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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Clarence Holbrook Carter
#68314
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1904 - 2000 (96 years)
Clarence Holbrook Carter born in Portsmouth, Ohio, was an American artist. Education Carter studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927, and earned key patronage from William Millikin, the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Millikin arranged for Carter study in Italy with Hans Hofmann in Capri, Italy, for the summer of 1927.
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Stott Parker
#107137
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1952 - 2022 (70 years)
Douglass Stott Parker was a professor of computer science at UCLA from 1979 to his retirement in 2016, specializing in Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Database Management, Scientific Data Management and Modeling.
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Hisato Kondoh
#158049
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Curtis Edward Margo
#158052
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Dan A. Ralescu
#158053
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Francis Heylighen
#158066
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Jahan Bakhsh Ghasemi
#158073
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#8858
Michael Kaliske
#158084
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Sadullah Khan
#23127
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Sadullah Khan, originally from South Africa, was a student leader active in the anti-apartheid struggle. Sheikh Khan has been a public speaker since the age of 12, a public reciter of Quran since age 6, a chanter of melodious odes in praise of the Prophet since 8, and an experienced teacher at colleges and universities in South Africa and the United States; Khan completed studies in law at University of Durban, South Africa, Journalism and Islamic Studies at Al - Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.
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Kazuhide Higuchi
#158091
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Chandra Mohan
#158093
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Alexandre Prat
#158094
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Suzanne Jackowski
#158120
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Tohru Ozawa
#158128
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Haesun Park
#158131
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Sebastian Schaffert
#112200
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1976 - Present (50 years)
Sebastian Schaffert is a software engineer and researcher. He was born in Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany on March 18, 1976 and obtained his doctorate in 2004. Before moving out of research, he was very active in the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Multimedia Semantics fields, his works received more than 1.800 citations. He is a contributor to open source projects, among those Apache Marmotta and participated in several European FP6 and FP7 research projects such as REWERSE , KiWi , IKS and MICO .
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Ya Xing Wang
#158149
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Venkatachalam Anantharam
#158154
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William Wang
#158164
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Tianqi Chen
#158181
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#8871
Jørgen Skov Jensen
#158195
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Kathryn Blackmond Laskey
#158198
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Robert Mark Hierons
#158199
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Zhuoqing Morley Mao
#158205
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#8875
Carsten Lutz
#158249
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1971 - Present (55 years)
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Tirunellai Viswanathan Eatontown Monmouth Lakshman
#158252
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#8877
Nagahiro Minato
#158253
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Holger. Karl
#158264
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Ali Kashif Bashir
#158266
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Noritaka Usami
#158268
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1968 - Present (58 years)
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Konrad Bork
#158272
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Thomas. Vetter
#158283
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Arshian Sharif
#158285
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Evangelos Evangelou
#158288
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Lennart Anderson
#53956
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1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Lennart Anderson was an American painter. His work has been featured at several major museums, including his first major show at the Delaware Art Museum in 1992. He taught on the art faculties of several universities, including Brooklyn College, the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University.
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Hélio Amante Miot
#158295
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E. M. V. Krishnamurthy
#145377
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1934 - 2012 (78 years)
Edayyathu Mangalam Venkatarama Krishnamurthy was an Indian-born computer scientist. He was a professor at the Department of Computer science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was an Emeritus Fellow, Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra.
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Roselind Lieb
#158316
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Peter Adam Hoeher
#158318
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Oliver Brock
#158323
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1969 - Present (57 years)
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Peter Arcese
#158336
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Victoria Bellotti
#129237
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Victoria Bellotti is a Senior CI researcher in the Member Experience Team at Netflix. Previously, she was a user experience manager for growth at Lyft and a research fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center. She is known for her work in the area of personal information management and task management, but from 2010 to 2018 she began researching context-aware peer-to-peer transaction partner matching and motivations for using peer-to-peer marketplaces which led to her joining Lyft. Victoria also serves as an adjunct professor in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California Sa...
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Alessandro Bertolino
#158348
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Alec Radford
#158352
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Annie Pardo
#158358
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Takashi Toda
#158363
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Thomas Hess
#158372
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1967 - Present (59 years)
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Haroon Khan
#158384
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Georges Feller
#158395
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Arpana Agrawal
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Arpana Agrawal is a psychiatric geneticist and professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, known for researching the roles of genetic and environmental factors in cannabis use and addiction. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium working group on Substance Use Disorders. In 2018, she received the Theodore Reich Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. She also received the Fuller/Scott Award from the Behavioral Genetics Association in 2010 and the Henri Begleiter Excellence in Research Award from the R...
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