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.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#5901
Yue Ying Lau
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William J. Schaff
#148489
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#5903
Ali Emrouznejad
#148508
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#5904
Jeffrey O. Hollinger
#148515
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#5905
N. M. El-sheimy
#148541
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#5906
Ming‐dou Ker
#148546
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#5907
Michel Y. Jaffrin
#148553
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#5908
Michael L. Hair
#148556
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1934 - Present (92 years)
#5909
Peter H. Siegel
#148571
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Qinghong Zhang
#148579
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#5911
Devang Vipin Khakhar
#99857
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Devang Vipin Khakhar is an Indian chemical engineer and the former director of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is known for his pioneering researches on polymerization and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technol...
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George G. Adams
#116403
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1947 - Present (79 years)
George G. Adams is an American mechanical engineer specializing in tribology, contact mechanics, dynamics, and microelectromechanical systems . He is a distinguished professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department at Northeastern University, Boston. Together with João Arménio Correia Martins, he discovered the frictional dynamic instabilities or Adams-Martins instabilities. Adams has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, presenting new mathematical solutions of fundamental problems of mechanics, such as the dynamics of elastic structures subjected to movi...
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Carl V. Leier
#148608
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Toshiaki Iba
#148612
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#5915
Neil Blumberg
#148617
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#5916
Jay Pratt
#148620
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#5917
Edmond A. Murphy
#148629
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#5918
Qi-sheng Huo
#148648
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#5919
Vladimir Strezov
#148650
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#5920
Weng Gang Zhang
#148675
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#5921
Graham T. Reed
#148682
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#5922
Mary-Anne Williams
#91120
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Mary-Anne Williams FTSE is the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia based in the UNSW Business School. She is founder and director of the UNSW Business AI Lab and deputy director of the UNSW AI Institute.
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Luigino Calzetta
#148717
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#5924
Dimitris Drikakis
#148725
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#5925
Hamid. Krim
#148745
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#5926
Franklin T. Bonner
#148757
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#5927
Ambrish Chandra
#85932
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Ambrish Chandra is an electrical engineer at the Ecole de Technologie Superiere in Montreal, Quebec. Chandra was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for his contributions to power distribution and renewable energy systems.
Go to Profile#5928
John. A. Nairn
#148774
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#5929
Masood Akhtar
#148800
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#5930
Bernard J. Hamrock
#148807
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#5931
David Schiff
#148808
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#5932
Alfred Rudin
#148822
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#5933
Kazuhiro Kosuge
#148840
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#5934
Susan Fainstein
#91567
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Susan Saltzman Fainstein is an American educator and scholar of urban planning. Fainstein is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her research and writing has focused on the distributive effects of urban development strategies and megaprojects, the role of democracy and community control in local public institutions, and establishing a moral theory of "the just city."
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Tania Douglas
#109177
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1969 - 2021 (52 years)
Tania S. Douglas was a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Innovation as well as Director of the Medical Imaging Research Unit in the University of Cape Town , South Africa. She conducted research concerning medical innovation, image analysis, and the development of technologies to improve medical device innovation in South Africa. She was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of Global Health Innovation, a journal which disseminates research results about health innovation in developing settings.
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Richard C. Johnson
#109388
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1930 - 2010 (80 years)
Richard Clayton Johnson was a researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the inventor of the Compact Antenna Range. He was also a professor of electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology., where he received his PhD in 1961.
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Maria Auböck
#111653
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Maria Auböck is an Austrian landscape architect and educator. In 1985, she opened her own firm where, since 1987, she has been working together with János Kárász. Biography Born in Vienna on 20 June 1951, Auböck is the daughter of the Austrian industrial designer and architect Carl Auböck , who was himself the son of the designer and painter Carl Auböck . She studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, specializing in urban development. Thereafter she attended the Technical University of Munich on a research grant.
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Muhammad Najib S. Hadi
#148905
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Omid Mahian
#148957
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#5940
Guang Meng
#148967
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#5941
Arend Heerschap
#148971
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Manolis Papadrakakis
#148976
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Robert N. Jamison
#148978
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Manjeri A. Venkatachalam
#148983
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#5945
Mangalore Anantha Pai
#107210
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1931 - Present (95 years)
Mangalore Anantha Pai was an Indian electrical engineer, academic and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. A former professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he is known for his contributions in the fields of power stability, power grids, large scale power system analysis, system security and optimal control of nuclear reactors and he has published 8 books and several articles. Pai is the first India born scientist to be awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Gregory Raleigh
#46593
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Gregory “Greg” Raleigh , is an American radio scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has made contributions in the fields of wireless communication, information theory, mobile operating systems, medical devices, and network virtualization. His discoveries and inventions include the first wireless communication channel model to accurately predict the performance of advanced antenna systems, the MIMO-OFDM technology used in contemporary Wi-Fi and 4G wireless networks and devices, higher accuracy radiation beam therapy for cancer treatment, improved 3D surgery imaging, and a cloud-based Networ...
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Richard A. Morgan
#149015
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Thomas Quertermous
#149016
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Wei Yong Qiao
#149026
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#5950
H. Mitchell Perry
#149041
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