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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Umapada Pal
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Ottmar Distl
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Koutaro Yokote
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Saikat Guha
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Masayoshi Maeshima
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Vivek Malhotra
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Nadia Maftouni
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Nadia Maftouni is an Iranian academic, philosophical author and artist. She is best known as a leading Researcher on Farabian, Avicennian and Suhrawardian philosophy with her modern reading of their works. She is also an established researcher in Jurisprudence and Islamic History. She is an associate professor at University of Tehran, where she is an alumna and a member of the department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and she is on the board of History of Philosophy Quarterly. She is also famous for proposing to Iranian artist Hossein N...
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Berhane Ghebrehiwet
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Axel Van Lamsweerde
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Marvin Whiteley
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Peter Halley
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Peter Halley is an American artist and a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. Known for his Day-Glo geometric paintings, Halley is also a writer, the former publisher of index Magazine, and a teacher; he served as director of graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the Yale University School of Art from 2002 to 2011. Halley lives and works in New York City.
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Angshul Majumdar
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Narayanan Ramakrishnan
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Satoshi Nakai
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Benjamin Fong Chao
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Bu Sung. Lee
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Tracey Chapman
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Masayuki Miura
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Svetlana Lutsenko
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Dominic Chwan Yee Foo
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Thierry. Dutoit
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Joanne Weinberg
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Jin Yong Lee
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Guy Paré
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Jack Bowden
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Keiichi Kubota
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Rajan Jose
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Hugh Brendan Mcmahan
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Alan Jackson
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Ray Y. Zhong
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Pamela Cosman
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Pamela Cosman is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She has conducted a pioneering research on the quality of compressed images for application in medical diagnostic imaging. At UCSD, Cosman currently researches ways to improve wireless video transmission.
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Regan Lee Mandryk
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Marina Ziche
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Mats Fahlman
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1967 - Present (59 years)
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Pierre Dorny
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Kawsar Ahmed
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Julie Williams
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Jeffrey A. Eastman
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Robert Freer
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Tadahisa Iwata
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Karen Kay Briggs
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Taco Nicolai
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1959 - Present (67 years)
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Weifa Liang
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Angelo Bisazza
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Xiang-chu Feng
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Frédéric Jurie
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Willoughby Sharp
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1936 - 2008 (72 years)
Willoughby Sharp was an American artist, independent curator, independent publisher , gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. Avalanche published interviews they conducted with contemporary artists such as Vito Acconci, Dennis Oppenheim and Yvonne Rainer. Sharp also was contributing editor to four other publications: Impulse ; Video magazine ; Art Com , and the East Village Eye . He published three monographs on contemporary artists, contributed to many exhibition catalogues, and wrote on art for Artforum, Art in America, Arts magazine, Laica Journal, Quadrum and Rhobo. He was editor of the Public Arts International/Free Speech documentary booklet in 1979.
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Thomas Joseph Mccabe
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Nam Ho Kim
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Takahiro Wada
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2000 - Present (26 years)
