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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Xuebin Zhang
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Michael S. B. Edwards
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Gail‐joon Ahn
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Tongliang Liu
#158809
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Bernhard Meyer
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Alain Gaudric
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Joseph Classen
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Howard F. Jenkinson
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Denis Charles Deeming
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Zheng Weimin
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Zheng Weimin is a Chinese engineer specializing in computer architecture. He is a professor at Tsinghua University and formerly served as its director of High Performance Computing Institute between 2000 and 2008.
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Vincent Cros
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Tara Sainath
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Tara N. Sainath is an American computer scientist whose research involves deep learning applied to speech recognition. She is a principal research scientist at Google Research. Education and career Sainath was a student of electrical and engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. Her master's thesis was Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model, supervised by Timothy Hazen, and her doctoral dissertation was Applications of Br...
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Christopher Linington
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Werner Kempf
#158852
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Sang Hyuk Im
#158857
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Ralph Waldo Hingson
#158865
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Sudhakar Srivastava
#158872
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Sergey Ioffe
#158878
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Harry S. Martin
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Harry S. Martin III is an American academic. Educated at Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Minnesota Law School, Martin served as Ess Librarian and professor of law at Harvard. A specialist on Art law, Artificial intelligence and law, Information policy, Legal research, and Library Administration, he received the American Association of Law Libraries lifetime achievement award in 2012. As head law librarian at Harvard from 1981 to 2008, Martin helped move the Harvard Law Library into the internet age. He also directed the Georgetown University law library from 1976 to 1981, and served on the Board of the AALL.
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John G. Sled
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Arun Goyal
#158895
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Armin Geus
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1937 - Present (89 years)
Armin Geus is a German medical historian and historian of biology. Career Geus received his academic education in zoology with a specialisation in parasitology. In 1964, he obtained his PhD for a work on the gregarinasina of Central European arthropods. In 1973, he became professor for history of medicine at the University of Marburg, a post he held until his retirement. In 1976, Geus founded the Basilisken-Presse, a publishing house specialized in the history of science, particularly the history of biology. In 1991, he established the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie .
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Yutaka Matsuo
#158911
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Oğuz Okay
#158926
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1955 - Present (71 years)
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Hongbin Lu
#158929
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Takanori Teshima
#158946
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Hidemi Goto
#158952
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Reinhard Blickhan
#158953
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Daniel D. Suthers
#158964
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Piotr Stepnowski
#158995
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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Alessandro Flammini
#159019
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Kay Uwe Römer
#159022
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Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah
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Matthias A. Hein
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Robert Huntley Bell
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Robert Huntley Bell is an American academic. Bell attended Dartmouth College in a cohort that included Robert Reich, Frederick Schauer, William Mills Todd, Daniel S. Papp, and William C. Dowling, and graduated in 1967. He pursued graduate study at Harvard University, where he met his wife Ilona Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1972. Bell then joined the Williams College faculty. In 1998, Bell and Paul G. Ashdown won the Robert Foster Cherry Award. The honor was followed in 2004 by an Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year award presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
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Shinya Goto
#159073
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Kaiqiang Huang
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Alex Colville
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1920 - 2013 (93 years)
David Alexander Colville, LL. D. was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Early life and war artist Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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Thomas Arthur Halgren
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Sabine Hauert
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Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol where her research investigates swarm robotics. Previously she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Carnegie Mellon University and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Siyuan Zhang
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Jinhua Zhao
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Hiroshi Ushijima
#159146
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Philip Alexander Levis
#159153
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Mirko Prato
#159162
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Dejian Huang
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Amod Gupta
#159175
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Xiao-jun Wu
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Itaru Kojima
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Arash Rashidian
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