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,
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Salam Adnan Ibrahim
#154598
Overall Influence
#8402
Yoshiharu Fujii
#154609
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#8403
Huansheng Ning
#154627
Overall Influence
#8404
Martin Biel
#154628
Overall Influence
#8405
Martin Kippenberger
#18750
Overall Influence
1953 - 1997 (44 years)
Martin Kippenberger was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, superfiction as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona.
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Urs Schmidhalter
#154630
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#8407
Francesco Palmieri
#154633
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#8408
Holger Dau
#154634
Overall Influence
#8409
Harun-or-Rashid
#59683
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Harun-or-Rashid is a Bangladeshi academic. He is a former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh National University. Education Born in Barishal District, Rashid obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Dhaka. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 1983. He was engaged in post-doctoral research at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in University of London during 1992–93 under Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship.
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Wolfgang Frey
#154636
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#8411
W. George S. Feng
#154639
Overall Influence
#8412
Kazi Shahidullah
#58662
Overall Influence
Kazi Shahidullah is a Bangladeshi academic and incumbent Chairman of Bangladesh University Grants Commission. He previously served as the vice-chancellor of the National University of Bangladesh during 2009–2013. He taught history at Dhaka University.
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Iasonas. Kokkinos
#154652
Overall Influence
#8414
Claudio Palomo
#154677
Overall Influence
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Katrin Hartmann
#154678
Overall Influence
#8416
Junseok Kim
#154680
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
#8417
Thomas Wernberg
#154684
Overall Influence
#8418
Angelo Valerio Marzano
#154703
Overall Influence
#8419
Elizabeth Anne Montgomery
#154704
Overall Influence
#8420
Erling Bjerregaard Pedersen
#154706
Overall Influence
#8421
Sanjay Garg
#154707
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8422
Gerardo Gamba
#154708
Overall Influence
#8423
Jan Józef Werewka
#97963
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Jan Józef Werewka – a Polish information scientist, professor of AGH University of Science and Technology, and a CEO of IT companies. His main interests include project management and IT architecture solutions.
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Dharmarajan Sriram
#154711
Overall Influence
#8425
Mohamed G. Gouda
#154718
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Mohamed G. Gouda is an American computer scientist, currently the Mike A. Myers Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
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Masatomo Yashima
#154719
Overall Influence
#8427
Norihiro Suzuki
#154728
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8428
Vipin Chandra Kalia
#154729
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#8429
Richard Niederman
#154731
Overall Influence
#8430
Peter W. Andrews
#154740
Overall Influence
#8431
Edward Sacher
#154742
Overall Influence
#8432
Grigori Tseitin
#101088
Overall Influence
1936 - 2022 (86 years)
Grigori Samuilovitsch Tseitin was a Russian mathematician and computer scientist, who moved to the United States in 1999. He is best known for Tseitin transformation used in SAT solvers, Tseitin tautologies used in the proof complexity theory, and for his work on Algol 68.
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George Witman
#151133
Overall Influence
George B. Witman is an American biologist currently George F. Booth Chair Professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is on cilia and flagella biology and has made extensive work involving Chlamydomonas. His highly cited published papers are 1608, 789 and 709.
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Brian G. Forde
#154746
Overall Influence
#8435
Andrew W. Roberts
#154749
Overall Influence
#8436
Ellen Witte Zegura
#154754
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#8437
Peter Jonas
#154787
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#8438
Martin J. Hardcastle
#154788
Overall Influence
#8439
Antonino Neri
#154805
Overall Influence
#8440
Charles Bell
#76354
Overall Influence
1935 - 1995 (60 years)
Charles Bell was an American photorealist who created large scale still lifes. Artistic career Despite a lifelong interest in art, Bell never received any formal art training. He claimed inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. He also worked in the San Francisco studio of Donald Timothy Flores, where he painted mostly small-scale landscapes and still lifes. He was given the Society of Western Artists Award in 1968. After moving to New York, Bell created his paintings by photographing a subject in still life.
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Dennis Hasselquist
#154819
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#8442
Michael Wolfe
#154822
Overall Influence
#8443
Yoshihisa Fujino
#154824
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8444
Glenford Myers
#138033
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Glenford Myers is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two successful high-tech companies , authored eight textbooks in the computer sciences, and made important contributions in microprocessor architecture. He holds a number of patents, including the original patent on "register scoreboarding" in microprocessor chips. He has a BS in electrical engineering from Clarkson University, an MS in computer science from Syracuse University, and a PhD in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
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James Won-Ki Hong
#94110
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
James Won-Ki Hong is Director of Innovation Center for Education , Co-Director of Cetner for Crypto Blockchain Research , and Professor of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH. He served as Dean of Graduate of Information Technology at POSTECH from 2015 to 2019. He was Senior Executive Vice President and CTO of KT Corporation leading R&D activities from March 2012 to Feb. 2014. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1991. His research interests include blockchain, network management, network monitoring and network analysis, ICT convergence, ubiquitous computing, and smartphonomics.
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Xiaojun Wan
#154868
Overall Influence
#8447
David Blane
#154870
Overall Influence
#8448
Alexander Marx
#154877
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#8449
Corinne Haioun
#154896
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Nicola Santoro
#154926
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