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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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
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Jeffrey B. Kopp
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Vincenzo Mazzaferro
#117834
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1957 - Present (69 years)
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Flora Peyvandi
#117837
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Joseph Caprioli
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Patrick S Moore
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Carsten Bøcker Pedersen
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Tapan Kumar Saha
#117894
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Masutaka Furue
#117895
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#4659
Peyman Faratin
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Peyman Faratin is an Iranian/American computer scientist, and the founder of Robust Links, an Internet company building algorithms for creating and processing a knowledge graph. Background Peyman completed his PhD in computer science under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings and Prof. Carles Sierra. He made significant contributions in the area of artificial intelligence, particularly to automated negotiation in multi-agent systems. He was then a research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence laboratory, working with David D. Clark in the Advanced Network ...
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Michael Barr
#50115
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Michael Barr is an American mathematician who is the Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University. Early life and education He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the 202nd class of Central High School in June 1954. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in February 1959 and received a PhD from the same school in June 1962.
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Fei Tao
#117946
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Thorsteinn Loftsson
#117973
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Shalender Bhasin
#117983
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Xiaojin Zhu
#117987
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Allan Matthews
#89879
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Allan Matthews is professor of surface engineering and tribology at the University of Manchester and director of the Digitalised Surfaces Manufacturing Network. Education Matthews attended Upholland Grammar School and completed his PhD at Salford University studying environmentally-friendly plasma-based processes, especially their use for coating industrial tools.
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Patricia Bouyer-Decitre
#113903
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre is a French theoretical computer scientist known for her research on timed automata, model checking, and temporal logic. She is a senior researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , and director of the Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles of CNRS and the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.
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Kunihiro Matsushita
#118016
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Daniel H. Huson
#118019
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
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John N. Thompson
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Togay Ozbakkaloglu
#118057
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Wolfgang Andreas Weber
#118060
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Lars Eilebrecht
#78498
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Lars Eilebrecht is a German software engineer, solutions architect, IT security expert, and Open Source evangelist. He is one of the original developers of the Apache HTTP Server, and co-founder and former Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation. Lars was based in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2019 where he founded the IT consultancy company Primevation Ltd. Since 2019 he is based in Germany where he works as a Chief Information Security Officer.
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Neil Ramiller
#88441
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Neil Clifford Ramiller is an American academic, and Professor of Management at the Portland State University School of Business Administration, known for his work with Swanson, E. Burton on the management of information-technology innovations, particularly on organizing vision.
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Yasuhiro Uozumi
#118079
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Ludovic Kennedy
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Overall Influence
1919 - 2009 (90 years)
Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy was a Scottish journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author. As well as his wartime service in the Royal Navy, he is known for presenting many current affairs programmes and for reexamining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley. He also campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
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Kin Keung Lai
#118107
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Hong-jiang Zhang
#118122
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Huchang Liao
#118134
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Lawrie Brown
#84129
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Lawrence Peter "Lawrie" Brown is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently a Senior Lecturer with UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. His notable work includes the design of the block ciphers LOKI and the AES candidate LOKI97. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of New South Wales in 1991 under the supervision of Jennifer Seberry, with a dissertation on the design of LOKI and the cryptanalysis of the Data Encryption Standard. Subsequently, his research changed focus to the Safe Erlang mobile code system, to aspects of trust issues in eCommerce with some of his Ph.D.
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Tohru Minamino
#118144
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Roland Winter
#84417
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Roland Winter is a biophysical chemist who studies the structure, dynamics, energetics, and phase behavior of biological membranes and proteins. He was dean of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
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Michael H. Carr
#118173
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1935 - Present (91 years)
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Xavier Gonze
#118244
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Rien Aerts
#118285
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Giuseppe Paolisso
#118308
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Hideto Tsuji
#118324
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Lenore Cowen
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Lenore Jennifer Cowen is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her work in graph coloring, network routing, and computational biology. She is a professor of computer science and of mathematics at Tufts University.
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Hiroshi Takagi
#118371
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Donald Wunsch
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Donald C. Wunsch II is Mary K. Finley Distinguished Professor of computer engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers He is known for his work on " hardware implementations, reinforcement and unsupervised learning".
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Michael Buchfelder
#118374
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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Overall Influence
1982 - Present (44 years)
Seth Isaac Stephens-Davidowitz is an American data scientist, economist, and author. He has worked as a New York Times op-ed contributor, a data scientist at Google, as well as a visiting lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published research using Google Trends search data, as well as data from Wikipedia and Facebook, to gain real-time insights into people's thoughts and beliefs that they may be unwilling to admit publicly.
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Jean-Loup Baer
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Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Jean-Loup Baer is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Biography Jean-Loup Baer received the Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Engineering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble and the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1968 under the supervision of Gerald Estrin.
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Mel Chin
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Mel Chin is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works in a variety of art media to calculate meaning in modern life. Chin places art in landscapes, in public spaces, and in gallery and museum exhibitions, but his work is not limited to specific venues. Chin once stated: “Making objects and marks is also about making possibilities, making choices—and that is one of the last freedoms we have. To provide that is one of the functions of art.”
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Vladimir Sukhomlin
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Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Vladimir Sukhomlin is a Russian computer scientist, Dr.Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. Biography Born in the family of a documentary filmmaker Yuri Ozerov. He graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute .
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Zafar Said
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Bo Tang
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A. G. Ramakrishnan
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan is a senior professor of electrical engineering and an associate faculty of Centre for Neuroscience, both at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He heads the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab. He also won the Manthan Award 2015 for his project, “Madhura - the gift of voice”, under the category, e-education, learning, and employment. He is also one of the founder directors of RaGaVeRa Indic Techno...
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Keith M. Sullivan
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Thomas Berg
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Michael Dolg
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1958 - Present (68 years)
