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.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
#8351
Fosca Giannotti
#154217
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#8352
Todd Matthew Manini
#154224
Overall Influence
#8353
Assunta Bertaccini
#154240
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
#8354
Marco Ramoni
#110041
Overall Influence
1963 - 2010 (47 years)
Marco Ramoni was a recognized a translational biostatistician and bioinformatician at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston, affiliated with the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
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Lubo Zhang
#154257
Overall Influence
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Ulrich Haeberlen
#154259
Overall Influence
#8357
Karen L. Margolis
#154266
Overall Influence
#8358
Hiroshi Inoue
#154270
Overall Influence
#8359
Niyazi Öktem
#26467
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Niyazi Öktem is a Turkish academic. Born in Elazığ, he is a professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law, and Sociology of Law in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is president of the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, the most prominent inter-faith organisation in Turkey.
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Amit K. Roy-chowdhury
#154277
Overall Influence
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Salaheldin Elkatatny
#154281
Overall Influence
#8362
Jérôme Lang Lang
#154288
Overall Influence
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Luc Martens
#154296
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
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Paul W. Fieguth
#154297
Overall Influence
#8365
Niki Trigoni
#140475
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Agathoniki Trigoni is a Greek computer scientist who is a professor in the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science and a Fellow of Kellogg College. Trigoni is the Chief Technology Officer of Navenio, a company she founded to provide scalable and accurate indoor location systems. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022.
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Joost Engelfriet
#154315
Overall Influence
#8367
Kamel Hooman
#154318
Overall Influence
#8368
George Davida
#108500
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
George I. Davida is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is an outspoken proponent of public access to cryptography and an opponent of various National Security Agency and US federal government policies and initiatives like the Clipper chip, a stance dating back to his 1977 reception of a gag order from the NSA under the Invention Secrecy Act relating to a patent application for a stream cipher device, using research funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He used to work at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Iowa. He was ...
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Vincenzo Loia
#154345
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#8370
Kwok-kee Wei
#154351
Overall Influence
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Reihaneh Safavi–naini
#154371
Overall Influence
#8372
Chris F. Kemerer
#154383
Overall Influence
#8373
Lian Duan
#154385
Overall Influence
#8374
Chieh-Su Hsu
#137236
Overall Influence
1922 - 2014 (92 years)
Chieh-Su Hsu was a Chinese-born American engineer. Hsu was born in Beijing on 27 May 1922, as one of six siblings, including four brothers. The family moved to Suzhou, where they remained until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, Hsu and his older brother moved to Chongqing, and Hsu enrolled at the Chongqing Institute of Technology. Upon graduating in 1945, Hsu served one year in the National Revolutionary Army, then worked at Shanghai Naval Dockyard and Engineering Works from 1946 to 1947. He left for Stanford University in the United States after becoming one of sixty students to win a nationwide contest for a scholarship.
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Rico Sennrich
#154402
Overall Influence
#8376
Kunihiro Matsumoto
#154404
Overall Influence
#8377
Sumio Sugano
#154409
Overall Influence
#8378
Norio Ozaki
#154424
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8379
Donna H. Ryan
#154432
Overall Influence
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Yukio Yoneda
#154433
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8381
Han Sup Uhm
#154442
Overall Influence
#8382
Hiroto Miwa
#154456
Overall Influence
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Jack Gibson
#30968
Overall Influence
1908 - 1994 (86 years)
John Travers Mends Gibson was an English schoolmaster, scholar, academic and a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer. Early life and career Gibson was the son of naval officer Charles Gibson and Emmeline Mary Fletcher and was born on 3 March 1908. He studied at Mowden Preparatory School in Brighton before he was sent in 1921 to Haileybury and Imperial Service College for schooling and later joined the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he earned a half blue in fencing. He almost made it to the British Olympic Team. In 1929, he began his career as a professor in Chillon College, Switzerland, responsible for teaching pupils History and winter sports.
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Magnus Sahlgren
#107416
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Magnus Sahlgren is a Swedish computational linguist and guitarist. Academic career Magnus Sahlgren is known for his work on Random indexing applied to distributional semantics published through research projects at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and later at Gavagai AB, the research company he co-founded in 2008. Sahlgren's dissertation The Word-Space Model was awarded the prize for the most prominent scholarly achievement of 2006 at the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities.
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Reiner Rugulies
#154502
Overall Influence
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Clive A. J. Fletcher
#154506
Overall Influence
#8387
Subhasish G. Mitra
#154510
Overall Influence
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Ahmad Zaharin Aris
#125573
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Ahmad Zaharin Aris FASc is an academician and professor of hydrochemistry. He was appointed as a professor at the age of 33 and as a senior professor at the age of 36. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia from 2016 until 2020. On 1 March 2020, the faculty merged with the Faculty of Forestry to form Faculty of Forestry and Environment. He is then appointed by UPM as the 3rd director of International Institute of Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences , a research institute that upgraded from the Marine Science Centre on 15 December 2017.
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Laurent Papazian
#154515
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
#8390
Namiki Izumi
#154516
Overall Influence
#8391
Hélène Pellissier
#154521
Overall Influence
#8392
Werner Uhl
#154527
Overall Influence
#8393
Vishal Garg
#59274
Overall Influence
Vishal Garg is an Indian researcher working mainly in building energy efficiency and Cool Roofs. Garg is University Chair Professor and Dean Academics at Plaksha University. Previously he was Professor and Head of the Center for IT in Building Science at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is the recipient of the inaugural Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Achievement Award. He is actively involved in supporting the formulation of national-level policies and standards and implementation of building energy codes in India, and was made a Fellow of IBPSA in 20...
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Patrizio Neff
#154532
Overall Influence
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Amanda Wixted
#135346
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Amanda Wixted is a video game programmer and founder of Meteor Grove Software. Early life Wixted was born on November 23, 1981, in Paris, France. At the age of two, she moved to Kuwait City, and at the age of nine, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and at age 15 moved again to attend Stevenson School, a boarding school in Pebble Beach, California. She graduated from Stevenson School in 2000 and attended the University of Arizona where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science.
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Ibrahim Galadari
#45744
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Ibrahim Galadari is a dermatologist and currently a professor in United Arab Emirates University and head of Galadari Derma Clinic, a private dermatology practice in Dubai. Galadari is also one of the founder members in the Faculty of Medicine and Human Science at the United Arab Emirates University situated in Al Ain.
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Cyrus E. Rubin
#154562
Overall Influence
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Rui Si
#154563
Overall Influence
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Jules Olitski
#10370
Overall Influence
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Jevel Demikovski , known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Early life Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government. He emigrated to the United States in 1923 with his mother and grandmother and settled in Brooklyn. His grandmother cared for him while his mother worked to support the family. In 1926 his mother married Hyman Olitsky , a widower with two sons. A daughter was born in 1930.
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Kevin Whelan
#154579
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