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,
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Tsvee Lapidot
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Noémie Elhadad
#156844
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Noémie Elhadad is an American data scientist who is an associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. As of 2022, she serves as the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Her research considers machine learning in bioinformatics, natural language processing and medicine.
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Patrick Meyfroidt
#164559
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Martin Clay Fowler
#164563
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Emanuele Buratti
#164566
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#9756
Carlos Delgado Kloos
#164578
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#9757
Takeo Nakayama
#164579
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#9758
Sandro Pignata
#164580
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#9759
Yasuhisa Asano
#164585
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Paola Rogliani
#164591
Overall Influence
#9761
Mootaz Elnozahy
#133701
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Mootaz Elnozahy is a computer scientist. He is currently a professor of computer science at the computer, electrical and mathematical science, and engineering division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He previously served as Special Advisor to the President and Dean of CEMSE. Elnozahy's research area is in systems, including high-performance computing, power-aware computing, fault tolerance, operating systems, system architecture, and distributed systems. His work on rollback-recovery is now a standard component of graduate courses in fault-tolerant computing, and he has...
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Peter Riis Hansen
#164596
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Vlado Keselj
#147199
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Vlado Keselj is a Serbian-Canadian computer scientist known for his research in natural language processing and authorship attribution. He is a professor at Dalhousie University. Education As a high school student in Yugoslavia, Keselj competed in the 1987 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a bronze medal. He earned his Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Waterloo, with the dissertation Modular Stochastic HPSGs for Question Answering supervised by Nick Cercone.
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Ivan Zelinka
#164619
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Regina G. H. Beets‐tan
#164623
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Mahesan Niranjan
#164624
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Satoru Iwata
#97830
Overall Influence
1959 - 2015 (56 years)
was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer of Nintendo from 2002 until his death in 2015. He was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.
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Ingo Marzi
#164641
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Jimmy Espinoza
#164643
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Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson
#164644
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Salim Roukos
#164645
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Masahiro Fujita
#164651
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#9773
Bohyung Han
#164652
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
#9774
Paolo Santi
#164662
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
#9775
Jonathan Eckstein
#164666
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#9776
Meinhard Kieser
#164677
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#9777
Jiří Militký
#164693
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#9778
Roger B. Dannenberg
#164696
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#9779
Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira
#164697
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#9780
Éric D. Taillard
#164698
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Ji Hye Kim
#164699
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John H. Schuenemeyer
#122383
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John H Schuenemeyer is President of Southwest Statistical Consulting, Cortez, Colorado. He is also Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Geology, and Geography, University of Delaware. Schuenemeyer was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991. International Association for Mathematical Geosciences has awarded him the IAMG Distinguished Lectureship in 2012. In 2004, he was awarded John Cedric Griffiths Teaching Award by the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.
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Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar
#164704
Overall Influence
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Naoki Yoshida
#164734
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
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Paolo Magni
#164735
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James E. Rumbaugh
#164760
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Frank Henrik Mueller
#164764
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Zhi Jian Wang
#164765
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Nian‐shing Chen
#164773
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#9790
Elizabeth Catlett
#11286
Overall Influence
1915 - 2012 (97 years)
Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora was an African American sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to parents working in education, and was the grandchild of formerly enslaved people. It was difficult for a black woman at this time to pursue a career as a working artist. Catlett devoted much of her career to teaching. However, a fellowship awarded to her in 1946 allowed her to t...
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Roberto Giacomelli
#164785
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
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Pedro Maldonado Coutinho
#164787
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Dimitris Samaras
#164804
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Eike Steinmann
#164814
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Geraint Jones
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1976 - Present (50 years)
Geraint Paul Jones is a British educator. He is the founding executive director of the National School of Education and Teaching at Coventry University, where he is also an associate pro-vice-chancellor and professor of education.
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Philippe Claeys
#164827
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1961 - Present (65 years)
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Philip Lightfoot
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Maurice P. Nivat
#164841
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Ravin Balakrishnan
#164842
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Dah-ming W. Chiu
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