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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Cristian Sminchisescu
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Kenneth A. Krohn
#153046
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#8203
Nitin Shivappa
#153055
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#8204
Lukas Bubendorf
#153060
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Guoqiang Hu
#153062
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#8206
Stefano Nolfi
#153067
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David W. Mount
#153084
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#8208
David Andrew Bender
#153088
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Sergio Amadori
#153092
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#8210
Hiroshi Irisawa
#153094
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#8211
Ming Wah Wong
#153107
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#8212
Tsuyoshi Yokoi
#153114
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#8213
Vladimir S. Cherkassky
#153115
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#8214
Oliver Stegle
#153141
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#8215
Markus Jakobsson
#150965
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Markus Jakobsson is a computer security researcher, entrepreneur and writer, whose work is focused on the issue of digital security. Career Markus Jakobsson is currently Chief Scientist at Artema Labs, a company with the mission of disrupting and improving the crypto and NFT markets. Prior to his current role, he has been Chief Scientist at ByteDance; Chief of Security and Data Analytics at Amber Solutions, and Chief Scientist at Agari.
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Stella Pang
#97338
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Stella W. Pang is an engineer known for her work on microfabrication, biomaterials, nanostructures, microelectromechanical systems, and microfluidics. She is Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong, Director of the Centre for Biosystems, Neuroscience, and Nanotechnology, and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Go to Profile#8217
Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti
#153160
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1957 - Present (69 years)
#8218
Alan D. Irvine
#153193
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#8219
Takashi Tokino
#153202
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#8220
Loris Nanni
#153229
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#8221
Munish Kumar Gupta
#153263
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Alessandro Pegoretti
#153265
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#8223
Rainer W. Lienhart
#153269
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#8224
Kazuhiko Takai
#153282
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#8225
Reinhard Boehler
#153284
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#8226
Michael J. Buchmeier
#153287
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#8227
Yasushi Hiraoka
#153290
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#8228
Michael Bau
#153294
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#8229
Dario Consonni
#153298
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#8230
Kohsuke Mori
#153318
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#8231
Vicente Sanchís
#153327
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#8232
Paul Kind
#153328
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#8233
Rahul Sarpeshkar
#79173
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Rahul Sarpeshkar is the Thomas E. Kurtz Professor and a professor of engineering, professor of physics, professor of microbiology & immunology, and professor of molecular and systems biology at Dartmouth. Sarpeshkar, whose interdisciplinary work is in bioengineering, electrical engineering, quantum physics, and biophysics, is the inaugural chair of the William H. Neukom cluster of computational science, which focuses on analog, quantum, and biological computation. The clusters, designed by faculty from across the institution to address major global challenges, are part of President Philip Hanlon's vision for strengthening academic excellence at Dartmouth.
Go to Profile#8234
J. F. Illingworth
#153351
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Ken Hinckley
#138103
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Ken Hinckley is an American computer scientist and inventor. He is a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research. He is known for his research in human-computer interaction, specifically on sensing techniques, pen computing, and cross-device interaction.
Go to Profile#8236
Suzette Delaloge
#153358
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1967 - Present (59 years)
#8237
Shiliang Sun
#153363
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#8238
Yongfei Wang
#153387
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#8239
Stewart Cheifet
#87585
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Stewart Cheifet is an American television presenter, best known for his work presenting and producing Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. He has also worked in other reporting positions for PBS and ABC, and others. Raised in Philadelphia, he attended Central High School and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1960 with a degree in Mathematics and Psychology and went on to graduate from Harvard Law School. Cheifet taught journalism classes at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Xianfeng David Gu
#153396
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#8241
Francesco Baino
#153423
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#8242
Biao Yu
#153427
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1967 - Present (59 years)
#8243
Maurizio Peruzzini
#153433
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#8244
Jun Hirabayashi
#153437
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#8245
Johanna Rommens
#96184
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Johanna Rommens is a Canadian geneticist who was on the research team which identified and cloned the CFTR gene, which when mutated, is responsible for causing cystic fibrosis . She later discovered the gene responsible for Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes pancreatic and hematologic problems. She is a Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids Research Institute and a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto.
Go to Profile#8246
Nejat Düzgüneş
#153477
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Damien Ernst
#153490
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Virginio Ferrari
#66589
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Virginio Ferrari is an Italian sculptor, born in Verona and based in Chicago from the middle of the 1960s. He has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 group shows. Ferrari Studios, a site for both Virginio and his son Marco, is at 412 S. Wells, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60607.
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Haoran Xie
#153501
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Gerhard Wilde
#153502
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