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,
#8901
Tarik Asselah
#158398
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#8902
Shigeaki Ohno
#158405
Overall Influence
#8903
Subhasis Chaudhuri
#74334
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian electrical engineer and the director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay . He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of ...
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Takashi Shimada
#158410
Overall Influence
#8905
Ichiro Yahara
#158419
Overall Influence
#8906
Andrea Pession
#158451
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#8907
Wan Kyun Chung
#158473
Overall Influence
Wan Kyun Chung from the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for developments in robust control theory for mechanical systems.
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John J. Cullen
#158478
Overall Influence
#8909
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
#158487
Overall Influence
#8910
Evan J. Anderson
#158497
Overall Influence
#8911
Henrik Schärfe
#94739
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Henrik Schärfe is a Danish former professor at Aalborg University, where he directed the Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology within the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University.
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Alessandro Ventura
#158516
Overall Influence
#8913
Jennifer Harden
#136965
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Jennifer Harden is geologist known for her research on soils, particularly tracking changes in soil profiles over time and the role of soil systems in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Education and career Harden earned her B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Following her Ph.D. she joined the United States Geological Survey where she became a scientist emeritus in 2013.
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Patryk Oleszczuk
#158529
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
#8915
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger
#55790
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger is an Austrian academic. She was the first female professor for Gender and Diversity in Organizations of Vienna University of Economics and Business . Early life Hanappi-Egger was educated at Vienna University of Technology, where she received a PhD in computer science. While working towards her PhD, she studied in Canada and Sweden. After graduating, she joined Vienna University of Technology.
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Michael J. Rogers
#158564
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#8917
K. Gimpel
#158581
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#8918
Santi Cassisi
#158592
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#8919
M. Omair Ahmad
#158596
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#8920
Amichai Schattner
#158601
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#8921
Toshio Nishi
#158619
Overall Influence
#8922
Mark Hyman Rapaport
#158623
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#8923
Anthony A. Maciejewski
#158628
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#8924
Ikuro Abe
#158629
Overall Influence
#8925
Riccardo Ferrando
#158638
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#8926
Francesco Castelli
#158649
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#8927
László Monostori
#158654
Overall Influence
#8928
Bing Qin
#158667
Overall Influence
#8929
Ami Bhatt
#78098
Overall Influence
Ami Bhatt is an American physician-scientist who studies the link between blood cancers and the human gut microbiome. She holds associate professorships in Genetics and Medicine at Stanford University. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute , and Stanford ChEM-H. In addition, Bhatt is the co-founder of Global Oncology Inc., a nonprofit focused on providing quality oncologic treatment in resource-constrained settings.
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Marcus Conrad
#158673
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#8931
Randy Lee Cutler
#90640
Overall Influence
Randy Lee Cutler is a writer, academic, educator and artist working in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a PhD in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art. She currently works as a Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in the Faculty of Art.
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Domenico Talia
#158678
Overall Influence
#8933
Mohamed Mohamed Rashad
#158691
Overall Influence
#8934
Rumi Chunara
#98027
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Rumi Chunara is a computer scientist who is an associate professor of biostatistics at the New York University School of Global Public Health. She develops computational and statistical approaches to acquire, integrate and make use of data improve population-level public health.
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Sung‐bae Kim
#158693
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#8936
Rang Lin He
#158696
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#8937
Armando Córdova
#158708
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#8938
Valerie Voon
#158709
Overall Influence
#8939
Naoya Shibata
#158716
Overall Influence
#8940
Michael Pratt
#158717
Overall Influence
#8941
Peter Harder
#56412
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Peter Harder is a Danish linguist and professor of English language at the University of Copenhagen. He is notable as a cofounder of the Danish Functional Linguistics stage of the Copenhagen School in linguistics. He has worked extensively with functional linguistic theories and speech act theory. In Denmark, he is best known amongst the general public for his outspoken criticism against the Danish government's tight regulation of research, which he perceives as a threat to academic freedom.
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Wilhelm Hasselbring
#158724
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#8943
Geert Lombaert
#158739
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#8944
Ingolf Cascorbi
#158742
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
#8945
Wanbin Zhang
#158752
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#8946
Kam-fai Wong
#158754
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#8947
Shui Yu
#158759
Overall Influence
#8948
Jean-marc Jézéquel
#158766
Overall Influence
#8949
Thomas Lawson
#80353
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Thomas Lawson is an artist, writer, editor, and from 1991 to 2022 was the Dean of the School of Art & Design at California Institute for the Arts. He emerged as a central figure in ideological debates at the turn of the 1980s about the viability of painting through critical essays, such as "Last Exit: Painting" . He has been described as "an embedded correspondent [and] polemical editorialist" who articulated an oppositional, progressive position for representational painting from within an increasingly reactionary art and media environment. Artforum called his approach to the medium "one of ...
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A. Murat Eren
#134417
Overall Influence
A. Murat Eren is a computer scientist known for his work on microbial ecology and developing novel, open-source, computational tools for analysis of large data sets. Early life and education Eren grew up in the Barhal Valley in Turkey and studied cryptography as an undergraduate at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Universitesi where he earned a B.S. in 2002. He moved to the United States and started his Ph.D. at the University of New Orleans. While working at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans, Eren was introduced to microbiology by Michael Ferris. In 2011 Eren completed his Ph.D.; his dissertation...
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