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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Luca Ansaloni
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Franz Wotawa
#160360
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Martyn Amos
#108411
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1971 - Present (55 years)
Martyn Amos is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, working in natural computation, crowd simulation, DNA computing and synthetic biology. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971, brought up in Heddon-on-the-Wall, and attended school in Ponteland. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993 , before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computing in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, before taking up permanent academi...
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Tetsuo Takehara
#160372
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Mingxi Tan
#160378
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#9156
Elias Fattal
#160379
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#9157
Graciela Andrei
#160382
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#9158
Valeria Bertacco
#135104
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Valeria Bertacco is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Vice Provost for Engaged Learning at the University of Michigan. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.
Go to Profile#9159
Lyle J. Palmer
#160394
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Quyet Van Le
#160399
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Stefano Vicari
#160410
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#9162
Yolande Berbers
#83602
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Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven, vice-dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering, and president of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology.
Go to Profile#9163
Andrew Gonzalez
#160411
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1972 - Present (54 years)
#9164
Uriel Joseph Wilensky
#160417
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Soujanya Poria
#160430
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#9166
Eilaf Egap
#28044
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Eilaf Egap is an assistant professor of Materials Science at Rice University. She works on imaging techniques and biomaterials for early diagnostics and drug delivery. She was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology MLK Visiting Scholar in 2011.
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Martin Scheffner
#160447
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Dr. Danny Weyns
#160451
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#9169
Toru Nakano
#160452
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Hong Qin
#160458
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#9171
Randall J. Olson
#160483
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Nobuyuki Harada
#160487
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Giovanni Gambaro
#160488
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1954 - Present (72 years)
#9174
Xian‐ming Zhang
#160489
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Harald C. Gall
#160506
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Paul F. Whelan
#78763
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Paul F. Whelan is Professor of Computer Vision at the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis, School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing Dublin City University. Education and career Whelan earned his Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours from the National Institute for Higher Education before enrolling in the University of Limerick for his Master of Engineering degree. After receiving his PhD in Computing Mathematics/Computer Vision from Cardiff University, Whelan joined the Industrial and Scientific Imaging Ltd to research and develop an industrial vision ...
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Roland Pusch
#160518
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Jag Bhawan
#160524
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Josef Cihlar
#160525
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Takahiro Seki
#160528
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#9181
Volker Abetz
#160534
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Ketty Peris
#160538
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#9183
Guoliang Li
#160543
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Gianluca Iacobellis
#160546
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Naohiko Seki
#160575
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#9186
Biswanath Das
#160578
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#9187
David Vaughan
#49026
Overall Influence
1944 - 2003 (59 years)
David Vaughan was a British psychedelic artist who formed the design team Binder, Edwards & Vaughan , and the father of actress Sadie Frost. He obtained commissions for his psychedelic painted furniture from Princess Margaret, did work for the Beatles in the early 1960s, worked for Expo 67 and Lord John in Carnaby Street, while photographer David Bailey used his work for a series of posters. He was also involved with two events at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse; Jimi Hendrix appeared at one of them on 22 February 1967.
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Zijian Zheng
#160591
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#9189
Anselmo Lastra
#143672
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Anselmo A. Lastra is an American computer scientist, a Professor and the former Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in the areas of 3D computer graphics, graphics hardware architectures, and virtual reality.
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Visith Thongboonkerd
#160601
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Karri Silventoinen
#160605
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Ulrike Peters
#160610
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Carroll Jeannine Morgan
#160614
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Min Du
#160619
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Joaquín Coronas
#160623
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#9196
Azizah Y. al-Hibri
#17558
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Azizah Y. al-Hibri is an American philosopher and legal scholar who specializes in Islam and law. Biography Al-Hibri is professor emerita at the T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. She is a former professor of philosophy, founding editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. A Fulbright scholar, she has written extensively about Islam and democracy, Muslim women's rights, and human rights in Islam. She was an adviser to the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet , produced by Unity Pr...
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Alain Manceau
#160629
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Bernd Rauschenbach
#160639
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Margaret H Collins
#160643
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Koshi Mimori
#160646
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