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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Takeo Ohsawa
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Gerardo Botti
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Hikmet Sari
#165671
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Cihan Ay
#165673
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Simon Kornblith
#165676
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Balasubramanian Raman
#165677
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Takayuki Takasugi
#165678
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Dominiek Reynaerts
#165688
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Naim Alkhouri
#165696
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Kien A. Hua
#165697
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Michael Owen Ball
#165700
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Eric C. Schneider
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Paola Bonizzoni
#125688
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Paola Bonizzoni is an Italian computer scientist. She is a professor of computer science at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Her research areas include computational complexity, graph algorithms, computational biology, and bioinformatics.
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Norbert Gattermann
#165718
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Bernard J. Cummings
#165726
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Takanori Shibata
#165727
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Brajesh Kumar Kaushik
#165733
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1972 - Present (54 years)
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Lee A. Green
#165742
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Akimasa Hirata
#165745
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Takashi Kamiyama
#165751
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Mark A. Hall
#165756
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Ghulam Abbas
#165757
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Tao He
#165758
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Bo Shen
#165766
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Anupam Sen Gupta
#165785
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Matthew B. Thomas
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Matthew B. Thomas is an ecology professor and Huck Scholar in the Entomology Department at Pennsylvania State University in the United States. He is also affiliated with the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State.
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Jong Kyu Kim
#165811
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Hozumi Motohashi
#165816
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Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. He is Professor of Bioinformatics and the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.
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Daniel S. Hirschberg
#165819
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Kang Min Ok
#165823
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Rajiv Dhand
#165837
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Hans Deckmyn
#165846
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Kazuhiro Yamamoto
#165855
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Therese Biedl
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Therese Charlotte Biedl is an Austrian computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry and graph drawing. Currently she is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Education Biedl received her Diploma in Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, graduating in 1996 and earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1997 under the supervision of Endre Boros.
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Makiya Nishikawa
#165867
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Yannis Stylianou
#165877
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Axel Voigt
#165880
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Elizaveta Kon
#165894
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Peter Højrup
#165896
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Soo Young Kim
#165898
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John R. Pluske
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Phillip A. Laplante
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Markus Affolter
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Pekka Abrahamsson
#165925
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1972 - Present (54 years)
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Axel-cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
#165928
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Rafael Cela
#165937
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Birgit Penzenstadler
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1981 - Present (45 years)
Birgit Penzenstadler is a German associate professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology and adjunct docent at Lappeenranta University of Technology. She is well known for her work on environmental sustainability in software engineering and for being one of the founders of the sustainability design initiative, which seeks to advance the research on sustainability in technical disciplines such as computer science and software engineering.
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Yukihito Higashi
#165963
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Ole Mathias Sejersted
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Ole Mathias Sejersted is a Norwegian medical doctor, professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. Sejersted graduated as cand.med. in 1973. He graduated as dr. med. from the University of Oslo in 1978. His research areas have included renal function, muscle fatigue and heart failure. As of 2017 and 2018 he is praeses of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; he was elected member of the academy in 1998. He has also been vice dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.
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