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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James R. Mickelson
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Hung-yi Lee
#161663
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#9353
Jess Dobkin
#92772
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Jess Dobkin is a performance artist based in Toronto, Canada. She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station. She has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. in Performance Art from Rutgers University. She is a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
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Takeshi Ohshima
#161685
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Norihiro Hagita
#161691
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#9356
D. Richard Kuhn
#161694
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#9357
Eringathodi Suresh
#161697
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#9358
Alexander Katalinic
#161707
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#9359
Jeffrey S. Vetter
#161716
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#9360
Tariq Enver
#161717
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#9361
Girish Prayag
#161721
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#9362
Ohad Shamir
#161722
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#9363
Tadanori Yokoo
#9749
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Tadanori Yokoo is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. Yokoo’s signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world.
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Walter Goessler
#161736
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#9365
Simon Francis Thomsen
#161746
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Sajjad Ahmad
#161747
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Sylvain Lehmann
#161752
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#9368
Charles J. Farrugia
#161754
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John Romita Sr.
#42948
Overall Influence
1930 - 2023 (93 years)
John Victor Romita was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and for co-creating characters including Mary Jane Watson, the Punisher, Kingpin, Wolverine, and Luke Cage. Romita was the father of John Romita Jr., also a comic book artist, and the husband of Virginia Romita, who was for many years Marvel's traffic manager.
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Yasuo Terauchi
#161756
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Sanjoy Dasgupta
#161761
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#9372
Jack Coggins
#31624
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1911 - 2006 (95 years)
Jack Banham Coggins was an artist, author, and illustrator. He is known in the United States for his oil paintings, which focused predominantly on marine subjects. He is also known for his books on space travel, which were both authored and illustrated by Coggins. Besides his own works, Coggins also provided illustrations for advertisements and magazine covers and articles.
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Paul A. Yushkevich
#161776
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#9374
Yonghong Tian
#161783
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#9375
Isidore Rigoutsos
#161784
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#9376
Abdullah Al-Refai
#95353
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1937 - 2005 (68 years)
Abdullah Mubarak Al-Refai , was born in Kuwait. Al-Refai became President of Gulf University for Science and Technology on 1 December 2003. Prior to GUST, Al-Refai was the President of the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain.
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Michael Steinke
#161812
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#9378
Chaim Putterman
#161823
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#9379
Hirotaka Watada
#161840
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#9380
Andrea M. Kriska
#161841
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#9381
Nicolas Penel
#161859
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1970 - Present (56 years)
#9382
Csaba Koncz
#161861
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#9383
Mario Poljak
#161864
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1965 - Present (61 years)
#9384
Kazuyuki Sugahara
#161865
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Mark A. Schembri
#161875
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Nelson L. Max
#161882
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Umberto Straccia
#161896
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
#9388
Claudia M. Eckert
#161934
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#9389
Alexander Hoffmann
#161936
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Rahul Vaish
#161937
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Henk Koppelaar
#88187
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Hendrik Koppelaar is a Dutch computer scientist and emeritus professor at the Delft University of Technology, knows for his work in knowledge engineering. Koppelaar started his studies at the Utrecht University in 1971, where he graduated in Physics in 1976. In 1981 he started his graduate study at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained his PhD in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services in 1984. Under supervision of Gideon J. Mellenbergh and J.K. de Vree he wrote his thesis on the theory and new ways of data processing in modeling in the social sciences.
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Louis Charles Gerstenfeld
#161957
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Michael Fromm
#161961
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Puthiya Veetil Nidheesh
#161962
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Mihaly Mezei
#161972
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Soonmyung Paik
#161977
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Jamshid Aghaei
#161988
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#9398
Andreas Papapetropoulos
#161992
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#9399
Annie Sprinkle
#45334
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Annie M. Sprinkle is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, feminist stripper, pornographic film actress, and sex film producer and director. In 1996, she became the first known porn star to get a doctoral degree, earning a PhD in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Identifying as ecosexual, Sprinkle is best known for her self-help style of pornography, teaching individuals about pleasure, and for her conventional pornographic film Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle .
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Steven Hahn
#162003
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