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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Hongbin Bei
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Shigeru Obayashi
#149074
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#5953
Youguang Guo
#149087
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#5954
Vivienne Sze
#122232
Overall Influence
Vivienne Sze is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist whose research focuses on low-power electronics and on the trade-offs between energy use and computing power in the combined design of software and hardware, for applications including video coding and deep neural networks. She is an associate professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where she heads the Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Group.
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Bettina Lotsch
#95043
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Bettina Valeska Lotsch is a German chemist. She is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Life Lotsch studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed it with a diploma in Chemistry in 2000. In 2006, she finished on her dissertation in the group of Wolfgang Schnick at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto. From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Bikash Chandra Pal
#149128
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Deborah Greaves
#133673
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Deborah Mary Greaves is a British engineer, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Naehyuck Chang
#135255
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Naehyuck Chang is a Professor of electrical engineering at KAIST, Seoul, Korea. Chang obtained his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Department of Control and Instrumentation at Seoul National University, of which he later became faculty member and later served as Vice Dean of its College of Engineering. In 2012, Chang was elected as chair of a Special Interest Group within the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Dana Cuff
#84647
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Dana Cuff is an American architecture theorist, professor of architecture and urban design, and founding director of cityLAB at the University of California, Los Angeles . She received her Ph.D. in architecture from University of California, Berkeley and her B.A., psychology and design from University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of books including Fast Forward Urbanism and The Provisional City .
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Philip F. Low
#149158
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Pierre A. Moulin
#149162
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Dick Botteldooren
#149170
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
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Petros G. Voulgaris
#149182
Overall Influence
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Lei Ge
#149183
Overall Influence
#5965
Rongrong Ji
#149197
Overall Influence
#5966
R. C. Yurkov Bradt
#149199
Overall Influence
#5967
Panagiotis Tsiotras
#142693
Overall Influence
Panagiotis Tsiotras is a professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has studied variable-speed control moment gyroscopes in connection with flywheel energy storage and has built a spacecraft simulator based on them.
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Subir Kumar Ghosh
#149214
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Nimmi Ramanujam
#131422
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Nirmala Ramanujam is an educator, innovator, and entrepreneur. Ramanujam is recognized for creating globally accessible technologies for women’s health related to cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment. She is the Robert W. Carr Professor of Engineering and Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University. She founded the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies in 2013 to catalyze impactful research, educational and community outreach activities that promote women’s health. In 2023, she won the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Technical Field Award, given annually ...
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Victor Lubecke
#134908
Overall Influence
Victor Lubecke is an electrical engineer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his leadership in the development of microwave transducers for biomedical application.
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Lingfeng Wang
#149237
Overall Influence
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Geneviève Giuliano
#149247
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Nobuo Takeda
#149249
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Katherine Kuchenbecker
#104937
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Katherine Julianne Kuchenbecker is an American researcher in haptic technology and robot-assisted surgery, and a former high school and college volleyball player. She is director of the Haptic Intelligence department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany.
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Patrizio Rigatti
#149264
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Tapas Kumar Mallick
#149290
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#5977
Oliver Werz
#149293
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Burak Erman
#149302
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#5979
Min Hall
#137725
Overall Influence
Min Hall is a New Zealand architect and academic. She was the first female graduate in architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, in 1979. After practising in Nelson, she moved to lecturing at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. She specialises in sustainable building materials such as earth and straw bales, and environmental issues in architecture. Hall is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
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Pedro Rosa Rosa-neto
#149355
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Anita Ho-Baillie
#149138
Overall Influence
Anita Ho-Baillie is an Australian scientist who is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney. Her research considers the development of durable perovskite solar cells and their integration into different applications. She was named as one of the Web of Science's most highly cited researchers in 2019–2022.
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Kazem. Zare
#149406
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Joe Deal
#70163
Overall Influence
1947 - 2010 (63 years)
Joseph Maurice Deal was an American photographer who specialized in depicting how the landscape was transformed by people. Life and work Deal was born in Topeka, Kansas on August 12, 1947, and was raised in Albany, Missouri and St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After his graduation in 1970, he was designated as a conscientious objector by the local draft board and was assigned to work as a guard and janitor at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and its museum of photography. He later earned a master's ...
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Massood Tabib-Azar
#108503
Overall Influence
Massood Tabib-Azar is an Iranian-American electrical engineer, researcher and academic. He is a USTAR Professor of Electrical Engineering in the University of Utah and an Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters.
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Xin Wei Wang
#149428
Overall Influence
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Patrizio Colaneri
#149433
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Ryuji Kohno
#149434
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Jonathan B. Freund
#149447
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Riccardo Autorino
#149520
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Gabriela Hug
#117362
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Gabriela Hug-Glanzmann is a Swiss electrical engineer and an associate professor and Principal Investigator of the Power Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich within the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Hug studies the control and optimization of electrical power systems with a focus on sustainable energy.
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Herbert Herzog
#149532
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Rama Subba Reddy Gorla,
#149536
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#5993
Feliciano Giustino
#149542
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#5994
Amitava Dasgupta
#149553
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#5995
Shenglin Zhou
#149575
Overall Influence
#5996
S.jayarajan Nelson
#149584
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#5997
R. Leroy Miller
#149610
Overall Influence
#5998
Stephen J. Barnes
#149622
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#5999
Narayan B. T. Mandayam
#149624
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Michael J. Peckham
#149650
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