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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Jian Zhen Yu
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Hui Liu
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Dr. Hui Liu is a Chinese American professor and an entrepreneur in the field of wireless and satellite communications. He is a prolific researcher with more than 200 scholarly articles and 2 textbooks, and a creative innovator with 67 awarded patents in areas ranging from wireless systems, signal processing, satellite networks, to machine learning. He has more than 12,000 paper citations and an H-index of 56 as of 2018. Dr. Liu is also one of the principal designers of three industrial standards on cellular networks, terrestrial broadcasting, and satellite communications, respectively.
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Masayoshi Okubo
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Gen Watanabe
#159562
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Tim Leiner
#159583
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Eun Jung Kim
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Eun Jung Kim is a South Korean computer scientist and graph theorist specializing in parameterized complexity, parameterized algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems, and width parameters in graphs and matroids. She is a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , associated with Paris Dauphine University.
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Hongbing Zha
#159588
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Zisheng Luo
#159599
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Wolfgang Bach
#159601
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Finn Gyntelberg
#159605
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Genevieve Nissa Healy
#159613
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Thozhukat Sathyapalan
#159640
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Andrew G. Tomkins
#159641
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Ülo Jaaksoo
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1939 - Present (87 years)
Ülo Jaaksoo is an Estonian computer scientist. In 1969, he graduated from Tallinn University of Technology in engineering. Since 2013, he is the chairman of Supervisory Board of AS Cybernetica. In 2004, he was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class.
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Mahdieh Salehi
#159664
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Riccardo Fodde
#159667
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Nicola Volpi
#159687
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Tao Xu
#159688
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Ki Tae Nam
#159706
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Kjeld Hermansen
#159708
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Joann Sfar
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1971 - Present (55 years)
Joann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Life and career Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. As a result of his mother's early death, Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a military doctor of Ukrainian origin in the Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade during World War II. Sfar's grandfather reportedly saved the right hand of the brigade's leader, novelist André Malraux, for which he was awarded French citizenship.
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Tobias Mattisson
#159721
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Giovanni Palmisano
#159723
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
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Jayne Woodside
#158622
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Jayne Valerie Woodside is a British nutritionist who is Professor of Human Nutrition at the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. Her research considers human nutrition intervention with whole foods. She is on the Board of Trustees of The Nutrition Society.
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H. Jaap Van Den Herik
#159739
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Sahil Garg
#159742
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Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen is a Norwegian engineer whose research involves nonlinear control theory and its application to controlling the motion of both watercraft and snakebots. She is a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the founder of Eelume AS.
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Giorgio Matt
#159766
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Naoaki Yabuuchi
#159774
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Keng‐boon Ooi
#159789
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Bjørn Richelsen
#159799
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Pascal A. Felber
#159809
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Masaomi Iyo
#159832
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Magda Claeys
#159840
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Flávio Fernando Demarco
#159843
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Cheon Jinwoo
#90740
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Cheon Jinwoo is the H.G. Underwood Professor at Yonsei University and the Director of the Center for Nanomedicine, Institute for Basic Science . As a leading chemist in inorganic materials chemistry and nanomedicine Cheon and his group research chemical principles for the preparation of complex inorganic materials. He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher both in the field of chemistry in 2014, 2015, 2016 and cross-field in 2018. He is a fellow of the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Korean Academy of Science and Technology, a senior editor of Account...
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Mario Delgado
#159881
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Tun Hing Lui
#159895
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Jørgen Jespersen
#159915
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Michael R. Kessler
#159920
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Eui Nam Huh
#159924
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B. Van Durme
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Renqiang Martin Min
#159944
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Poul Erik Hansen
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Kathy Slade
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Kathy Slade is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
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Takafumi Sato
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Ole Jørgen Anfindsen
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Ole Jørgen Anfindsen is a Norwegian computer scientist, author and social commentator. Anfindsen holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Oslo. Using the research results from his doctoral thesis, he formed the company Xymphonic Systems to use the technology commercially. Later, he has been a senior research scientist at Telenor R&D, guest researcher at GTE Laboratories in Massachusetts and Sun Microsystems Laboratories in California, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Oslo.
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David Koh
#159986
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Antonio Vicino
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