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 Engineering,
#5051
Mauro Alini
#138208
Overall Influence
#5052
Om P. Gandhi
#138212
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
#5053
Frances M. Ross
#132083
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Frances Mary Ross is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work involves the use of in situ transmission electron microscopy to study nanostructure formation. In 2018 she was awarded the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy Hatsujiro Hashimoto Medal. Ross is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Microscopy Society of America and the Royal Microscopical Society,
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Guang Ye
#138240
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
#5055
Mauro Barni
#138261
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Mauro Barni is an Italian engineer and professor. He graduated at University of Florence in 1991. In September 1998, he became associate professor at University of Siena, and then full professor. Barni was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 «for contributions to signal and image processing for multimedia security».
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Joshua Vogelstein
#93317
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Joshua T. Vogelstein is an American biomedical engineer. He is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he sits at the Center for Imaging Science. Vogelstein also holds joint appointments in the departments of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biostatistics, and Neuroscience. He has appointments in the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences, Institute for Computational Medicine, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science.
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Abbas Afkhami
#138293
Overall Influence
#5058
Reinhard Radermacher
#138311
Overall Influence
#5059
Guan Gui Guan Gui
#138322
Overall Influence
#5060
Georges F. Nagy
#138324
Overall Influence
#5061
Max Stafford-Clark
#11161
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Maxwell Robert Guthrie Stewart "Max" Stafford-Clark is a British theatre director. Life and career Stafford-Clark was born in Cambridge, England. the son of David Stafford-Clark, a physician, and Dorothy Crossley . He was educated at Felsted School, in Essex, England and Riverdale Country School in New York City, followed by Trinity College, Dublin.
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Anne Burns
#68644
Overall Influence
1915 - 2001 (86 years)
Anne Burns was a British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. She had a career of nearly 40 years in the Royal Aircraft Establishment as an engineer and an expert in wind shear. As a glider pilot, she holds the British record for highest altitude, and was the first woman to cross the English Channel in a glider.
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James Marrow
#126618
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Thomas James Marrow is a British scientist who is a professor of nuclear materials at the University of Oxford and holds the James Martin Chair in Energy Materials. He specialises in physical metallurgy, micromechanics, and X-ray crystallography of engineering materials, mainly ceramic matrix composite and nuclear graphite.
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Anil Kokaram
#91418
Overall Influence
Anil C. Kokaram is a Trinidadian engineer and entrepreneur. He is famous for his Oscar-winning inventions enabling the restoration of audio and images and is currently the Chair of Electronic Engineering at Trinity College Dublin.
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Jean‐françois Cordeau
#138367
Overall Influence
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Russell S Phillips
#138370
Overall Influence
#5067
S.douglas Probert
#138374
Overall Influence
#5068
Peter N. Belhumeur
#138376
Overall Influence
#5069
Y. Jay. Guo
#138388
Overall Influence
#5070
Takashi Akasaka
#138394
Overall Influence
#5071
Ann Karagozian
#109542
Overall Influence
Ann Renee Karagozian is an aerospace engineer known for her work on combustion, fluid dynamics, advanced propulsion techniques, and transverse jets in supersonic flows. She is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles , where she is also the former interim vice chancellor for research, the director of the Collaborative Center for Aerospace Studies, the director of the Promise Armenian Institute, a trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a trustee of the American University of Armenia.
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Yugang Jiang
#138450
Overall Influence
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Jon Wei Mark
#138472
Overall Influence
#5074
Thanasis C. Triantafillou
#138507
Overall Influence
#5075
Michael Bletsas
#53870
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Michail Bletsas is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab. Early life Bletsas was born in Chania, Crete. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a master's degree in computer engineering from Boston University.
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Mehrdad Saif
#138527
Overall Influence
#5077
Kaibin Huang
#138528
Overall Influence
#5078
Alfred Grill
#138530
Overall Influence
#5079
Avishai (avi) Ceder
#138545
Overall Influence
#5080
Patrick Tso
#138565
Overall Influence
#5081
Robert A. Shanks
#138569
Overall Influence
#5082
Steven M. Levine Smarajit Maiti Mitchell R. Emerson
#138580
Overall Influence
#5083
J. e. Fischer
#138596
Overall Influence
#5084
Issa Yavari
#138612
Overall Influence
#5085
Deborah J. Bowen
#138615
Overall Influence
#5086
Raymond E. Ideker
#138637
Overall Influence
#5087
Zheng-rong Xiang
#138653
Overall Influence
#5088
William Andrew Jackson
#138663
Overall Influence
#5089
Prabhakar H. Pathak
#138675
Overall Influence
#5090
Michael J Baum
#138676
Overall Influence
#5091
Zhi-sheng Duan
#138690
Overall Influence
#5092
Allan Edward Gross
#138712
Overall Influence
#5093
Ren-quan Lu
#138722
Overall Influence
#5094
Krzysztof Kubryński
#132266
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Krzysztof Kubryński is a researcher in aerodynamics. Author of a set of computer programs assisting in the design of the aircraft. His methodology of 3D aerodynamic design and his software had been used in the majority of contemporary competition sailplane projects . Designer of the sail used by the winner of the 1996 Summer Olympics Finn class competition. Recently he worked on the aerodynamics of the Flaris Jet 1.
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Liv K. Hatle
#138736
Overall Influence
#5096
Pierre Drapeau
#138741
Overall Influence
#5097
Keith Alan Shore
#138765
Overall Influence
#5098
Yongjie Jessica Zhang
#130370
Overall Influence
Yongjie Jessica Zhang is an American mechanical engineer. She is the George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of mechanical engineering and, by courtesy, of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers.
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Chung‐loong Choy
#138801
Overall Influence
#5100
Lynn Donelson Wright
#138806
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