Veeder is an American digital artist, filmmaker and educator. She is a professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Design and Industry, at which she held the position of chair between 2012 and 2015. Veeder is best known for her pioneering work in early computer graphics, however she has also worked extensively with traditional art forms such as painting, ceramics, theatre, and photography.
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William T. Williams
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1942 - Present (84 years)
William T. Williams is an American painter and educator. He is known for his process-based approach to painting that engages motifs drawn from personal memory and cultural narrative to create non-referential, abstract compositions. He was a Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York from 1971 to 2008.
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Allan Hanbury
#149838
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1974 - Present (52 years)
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Jalel Labidi
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Vito Pistoia
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Philipp Bucher
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