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,
#5151
Burdette Keeland
#139507
Overall Influence
1926 - 2000 (74 years)
Burdette Keeland, Jr. was an American architect and professor from Houston whose work was admired by Philip Johnson. Predominantly a modernist, he designed several projects from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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Peter Heinz Dederichs
#139509
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Bryan Rodgers
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Brent .e. Little
#139575
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#5155
Edward A. Sudicky
#139590
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#5156
Srđjan Čapkun
#139611
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#5157
Shuang-chun Wen
#139643
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#5158
Alexander Blumen
#139651
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#5159
Tongxi Yu,
#139699
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#5160
Yao-nan Wang
#139705
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#5161
Hamid Gabbay
#57322
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Hamid Gabbay is an Iranian-born American architect. He was a professor at the University of Tehran and a prolific architect in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1978, he has designed many buildings and private residences in Beverly Hills, California.
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Danial Danial Jahed Armaghani
#139718
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#5163
Anette Hosoi
#59433
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Anette E. "Peko" Hosoi is an American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, currently the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Hassan Bevrani
#139737
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#5165
Hannah Joyce
#102002
Overall Influence
Hannah J. Joyce is an Australian scientist and engineer, and a professor at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her research specialises in the development of new nanomaterials for applications in optoelectronics and energy harvesting. She has received several awards for her work in nanowire engineering and terahertz photonics.
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Henry D. Appelman
#139796
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#5167
Marc Ilegems
#139800
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#5168
Reid Miles
#26572
Overall Influence
1927 - 1993 (66 years)
Reid Miles was an American graphic designer and photographer best known for his work for Blue Note Records in the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Miles was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 4, 1927, but, following the Stock Market Crash and the separation of his parents, moved with his mother to Long Beach, California, in 1929.
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Peter Lund
#87678
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Peter Lund is a German theatre director, playwright, and author, as well as Professor for Acting at Berlin University of the Arts. He has pioneered the New German Musical at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin.
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Christian Brecher
#139850
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#5171
Y. Usuf Leblebici
#139885
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#5172
Arti Agrawal
#115383
Overall Influence
Arti Agrawal is a scientist and engineer known for her work on computational photonics as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM; she has been recognized in both of these areas by a number of awards. Her research is focused on numerical modeling and simulation of photonic devices and optical components. Agrawal is currently serving as Associate Professor and the Director of Women in Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney and Associate Vice President of Diversity for the IEEE Photonics Society.
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Peter Prof. Dr. Greil
#139906
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#5174
Ipsita Roy
#124059
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Ipsita Roy is a British-Indian materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Sheffield. Her research considers natural polymers of bacterial origin for medical applications. She was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1997 and serves as the Editor of the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.
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Gerhard Krieger
#139921
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#5176
Nadia Lapusta
#116557
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Nadia Lapusta is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. She designed the first computational model that could accurately and efficiently simulate sequence of earthquakes and interseismic slow deformation on a planar fault in a single consistent physical framework.
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Albert A. Mullin
#90233
Overall Influence
1933 - 2017 (84 years)
Albert Mullin was an American engineer and Mathematician who is best known for his postulation of the Euclid–Mullin sequence. Biography Early life Albert Mullin was born on August 25, 1933, to LeRoy Mullin and Alleyne Mullin in Lynn, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 1955. He went on to earn a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois.
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Raymond Luebbers
#127365
Overall Influence
Dr. Raymond J. Luebbers was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom, Inc.
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Alireza Saberi
#139978
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#5180
Prasad N. Enjeti
#139980
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#5181
Kyo‐beum Lee
#139986
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#5182
Javier Escaned
#140004
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#5183
Genhong Cheng
#140009
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#5184
John D. Lee
#140012
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1965 - Present (61 years)
#5185
Oscar Howard Frazier
#140017
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#5186
Michael J. Adams
#140035
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#5187
Donald Winston. Tufts
#140077
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#5188
Krishna Palem
#72751
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Krishna V. Palem is a computer scientist and engineer of Indian origin and is the Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing at Rice University and the director of Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics at Nanyang Technological University . He is recognized for his "pioneering contributions to the algorithmic, compilation, and architectural foundations of embedded computing", as stated in the citation of his 2009 Wallace McDowell Award, the "highest technical award made solely by the IEEE Computer Society".
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Peter Hedden
#140085
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Talia Eldar Geva
#140086
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Richard Young
#92215
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Richard Young is an English society and celebrity photographer. His photography career started in 1974 and since then, he has photographed personalities such as Diana, Princess of Wales, Elizabeth Taylor, and Mick Jagger.
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Derek W. Bunn
#140099
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Ronal D. G. Michels
#140104
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John Louis Reno
#140131
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Bhiksha Raj
#140137
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#5196
Jukka S. Jurvelin
#140139
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#5197
Eugene W. Rice
#140145
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#5198
Kim Ung-yong
#80556
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Kim Ung-Yong is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale.
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Mikael Skoglund
#140154
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Valerio Cozzani
#140156
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