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,
#8601
Thomas Berger
#156138
Overall Influence
#8602
Andreas Grünschloß
#9425
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Andreas Gruenschloss is a German scholar and the current Professor of Religious Studies at University of Göttingen. An ordained Protestant pastor, he is the author of books and scholarly articles about interfaith matters and new religious movements. He publishes both in German and in English and is a co-editor of the Marburg Journal of Religion.
Go to Profile#8603
Alfred Blume
#156143
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#8604
Nikos. E. Mastorakis
#156145
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#8605
Mark Boguniewicz
#156146
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#8606
Yutaka Saito
#156167
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#8607
Naiqi Wu
#156175
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#8608
Hermann Hofbauer
#156192
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#8609
José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes
#156193
Overall Influence
#8610
Chen-shang Chang
#156195
Overall Influence
#8611
Bin Yang
#143829
Overall Influence
Bin Yang is a professor of computer science the department of computer science, Aalborg University. His research interests include data management and machine learning. Education and career Bin Yang received his bachelor and master degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Fudan University in China in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, he worked at the Databases and Information Systems department at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Germany. From 2011 to 2014, he was employed at the department of computer science, Aarhus University. ...
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Kailash Prasad
#156201
Overall Influence
#8613
Shazib Pervaiz
#156214
Overall Influence
#8614
Gregory. Dudek
#156215
Overall Influence
#8615
Bogdan Maciej Wilamowski
#156222
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#8616
Robert C. Holte
#156224
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#8617
Yoshio Takahashi
#156237
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#8618
Emanuele Barbato
#156242
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8619
Christian Bauckhage
#156243
Overall Influence
#8620
Takashi Saito
#156248
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8621
Francesc Villarroya
#156267
Overall Influence
#8622
Hongsheng Li
#156277
Overall Influence
#8623
Alessandro Giua
#156286
Overall Influence
#8624
Ian P. Hall
#156291
Overall Influence
#8625
Juan J. Trujillo
#156298
Overall Influence
#8626
James Jeffrey Hays
#156315
Overall Influence
#8627
Nicola Longo
#156327
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8628
Todd M. Austin
#156341
Overall Influence
#8629
Thomas Rauscher
#156344
Overall Influence
#8630
Kenji Sonomoto
#156354
Overall Influence
#8631
Carl Edward Baum
#156377
Overall Influence
#8632
June Stevens
#156378
Overall Influence
#8633
Jim Highsmith
#125485
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
James A. Highsmith III is an American software engineer and author of books in the field of software development methodology. He is the creator of Adaptive Software Development, described in his 1999 book "Adaptive Software Development", and winner of the 2000 Jolt Award, and the Stevens Award in 2005. Highsmith was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development.
Go to Profile#8634
Richard Reinhardt
#156420
Overall Influence
#8635
Peter John Kirkpatrick
#156430
Overall Influence
#8636
Rory Hachamovitch
#156437
Overall Influence
#8637
Tetsuya Suhara
#156446
Overall Influence
#8638
Ge Sun
#156456
Overall Influence
#8639
Margaret J. Wright
#156458
Overall Influence
#8640
Joël Coste
#156469
Overall Influence
#8641
Leszek Rutkowski
#156476
Overall Influence
#8642
Akihiko Kikuchi
#156499
Overall Influence
#8643
Yuval Ishai
#156503
Overall Influence
#8644
Imran Shakir
#156505
Overall Influence
#8645
Thomas Bolander
#139168
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Thomas Bolander is a Danish professor at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, where he studies logic and artificial intelligence. Most of his studies focus on the social aspect of artificial intelligence, and how we can make future AI able to navigate in social interactions. Thomas Bolander also sits in different commissions, expert panels and boards, among these he is a member of the Siri Commission, the TeckDK Commission, a member of the editorial board of the journal Studia Logica and co-organizer of Science and Cocktails.
Go to Profile#8646
Flemming Nielson
#156511
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#8647
Rufin Vogels
#156514
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#8648
Roman Schnabel
#156515
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
#8649
Ruben Kretzschmar
#156530
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#8650
Sanjay Sharma
#156531
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