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,
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Alexander A. Sawchuk
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Xiaobo Tan
#152339
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Joachim Mayer
#152364
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1968 - Present (58 years)
#6204
Srinivasan Natarajan
#152385
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#6205
Morgan Watson
#69992
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Morgan M. Watson is an American engineer and Professor of Engineering at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1963, he became part of the first cohort of African American engineers to work at NASA in the Deep South, working on the Apollo 11 mission that sent the first man to the Moon.
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Andrew H. Kaye
#152428
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1950 - Present (76 years)
#6207
James R. Hein
#152438
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#6208
John DeLorean
#90813
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1925 - 2005 (80 years)
John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors.
Go to Profile#6209
Alberto Borghetti
#152443
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Alberto Borghetti is an Italian electrical engineer and a professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" of the University of Bologna, Italy. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to modeling of power distribution systems under transient conditions.
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Paul Dan Cristea
#83414
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1941 - 2013 (72 years)
Paul Dan A. Cristea was a Romanian professor of engineering. He was named an IEEE EMBS Fellow in 2012 "for contributions to modernizing and internationalizing engineering education". Education and career Cristea got his master's degrees from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politehnica University of Bucharest and from the Department of Physics at the University of Bucharest in 1962. In 1970, he got his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, and, after graduation, remained at the university. Between 1962 and 1990, Cristea served as assistant, associate, p...
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Girish Kumar Singh
#152464
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#6212
Robert V. Shannon
#152466
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#6213
Hunter C. Champion
#152494
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#6214
Praveen K. Jain
#152497
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#6215
Dong-zhi Zhang
#152508
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#6216
Paolo Bonato
#152521
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#6217
Soummya Kar
#152525
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#6218
Michael Meredith
#124146
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1971 - Present (55 years)
Michael Meredith is an American architect, principal and co-founder of award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City. Education Meredith received a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor in Architecture from Syracuse University .
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Diana Boraschi
#152616
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#6220
Maged Elkashlan
#152620
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#6221
Hassan K. Khalil
#98416
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1950 - Present (76 years)
Hassan K. Khalil is an Egyptian-born American electrical engineer. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1989 for contributions to singular perturbation theory and its application to control.
Go to Profile#6222
Dale E. Newbury
#152625
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#6223
Fausto Salaffi
#152626
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#6224
Yuji Itai
#152641
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#6225
Michael J. Lancaster
#152649
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#6226
Dominique Lord
#152658
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#6227
Detlev Prof. Dr. Stöver
#152663
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#6228
Konstantinos Papathanassiou
#111870
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Konstantinos Papathanassiou from the German Aerospace Center in Wessling, Germany was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to polarimetric interferometry for synthetic aperture radar.
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Reha Uzsoy
#152671
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#6230
Hiroshi Murase
#152682
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1955 - Present (71 years)
#6231
Nosratollah Zarghami
#152683
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#6232
Nancy J. Brown
#152686
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#6233
Kwan Chi Kao
#152715
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#6234
Muhammad Taher Abuelma’atti,
#152728
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#6235
Fausto Gallucci
#152732
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1974 - Present (52 years)
#6236
Peter Lipp
#152742
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#6237
Angelo Cangelosi
#152743
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1967 - Present (59 years)
#6238
Moshe Narkis
#152748
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#6239
Hanchuan Peng
#152751
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#6240
Kenneth Denbigh
#94956
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1911 - 2004 (93 years)
Kenneth George Denbigh FRS was an English chemical engineer and scientific philosopher. He wrote much on the issue of time in relation to thermodynamics. He was an associate of the Russian chemist Georgi Gladyshev.
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Jerome Peter Lynch
#152799
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Stephen Joseph Fonash
#152801
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#6243
András Lévai
#109508
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1908 - 2003 (95 years)
András Lévai was a Hungarian scientist in the field of electrical engineering, professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Biography He was born in 1908 in Oravița, Romania. He graduated from the Technical College in Graz in 1926 and continued his education at the Technical College of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1931. After graduation, from 1932 to 1939, he worked as the chief engineer of the Titan-Nedrag-Klan metallurgical plant, and from 1939 to 1940, as an engineer for refining in Ploiești.
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Robert B. Russell
#152817
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B. R. Badrinath
#152821
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Viswanathan N. Bringi
#152836
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#6247
Chai K Toh
#152840
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#6248
Wolfgang Wilcke
#152911
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#6249
Eberhardt Grube
#152936
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Matthias Ihme
#152938
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