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,
#6301
Damien Ernst
#153490
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
#6302
Gert H. Richardt
#153543
Overall Influence
#6303
Yixiang Yang
#153546
Overall Influence
#6304
Nicole Hashemi
#131958
Overall Influence
Nicole Nastaran Hashemi is an American engineer. As an associate professor at Iowa State University, Hashemi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Edmund Y. Lam
#153578
Overall Influence
#6306
Michael. D. Joner
#153580
Overall Influence
#6307
Lee Josephson
#153594
Overall Influence
#6308
Sabine Hauert
#114040
Overall Influence
Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol where her research investigates swarm robotics. Previously she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Carnegie Mellon University and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Ioannis Krikidis
#153598
Overall Influence
#6310
Tadao Tomita
#153600
Overall Influence
#6311
Thomas Parisini
#153602
Overall Influence
#6312
Jur P. van den Berg
#116015
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Jur P. van den Berg is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of driverless trucking startup Ike, which was sold to Nuro in 2020. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Utah. He was formerly a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published more than 40 works in computational chemistry, computational geometry, computer animation, industrial engineering, robotics, and virtual reality.
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Ronald Jack Jaszczak
#153603
Overall Influence
#6314
Gabriel M. Makhlouf
#153613
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#6315
L. E. Eckardt
#153622
Overall Influence
#6316
Marilynn Larkin
#153626
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#6317
Li-min Tong
#153632
Overall Influence
#6318
Jennifer Harden
#136965
Overall Influence
Jennifer Harden is geologist known for her research on soils, particularly tracking changes in soil profiles over time and the role of soil systems in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Education and career Harden earned her B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Following her Ph.D. she joined the United States Geological Survey where she became a scientist emeritus in 2013.
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Wojtek Zbijewski
#117129
Overall Influence
Wojciech Zbijewski is an American biomedical engineering and medical physics working in the fields of Computed tomography , Cone beam computed tomography , image reconstruction in CT, and applications of CT and CBCT in orthopedics. He is faculty at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Christopher M. Brown
#153659
Overall Influence
#6321
Steven Subotnick
#79934
Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Steven Subotnick is an animation teacher and award-winning independent animator. He received a BFA in Film from UCLA. He later received an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts. While at CalArts, he was mentored under Jules Engel.
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Paul G. Mccormick
#153686
Overall Influence
#6323
Peng George Wang
#153687
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
#6324
Roberto Manduchi
#153695
Overall Influence
#6325
Alireza Khaligh
#153697
Overall Influence
#6326
Keith Edward Cooper
#153711
Overall Influence
#6327
Ranjith Premalal De Silva
#99335
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Ranjith Premalal De Silva is a Sri Lankan professor of Agricultural engineering and former Vice Chancellor of the Uva Wellassa University. He is the founder President of Geo-Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. He is the current Vice-Chancellor of University of Vocational Technology. He is the Acting Director and CEO of National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hantana, Kandy.
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Gangfeng Ouyang
#153732
Overall Influence
#6329
Lorenzo Ghiadoni
#153739
Overall Influence
#6330
Kulandaivel Palanikumar
#153744
Overall Influence
#6331
James Joseph Little
#153760
Overall Influence
#6332
Yafeng Yin
#153769
Overall Influence
#6333
B. Michael Wroblewski
#153780
Overall Influence
#6334
Gilles Clermont
#153787
Overall Influence
#6335
Tatsuya Yamasoba
#153793
Overall Influence
#6336
Lawrence E. Band
#153806
Overall Influence
#6337
Raymond Tzutse Tung
#153836
Overall Influence
#6338
Jill Tietjen
#118165
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Jill S. Tietjen is an American electrical engineer, consultant, women's advocate, author, and speaker. She is the president and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc., an electric utilities consulting firm which she founded in Greenwood Village, Colorado, in 2000. She has written or co-authored fourteen books and more than 100 technical papers. A strong advocate for the participation of women and girls in the STEM fields, she establishes scholarships for women in engineering and technology, and nominates women for awards and halls of fame. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in...
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Andrea Ferrari
#153857
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6340
Johannes Dipl Ing Dr Janicka
#153859
Overall Influence
#6341
Jerzy Buzek
#34204
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament from Poland. He has served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as President of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2012. He is married to Ludgarda Buzek and is the father of Polish actress Agata Buzek.
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Mr. Mohammed Ismail
#153897
Overall Influence
#6343
Yong Ding
#153929
Overall Influence
#6344
Chin‐teng Lin
#153952
Overall Influence
#6345
Scott Arthur Tomlins
#153955
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#6346
Arthur H. Neufeld
#153989
Overall Influence
#6347
Shankar Chakraborty
#153991
Overall Influence
#6348
Blair H. Smith
#153998
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#6349
Alice C. Parker
#129201
Overall Influence
Alice Cline Parker is an American electrical engineer. Her early research studied electronic design automation; later in her career, her interests shifted to neuromorphic engineering, biomimetic architecture for computer vision, analog circuits, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, and nanotechnology. She is Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California.
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Michel Meunier
#134462
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Michel Meunier is a professor of engineering physics and biomedical engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, a position has he held since 1986. He was recently the acting director of the Department of Engineering Physics from 2019 to 2020. He is the director of the Laser Processing and Plasmonics Laboratory , which he founded in 1988, whose mission is to develop diagnostic and therapeutic technologies based on plasmonics and the optical properties of colloidal nanoparticles.
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