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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José Guilherme Cecatti
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Saeed Shirazian
#164858
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#9803
Tomas Kron
#164868
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#9804
Tamim Asfour
#164870
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#9805
Yoshinao Nakagawa
#164872
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#9806
Lynn Morris
#164876
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#9807
Ruby Bei-loh Lee
#164880
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#9808
Giorgio Zauli
#164889
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Michela Taufer
#144776
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1971 - Present (55 years)
Michela Taufer is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Senior Member. In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
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Vanchiappan Aravindan
#164923
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Kenji Kamide
#164944
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Giovanni Neri
#164956
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Giulio Perugi
#164958
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#9814
Rhett P. Ketterling
#164960
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Hideaki Hara
#164969
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Karsten Kalbitz
#164975
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1965 - Present (61 years)
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Takashi Asai
#164999
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Michael J. Strube
#165004
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K. S. Babu
#92587
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Kaladi S. Babu is a theoretical physicist, regents professor and interim head of the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Hawaii, under the supervision of Ernest Ma.
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Hanna Hajishirzi
#165012
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Giacomo Oliveri
#165014
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Paul J. W. Stoelinga
#165022
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Louis R. Iverson
#165029
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Salvatore Petta
#165034
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#9825
José Ramón Banegas
#165039
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#9826
Angiolo Gadducci
#165040
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#9827
Shimon Amir
#165052
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#9828
Farhad Aslani
#165086
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#9829
Takashi Suda
#165090
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#9830
Bruno Niederle
#165110
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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#165140
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Shai Ben-David
#150822
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Shai Ben-David is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Waterloo. He is known for his research in theoretical machine learning. Biography Shai Ben-David grew up in Jerusalem, Israel and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was advised by Saharon Shelah. He held postdoctoral positions in mathematics and computer science at the University of Toronto. He was a professor of computer science at the Technion and also held visiting positions at the Australian National University and Cornell University.
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William Tietz
#14048
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1927 - 2020 (93 years)
William John Tietz Jr. was an American veterinarian who was Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University from 1971 to 1977 and president of Montana State University from 1977 to 1990. A group of historians named Tietz one of Montana State's four most important presidents in 2011.
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Guy Baele
#165159
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Rajeev Bhat
#165162
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Giuseppe Tarantini
#165166
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Haim Kaplan
#165183
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Gavin Turrell
#165184
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Emilia Bagiella
#165185
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Anton Eisenhauer
#165188
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#9841
Yoshiaki Ito
#165207
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1939 - Present (87 years)
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Zoran Culig
#165209
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#9843
Fei Sha
#165211
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Shibo Xi
#165214
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Yoshio Hirabayashi
#165219
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Dumitru Erhan
#165232
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#9847
Neil Maiden Maiden
#165233
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Olivier Lantz
#165238
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#9849
Helene Muri
#49951
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1979 - Present (47 years)
Helene Muri is a Norwegian climate scientist. She is a senior researcher for the Industrial Ecology Programme at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , an interdisciplinary research programme specializing in environmental sustainability analysis. The programme aims to «provide high quality research and education in the field of industrial ecology for supporting the global community in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals.» Muri is also a researcher at SFI Smart Maritime. Her research interests include assessing the climate and environmental effects of various mitigation options in the maritime sector.
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Derya Tilki
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