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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Kum Kum Khanna
#94365
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Kum Kum Khanna is an Indian professor at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, also known as Queensland Institute of Medical Research who has published many peer reviewed articles in reputable journals such as in Nature Genetics, Cancer Cell, Nature, Oncogene, and many others. Her most cited article has received 1568 citations since its publication in 2001. she has made seminal discoveries in identifying single-stranded DNA binding proteins, hSSB1 and hSSB2 involved in DNA repair; a novel protein, designated as Cep55, involved in regulation of final stage of cell cycle and have func...
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Julio Sotelo
#157474
Overall Influence
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Ennio Zangrando
#157475
Overall Influence
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Nikolaus Romani
#157476
Overall Influence
#8755
James Spotila
#157480
Overall Influence
James Spotila is an American biologist, focusing on biology of sea turtles, crocodiles, salamanders and giant pandas and physiological ecology, biophysical ecology and conservation biology, currently the L. Drew Betz Chair at Drexel University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Donna Niedzwiecki
#157482
Overall Influence
#8757
Dominique Van Der Straeten
#157485
Overall Influence
#8758
Myriam Labopin
#157487
Overall Influence
#8759
Yadollah Omidi
#157489
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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David Siderovski
#56082
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
David Siderovski is a North American pharmacologist. Since March 2020, Siderovski has been Chair of the HSC Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. From 2012 to 2019, he was the E.J. Van Liere Medicine Professor and Chair of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience for the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
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Elizabeth Gibney
#157492
Overall Influence
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Ofer Mandelboim
#157506
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
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Tsuguyuki Saito
#157509
Overall Influence
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Krzysztof Wołk
#149224
Overall Influence
1986 - Present (40 years)
Krzysztof Wołk is a Polish IT researcher who specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile applications, linguistic engineering, multimedia, NLP and graphic applications. His research works have been cited in more than 70 international research journals, books and research papers.
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Antonija Mitrović
#132044
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Antonija Tanja Mitrović is a New Zealand computer scientist who was born in Serbia. Mitrovic did her MSc and PhD at the University of Niš in Niš, Serbia. Before moving to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and rising to the level of professor.
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Micaela Morelli
#157526
Overall Influence
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Rachel Schiff
#157527
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Giovanni Blandino
#157534
Overall Influence
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Hiroshi Kawarada
#157541
Overall Influence
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Tim Lancaster
#157554
Overall Influence
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Haipeng Zhang
#157559
Overall Influence
#8772
Sylvain Brisse
#157568
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#8773
Zvika Brakerski
#124729
Overall Influence
Zvika Brakerski is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work on homomorphic encryption, particularly in developing the foundations of the second generation FHE schema, for which he was awarded the 2022 Gödel Prize. Brakerski is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Simone Benhamou
#157571
Overall Influence
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Hiroshi Kitagawa
#157588
Overall Influence
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Steen Andreassen
#157593
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
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Byung Hee Hong
#157601
Overall Influence
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Ralf Gutzmer
#157602
Overall Influence
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Jim Zheng
#131550
Overall Influence
Jim P. Zheng is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Florida State University. A researcher on the design, manufacture and uses nanomaterials in the energy area, Dr. Zheng owns the patent on a buckypaper polymer fuel cell production technique that is licensed to Bing Energy. He has received National Research Council Fellow Award in 1993, Army Research & Development Achievement Award in 1997, NASA Faculty Research Award in 1999, and Progress Energy Professional Development Award in 2005.
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Nicolino Ambrosino
#157630
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
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Atte Moilanen
#157633
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
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Gang Hu
#157651
Overall Influence
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Nan Huang
#157656
Overall Influence
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Chuan Qin
#157659
Overall Influence
#8785
Ei Terasawa
#157660
Overall Influence
#8786
Yih-Chun Hu
#157664
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#8787
Robert G Nelson
#157665
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Marta Schuhmacher
#157670
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Hanno Ulmer
#157680
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Howard Goldfine
#157681
Overall Influence
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Daniel Birnbaum
#21259
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art curator and an art critic. Since 2019, he has been director and curator of Acute Art in London, UK. Early life and education Birnbaum studied at Stockholm University, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Columbia University in New York. In 1998, he completed his doctorate in philosophy at Stockholm University.
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Thomas Rosenau
#157694
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
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Ziwei Liu
#157698
Overall Influence
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Juanzi Li
#157702
Overall Influence
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Stacy C. Marsella
#157706
Overall Influence
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Alin Olimpiu Albu-schäffer
#157709
Overall Influence
#8797
Huaping Huaping Liu
#157712
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Yasushi Yagi
#157713
Overall Influence
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Morris Sloman Imperial College London M. Sloman
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Overall Influence
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Margaret Hamilton
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Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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