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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Jorge G. Russo
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Reiner Sustmann
#160655
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Christoph Leyens
#160656
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1967 - Present (59 years)
#9204
Saeed Sohrabpour
#6582
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Saeed Sohrabpour , , Full Professor of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, has been the vice president and chief adviser of Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Elites Foundation since 2011. He has also been elected as Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame and was the chancellor of Sharif University of Technology from 1997 to 2010. He is a member of the board of trustees of Iran’s National Library and Archives of I.R.. Furthermore, during his professional life, Sohrabpour has published prolific scientific papers in various high-ranked journals. Prof Sohr...
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Arman Rahmim
#160668
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Masahiko Yamaguchi
#160669
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Farhad. Arbab
#160680
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Vikas Mittal
#160684
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1979 - Present (47 years)
#9209
Stefanos Kollias
#160685
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Stefanos Kollias from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to intelligent systems for multimedia content analysis and human machine interaction.
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Charles Elving Thorpe
#160686
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Reza Ranjbar
#160716
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Makoto Kaneko
#160722
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Henrik Carl Schønheyder
#160724
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Vincent M. Moulton
#160726
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Manuela Merli
#160728
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Claude Millot
#160731
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Karen Duncan
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Karen A. Duncan is a biostatistician and health informatics specialist, who was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000. Duncan earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked as an associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, as a member of the technical staff at the Mitre Corporation, and as an independent consultant.
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Emily Stone
#74732
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Emily Foster Stone is an American mathematician whose research includes work in fluid dynamics and dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Montana, where she chairs the Department of Mathematical Sciences. She is also chair of the Activity Group on Dynamical Systems of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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Takeo Oku
#160751
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Eleonore Fröhlich
#160757
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Thomas Ball
#160762
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Mehran Karimi
#160786
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Violet Showers Johnson
#39993
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Violet Showers Johnson is professor of history and director of Africana studies at Texas A&M University. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria to Sierra Leone Creole parents , and grew up in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
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Hans Yssel
#160806
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Martina Montagnana
#160808
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Yeomin Yoon
#160835
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Marcel A. J. Somers
#160839
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1960 - Present (66 years)
#9228
Germund G. Dahlquist
#160841
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#9229
Rudy Autio
#56980
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1926 - 2007 (81 years)
Rudy Autio was an American sculptor, best known for his figurative ceramic vessels. Rudio Autio was born Arne Rudolph Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte, Montana. As a child, he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Administration artists working in Butte. He served in the Navy for two years during World War II. After the war ended, he studied art at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he first met Peter Voulkos, who became a lifelong friend. Frances Senska taught both of them. Autio earned a Master of Arts degree from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.
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Patrick Denis Lincoln
#160847
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Makoto Shimizu
#160854
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Anwarullah Chowdhury
#51289
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Anwarullah Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi academic. He served as the 24th Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. He was the ambassador of Bangladesh to Bahrain. Education and career Chowdhury earned his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Dhaka and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics.
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Judith M. Green
#160882
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1961 - Present (65 years)
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Shun Ishibashi
#160896
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Elizabeth E. Shriberg
#160897
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Akira Matsumori
#160912
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Abdenour Hadid
#160917
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#9238
Werner Hofmann
#160923
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#9239
Eyal Gottlieb
#160924
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Olivier Guillon
#160936
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Nanfang Yu
#160945
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David Samuel Rosenblum
#160951
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Patrick Brézillon
#160955
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Arvind Chopra
#160957
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Paul I. Sopp
#160961
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Barna A. Szabó
#160963
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Bernd Sures
#160977
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Gamini Dissanayake
#160981
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Pascal Auquier
#160984
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David C. Atkins
#160991
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