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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Sabina Signoretti
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Jaana Lindström
#151808
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Hiroyuki Yoshida
#151817
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Upkar Varshney
#151819
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Francesc Figueras
#151843
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Bernard Weiss
#151844
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1925 - Present (101 years)
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Buyong Ma
#151848
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Frank. Piessens
#151855
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Jan Ekstrand
#151866
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Ayyoob Sharifi
#151876
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Stephan Fritzsche
#151887
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Kemal Akkaya
#151892
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Stefano Stramigioli
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Stefano Stramigioli is a scientist and engineer born in Italy and now living since 1992 in the Netherlands and holding both the Italian and Dutch nationality. He is affiliated with the University of Twente where he leads the Robotics And Mechatronics Lab. He is also covering a guest co-chair position at the International Laboratory of BioMechatronics and Energy Efficient Robotics at ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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James Chodosh
#151898
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Michael Apted
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1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Michael David Apted, was a British television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television and directed the Up documentary series . He later directed Coal Miner's Daughter , which was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. His subsequent work included Gorillas in the Mist , Nell , James Bond film The World Is Not Enough , and Enigma . His film Amazing Grace premiered at the closing of the Toronto International Film Festival that year.
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Manfred. Tscheligi
#151922
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Mark Fort Harris
#151925
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Avi Ma'ayan
#151936
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Genji Imokawa
#151947
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John C. Shepherdson
#151968
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Patrick Charnay
#116077
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Patrick Charnay is a French biologist, researcher. Serving as an Emeritus research director for Inserm, he works and teaches in molecular genetics and development biology at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
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Igor Moskalenko
#151973
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Martin John Kendall
#151977
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Wouter Verhoef
#151989
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Wander Lowie
#35322
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Wander Marius Lowie is a Dutch linguist. He is currently a professor of applied linguistics at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is known for his work on Complex Dynamic Systems Theory.
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Ghulam Nabi
#152012
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Hossein Moayedi
#152042
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Wolfgang Reisig
#152076
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Jens Walter
#152099
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Jaime Aparecido Cury
#152104
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Franco Maria Lajolo
#152106
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1941 - Present (85 years)
#8082
Raoul Orvieto
#152107
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#8083
Diego Serraino
#152111
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Charles Feldman
#152116
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Cleotilde Gonzalez
#110853
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Cleotilde Gonzalez is a Research Professor of Decision Sciences in the Social and Decision Sciences Department. She is also the Research Co-Director of the National NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making and the founding director of the Dynamic decision-making laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. Gonzalez is also affiliated with the Security and Privacy Institute , the Center for Behavioral Decision Research , the Human Computer Interaction Institute, the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, and the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition.
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M. Joan Alexander
#124874
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M. Joan Alexander is an atmospheric scientist known for her research on gravity waves and their role in atmospheric circulation. Education and career Alexander earned a B.S. in chemistry from Purdue University in 1981 and a M.S. in Astrophysical, Planetary & Atmospheric Sciences from University of Colorado, Boulder in 1989. She then completed her Ph.D. in Astrophysical, Planetary & Atmospheric Sciences in 1992 from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Hongliang Ren
#152137
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Heimo Breiteneder
#152146
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Andrew Paul Gutierrez
#152153
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Gilberto Brambilla
#152156
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Kazuhiko Igarashi
#152166
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Pedro Tarazona
#152177
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Nathan Marcuvitz
#59443
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1913 - 2010 (97 years)
Nathan Marcuvitz was an American electrical engineer, physicist, and educator who worked in the fields of microwave and electromagnetic field theory. He was head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory . He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He had a PhD in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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John Orchard
#120340
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1967 - Present (59 years)
John Orchard FACSEP is an Australian sport and exercise medicine physician, notable for advocating for rule changes in sport to improve player safety. In 2020 he was awarded a Member of the Order of the Order of Australia for significant service to sports medicine, particularly cricket. He was a member of the Australian government advisory group for sport responding to COVID, representing professional sport as the Chief Medical Officer for Cricket Australia and was instrumental in cricket's response to COVID. During 2023, he worked as the General Medical Officer for Australia at the FIFA Wom...
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Gustavo de Veciana
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Gustavo de Veciana is an American computer scientist and engineer, who is currently a Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication networks, probability and random processes, analysis and design of communication networks, digital communications, and information theory. His research focuses on the analysis and design of communication and computing networks, data-driven decision-making in man-machine systems, and applied probability and queueing theory.
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Anne-marie. Kermarrec
#152211
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Evangelos Kranakis
#152228
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Ofer Levy
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Inderjit Singh
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