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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Balaji Rajagopalan
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Mei Hong
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Mei Hong is a Chinese computer scientist, a professor at Peking University, the director of Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies of Ministry of Education at Peking University. He serves as President of the China Computer Federation , formerly the Vice President of The Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow.
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Anna Fagotti
#163160
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Dhirendra Bahadur
#163168
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Hongshun Yang
#163176
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#9557
Hugh John Willison
#163177
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Michael John Gill
#163185
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#9559
Susumu Miyamoto
#163186
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Hikaru Matsuda
#163191
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#9561
Thomas Voit
#163197
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#9562
Xiaosong Hu
#163203
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Afshin Gangi
#163206
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Ludger Ernst
#163210
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1946 - Present (80 years)
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Takeshi Akasaka
#163215
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#9566
Michael Phillips
#76114
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Michael Phillips is an American historian specializing in the history of Texas, racism in the United States, right-wing extremism, and apocalyptic religion in the United States. He became involved in a free speech controversy surrounding his employer Collin College in 2022, after he alleged that the school had fired him because of his political beliefs.
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Koichi Hirata
#163235
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W. Ang Yi
#163240
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Dimitris Visvikis
#163241
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Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
#163249
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#9571
Vanessa Fierro
#163262
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Cesare Tinelli
#163276
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#9573
José Nuno Canongia Lopes
#163278
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#9574
Yehoshua Y. Josh Zeevi
#163282
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#9575
Jonathan Lomas
#163297
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#9576
Tao Tang
#163302
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#9577
Norio Nonomura
#163306
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Vipin Kumar
#163309
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Binshan Lin
#163310
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#9580
Alessandra Sala
#134324
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Alessandra Sala is an Italian computer scientist specializing in distributed algorithms for graph theory, social network analysis, and data privacy. She works for Shutterstock in Ireland, as the director of AI and Data Science. Formerly, she worked for Bell Labs in Ireland, as head of Analytics Research. She is the global president of Women in AI, a non-profit organization working for gender inclusivity in artificial intelligence, and ambassador or Women in AI Ireland. She is a member of the advisory boards of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence and o...
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Thomas Zentgraf
#163321
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Takashi Yamamura
#163335
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#9583
Soheil Meshinchi
#163346
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#9584
Riccardo Lanari
#163347
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#9585
Richard Giles Harrison
#163355
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#9586
Daniele Dini
#163358
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#9587
Eva Herrmann
#163362
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Takeshi Shiono
#163372
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Janusz Nowotny
#163389
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
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Natalio Mingo
#163400
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Tatsuya Atsumi
#163407
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Jayant Haritsa
#125157
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Jayant R. Haritsa is an Indian computer scientist and professor. He is on the faculty of the CDS and CSA departments at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He works on the design and analysis of Database Systems. In 2009 he won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize sponsored by CSIR, India. In 2014 he won the Infosys Prize for Engineering.
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Fabio Martinelli
#163414
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Andreas Holtermann
#163424
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Nasir Mahmood
#163428
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Johann Wojta
#163440
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#9597
Khaled El Emam
#163442
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Bernard Silvi
#163445
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Jan Michael Frahm
#163455
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John Aiken
#58803
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1950 - Present (76 years)
John Aiken is an Irish sculptor who is professor of fine arts and director of the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University. He was previously Slade Professor of Fine Arts and director of the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London from 2000 to 2012.
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