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,
#9001
Sanjay Kaul
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Eric Delaporte
#159201
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1956 - Present (70 years)
#9003
Yitzhak Tor
#159204
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#9004
Vito Ferro
#159212
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#9005
Yoshitaka Tanimura
#159219
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1960 - Present (66 years)
#9006
Masaru Miyayama
#159221
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Sally I. Mcclean
#159237
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Fabio Martinon
#159252
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Katherine Bradford
#58348
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1942 - Present (84 years)
Katherine Bradford , née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies. Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.
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Anne Cooke
#159254
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Zhen-wei Shi
#159275
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#9012
John Campbell
#159279
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#9013
Venkatesh C. Saligrama
#159284
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#9014
Angelo Andriulli
#159287
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1950 - Present (76 years)
#9015
Gianpiero Tagliaferri
#159288
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Christoph Hanhart
#159297
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Massimo Bovenzi
#159302
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#9018
Per Ola Kristensson
#159309
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#9019
Jintae Lee
#159310
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Richard Saffery
#159320
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Yochanan Kushnir
#159322
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Mark T. Wallace
#159324
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David Andreu
#159328
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#9024
Jim Roskind
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Jim Roskind is an American software engineer best known for designing the QUIC protocol in 2012 while being an employee at Google. Roskind co-founded Infoseek in 1994 with 7 other people, including Steve Kirsch. Later that year, Roskind wrote the Python profiler which is part of the standard library. From 1995 to 2003 he was chief architect at Netscape during which time he developed Netscape's Java security module.
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Viness Pillay
#157896
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Viness Pillay FAAS was a South African professor of pharmacy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was the Director of the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform , a member of African Academy of Sciences, Academy of Translational Medicine Professionals and a beneficiary of the 2013 Olusegun Obasanjo Innovative Award for developing the RapiDiss Wafer Technology as an innovative way to provide effective anti-retroviral drug therapy to children afflicted with HIV/AIDS.
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Wolfgang Kellerer
#159345
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Geir Egil Eide
#159359
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Frank V. Bright
#159367
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Suttichai Assabumrungrat
#159370
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Huai Wang
#159391
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#9031
Fabio Cominelli
#159415
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#9032
Barnabás Póczos
#159417
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#9033
Hitoshi Iba
#159428
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#9034
Delia Oppo
#132042
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Delia Wanda Oppo is an American scientist who works on paleoceanography where she focuses on past variations in water circulation and the subsequent impact on Earth's climate system. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2014.
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Yoshihiko Saito
#159457
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Peter Altevogt
#159462
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Masatoshi Okutomi
#159465
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Mary Ann Jordan
#159494
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Manuel Graña
#159497
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1958 - Present (68 years)
#9040
Olivier Bouché
#159511
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Sebastian Wolf
#159512
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Samir Kumar Khanal
#159520
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Jeffery M. Vance
#159523
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Myra Spiliopoulou
#159531
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1965 - Present (61 years)
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Faustino Mollinedo
#159533
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Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy
#159536
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Toru Iwaki
#159541
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Nataša Jonoska
#102333
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Nataša Jonoska is a Macedonian mathematician and professor at the University of South Florida known for her work in DNA computing. Her research is about how biology performs computation, "in particular using formal models such as cellular or other finite types of automata, formal language theory symbolic dynamics, and topological graph theory to describe molecular computation."
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Benny Andrews
#36982
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1930 - 2006 (76 years)
Benny Andrews was an African-American artist, activist and educator. Born in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, and soon after moved to New York. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in...
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Lamar Dodd
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1909 - 1996 (87 years)
Lamar Dodd was an American painter whose work reflected a love of the American South. Early life and education Born in Fairburn, Georgia, to Rev. Francis Jefferson Dodd and Etta Cleveland and reared in LaGrange, Georgia, Dodd trained in the South, including a short stay at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
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