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.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
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Bruce W. Drinkwater
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Narayanan Vijaykrishnan
#143077
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#5453
N. Harris Mcclamroch
#143111
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#5454
Leonhard S. Wolfe
#143124
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#5455
Zhao-yang Zhang
#143142
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#5456
Dr. David Puett
#143149
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#5457
Lizy John
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Lizy Kurian John is an Indian American electrical engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1993. She joined The University of Texas Austin faculty in 1996. Her research is in the areas of computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing.
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Timothy J. E. Miller
#143180
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#5459
William P. Gottlieb
#18764
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1917 - 2006 (89 years)
William Paul Gottlieb was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the Golden Age of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb's photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this era of jazz.
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Yoshimichi Ohki
#143184
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#5461
Magdy M. A. Salama
#143190
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#5462
José J. G. Moura
#143199
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#5463
Elizabeth Bauer Mock
#91182
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1911 - 1998 (87 years)
Elizabeth Mock was director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and a university professor. She was a charter apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, and the first former Taliesin fellow to join the MoMA staff. She was an influential advocate for modern architecture in the United States.
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Joseph Itskovitz‐eldor
#143211
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#5465
Joseph C. Greenfield
#143219
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#5466
Charles Robert Horsburgh
#143222
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#5467
Yasunaru Kawashima
#143230
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1930 - Present (96 years)
#5468
Michael J. McGuire
#100204
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Michael John McGuire is an American environmental engineer and writer whose career has focused on drinking water quality improvement. He has been recognized for his expertise in the control of trace organic and inorganic contaminants and microbial pathogens in water. He is also known for his work in the identification, control and treatment of taste and odor problems in drinking water. He has published numerous articles in professional journals and he has been the co-editor of five books and compilations of articles. He published a book that documented the first continuous disinfection of a drinking water supply in the U.S.
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Mario Paolone
#143258
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#5470
Mohammad Hemmat Esfe
#143262
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#5471
Erik Asmussen
#63441
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1913 - 1998 (85 years)
Erik "Abbi" Asmussen was a Danish architect active in Järna, Sweden. Asmussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died, aged 84, in Järna, Sweden. Buildings by Asmussen Kulturhuset i YtterjärnaVidar hospital YtterjärnaKristofferskolan i Bromma, StockholmÖrjanskolan i JärnaRudolf Steiner Seminariet i Järna
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Henning Hermjakob
#143269
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#5473
Brian Shure
#80723
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Brian R. Shure is an American printmaker, painter, author and educator. He is best known for his mastery of printing techniques, knowledge of lesser known art techniques and has published multiple books about the art of chine-collé.
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Farrokh Mistree
#143292
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#5475
Kenneth B. Schechtman
#143301
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#5476
Hazim J. Safi
#143313
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#5477
Ingo Wolff
#143330
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#5478
Matthias Kretzler
#143335
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#5479
Penina Axelrad
#110489
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Penina Axelrad is an American aerospace engineer known for her research on satellite orbital dynamics and the Global Positioning System. She is Joseph T. Negler Professor in the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research and the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado.
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Bruce Harvey Krogh
#143347
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#5481
Ulrich Kulozik
#143351
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#5482
Etienne Grandjean
#143352
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#5483
Foad Rafii
#57791
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Foad Rafii M.Arch. Architect AAA, AIBC. FRAIC is a Canadian architect. In 2001, The Vancouver Sun in a headline article, named Foad Rafii as one of the 10 architects who shaped the Vancouver of today.
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Henning Bliddal
#143394
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#5485
David James Love
#143431
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#5486
Robert William Maccormack
#143438
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#5487
Iris Chi
#143457
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#5488
Vesa Välimäki
#137878
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Vesa Välimäki is a Finnish acoustics researcher and a professor at Aalto University 2002–. He was appointed a docent in audio signal processing at Helsinki University of Technology in 1999–2002 and a full professor in 2002.
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Harold H. Szu
#143475
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#5490
Hashem Akbari
#143480
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Vartkess Ara Apkarian
#79097
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Vartkess Ara Apkarian is a noted physical chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at The University of California, Irvine. He is the Director of Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, a National Science Foundation Center for Chemical Innovation. He graduated from University of Southern California with B.S. degrees in Chemistry followed by Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, he joined the University of California as Chemistry faculty in 1983. He served as the Chair of the Chemistry Department at UC Irvine. He ...
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Ajeet Rohatgi
#143503
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#5493
Sheldon Cohen
#57755
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Sheldon Cohen is a Montreal-based animator and children's book illustrator. Career His film animation works includes the National Film Board of Canada productions The Sweater, a 1980 film adaptation of Roch Carrier's classic short story, Pies, the 2004 adaptation of the Wilma Riley short story, I Want a Dog, the 2003 adaptation based on the children's book of the same title by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and My Heart Attack .
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Jaume Veciana
#143508
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Frank Davidoff
#143509
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Wim Van Paepegem
#143516
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Erik Janzén
#143529
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#5498
Huili Grace Xing
#94275
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Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors and layered crystals," as well as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
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Jian Cao
#143449
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Jian Cao is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer whose research includes the mechanical behavior and manufacturing of sheet metal and woven composite materials, including dieless deformation and laser additive manufacturing processes. She is Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University and director of the Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation.
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Paolo Orlandi
#143554
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1944 - Present (82 years)
