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,
#8301
Shinji Yuasa
#153879
Overall Influence
#8302
Ronen Alon
#153885
Overall Influence
#8303
Axel Jantsch
#153894
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
#8304
Duan Li
#153899
Overall Influence
#8305
Nadine Gottschalk
#153910
Overall Influence
#8306
Miranda Yap
#65443
Overall Influence
1948 - 2015 (67 years)
Miranda Gek Sim Yap , also abbreviated as M.Yap or MGS Yap, was a professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the National University of Singapore, and the Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore .
Go to Profile#8307
Yonggyun Kim
#153916
Overall Influence
#8308
Yong Ding
#153929
Overall Influence
#8309
Takashi Mizuno
#153931
Overall Influence
#8310
Saurabh Bagchi
#128198
Overall Influence
Saurabh Bagchi is an Indian-born American academic researcher and educator in the area of computer science and engineering. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Purdue University. His contributions have been in the area of reliability and security of distributed computing systems and Internet-of-Things .
Go to Profile#8311
Masaya Nakamura
#153943
Overall Influence
#8312
Zoe Laughlin
#50923
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Zoe Laughlin is a British artist, maker and materials engineer. She is the co-founder and Director of the Institute of Making at University College London. She is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 show The Kitchen Cabinet. Laughlin was awarded the 2019 Inspire, Support Achieve Award for Design Engineering from the Institution of Engineering Designers.
Go to Profile#8313
Agnes Martin
#4368
Overall Influence
1912 - 2004 (92 years)
Agnes Bernice Martin was an American abstract painter known for her minimalist style and abstract expressionism. Born in Canada, she moved to the United States in 1931, where she pursued higher education and eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1950. Martin's artistic journey began in New York City, where she immersed herself in modern art and developed a deep interest in abstraction. Despite often being labeled a minimalist, she identified more with abstract expressionism. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence".
Go to Profile#8314
Vasantha Padmanabhan
#153973
Overall Influence
#8315
Moosa Mohammadi
#153986
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8316
Salvatore Cucchiara
#153987
Overall Influence
#8317
Blair H. Smith
#153998
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#8318
Yoshinori Mine
#154012
Overall Influence
#8319
Peter K. Allen
#154018
Overall Influence
#8320
Chai Wah Wu
#154026
Overall Influence
#8321
John F Potter
#154032
Overall Influence
#8322
Jean-Paul Van Belle
#108001
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jean-Paul Van Belle is a professor of information technology and director at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa at the University of Cape Town. He was head of the department of Information Technology at the University of Cape Town from 2008 to 2011.
Go to Profile#8323
Christopher J. Mungall
#154044
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8324
Ikuo Hirono
#154051
Overall Influence
#8325
Andreas Neubauer
#154057
Overall Influence
#8326
Henrik Hasle
#154061
Overall Influence
#8327
Minoru Fujii
#154064
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8328
Daniel Furtado Ferreira
#154071
Overall Influence
#8329
Park Jeong Young
#122922
Overall Influence
Park Jeong Young , sometimes written as Park, Jeong Y., is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at KAIST and associate director at the Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions at the Institute for Basic Science. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and American Vacuum Society among others, an international committee member of Asian Science Camp, and has served on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, and New Physics.
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Michikazu Hara
#154089
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#8331
Werner Aberer
#154091
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
#8332
Olivier Chapelle
#154104
Overall Influence
#8333
Wayne Morgan
#154118
Overall Influence
#8334
Dennis W. Hess
#154121
Overall Influence
#8335
Ann Logan
#154126
Overall Influence
#8336
Bernd Carsten Stahl
#154137
Overall Influence
#8337
Mark Bower
#154145
Overall Influence
#8338
Karl‐martin Koch
#154149
Overall Influence
#8339
Christopher A. Higgins
#154151
Overall Influence
#8340
Clive G. Jones
#154157
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
#8341
Yo-sung Gwangju Ho
#154169
Overall Influence
#8342
Salvatore Panico
#154174
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8343
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan
#154188
Overall Influence
#8344
Paresh Vyas
#154193
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8345
William M. Vollmer
#154194
Overall Influence
#8346
Ziad El Rassi
#154196
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#8347
Michael Schick
#154204
Overall Influence
#8348
Maria Prins
#154207
Overall Influence
#8349
Ian F. Blake
#154209
Overall Influence
#8350
Lorenzo Franchi
#154215
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