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,
#8151
Takuji Gotoda
#152681
Overall Influence
#8152
Hiroshi Murase
#152682
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#8153
Ivan Bratko
#152702
Overall Influence
#8154
Yaser Jararweh
#152703
Overall Influence
#8155
Massimo Del Fabbro
#152704
Overall Influence
#8156
Stuart D. Jackson
#152716
Overall Influence
#8157
Dave Marsh
#140540
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
David R. Marsh is an American video game designer known for his work supporting the intellectual properties that used to belong to ICOM Simulations, and creating the MacVenture game Shadowgate. As of 2012, he recently founded a new game development company called Zojoi, LLC with plans to release new, remastered and revised versions of games created by him and Karl Roelofs when they were at ICOM Simulations.
Go to Profile#8158
Koji Hirano
#152724
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8159
Mathias Winterhalter
#152726
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8160
Peter Lipp
#152742
Overall Influence
#8161
Angelo Cangelosi
#152743
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#8162
M. Cuturi
#152763
Overall Influence
#8163
Akihiko Nakano
#152769
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8164
Zvi Artstein
#152774
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
#8165
Steven M. Drucker
#79281
Overall Influence
Steven Mark Drucker is an American computer scientist who studies how to help people understand data, and communicate their insights to others. He is a Partner at Microsoft Research, where he also serves as the Research Manager of the VIDA group. Drucker is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Go to Profile#8166
Morgan Fraser
#152780
Overall Influence
#8167
Craig Steven Wright
#117103
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Craig Steven Wright is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community. As of 2019, he lives in the United Kingdom.
Go to Profile#8168
Bashir Al-Hashimi
#124225
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi, CBE, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS is a recognised multidisciplinary global researcher with sustained and pioneering contributions to computer engineering and a prominent academic and higher education leader. He is Vice President and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London in the United Kingdom. He was the co-founder and co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, an industry-university collaboration partnership involving the University of Southampton and ARM. He is actively involved in promoting science and engineering for young people...
Go to Profile#8169
Christophe M. Courtin
#152806
Overall Influence
#8170
Antonio Hernando
#152815
Overall Influence
#8171
Robert B. Russell
#152817
Overall Influence
#8172
B. R. Badrinath
#152821
Overall Influence
#8173
Masahiro Sokabe
#152823
Overall Influence
#8174
Jan S. Suchodolski
#152830
Overall Influence
#8175
Chai K Toh
#152840
Overall Influence
#8176
Loreen Olson
#47172
Overall Influence
Loreen Olson is an American scholar of family communication, with an emphasis on gender, communication, and violence. She is an assistant professor for the Communication Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on communication theory, gender communication, relational communication, family communication, qualitative research methods, and interpersonal communication theory. Olson and co-authors Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. Wilson-Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds published a book entitled The Dark Side of Family Communication.
Go to Profile#8177
Makoto Hashizume
#152867
Overall Influence
#8178
Andrew Hayward
#129939
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Andrew C Hayward MBBS, BSc, MSc, DTMH, MD, FPHM, is professor of infectious disease epidemiology and inclusion health research at University College London. Research Hayward was one of the founders of Flu Watch in 2006, designed to understand transmission of influenza in the general community. As well as continuing surveillance it has provided data for modelling flu epidemiology. Previously, models were based data from the USA between 1948 and 1981 that was collected in very different social, travel and community settings. Participant households in England were invited to join after being se...
Go to Profile#8179
Nguyen Phuong Thao
#152872
Overall Influence
#8180
David Richardson
#35625
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
David John Richardson is a British academic who was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. As a result of the financial crisis that engulfed the university in early 2023, under his management, he resigned from the position on 27 February 2023, effective immediately, with Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost Christine Bovis-Cnossen taking over as acting Vice-Chancellor.
Go to Profile#8181
Bülent Yener
#129422
Overall Influence
Bulent Yener is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and the founding Director of Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Go to Profile#8182
C.f.f Davidson E.r. Bender
#152897
Overall Influence
#8183
Bruno Ledergerber
#152906
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8184
Wolfgang Wilcke
#152911
Overall Influence
#8185
Sanjay Srivastava
#152921
Overall Influence
#8186
Pengfei Cui
#152926
Overall Influence
#8187
Carlo Napolitano
#152955
Overall Influence
#8188
Yoshio Nosaka
#152963
Overall Influence
#8189
Masaru Miyazaki
#152970
Overall Influence
#8190
Solomon B. Levine
#83545
Overall Influence
1920 - 2006 (86 years)
Solomon Bernard Levine was one of the U.S.'s foremost experts on Japanese labor and industrial relations. Biography Levine's book "Industrial Relations in Postwar Japan", published in 1958, was considered to be a landmark in the field, influencing a generation of Asian scholars. His deep knowledge and interest in Japan came long before the 1980s explosion in interest and writing about the rapid growth and success of the Japanese economy and employment system. Levine’s book then became the classic reference that everyone working on these topics were told to read.
Go to Profile#8191
Fouran Singh
#152987
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
#8192
Hiroshi Yoshida
#152994
Overall Influence
#8193
David L. Olson
#152995
Overall Influence
#8194
Shinji Saitoh
#153002
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8195
Mark Pimentel
#153005
Overall Influence
#8196
Ruigang Yang
#153006
Overall Influence
#8197
Vincent Zoete
#153007
Overall Influence
#8198
Jianqi Zhang
#153021
Overall Influence
#8199
Shai Avidan
#153025
Overall Influence
#8200
Pascal Bouvry
#153031
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
