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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Toshiharu Shikanai
#157014
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Josep Miquel Jornet
#157018
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#8703
Stephen R. Sutton
#157041
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#8704
Leif Østergaard
#157045
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Andy Hopper
#130960
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1953 - Present (73 years)
#8706
Yukio Isozaki
#157072
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#8707
Tomoyuki Takahashi
#157081
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#8708
Per Bruun Brockhoff
#157102
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#8709
Javier Del Ser
#157117
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1979 - Present (47 years)
#8710
Cheryl Cohen
#40266
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Cheryl Cohen is a South African public health researcher who is a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She looks to develop evidence-based policy to reduce the burdens of respiratory diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic. Cohen investigated the rates of COVID-19 in South Africa.
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Mohammed Chadli
#157147
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1970 - Present (56 years)
#8712
Sebastian A. Scherer
#157156
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#8713
Hongwei Liu
#157159
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#8714
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
#157161
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Ke Zen
#157163
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Lukas Schreiber
#157175
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#8717
Hiroki Nakamura
#157186
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#8718
Miroslav Pohanka
#157194
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1979 - Present (47 years)
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JE Clements
#157200
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Tommaso Gori
#157216
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Allan M. Pinkus
#157218
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#8722
Stefano Trillo
#157232
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Frank Hollmann
#157235
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#8724
Heiko Paulheim
#157251
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1977 - Present (49 years)
#8725
Michele Morgante
#157252
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#8726
Giovanni Paganelli
#157276
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#8727
Toshio Fuchigami
#157286
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#8728
Georg Seelig
#113934
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Georg Seelig is a Swiss computer scientist, bioengineer, and synthetic biologist. He is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology.
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M. G. Zebaze Kan
#157301
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Peter Gass
#157308
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#8731
Shinji Makino
#157315
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#8732
Hani Nasser Abdelhamid
#157316
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#8733
Colin Sumners
#157317
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#8734
Andrey Rzhetsky
#152102
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Andrey Rzhetsky is the Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, where he is also Co-Chief of the Section of Computational Biomedicine and Biomedical Data Science. Born in Kazakhstan, Rzhetsky was recruited to Pennsylvania State University by Masatoshi Nei in 1991 from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. Rzhetsky did his postdoc at Penn State under Nei, who also helped him obtain his permanent residency in the United States. He joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1996. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2007, and was named the Edna K.
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B. Shapira
#157325
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#8736
Jenny Odell
#40612
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1986 - Present (40 years)
Jenny Odell is an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Oakland, California. She taught Internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University from 2013 to 2021. She wrote The New York Times best-selling book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy .
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Peter G. Smith
#157334
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Hiroyuki Kusuhara
#157335
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Otto Mehls
#157349
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#8740
Dana Hoey
#118982
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Dana Hoey is a visual artist working with photography, using "the camera to reveal the inner life of women, especially young women." Her photographs are often ambiguous and have multiple meanings. In 1999, in an exhibition entitled Phoenix she showed a series of seventeen black-and-white photo-prints and one forty-one-foot-long digital billboard image; writing in Frieze, Vince Aletti said, "the exhibition is a mystery that bristles with clues but is ultimately unsolved; perhaps it is unsolvable." In her introduction to the catalog for Hoey's 2012 exhibit, The Phantom Sex, at the University Ar...
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Manuel Ricardo Ibarra
#157377
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Costas A. Courcoubetis
#157388
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#8743
Satoshi Yasuda
#157397
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Khurram Shahzad
#157407
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#8745
Demosthenes Kazanas
#157419
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#8746
Reinhold Penner
#157422
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#8747
Sunita Sarawagi
#157426
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#8748
Saman Amarasinghe
#157427
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#8749
David Heeger
#60037
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1961 - Present (65 years)
David J. Heeger is an American neuroscientist, psychologist, computer scientist, data scientist, and entrepreneur. He is a professor at New York University, Chief Scientific Officer of Statespace Labs, and Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of Epistemic AI.
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Gabriela Csurka
#157446
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