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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Morio Matsumoto
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Mikael Pittet
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Mikaël Pittet is a Swiss research scientist. Biography Mikaël J. Pittet Mikaël Pittet completed his PhD thesis in Immunology at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and graduated from University of Lausanne in 2001. Following his degrees, he moved to Boston where he pursued post-doctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital , Harvard Medical School and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute . Pittet became Assistant Professor at HMS in 2006, Associate Professor in 2013, and Full Professor in 2019 . He was named Samana Cay MGH Research Scholar in 2015 and appointed Director of the Cancer immunology program at the Center for systems biology in 2016.
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Jeff Z. Pan
#150693
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#7904
Christo Goridis
#150694
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#7905
Da-ren Yu
#150696
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#7906
Feng Ding
#150727
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#7907
Christoforos E. Kozyrakis
#150728
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#7908
Giovanna Lombardi
#150738
Overall Influence
#7909
Sanjiv Jeff Singh
#150740
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#7910
Rocco De Nicola
#150747
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#7911
Zillur Rahman
#150755
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#7912
Baochun Li
#150766
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Baochun Li from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to application-layer network protocols and network coding.
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Victor Chernick
#150776
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#7914
Hamideh Afsarmanesh
#150777
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
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Jacob O. Wobbrock
#150780
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#7916
Munmun De Choudhury
#150786
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#7917
Yat Li
#150797
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#7918
Aristidis Moustakas
#150798
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#7920
Gillian M. Air
#150801
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#7921
Stephen Poliakoff
#37944
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Stephen Poliakoff is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of The Independent described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" who had "inherited Dennis Potter's crown".
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Michael Schemper
#150819
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#7923
Hongzhi Wang
#150823
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#7924
V.K. Kapoor
#92060
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Professor V.K. Kapoor is Vice Chancellor of Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan. He is also head and professor of the Department of Law. He has worked as Professor of law for four decades in various University including University of Jammu and distinguished visitors of various universities. He has thirteen papers published in journals, has drafted the J & K Jail Manual, has guided many PhDs, and has organised many seminars, conferences and moot courts.
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Romano Danesi
#150841
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#7926
James Hiram Aylor
#150845
Overall Influence
#7927
Suvrit Sra
#150846
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
#7928
Nicholas Cercone
#150848
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#7929
M Williams
#150865
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#7930
Antti Oulasvirta
#150867
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
#7931
David M. Brooks
#150878
Overall Influence
#7932
Jani Macari Pallis
#64888
Overall Influence
Jani Macari Pallis is the founder and CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics in San Francisco, California. She is also an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her areas of expertise are aerodynamics, biomedical engineering, and Sports science.
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Krishnapura Srinivasan
#150890
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#7934
Wolfgang Thormann
#150894
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#7935
William W. Cooley
#105221
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
William W. Cooley is a retired educational researcher, author, and professor emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh. He was born in West Bend, Wisconsin on March 20, 1930. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Lawrence University in 1952, a master's degree in science education and statistics at the University of Minnesota in 1955, and a doctorate in science education, statistics, and measurement at Harvard University in 1958. He is married to artist Cynthia Cooley.
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Mathieu Salzmann
#150904
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Nicolas Kalogerakis
#150910
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Alain Cariou
#150920
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#7939
Qunwei Tang
#150922
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#7940
Yufei Tao
#150930
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#7941
Stefano Liberati
#150969
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#7942
Massimo Puoti
#150984
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#7943
Mitsuo Ikebe
#150990
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#7944
Shugo Watabe
#150998
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#7945
Federico Ferreres
#151009
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#7946
Yukiko Gotoh
#151019
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#7947
Jiří Chudoba
#151020
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
#7948
Hiroshi Morita
#151036
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#7949
Cesare Cuspidi
#151043
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#7950
Steven Levitan
#72043
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Steven E. Levitan is an American television producer, director, and screenwriter. He has created many television series such as Just Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, Modern Family, and Reboot.
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