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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A. Richard Palmer
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Gordon. Fraser
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Hiroyuki Shimada
#164184
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Paul P. Lee
#164188
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Leonardo Antonio Sechi
#164198
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Kjeld Schmidt
#164204
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Héctor M. García‐garcía
#164210
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Allan Douglas Jepson
#164218
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Shinji Ohno
#164223
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Thomas P. Minka
#164230
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Motohiro Ebisawa
#164234
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Masahiro Sakai
#164235
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Biswajit Basu
#164239
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Bernd Becker
#164247
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1954 - Present (72 years)
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Shin Min Kang
#164269
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1954 - Present (72 years)
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Bruce Edmonds
#164276
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Eiji Tanaka
#164279
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Prasenjit Majumder Mandar Mitra
#164290
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J. Bowyer Bell
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1931 - 2003 (72 years)
John Bowyer Bell was an American historian, artist and art critic. He was best known as a terrorism expert. Background and early life Bell was born into an Episcopalian family in 1931 in New York City. The family later moved to Alabama, from where Bell attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, majoring in history. He also studied art, and discovered he had "total visual memory"—the equivalent of perfect pitch in a singer. His first solo art showing was in the college library in his senior year. He considered becoming a professional artist and made frequent visits to New York to visit other artists, including his hero Franz Kline, but committed to academia.
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Charles Natanson
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Reza Farzipoor Saen
#164337
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Michael J. Morris
#164339
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Thomas Frei
#164343
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George C. Alexandropoulos
#164349
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Kenneth Caidahl
#164358
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Yevgeniy Dodis
#164378
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Laurent Philippot
#164383
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1968 - Present (58 years)
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Philip B. Ward
#164388
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Michael T. Orchard
#164392
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Friedmund Prof Dr Neumann
#164402
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Mitsuyoshi Ueda
#164403
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Daniel Gall
#164408
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Michele Vitacca
#164410
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Mohammad Moniruzzaman
#164412
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Tajana Simunic
#164419
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Amane Makino
#164428
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Francesca Aloisi
#164438
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Hiroshi Okada
#164445
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Anushree Malik
#164450
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Borko Furht
#164468
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Frank Neumann
#164473
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Lary C. Walker
#164476
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Vijay Kumar Sharma
#164477
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Ardeshir Bayat
#164479
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Peter L. Read
#164480
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Richard Fung
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Richard Fung is a video artist, writer, public intellectual and theorist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and is openly gay. Fung is a professor at OCAD University. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, and received a MEd in sociology and cultural studies at University of Toronto.
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Qiao Zhang
#164497
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Gerald Goldin
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Gerald Goldin is currently a distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He is part of three divisions at Rutgers University: Department of Learning and Teaching, Department of Mathematics, and Department of Physics.
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Scott Ferson
#159984
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Scott David Ferson is Chair of Uncertainty in Engineering at University of Liverpool, Professor in its School of Engineering, and director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty there. Before joining the University of Liverpool, Ferson taught as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and did research at Applied Biomathematics, a small think tank on Long Island, New York. He is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and a recipient of its Distinguished Educator Award in 2017. From Shelbyville, Indiana, Ferson received a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and an A.B. from Wabash ...
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Parviz Malekzadeh
#164535
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