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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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,
#6101
Siba Sankar Mahapatra
#151029
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#6102
Samir Kouro
#151031
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Samir Kouro is a Chilean professor of electronic engineering who works at Federico Santa María Technical University and have 27 peer-reviewed articles along with 21 journal publications and 3 book chapters which give him an h-index from 14 to 24.
Go to Profile#6103
J. Arnold Arrillaga
#151038
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#6104
Khellil Sefiane
#151092
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#6105
Clark Kenneth Colton
#151096
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#6106
Georg Seelig
#113934
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Georg Seelig is a Swiss computer scientist, bioengineer, and synthetic biologist. He is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in the field of DNA nanotechnology.
Go to Profile#6107
Douglas A Levine
#151111
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#6108
Martin David Levine
#151121
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#6109
Maria A. Stuchly
#151148
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#6110
Fiorenzo Gaita
#151164
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#6111
David J. Ewing
#151172
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#6112
Jeff Balser
#48060
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Jeffrey R. Balser is the president and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine . Balser is a 1990 graduate of the Vanderbilt M.D./Ph.D. program in pharmacology and subsequently completed residency training in anesthesiology and fellowship training in critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. He continued to work at Johns Hopkins as a cardiac anesthesiologist and ICU physician before returning to Vanderbilt University and joining VUMC in 1998. Balser was appointed dean of the VUSM in 2008 and, the following year, was appointed the vice chancellor for health affairs at Vanderbilt, in charge of the medical center.
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Richard K. Brow
#151218
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#6114
Xiangning He
#151222
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#6115
Peter Yeadon
#90358
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Peter Yeadon is an American architect and designer. He is a professor and head of the Department of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has taught since 2002. Early years and education Yeadon was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. After studying engineering at Dalhousie University, he graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from Dalhousie University in 1989. Prior to teaching at Rhode Island School of Design, he was a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Toronto.
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Shiv Prasad Kosta
#81968
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Dr. Shiv Prasad Kosta is a space scientist, educationist and a technocrat and currently the Group Director of Shri Ram Institute of Technology in Jabalpur and Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Gujarat. During his whole career as a scientist, he has given contribution in different organizations, including the national strategic space research centre of India ISRO. Former President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and former Chief Election Commissioner T. N. Seshan were his colleagues in ISRO during 1981 to 1995.
Go to Profile#6117
Curtis Strobeck
#151263
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#6118
Farid Melgani
#151271
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#6119
Alphose Zingoni
#112595
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Alphose Zingoni is a Zimbabwean–South African engineer and professor of structural engineering and mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, and founder of the Structural Engineering, Mechanics & Computation series of international conferences.
Go to Profile#6120
Janice M. Reichert
#151287
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6121
Rami Burstein
#151298
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#6122
Alan B. Retik
#151299
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#6123
Ping Keung Ko
#151314
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#6124
Thierry Rabilloud
#151329
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
#6125
Christopher Grigson
#104206
Overall Influence
1926 - 2001 (75 years)
Christopher William Baisely "Grig" Grigson was a British naval architect and electronics engineer who is credited with the invention of scanning electron diffraction. Early life and education Grigson was born in Hoshangabad, India to Sir Wilfrid Grigson, Deputy Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar, and his wife, Lady Phyllis Grigson. Grigson and his sister Claudia were both educated at a prep school in Sussex. While visiting his uncle and aunt in Cambridge he became ill with osteomyelitis of the hip, which left him bedridden for two years. Unable to leave, he was brought up by his uncle and aunt, and in 1946 won a place to study mechanical science at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Song Han
#151352
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#6127
Lawrence Raphael
#35351
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1938 - Present (88 years)
Lawrence J. Raphael is a professor in the Communications Sciences and Disorders department at Adelphi University in New York City, New York. Recently, he has become known for his cluttering research, although he has a more extensive publication record in speech production and perception. He was a research associate at Haskins Laboratories from 1970 to 1999.
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Walter Grassi
#151405
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#6129
Christopher Raymond Clarkson
#151429
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#6130
Dimitris G. Manolakis
#151486
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#6131
Hanne Kjærholm
#111529
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1930 - 2009 (79 years)
Hanne Kjærholm was a Danish architect who also taught at the Danish Academy, where she became a professor in 1989. Kjærholm did much to overcome the barriers to women's architecture. She was one of the few women to have her own architecture studio. Her works, though few, are noteworthy, designed in a modern style which draws on tradition. During her career, her buildings became ever more textural.
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Jack Cardiff
#8262
Overall Influence
1914 - 2009 (95 years)
Jack Cardiff, was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later.
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Kathryn Margaret Refshauge
#151524
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#6134
Aditya Bardia
#151586
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#6135
Hai-bin Duan
#151590
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#6136
Kamiar Aminian
#151614
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#6137
Brian Wirth
#151618
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Brian D. Wirth is an American engineer, currently the Governor's Chair Professor at the University of Tennessee and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Gregory J. Pottie
#151627
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#6139
Julian Allwood
#148069
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Julian Mark Allwood is a British academic known for his work in climate mitigation and metal forming. He is professor of engineering and the environment at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Mark Orazem
#105886
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Mark E. Orazem is an American chemist, focusing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, energy systems, corrosion and mathematical modeling, currently distinguished professor at University of Florida and previously the UF Research Foundation Professor.
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Jean‐luc S. Gauvain
#151695
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#6142
Joe Morgenstern
#42021
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Joe Morgenstern is an American writer and retired film critic. He wrote for Newsweek from 1965 to 1983, and then for The Wall Street Journal from 1995 to 2022. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2005. Morgenstern has also written for television.
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Paolo Vitti
#151719
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
#6144
Nancy Hoffart
#151721
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#6145
E. Neil Moore
#151728
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#6146
Kincho H. Law
#151730
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#6147
Peter J. Goodhew
#151768
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#6148
Keith Bowman
#108489
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Keith John Bowman is a materials scientist and dean of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County College of Engineering and Information Technology, working to advance research benefiting society and elevating student educational success. He is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. Bowman has worked extensively to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion across engineering disciplines and the science, technology, engineering, and math pipeline. He is a member of 500 Queer Scientists. He is internationally recognized for his research on the property anisotropy and preferred orientation i...
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Steve Scott
#98794
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Steve Scott is a computer architect who currently serves as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Scott was previously a Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray Inc., Principal Engineer at Google and the chief technology officer for Nvidia's Tesla business unit. Scott was employed by Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Cray, Inc. from 1992 to 2011 .
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Richard J. De Dear
#151794
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