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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Takashi Kohno
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Polycarpos Pissis
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Alan J. Demers
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Meir Bialer
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Andreas Kispert
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Richard Statman
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Richard Statman is an American computer scientist whose principal research interest is the theory of computation, especially symbolic computation. His research involves lambda calculus, type theory, and combinatory algebra.
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Bernhard Tribukait
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Peter M. Mell
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Nobuhito Mori
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Thomas Colcombet
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Thomas Colcombet is a French theoretical computer scientist known for settling major open problems on tree walking automata jointly with Mikołaj Bojańczyk. Colcombet is currently a CNRS Research Director at Paris Diderot University.
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Dean A. Pomerleau
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Hiroshi Inoue
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Kerenza Hood
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Benjamin D. Nichols
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Jahar Sarkar
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Vito Martella
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Kensei Tobinai
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Lihong Li
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Dirk Haller
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1968 - Present (58 years)
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Wing-Kin Ma
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Lei Liao
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Taravat Talepasand
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1979 - Present (47 years)
Taravat Talepasand is an Iranian-American contemporary artist, activist, and educator. She is known for her interdisciplinary painting practice including drawing, sculpture and installation. As an Iranian-American woman, Talepasand explores the cultural taboos that reflect on gender and political authority. Her approach to representation and figuration reflects the cross-pollination, or lack thereof, in our Western Society. Talepasand previously held the title of the chair of the painting department at San Francisco Art Institute . She is a Tenure-Track professor in Art Practice at Portland S...
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Robert J. Alexander
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1918 - 2010 (92 years)
Robert Jackson Alexander was an American political activist, writer, and academic who spent most of his professional career at Rutgers University. He is best remembered for his pioneering studies on the trade union movement in Latin America and dissident communist political parties, including ground-breaking monographs on the International Communist Right Opposition, Maoism, and the international Trotskyist movement.
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Wen‐lian Hsu
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Julian M. Pine
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Ingo Bechmann
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Jingyuan Liu
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Audris Mockus
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Andrew S. Cohen
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Joan W. Conaway
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Joan Weliky Conaway is an American biochemist who researches gene transcription. She worked at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research from 2001 to 2021 and currently serves as vice provost and dean for basic research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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Hanzhang Y. Lu
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Udo Hahn
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Michael Sulyok
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Jonathan B. L. Bard
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Venansius Baryamureeba
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Venansius Baryamureeba is a Ugandan mathematician, computer scientist, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Acting vice chancellor of the Uganda Technology and Management University, a private university in Uganda, from September 2013 until 28 September 2015. He left the position to join the presidential race in Uganda to take place in 2016. Before that, he served as the vice chancellor of Makerere University from November 2009 until August 2012.
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Serena Dudek
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Dr. Serena M. Dudek , is an American neuroscientist known for her work on long-term depression and synaptic plasticity in the CA2 region of the hippocampus. Biography Dudek's father was an English professor at Fullerton College, and her mother was a clinical cytologist and medical technologist. In high school, she worked at Knott's Berry Farm, selling ice cream and popcorn. She was also on the drill team at Savanna High School.
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Marco Mellia
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Jean F. MacCormack
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Jean F. MacCormack is the past president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, serving in the role from 2014 to 2017. MacCormack is the former Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she led from 1999 to 2012.
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Dirk Beyer
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Lorenzo Spaggiari
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Dirk Zeller
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Yasuo Kawakami
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John Bosco Balaguru Rayappan
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Seiki Kuramitsu
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Masamitsu Wada
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Massimo Santarelli
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Naoki Yamaji
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Sergio Chimenti
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David A. Wilder
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Joseph Shiloach
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