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,
#7801
David Atkinson
#149877
Overall Influence
#7802
Raashid Ahmed Luqmani
#149884
Overall Influence
#7803
Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro
#149888
Overall Influence
#7804
Huazhu Fu
#149893
Overall Influence
#7805
Shigeki Miyamoto
#149898
Overall Influence
#7806
K. S. Joseph
#149899
Overall Influence
#7807
David E. Crowley
#149922
Overall Influence
#7808
Ikuo Hirano
#149929
Overall Influence
#7809
Chuan Dong
#149932
Overall Influence
#7810
Ryosuke Kuroda
#149940
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#7811
Mitchell B. Cohen
#149941
Overall Influence
#7812
Waldemar Vollmer
#149953
Overall Influence
#7813
Richard Pearce-Moses
#63517
Overall Influence
Richard Pearce-Moses is an American archivist and educator. He was president of the Society of American Archivists in 2005–6. He was recognized by the Library of Congress for his work as a Digital Preservation Pioneer. He was the first director of the Master of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University.
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Michael Small
#149965
Overall Influence
#7815
Hiroshi Fujita
#149970
Overall Influence
#7816
David Whitney
#17987
Overall Influence
1939 - 2005 (66 years)
David Whitney was an American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic. He led a very private life and was not well known outside the art world, even though he participated naked in the 1965 Claes Oldenburg happening Washes. He was the life partner of architect Philip Johnson for 45 years until their deaths five months apart. He was also a close friend of Andy Warhol.
Go to Profile#7817
Rudolf Zeller
#149974
Overall Influence
#7818
Siavash Iravani
#149994
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7819
J. Marc Overhage
#149995
Overall Influence
#7820
Mojeed Olayide Abass
#111505
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Mojeed Olayide Abass, OON is a Nigerian professor of computer science at the University of Lagos and former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Education and career Abass obtained a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Lagos before he proceeded to the University of Waterloo where he received a master and doctorate degree . He joined the University of Lagos as academic staff and rose to the position of full Professor before he was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of the university. In 2008, he retired from the University of Lagos having attained the comp...
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Florian J. Stadler
#150017
Overall Influence
#7822
Charles S. Henry
#150018
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
#7823
Rupak Majumdar
#150033
Overall Influence
#7824
Baojun Bai
#150054
Overall Influence
#7825
Tom Christensen
#150063
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
#7826
Siti Kartom Kamarudin
#150071
Overall Influence
#7827
Eberhard Neumann
#150084
Overall Influence
#7828
Timothy L. Smith
#150093
Overall Influence
#7829
Jocelyne Troccaz
#97221
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Jocelyne Troccaz is a French roboticist and researcher in medical imaging and image-guided robotics. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions team of the Laboratory for Translational Research and Innovation in Medicine and Complexity at Grenoble Alpes University. After originally specializing in industrial applications of robotics, her interests shifted to medical robotics.
Go to Profile#7830
Fumio Kishino
#150104
Overall Influence
#7831
James C. Browne
#118754
Overall Influence
1935 - 2018 (83 years)
James Clayton "Jim" Browne was an American computer scientist. Early life and education Born in Conway, Arkansas, he attended Hendrix College, where he studied chemistry. In 1960, he earned a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Texas and joined the faculty. Between 1963 and 1967, Browne worked at Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, where he helped establish the school's first computational center. He was named a full professor upon his return to the University of Texas in 1968. For a time, Browne was chair of the department of computer science, and held the regents' cha...
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Maria Gabriella Matera
#150122
Overall Influence
#7833
Derek Arthur Linkens
#150125
Overall Influence
#7834
Linda Sharp
#150133
Overall Influence
#7835
Cheng Yan
#150138
Overall Influence
#7836
Karem Slim
#150143
Overall Influence
#7837
Bohuslav Melichar
#150151
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#7838
Peter Bannasch
#150152
Overall Influence
#7839
Bradley J. Roth
#150159
Overall Influence
#7840
Imran Rahman
#16928
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Imran Rahman is an academician and the current vice-chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh . He was a special adviser to ULAB's board of trustees. He began his career at the ULAB as the director of the School of Business in 2006 and later became the vice-chancellor during 2012–2016. He was the pro-vice-chancellor of the university during 2009–2012. He spent 28 years at Institute of Business Administration as a faculty member in the department of finance, chairman of the BBA Program, and Chairman of the IBA Computer Center before joining ULAB.
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Balakumar Balachandran
#150178
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#7842
Giuseppe Rizzo
#150179
Overall Influence
#7843
Stanley Lutts
#150181
Overall Influence
#7844
Keiichi Tokuda
#150186
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#7845
Hajime Karasuyama
#150189
Overall Influence
#7846
Gijs Bleijenberg
#150190
Overall Influence
#7847
Doriano Fabbro
#150193
Overall Influence
#7848
Igor L. Markov
#150194
Overall Influence
#7849
Ravi Philip Rajkumar
#150207
Overall Influence
#7850
Michael Dumbser
#150219
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
