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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Zuankai Wang
#150224
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David A. Nicholson
#150257
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#7853
Douglas W. Oard
#150262
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#7854
Gioacchino Natoli
#150267
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#7855
Athman Bouguettaya
#150271
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#7856
Ekihiro Seki
#150275
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#7857
Umezuruike Linus Opara
#150276
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#7858
Setsuya Aiba
#150291
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#7859
Marco Zanetti
#150295
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
#7860
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
#150296
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
#7861
Dominique Guyomard
#150299
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#7862
Kazuhiro Nakamura
#150314
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7863
Jessica Hullman
#88606
Overall Influence
Jessica Hullman is a computer scientist and the Ginni Rometty associate professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. She is known for her research in Information visualization. Education Hullman graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies. She obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writings and Poetics from Naropa University. Hullman received her Master of Science in Information and Ph.D in Information Science from the University of Michigan - School of Information, where she was advised by Eytan Adar. She completed...
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Karl Fent
#150337
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
#7865
Stefano Nolfi
#109515
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Stefano Nolfi is a director of research of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and head of the Laboratory of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Life. He is one of the founders of Evolutionary robotics . Nolfi's research interests include: evolution of communication and language, language and action, adaptive behavior, swarm robotics.
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Makoto Tsuda
#150347
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#7867
Sadao Kimura
#150350
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#7868
Paolo Frasconi
#150351
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#7869
Jorge Moscat
#150358
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#7870
Feng Gao
#150367
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#7871
Norbert Paul Südkamp
#150371
Overall Influence
#7872
Kim Choon Ng
#150380
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#7873
Michael Joannidis
#150390
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#7874
Giorgio Metta
#150393
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
#7875
Andrea Cavalli
#150414
Overall Influence
#7876
Bjørn Gustavsen
#93778
Overall Influence
1938 - 2018 (80 years)
Bjørn Gustavsen is a Norwegian academic and working life researcher. He has been Director of the Work Research Institute and Professor at the Arbetslivscentrum in Stockholm , the University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . He is originally trained as a lawyer, and took the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1964. He was an assistant judge 1965-66. After fours years as a research fellow at Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd, he became a researcher at the Work Research Institute in 1970.
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Yizhou Sun
#150438
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#7878
Sebastiaan Engelborghs
#150443
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#7879
Seth Paul Lerner
#150448
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#7880
Ethan A. Merritt
#150464
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#7881
Félix Sancenón
#150471
Overall Influence
#7882
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
#150473
Overall Influence
#7883
Jean-Louis Dessalles
#117572
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Jean-Louis Dessalles is a French computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, professor à Télécom Paris . He is best known for his contributions to the Simplicity theory and for his original theory about a possible political origin of language.
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David H. Hall
#150492
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
#7885
Yonggang Wen
#150493
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#7886
Sanni Yaya
#150496
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#7887
Shigeru Yamada
#150530
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#7888
Dan Ioan Moldovan
#150531
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#7889
Thore Graepel
#150538
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#7890
Anders Green
#150555
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#7891
A. Daniel Jones
#150558
Overall Influence
#7892
Peter J. Gawthrop
#150602
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#7893
Richard Lavery
#150623
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#7894
Barbara Borroni
#150629
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#7895
Paolo Visca
#150635
Overall Influence
#7896
Kazunori Toyoda
#150637
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#7897
Samuel Singer
#150642
Overall Influence
#7898
Klaus Lehnertz
#150659
Overall Influence
#7899
Umar Saif
#123263
Overall Influence
Umar Saif is a Pakistani computer scientist and academic. He is the founder and CEO of aiSight.ai , Chief Digital Officer of the Jang Group and CEO of Khudi Ventures . He is currently serving as interim Federal Minister For Science and Technology, as well as Minister of IT. He is also serving as an advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan.
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Howardena Pindell
#52564
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Howardena Pindell is an American artist, curator and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist, her work explores texture, color, structures, and the process of making art; it is often political, addressing the intersecting issues of racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. She is known for the wide variety of techniques and materials used in her artwork; she has created abstract paintings, collages, "video drawings," and "process art."
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