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,
#9301
Martha Schwartz
#20754
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Martha Schwartz is an American landscape architect and educator. Schwartz is the founding principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, an architecture firm based in London, New York City, and Shanghai. She is also Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Marios Savvides
#161319
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#9303
Sang Ouk Kim
#161320
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#9304
Evgenia Smirni
#129305
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Evgenia Smirni is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Sidney P. Chockley Professor of Computer Science and Computer Science Chair at the College of William & Mary. Her research concerns computer performance evaluation, load balancing, dynamic resource provisioning, and the matrix analytic method for Markov chains.
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Kandasami Asokan
#161325
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#9306
Magda Lilia Chelly
#120696
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Magda Lilia Chelly is a Polish-Tunisian cybersecurity expert and is amongst the first Tunisian women to be on the advisory board of BlackHat Asia Executive Committee. Born in Krakow, Poland, and educated in Tunisia and France, Chelly worked as an IT consultant, university lecturer, business leader, and cybersecurity professional.
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Søren Saxmose Nielsen
#161327
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#9308
Hiroyasu Esumi
#161336
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#9309
John Alexander Mcdermid
#161344
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#9310
Yasuhito Tanaka
#161361
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#9311
Harminder Pal Singh
#161387
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#9312
Sandra Zilles
#151289
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Sandra Zilles is a German and Canadian computer scientist, the Canada Research Chair in Computational Learning Theory at the University of Regina. Her research area encompasses machine learning and computational learning theory.
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Robert J. Homer
#161423
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#9314
Giovanni Ghione
#161427
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#9315
Jerrold P. Weiss
#161436
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#9316
Xiaolin Hu
#161437
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#9317
Dennis Patrick Gannon
#161439
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#9318
Habib Benali
#161444
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#9319
Yervant Zorian
#161447
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#9320
Eero Hyvönen
#161461
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#9321
Hideo Fujiwara
#161463
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#9322
Chun Xiang Pan
#161465
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#9323
Christof Hättig
#161473
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#9324
Bill Hansen
#160632
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
William Bunker Hansen is a researcher in the field of prevention science. He was a charter member and a vice president of the Society for Prevention Research. In 1993 he founded Tanglewood Research. He has authored over 40 versions of alcohol, tobacco, and other substance abuse prevention programs, most notably the All Stars series of prevention programs.
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Bach Xuan Tran
#161482
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#9326
Delbert Mann
#42356
Overall Influence
1920 - 2007 (87 years)
Delbert Martin Mann Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty , adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world."
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Gregorio Iglesias
#161493
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#9328
Christophe Bauters
#161504
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#9329
Zhan Shi
#161515
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#9330
Seemant Chaturvedi
#161522
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#9332
Anders Waage
#161529
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#9333
David Cibula
#161533
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
#9334
Jinbo Xu
#161540
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#9335
Shengli Zhang
#161544
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#9336
Xin Xia
#161545
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#9337
Louise Bourgeois
#26729
Overall Influence
1911 - 2010 (99 years)
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not f...
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Mathieu Desbrun
#161557
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#9339
Ian Hunter
#77833
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Ian Hunter is a visual effects artist. He won two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects for the 2014 film, Interstellar, at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015 and for the 2018 film, First Man, at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019.
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Horst Köppel
#161572
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#9341
Guo-ren Wang
#161581
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#9342
Uwe Rudolph
#161583
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#9343
Kevin Sivula
#161587
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#9344
Chanju Kim
#161598
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#9345
Peter Deines
#161606
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#9346
Stephan Lany
#161610
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#9347
Liangwei Chen
#161628
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#9348
David E. Gerber
#161629
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#9349
Dagnija Blumberga
#161641
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#9350
Christopher Snowden
#38671
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Sir Christopher Maxwell Snowden, is a British electronic engineer and academic. He was the former Vice-Chancellor of Surrey University and of the University of Southampton . He was president of Universities UK for a two-year term until 31 July 2015 and is currently chairman of the ERA Foundation.
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