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,
#8001
Shiho Kobayashi
#151426
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#8002
Wendy W. Chapman
#137278
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Wendy Webber Chapman is an American research scientist in biomedical Natural language processing and Information Extraction. In 2019, after serving for six years as Chair of the University of Utah School of Medicine Division of Biomedical Informatics, Chapman left the institution to join the University of Melbourne.
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Geoffrey D. Rubin
#151455
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#8004
Christian Mitterer
#151457
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#8005
Daniel Chappard
#151471
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1954 - Present (72 years)
#8006
Takeshi Abe
#151482
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#8007
Sorin Draghici
#78370
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Sorin Drăghici is a Romanian-American computer scientist and a program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation . Previous positions include: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Wayne State University's College of Engineering, the Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core at Karmanos Cancer Institute, and the Director of the James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute. Draghici was elected a Fellow of the Institute of...
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Andrew C. Myers
#151487
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#8009
Javaid I. Sheikh
#151495
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#8010
Luigi Fabbrizzi
#151496
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#8011
Bruce Jefferson
#151504
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#8012
Michele Marchesi
#151506
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1952 - Present (74 years)
#8013
John Romita Jr.
#49925
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1956 - Present (70 years)
John Salvatore Romita is an American comics artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2010s. He is the son of artist John Romita Sr. Early life John Romita Jr. was born August 17, 1956, the son of Virginia and comic book artist John Romita Sr., one of the signature Spider-Man artists since the 1960s. He studied advertising art and design at Farmingdale State College in East Farmingdale, New York, graduating in 1976.
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Peter Schlattmann
#151517
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#8015
Keiko Sasaki
#151526
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#8016
Satoshi Kuroda
#151528
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#8017
Aaron Hertzmann
#151548
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#8018
Hwee Tou Ng
#151553
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#8019
Jeffrey M. Davidson
#151565
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#8020
Hans Gregersen
#151569
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#8021
Pin Han Ho
#151579
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#8022
Dinesh Selva
#151593
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#8023
Michael H Gold
#151594
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#8024
Nicolas Girard
#151609
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1978 - Present (48 years)
#8025
Ibrahim Abubakar
#100871
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Ibrahim Ibrahim Abubakar is a British-Nigerian epidemiologist who is Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences.
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Wah Soon Chow
#151616
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#8027
Shinji Inagaki
#151619
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#8028
Ruby Pawankar
#151622
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#8029
Nicholas Serota
#9817
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota, , is an English art historian and curator, who served as the Director of the Tate from 1988 to 2017. He is currently Chair of Arts Council England, a role which he has held since February 2017.
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Masaya Sawamura
#151635
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#8031
Fabio Casati
#151676
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#8032
Roberto Winter
#151686
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#8033
Tim Friede
#151692
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#8034
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
#105128
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien is a German computer scientist. Professional career Linnhoff-Popien finished her graduate studies in mathematics with focus informatics 1989 at Leipzig University. That followed a teaching and research work at Technical University, Magdeburg. Beginning in 1991 she worked as a research assistant at Aachen University of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1994. From 1995 to 1997 she did different lectureships at University of Essen. 1997 she worked as a research visitor at the Applied Research Institut of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1998, she finished her...
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Jean‐luc S. Gauvain
#151695
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#8036
Shigeyoshi Sakaki
#151710
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#8037
Nancy Hoffart
#151721
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#8038
Kincho H. Law
#151730
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#8039
Niklas Elmqvist
#143506
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1977 - Present (49 years)
Niklas Elmqvist is a Swedish-American computer scientist. He is currently a professor in the College of Information Studies, an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department, and an affiliate member of UMIACS , all at the University of Maryland, College Park. Elmqvist served as director of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab from 2016-2021. Prior to joining UMD, he was a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University from 2008 to 2014.
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Yixin Zhao
#151744
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#8041
Abraham Siegel
#40167
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1922 - 2011 (89 years)
Abraham J. Siegel was Dean , and later Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus in the MIT Sloan School of Management. List of Publications Books The Public Interest in National Labor Policy , Committee for Economic Development., New York, 1961.A Work in Progress, The MIT Sloan School of Management 2002: Looking Back, Moving Forward, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2002.
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Sally Fincher
#111358
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Sally A. Fincher is a British Computer Scientist and Emerita Professor of Computing Education at the University of Kent. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018 the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education in 2010 and a National Teaching Fellowship in 2005.
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Lori Lamel
#131610
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Lori Faith Lamel is a speech processing researcher known for her work with the TIMIT corpus of American English speech and for her work on voice activity detection, speaker recognition, and other non-linguistic inferences from speech signals. She works for the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a senior research scientist in the Spoken Language Processing Group of the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur.
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Christina M. Hultman
#151782
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#8045
Gary Yellen
#151783
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#8046
Paolo Spagnolo
#151788
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#8047
Eiichi Araki
#151789
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#8048
Marc Lemaire
#151790
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#8049
Florian Neukart
#109233
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1982 - Present (44 years)
Florian Neukart is an Austrian business executive, computer scientist, physicist, and scientific author known for his work in quantum computing and artificial intelligence. He has primarily been working on utilizing quantum computers, artificial intelligence, and related technologies for solving industry problems. In his work on artificial intelligence, he describes methods for interpreting signals in the human brain in combination with paradigms from artificial intelligence to create artificial conscious entities.
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Hiroshi Imamura
#151796
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