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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Alexander Dobrovic
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Xavier Bossuyt
#163847
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Kazuhisa Nakayama
#163860
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Toru Fujiwara
#163863
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Christopher Henry Fry
#163864
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Nicolas Dupin
#163873
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Vittorio Farina
#163891
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Daniela Rotin
#163896
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Dinar Camotim
#163903
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Kazuhisa Sekimizu
#163906
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#9661
Fabio Massacci
#163911
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Matthias Barton
#163912
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#9663
Michael J. Monteiro
#163918
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#9664
Marcin Paprzycki
#163921
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#9665
Dominik Fleischmann
#163922
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#9666
Wilfried Kindermann
#163941
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Martin Hofrichter
#163944
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1966 - Present (60 years)
#9668
Bengt Jonsson
#163946
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Omar Defeo
#163950
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Jean-jacques Bruna
#163956
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Eric Eve
#151889
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Eric Eve is an author, interactive fiction writer, and New Testament scholar at Harris Manchester College in Oxford. He is known in the interactive fiction community for his writings on TADS 3, including three tutorial/reference books and several articles for Brass Lantern, a site that hosts articles about and reviews of interactive fiction. He has also authored eleven interactive fiction games, several of which have won awards at various competitions. In the academic field, Eric Eve has also written two books relating to the New Testament, The Healer from Nazareth: Jesus' Miracles in Histori...
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Rui‐hua Xu
#163965
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Andrei A. Kulikovsky
#163967
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Stanley Zammit
#163969
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#9675
Gurindar Singh Sohi
#163978
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#9676
Paul Martini
#163979
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#9677
Andreas Schieber
#163981
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#9678
D. Micciancio
#163983
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#9679
Harley Parker
#33885
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1915 - 1992 (77 years)
Harley Parker was a Canadian artist, designer, curator, professor and scholar - a frequent collaborator with fellow Canadian and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan. Parker specialized in watercolour painting, and exhibited internationally. He was awarded numerous grants over his life, including two Canada Council Grants, and a British Council of the Arts Grant. He lectured all over the world, was published internationally, and collaborated closely with manifold scholars and thinkers, McLuhan among them.
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Gabriele Siciliano
#163995
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Theodor Junginger
#164001
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Lee Brammer
#164021
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#9683
Giuseppe Di Battista
#164024
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#9684
Afshin Dowlati
#164025
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#9685
Harald Baumeister
#164029
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#9686
Evan Tracey
#68928
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Evan Tracey is an American communications executive, media analyst and the co-founder and chief operating officer at Campaign Media Analysis Group. Early life and education Tracey graduated with a B.A. from West Virginia Wesleyan College and subsequently obtained an M.A. from George Mason University.
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Pallav Sengupta
#164046
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Romano Fantacci
#164056
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Amir Qaseem
#164069
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Andreas Raabe
#164082
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#9691
Fujio Abe
#164086
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Gabriela Ochoa
#115111
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Gabriela Ochoa is a Venezuelan British computer scientist and Professor at the University of Stirling. Her research considers evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search methods. Early life and education Ochoa was born in Venezuela. Her grandfather was a doctor, and she became interested in science at an early age. She earned her bachelor's degree at the Simón Bolívar University, where she remained for her master's degree and worked as a teacher's assistant. She moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, where she joined the University of Sussex as a doctoral student. At Sussex Ochoa worked on genetic algorithms with Hilary Buxton and Inman Harvey.
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Mitsuo Kira
#164112
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Ricardo Vinuesa
#150889
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Ricardo Vinuesa Motilva is a fluid dynamicist and machine-learning researcher. He is an associate professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm , as well as an Affiliated Researcher at the AI Sustainability Center. He is also vice director of the KTH Digitalization Platform. He is known for his work on turbulence and sustainability. Vinuesa led an influential study on the impact of AI on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations .
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Rebecca Campbell
#128470
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Rebecca Campbell is a professor of psychology at Michigan State University. She is known for her research pertaining to sexual assault and violence against women and children and the effects of treatment by law enforcement and medical staff on victims' psychological and physiological well-being. Campbell has been involved in criminal justice research on the investigation of Detroit's untested rape kits, wherein DNA evidence obtained in thousands of rape kits was left in storage and not analyzed. She has received numerous awards for her work including the Society for the Psychological Study of...
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Misty Blowers
#125140
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Misty Blowers is the Chief Technology Officer of the US Marine Corps, an American computer scientist and professor of blockchain technologies at George Mason University. She was awarded the 2018 Early Achievement Award from SPIE.
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Thomas A. Szyperski
#164136
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Zhao-xiang Zhang
#164151
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Gianluca Calcagni
#164166
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Walid Galal Aref
#164170
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