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,
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Eugene W. Schupp
#151055
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Luo Qingming
#115763
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Luo Qingming is a Chinese scientist currently serving as president of Hainan University since September 2018. Education Luo was born in Qichun County, Hubei in January 1966. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Xidian University in 1986. He received his Master of Science in optics degree and Doctor of Engineering in physical electronics and optoelectronics degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1986 and 1993, respectively. From 1995 to 1997 he did post-doctoral research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Frank Nielsen
#151080
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#7954
François Fages
#106800
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
François Fages is a French computer scientist known for contributions in the areas of unification theory, rule-based modelling, logic programming, concurrent constraint logic programming, computational biology and systems biology.
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Fabrizio Tagliavini
#151091
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#7956
Joshua Bloch
#137090
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Joshua J. Bloch is an American software engineer and a technology author, formerly employed at Sun Microsystems and Google. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the package, and the mechanism. He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java , which won the 2001 Jolt Award, and is a co-author of two other Java books, Java Puzzlers and Java Concurrency In Practice .
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Douglas A Levine
#151111
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Martin David Levine
#151121
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#7959
Leonard W. Seymour
#81587
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Leonard W. Seymour is a Professor of Gene Therapy at the University of Oxford's oncology department. As a cancer-oriented translational researcher, he investigates technologies utilised to enhance targeted therapy's delivery and develops related biological therapeutics under the support of Cancer Research UK.
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Paul T. Wingfield
#151127
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#7962
Dongye Zhao
#151135
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#7963
Iver Jakobsen
#151136
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7964
Kazumitsu Ueda
#151153
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7965
Pradeep Ravikumar
#151160
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#7966
Joachim Kopka
#151183
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#7967
Katja Hose
#147345
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1980 - Present (46 years)
Katja Hose is a professor of computer science at Aalborg University and TU Wien. Education In 2004, Katja Hose completed her master's degree in computer science at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. In 2009 she received her PhD in computer science - also from Ilmenau University of Technology.
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Darren Gergle
#128729
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Darren Robert Gergle is an American Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He currently holds the AT&T Research Professorship in Communication at Northwestern University where he directs the Collaborative Technology Lab . The locus of his research centers on human-computer interaction and social computing. He focuses on the application of cognitive and social psychological theories to the design, development and evaluation of ground breaking communication technologies. His work is supported through grants from the National Institute of Mental Hea...
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Werner Vach
#151208
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#7970
Allan McCollum
#20660
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who lives and works in New York City. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City the same year. In the late 1970s he became especially well known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.
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Marcus Foth
#151235
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1977 - Present (49 years)
#7972
Donald L. Iglehart
#151247
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Kenji Takizawa
#151250
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#7974
John Hilliard
#60646
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
John Hilliard, is an English conceptual artist. Hilliard's ongoing body of work addresses the specificity of photography as a medium: its uncertainty as a representational device and its status within the visual arts, especially in relation to painting, cinema and commercial photography.
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Dariu Mihai Gavrila
#151253
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#7976
Brian d foy
#151257
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
is the former publisher and editor of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl and Mastering Perl. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC . He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN and maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009.
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Curtis Strobeck
#151263
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M. Antònia Roig Rodríguez
#151270
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#7979
Wilfred C. G. Peh
#151275
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#7980
Mohamed Khayet
#151279
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1966 - Present (60 years)
#7981
Janice M. Reichert
#151287
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#7982
Urs Albrecht
#151292
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1962 - Present (64 years)
#7983
Rami Burstein
#151298
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#7984
Paul J. Werbos
#151309
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#7985
Leila Pirhaji
#111582
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1986 - Present (40 years)
Leila Pirhaji is an Iranian computational biologist and tech entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of ReviveMed, a biotech company that started up in 2018. She previously worked on artificial intelligence at the Professor Ernest Fraenkel Lab at MIT and at ETH Zürich.
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Holger Militz
#151339
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Aaron P. Mitchell
#151341
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#7988
Chengde Mao
#151344
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#7989
Song Han
#151352
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Masaharu Takigawa
#151355
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#7991
Richard Sinnott
#125812
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1947 - 2022 (75 years)
Richard Oliver Sinnott was an Irish academic, political commentator and broadcaster. Career Initially attracted to a life in the priesthood, Sinnott enrolled as a student at University College Dublin in 1968, graduating in 1971 with an honours degree in history and politics. He went on to acquire a master's degree in politics under the tutelage of Brian Farrell. Sinnott spent two years from 1972 to 1974 at Georgetown University, undergoing preparatory coursework which later led to a PhD that was awarded in 1983. On his return from Washington, he initially held a research fellowship at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin.
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Kazuo Umezawa
#151359
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Andrew Lewis
#151369
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#7994
Kazuhiko Matsumoto
#151389
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#7995
Graham J. Belsham
#151396
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#7996
Sonia Fahmy
#117254
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Sonia Amin Fahmy is a computer scientist specializing in computer networking, including network architectures and communication protocols, and particularly known for her work on clustering in wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.
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Yoshinobu Baba
#151407
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#7998
Giuseppe Bianchi
#151410
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#7999
Thomas Lynch
#150951
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Thomas Lynch is a professor at the University of Washington School of Drama. He teaches graduate students exclusively in opera scenery design. Education Lynch completed his MFA at Yale under the supervision of Chinese American theatrical set designer Ming Cho Lee.
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András Varga
#151425
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