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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John P. Valleau
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Andrea Danese
#160997
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Jörg Ott
#161003
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De-bin Zhao
#161006
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Yuichi Ishikawa
#161014
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Benjamin Blankertz
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1969 - Present (57 years)
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Mavis Sanders
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Mavis G. Sanders is an American research scientist studying education and Black families. She is senior research scholar of Black Children and Families with Child Trends. Education Sanders received a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs with a concentration in political science from Barnard College/Columbia University in 1987. She received a Master's in Sociology from Stanford University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice from Stanford in 1995.
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Rakesh Lodha
#161018
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#9259
Akseli Hemminki
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1973 - Present (53 years)
Akseli Hemminki is a Finnish specialist in Oncology and Radiotherapy, Professor of Oncology and founder of two biotechnology companies. Career Akseli Hemminki worked in University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2000-2002, first as a post doctoral researcher and later as a Research Assistant Professor. Soon after his return to Finland in 2002 he founded his own research group in University of Helsinki, Cancer Gene Therapy Group which he is still leading. In 2007-2013 Hemminki worked as a K. Albin Johansson Research Professor. In 2015 he was appointed as a Jane and Aatos Erkko Professor of Oncology for five years period.
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Leonard Baskin
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1922 - 2000 (78 years)
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press . One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world", often featuring the work of celebrated poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold, stark, energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints. Called a "Sculptor of Stark Memorials" by the New York Times, Baskin is also known for his wood, limestone, bronze, and large-scale woodblock ...
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Saul Greenberg
#148594
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Saul Greenberg is a computer scientist, a Faculty Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. He was awarded ACM Fellowship in 2012 for contributions to computer supported cooperative work and ubiquitous computing.
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Paolo Di Mascio
#161049
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Grace Hartigan
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1922 - 2008 (86 years)
Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. Her paintings are held by numerous major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As director of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting, she influenced numerous young artists.
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Ahmad Oryan
#161057
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Chen Zijiang
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Chen Zijiang is a Chinese reproductive medicine expert currently serving as vice-president of Shandong University and dean of the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University. Biography Chen was born in Liuyang, Hunan in October 1959. After the high school, she studied, then taught, at what is now the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University. In May 2013, she was promoted to become vice-president of Shandong University. She concurrently serves as dean of the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University since July 2015. In December 2017, she was elected a member of the Standing...
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Chris N. Potts
#161070
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Pier Giorgio Cozzi
#161095
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Natarajan Chandrasekaran
#161103
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Andreas G. Andreou
#161105
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Isao Shimoyama
#161106
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Eitan Fibach
#161109
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Marc’aurelio Ranzato
#161115
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Guodong Zhou
#161125
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Dharmendra Tripathi
#161133
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Purvesh Khatri
#161136
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David A. Richards
#161143
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Alexander A. Konnov
#161151
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Alexey Dosovitskiy
#161154
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Michael Leon
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Sagar E. Shirsath
#161159
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Manfred Maximilian Fichter
#161164
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1944 - Present (82 years)
#9282
Carlos Arturo Torres Gastelú
#161172
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Jeremy Hall
#161181
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Masafumi Ikeda
#161182
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Takeshi Okanoue
#161190
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Jack W. Singer
#161198
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Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess
#161210
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Hidenori Arai
#161213
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#9289
Tsong Yueh Chen
#161214
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Lukas Kaiser
#161215
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Paul A. Rota
#161222
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Yasuhiro Matsuda
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Yasuhiro Matsuda is a Japanese professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo. Biography Matsuda received his Ph.D. in law from Graduate School of Law at Keio University in Tokyo. He spent sixteen years in the National Institute for Defense Studies , Japan Defense Agency , as an assistant and a senior research fellow. He moved to the Institute of Oriental Culture of the University of Tokyo in 2008. He is specializing in political and diplomatic history of Asia, politics and foreign relations in the PRC and Taiwan, the Cross-Strait Relations, and Japan's foreign and security policies.
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Achille Iolascon
#161238
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Yaser A. Sheikh
#161256
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George S. Sopko
#161276
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Paul Simon Rosenbloom
#161282
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Kiyotomi Kaneda
#161284
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Zhen Jin
#161298
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Weiming Zhang
#161312
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Kemal Kazan
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