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.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Chen Jintao
1871 - 1939 (68 years)
Chen Jintao was a Chinese technocrat who founded the Bank of China. He was chief financial officer and head of currency reform in the Republic of China and served as finance minister for warlords in Beijing, Nationalists in Nanjing, and the Nanjing Regime. Chen was responsible for innovations and improvements in printing and engraving, as well as for various currency reforms.
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Philip Lindsley
1786 - 1855 (69 years)
Philip Lindsley was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and classicist. He served as the acting president of the College of New Jersey from 1822 to 1824, and as the first president of the now-defunct University of Nashville from 1824 to 1850.
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Sarah A. Worden
1855 - 1918 (63 years)
Sarah A. Worden was an American painter of landscapes and portraits. She was also an art instructor in various schools and for several years, at Mount Holyoke College. Early life and education Sarah Agnes Worden was born in Xenia, Ohio, October 10, 1853.
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Edward H. Bersoff
Edward H. Bersoff founded BTG, Inc. and served as its chief executive and president until 2001, when he sold the company to Titan Corporation. He was elected to the board of Titan in February 2002 and holds board positions with a number of other organizations.
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Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz
1895 - 1980 (85 years)
Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz was an economist of agriculture, economic historian, and professor at Warsaw Agricultural University. He was a member of Polish Science Society and co-founder of the 1945 incarnation of the Polish Economic Society .
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Anastas Ishirkov
1868 - 1937 (69 years)
Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was a Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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Fra Angelico
1400 - 1455 (55 years)
Fra Angelico, OP was a Dominican friar and Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He earned his reputation primarily for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Florence, then worked in Rome and other cities. All his known work is of religious subjects.
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Adolf Schinnerer
1876 - 1949 (73 years)
Adolf Schinnerer was a German artist, active in painting, drawing and graphic design. He was also an instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his students included Karl Gatermann the Younger.
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Anton Graff
1736 - 1813 (77 years)
Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.
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Gerald Mohr
1914 - 1968 (54 years)
Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film, and television character actor and frequent leading man, who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films, and over 100 television shows. Early years Mohr was born in Manhattan to Henrietta , a singer, and Sigmond Mohr. He was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in Manhattan, where he learned to speak French and German and also learned to ride horses and play the piano.
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Mikhail Vrubel
1856 - 1910 (54 years)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art.
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John Donald Wade
1892 - 1963 (71 years)
John Donald Wade was an American biographer, author, essayist, and teacher. Early life Wade was born in Marshallville, Georgia. His father was a country doctor who served as a surgeon in the Civil War. Wade was descended from the first governor of Georgia, John Adam Treutlen.
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Luigi Chiarini
1789 - 1832 (43 years)
Luigi Chiarini was an Italian abbot, orientalist and translator, born near Montepulciano , April 26, 1789, died February 28, 1832, in Warsaw , known for the first translation of the Talmud in French. His translation of the Talmud benefited from a grant from Tsar Nicholas I .
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Wenonah Bell
1890 - 1981 (91 years)
Wenonah Day Bell was an American painter known for depictions of rural life in the southern United States and urban scenes of New York. Bell was a native of Trenton, South Carolina, and the daughter of a Baptist minister. The Bell family lived in numerous small towns throughout the Piedmont region during Bell's childhood. They eventually settling in Gainesville, Georgia, where her father established a ministry.
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Percy French
1854 - 1920 (66 years)
William Percy French was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter. Life French was born at Clooneyquinn House, near Tulsk, County Roscommon, the son of an Anglo-Irish landlord, Christopher French, and Susan Emma French . He was the third of nine children. His younger sister, Emily later Emily de Burg Daly was also a writer.
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