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,
#9401
Javier Oliver
#162024
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
#9402
János C. Fodor
#162026
Overall Influence
#9403
Ahmed Mostafa Elgammal
#162028
Overall Influence
#9404
Joerg Herrmann
#162029
Overall Influence
#9405
Lorna Stewart
#74904
Overall Influence
Lorna Kay Stewart is a retired Canadian computer scientist and discrete mathematician whose research concerns algorithms in graph theory and special classes of graphs, including cographs, permutation graphs, interval graphs, comparability graphs and their complements, well-covered graphs, and asteroidal triple-free graphs. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Derek Corneil, and is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta.
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Jason S. Link
#162044
Overall Influence
#9407
Didier Guillemot
#102776
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Didier Guillemot is a French Doctor, specializing in infectious disease. He was president of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University from May 2016 to September 2017. Biography Training Didier Guillemot was trained in technological innovation and public health at Paris Diderot University. On 2003, he qualified to manage research at the same university.
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Andrew Blitzer
#162058
Overall Influence
#9409
Jacques Albert
#162059
Overall Influence
#9410
Hans Kaspar Binz
#162064
Overall Influence
#9411
John Charles Knight
#162102
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#9412
Jusef Hassoun
#162111
Overall Influence
#9413
Peter Nakaji
#162120
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#9414
David M. Irwin
#162129
Overall Influence
#9415
Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung
#162153
Overall Influence
#9416
James L. N. Wood
#162157
Overall Influence
#9417
Constantinos Antoniou
#162170
Overall Influence
#9418
Marjan Goodarzi
#162179
Overall Influence
#9419
Salim A. Hariri
#162184
Overall Influence
#9420
Sihem Amer-Yahia
#83251
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team. Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management, declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging internet and big data applications.
Go to Profile#9421
Philippe Ascher
#84621
Overall Influence
1936 - 2022 (86 years)
Philippe Ascher was a French neuroscientist who was professor emeritus at the Université Paris Diderot. He devoted his research mainly to the characterization of cholinergic and glutamatergic neurotransmitter receptors. He was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences since 1990.
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Augusto Villanueva
#162202
Overall Influence
#9423
Jim Gray
#77457
Overall Influence
1958 - 2005 (47 years)
James Gray , known as Jim Gray, was a Northern Irish loyalist and the East Belfast brigadier of the Ulster Defence Association , the largest Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland. He was often nicknamed "Doris Day" for his flamboyant clothing, jewellery, and dyed blond hair. Another media nickname for Gray was the "Brigadier of Bling". He was the owner of several bars in East Belfast.
Go to Profile#9424
Ben Davidson
#162217
Overall Influence
#9425
Bin Duan
#162221
Overall Influence
#9426
Lee Hooper
#162227
Overall Influence
#9427
Sharmistha Bagchi Sen
#162231
Overall Influence
#9428
Alexander Zipf
#162236
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
#9429
Jun Zhou Xinlian Xue
#162251
Overall Influence
#9430
Frits W. Vaandrager
#162260
Overall Influence
#9431
Mircea R. Stan
#162275
Overall Influence
#9432
Tie-jun Huang
#162276
Overall Influence
#9433
Gerd Stumme
#162277
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
#9434
Wisit Cheungpasitporn
#162305
Overall Influence
#9435
J.j.m. Barendregt
#162308
Overall Influence
#9436
Nicola Latronico
#162321
Overall Influence
#9437
Ronald E Miller
#162323
Overall Influence
#9438
Premkumar Thomas Devanbu
#162344
Overall Influence
#9439
Yang Hou
#162354
Overall Influence
#9440
Masaaki Yoshikawa
#162361
Overall Influence
#9441
N Rao
#162363
Overall Influence
#9442
Peter W. Reeh
#162369
Overall Influence
#9443
Judith Blake
#153487
Overall Influence
Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics. Education Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981. Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.
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Tadao Akizawa
#162382
Overall Influence
#9445
Aatto Laaksonen
#162391
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#9446
Verónica Becher
#108995
Overall Influence
Verónica Becher is an Argentinian computer scientist known for her work in logic and theoretical computer science. She is Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Director of the KAPOW at the Department of Computation.
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Stephan Winter
#162413
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#9448
Shao-jie Tang
#162418
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#9449
Kohtaro Osakada
#162420
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#9450
Mineo Kurokawa
#162450
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