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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Sebastian Ruder
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Yasukazu Nakamura
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David William Murray
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Thierry Blu
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Thierry Blu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for fundamental contributions to approximation theory in signal and image processing.
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Francesca Demichelis
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Noam Shazeer
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Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni
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Per Jönsson
#156628
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Liu-sheng Huang
#156632
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Massimo Ciccozzi
#156639
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Horst Vogel
#156640
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Hans-jörg Schek
#156644
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Jinjun Chen
#156656
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Kenzo Hiraoka
#156668
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Wen-gang Zhou
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Misako Matsumoto
#156680
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Charles J. Dorman
#156683
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Kate Schroder
#156687
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Angelo Pietrobelli
#156712
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Michael D. Crowell
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Derek L. G. Hill
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Cesare Alippi
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1966 - Present (60 years)
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Bingsheng He
#156754
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Mario Gaudino
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Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE, FEBCTS, FACC, FAHA is an Italian cardiothoracic surgeon who is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending cardiac surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an expert in coronary revascularization and clinical trialist. He is known for conducting the PALACS trial, which demonstrated that posterior pericardiotomy at the time of cardiac surgery reduced the incidence of post-operative atrial ...
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Rita Bernhardt
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Koichi Ohshima
#156813
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Hermann M. Niemeyer
#156829
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Jarke J. Van Wijk
#156831
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Evangelos Giannitsis
#156837
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Daniel Gopher
#156838
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Elena Bruna
#156850
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Rongxing Lu
#156861
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H. J. De Man
#156862
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Tiziana Margaria
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Tiziana Margaria is a computer scientist and software engineer whose research topics include formal methods and model-driven engineering. Educated in Italy, she has worked in Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Ireland, and currently works in Ireland as Chair of Software Systems in the University of Limerick's Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
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Nicola Bradbury
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel. Life Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in ...
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Nader Karimi
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Staffan Ahlstedt
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Markus Flury
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James R. Lewis
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John Neil Cape
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Rolf Heumann
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1947 - Present (79 years)
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Shuichi Matsuda
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Montserrat Fitó
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Gil Wernovsky
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Waldemar Świerzy
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1931 - 2013 (82 years)
Waldemar Świerzy was a Polish artist. Life Born in Katowice, Poland, he graduated from the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. He was subsequently Professor in the University of Fine Arts in Poznań from 1965 and Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1994.
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Jianchao Yang
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Paul F. Bradshaw
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Paul Frederick Bradshaw, FRHistS is a British Anglican priest, theologian, historian of liturgy, and academic. In addition to parish ministry, he taught at Chichester Theological College and Ripon College Cuddesdon . From 1985 to 2013, he was Professor of Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.
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Mir Ali Farajzadeh
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Aini Hussain
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Roger Y. Tsai
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