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 Engineering,
#5301
Roy Halee
#55709
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Roy Decker Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon & Garfunkel, both as a group and for their solo projects. Early life He grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961. His mother, Rebekah Cauble, was a former stage actress with several Broadway credits.
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Gu¨nter Gottstein
#141372
Overall Influence
#5303
Gerald R. Smith
#141373
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
#5304
Lydia Bourouiba
#113480
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Lydia Bourouiba is an Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Professor, an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering departments, and in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also a Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Faculty, and Affiliate Faculty of Harvard Medical School. She directs the Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory at MIT.
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Bernd Grimm
#124111
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Bernd Grimm is a German product designer, architectural model builder and artist. He became known through the creation of architectural models of historical and antique buildings. Ten of his models belong to the collection of the architectural icons of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers.
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Arti Hurria
#141396
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#5307
Hyo‐soo Kim
#141406
Overall Influence
#5308
Jennifer Van Eyk
#136992
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Jennifer Eileen Van Eyk is the Erika Glazer Chair in Women's Heart Health, the Director of Advanced Clinical Biosystems Institute in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, the Director of Basic Science Research in the Women's Heart Center, a Professor in Medicine and in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai. She is a renowned scientist in the field of clinical proteomics.
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Abir Al-Tabbaa
#140650
Overall Influence
Abir Al-Tabbaa CEng FICE is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She works on intelligent materials for infrastructure. She is the Director of the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment Doctoral Training Centre.
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Denis D. Dochain
#141438
Overall Influence
#5311
Atsuo Takanishi
#141441
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#5312
Martti T. Hallikainen
#141446
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#5313
Werner Prof Dr Ing Wiesbeck
#141448
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#5314
Wei‐xian Zhang
#141450
Overall Influence
#5315
Thomas Leslie
#69951
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Thomas Leslie is an American architect. Leslie earned a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1989, followed by a Master of Architecture at Columbia University in 1992. He worked for Foster & Partners for seven years, and joined the Iowa State University faculty in 2000. Leslie was a 2004 awardee of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's Creative Achievement Award. He was named to the Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture within the Iowa State University College of Design in 2011. In 2013, Leslie was awarded the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation.
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Eric V. Vermote
#141470
Overall Influence
#5317
Brian Eyre
#129152
Overall Influence
1933 - 2014 (81 years)
Brian Leonard Eyre CBE, FRS, FREng was a British material scientist, Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Professor at the University of Liverpool. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford and University College London.
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Masataka Goto
#141492
Overall Influence
#5319
Akiyuki Shinbo
#6161
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
is a Japanese animator, director, compositional writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft, he has attained international recognition for his unique visual style and storytelling methods.
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Lin Chang
#141499
Overall Influence
#5321
Andrew Leask
#141509
Overall Influence
#5322
Witold Brostow
#141524
Overall Influence
#5323
Coleman Dupont Donaldson
#140366
Overall Influence
1922 - 2009 (87 years)
Coleman Dupont Donaldson was a fluid physicist and aeronautical engineer who specialized in turbulent flow and computational fluid dynamics. He made broad contributions during his career in turbulent transport, supersonic flow, and armor.
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Srdjan Nešić
#141537
Overall Influence
#5325
Avram Bar‐cohen
#141538
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#5326
Fasiha Kanwal
#141555
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#5327
Paolo Gardoni
#141564
Overall Influence
#5328
Sanjay Misra
#141642
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#5329
Luke.p. Lee
#141643
Overall Influence
#5330
Shahid Mumtaz
#141645
Overall Influence
#5331
Peter Wonka
#106704
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Peter Wonka is an Austrian computer scientist and Professor and Associate Director at the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He was previously employed at the Arizona State University as Associate Professor and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.
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Tore Hägglund
#141668
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#5333
Robert Dreicer
#141687
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#5334
Shozo Izui
#141688
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#5335
Berthold Huppertz
#141701
Overall Influence
#5336
Eugene Sternberg
#106973
Overall Influence
1915 - 2005 (90 years)
Eugene Sternberg was a Hungarian-born American architect known for his passionate commitment and contribution to contemporary/modernist architecture and town planning in Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states between 1950 and 1990. He designed over 400 building projects and subdivisions, many of them iconic examples of Modernist architecture. Since his focus was on improving the quality of life of the general population, the structures he built were beautiful, useful, and cost-effective. Most of his projects were in the category of social architecture: affordable homes, senior housing proje...
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Georges Hadziioannou
#141728
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
#5338
J. F. P. Feely
#141732
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#5339
Paul Lewis
#91530
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Paul Lewis is a practicing architect based in New York City. He is a principal of LTL Architects and an assistant professor and director of graduate studies at Princeton University School of Architecture. He also has taught at Barnard and Columbia Collegess, Cooper Union, Ohio State University, and Parsons The New School for Design.
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Friedrich B. Prinz
#141745
Overall Influence
#5341
Terry A. Jacobson
#141771
Overall Influence
#5342
Ufuk Topcu
#141776
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#5343
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
#40736
Overall Influence
1930 - 2017 (87 years)
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and other major venues; more than 280 of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Ashlie Martini
#138881
Overall Influence
Ashlie Martini is a tribologist and professor of mechanical engineering at University of California, Merced. Biography Education Martini received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1998 from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. She later completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the same field, at the same school, in 2007.
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Thomas.w. Kenny
#141798
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Ravindra K. Dhir
#141803
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Nageh Allam
#135807
Overall Influence
Nageh Allam is an Egyptian Professor of materials science and engineering at the American University in Cairo . He is the Director of the Nanotechnology graduate program of the institution. He is a receiver of the World Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Award, Obada Prize Award and an elected member of the African Academy of Sciences.
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Rowenna Louise Anderson
#141845
Overall Influence
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Athina Markopoulou
#83308
Overall Influence
Athina Markopoulou is a Greek-American engineer who is Professor, Chancellor's Fellow, and chair at the University of California, Irvine. Her research considers internet privacy, data transparency and mobile data analytics. She was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2020.
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Shai Barbut
#141884
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