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,
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Prakash Jha
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films such as Hip Hip Hurray , Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan , and his multi-starrer films, Raajneeti , Aarakshan , Chakravyuh , and Satyagraha . He is also the maker of National Film Award winning documentaries like Faces After The Storm and Sonal .
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Amir Kassam
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Amir Kassam, FRSB, OBE, is visiting professor in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading, and a member of the global forum of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He was made OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2005 for services to tropical agriculture and rural development. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
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Folker H. Wittmann
#144303
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Sergio Matteo Savaresi
#144307
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Chen Xingbi
#97232
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1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Chen Xingbi was a Chinese electronics engineer and professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Known for his invention of superjunction power semiconductor devices, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . He was inducted into IEEE's ISPSD Hall of Fame in 2019.
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Andreas S. Spanias
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John Scott
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1924 - 1992 (68 years)
John Colin Scott was a New Zealand architect of the 20th century, known for his unique buildings that incorporated ideas from Maori and cultural architecture. Early life John Colin Scott was born in Haumoana, Hawke’s Bay on 9 June 1924, the third of seven children of Kathleen Hiraani Blake and Charles Hudson Scott, a farmer. His mother and father both had British ancestry, while his father was also a descendant of Te Arawa.
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Gabriele Villarini
#144358
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Reza Langari
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Wen Hsiang Tsai
#144363
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Arthur J. Krim
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Arthur J. Krim is a geographer and architectural historian. He was a founding member of the Society for Commercial Archeology, a preservationist group. Krim has taught at the Boston Architectural Center, Clark University, and Salve Regina University, and has consulted for the Cambridge Historical Commission, Massachusetts Historical Commission and others. He has published in Landscape, the Journal of Cultural Geography, and the Journal of Historical Geography. In 2016, he was an advocate for designating the Boston Citgo sign, which The Atlantic called "one of the hub's best known pieces of technology" but was threatened with dismantling, as a historic landmark.
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Stephen J. Bull
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Chao Zuo
#144396
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Marc P. C. Fossorier
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Vytenis Babrauskas
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Ted Brown
#109725
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Emeritus Professor Edwin Thomas Brown AC FIEAust FREng FTSE is an Australian mining and civil engineer acknowledged as a world expert in the field of rock mechanics. His academic career spanned 36 years from 1965 to 2001. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in 1969, a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1985, he was lecturer and Associate Professor at James Cook University, then Reader and Professor of Rock Mechanics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London , serving as Dean of the Royal School of Mines 1983–1986. On return to Australia, he became Dean of Engineering at the University of Queensland.
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Yue-ting Zhuang
#144425
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Luciano Saso
#144442
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Yoshimi Goda
#144469
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Miguel A. Mariňo
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Mark William Lechevallier
#144483
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Carmel Majidi
#144515
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John W. Haycock
#144517
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Ilya Shmulevich
#144519
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Holm Altenbach
#144537
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Tryphon T. Georgiou
#144538
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Ertuğrul Başar
#144555
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Robert Vink
#144563
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Paul C. M. D. Mcafee
#144585
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Jing Qin
#144605
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Niels Ehlers
#144612
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Hisa-matsu Nakano
#144613
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Marilyn Wolf
#90585
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Marilyn Claire Wolf is an American computer engineer who works as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is an expert in embedded computing.
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Ioannis Vassilios Yannas
#144661
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Botond Bognar
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Botond Bognar is an American architect currently the Edgar A. Tafel Endowed Chair in Architecture at University of Illinois and also the Endowed Chair at University of Tokyo.
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Morris Karmazyn
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Harry Turbott
#110804
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1930 - 2016 (86 years)
Harold Arthur Turbott was a New Zealand architect and landscape architect. He was the first New Zealander to gain a university degree in landscape architecture. Early life and education Turbott was born on 16 December 1930, the son of doctor Harold Bertram Turbott and Eveline Lilian Turbott . His first job was as an office boy for the Auckland architectural practice, Gummer and Ford, and he subsequently studied architecture at Auckland University College, graduating in 1954. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and went to Harvard University, where he became the first New Zealander to compl...
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Sujit Dey
#102041
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Sujit Dey is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Director of the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at the University of California, San Diego. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to the design and testing of low-power systems and system-on-chips.
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Michael Trieb
#103271
Overall Influence
1936 - 2019 (83 years)
Michael Trieb was a German architect, urban planner and university professor. He was head of the Department of Urban Design at the Urban Planning Institute at the University of Stuttgart and is now Managing Director of the ISA Group - ISA Internationales Stadtbauatelier.
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Michael I. Miller
#144733
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John F. Watts
#144734
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Ran Tao
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Paul J. Hanson
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Raffaello D’andrea
#144763
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Li-yong Tong
#144771
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Jeffrey Keith Liker
#144781
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Ranga Komanduri
#144788
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B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar
#144803
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H̊akan Hjalmarsson
#144808
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Michael R. Melloch
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