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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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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Bruno Viana
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Beate Neumann
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Chris Cobb
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Chris Cobb is a British computer scientist and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Chief Operating Officer at the University of London. He has been Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Roehampton, London, England and prior to that was at London School of Economics. In 2020, he was appointed as Chief Executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, despite not having any professional background in music.
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Tatsuo Kanda
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Alexander Mathis
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Alexander Mathis is an Austrian mathematician, computational neuroscientist and software developer. He is currently an assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. His research interest focus on research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning.
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Herbert Hof
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Takayoshi Suzuki
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Henry Rusinek
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Nils Kucher
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Jae Yong Park
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Felix Berger
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Paolo Gionchetti
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Thomas Mentzel
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Bing Yu
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Zeev Blumenfeld
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John Kraft
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John Kraft was the Dean of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida from 1990 to 2020. Prior to his position at the Warrington College of Business, he was the Dean of Arizona State University Business School from 1986 through 1990.
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Le Song
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Marc Bohner
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David F. Andrews
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Ramaroson Andriantsitohaina
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Justine Shults
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Nathan P. Wiederhold
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Shahram Tangestaninejad
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Frederick W. Miller
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Taiji Adachi
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Denis Trček
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Denis Trček is a Slovenian computer scientist and university professor. Trček graduated in 1988 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana where he received in 1995 also his Ph.D. degree in communication security.
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Na Zhang
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Mauro Serafini
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Cordian Beyer
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Dean M. Tullsen
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J. Doug Tygar
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Helge Nornes
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Oded Maler
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Georges Wipff
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Eldad Haber
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Charumathi Sabanayagam
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Benito Alcaide
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Ingo Beyer von Morgenstern
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Ingo Beyer von Morgenstern is a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and one of the longest-serving foreign professors in China at Tsinghua University. He currently serves as Chairman of both the Harbour.Space University in Barcelona and Qilin Capital Fund and at the advisory council of multiple families in Germany and Asia.
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Dong Kingman
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Overall Influence
1911 - 2000 (89 years)
Dong Kingman was a Chinese American artist and one of America's leading watercolor masters. As a painter on the forefront of the California Style School of painting, he was known for his urban and landscape paintings, as well as his graphic design work in the Hollywood film industry. He has won widespread critical acclaim and his works are included in over 50 public and private collections worldwide, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum; deYoung Museum and Art Institute, Chicago.
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Jeremy Silverman
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Hailong Li
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Heiner Niemann
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Morten Kyng
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Morten Kyng is a Danish computer science researcher and author. He is a member of Association of Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Academy member. He is a ubiquitous computing professor at Aarhus University. He is a Member of Board of Directors of Østjysk Innovation and the Director of the Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, a research centre that studies the use of pervasive computer technologies to provide healthcare solutions.
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Antonio Bianchi
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Domenico Bosco
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Jean Raymond
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Ivan Toni
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Hans Dieter Schotten
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Boris Braun
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1920 - 2018 (98 years)
Boris Braun was a Croatian University professor, Holocaust survivor, and member of the Jewish community in Zagreb. Early life Braun was born to Šandor and Elizabeta Braun, members of a notable and wealthy Jewish family of Đurđevac. He had a sister called Štefica. The Braun family were reputable and respected in Đurđevac, where they owned the sawmill, vineyard, mill and ice factory. His father brought electricity to the Đurđevac region and maintained the local substation. Braun's father was a close friend of Ivan Šubašić and Mate Starčević, mayor of Zagreb, both of whom participated in the hu...
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