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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Francesco Brigo
#156573
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R. K. Stewart
#125743
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1952 - Present (74 years)
RK Stewart is an American architect based in Salt Lake City Utah. He is a fellow at the American Institute of Architects, where he was the group's president in 2006 - 2007 and is also a senior fellow at New Buildings Institute.
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Steven S. Danyluk
#156591
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Ralph A. Vaughn
#84388
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1907 - 2000 (93 years)
Ralph A. Vaughn was an African-American academic, architect and film set designer. Born in Washington, D.C., he was an assistant professor at Howard University before moving to Los Angeles, California, where he designed many buildings, houses and a synagogue. He was also a film set designer. He was one of the first African-American architects in Los Angeles.
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Brian Cotterell
#156603
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S. H. Isis Rizkalla
#156604
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#6557
Debbie Senesky
#99968
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Debbie Senesky is an associate professor of Aeronautics at Stanford University. She is the principal investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory, and studies nanomaterials in extreme environments.
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Michael D. Breed
#156650
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1951 - Present (75 years)
#6559
C. R. Calladine
#156663
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#6560
Kazushige Obara
#156664
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1959 - Present (67 years)
#6561
Jian-rong Chen
#156666
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#6562
Wen-gang Zhou
#156671
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#6563
Charles J. Dorman
#156683
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#6564
Goran Trbuljak
#73667
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Goran Trbuljak is a Croatian cinematographer, photographer and conceptual artist. Trbuljak had first studied at the graphic arts department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated from in 1972. After spending two years of apprenticeship at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he returned to Croatia and enrolled at the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts and studied cinematography until he graduated in 1980.
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Nicolas Moës
#156710
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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Michael D. Crowell
#156720
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Gaetano Guerra
#156729
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1953 - Present (73 years)
#6568
Derek L. G. Hill
#156732
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#6569
Alan Murray
#156734
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#6570
Zheng Bao
#156738
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#6571
Cesare Alippi
#156747
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1966 - Present (60 years)
#6572
Soichiro Kitamura
#156760
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#6573
Fumitoshi Matsuno
#156771
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#6574
Gerald La Verne Kulcinski
#156811
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#6575
Cynthia Sung
#152265
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Cynthia R. Sung is an American roboticist known for her research on foldable robots. She is Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Science, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Go to Profile#6576
Christos G. Christodoulou
#156836
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#6577
Bechara Kachar
#156863
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#6578
Nader Karimi
#156876
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#6579
Leon Sibul
#108324
Overall Influence
1932 - 2007 (75 years)
Leon H. Sibul was with Pennsylvania State University’s Applied Research Laboratory from 1964 to 2002, where he retired as a senior scientist and professor of acoustics. Leon Sibul was born in Võru, Estonia. In 1944 he fled his native country during the Russian occupation of Estonia, which lasted more than 50 years. He escaped to a refugee camp in Augsburg, Germany where he attended high school. In 1949, he emigrated to the U.S. and lived in the Washington, D.C., area. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he served from 1953 to 1957 as an electronic and radio technician.
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Sergio Palleroni
#118008
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Sergio Palleroni is an American architect, professor, and fellow at the new Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. He is known for his social and environmental activism, providing with his students and collaborators sustainable design solutions to communities in need. Since 2013 he has been director of the Center for Public Interest Design, the first such design research center in the US, whose mission is, in the words of its mission statement, "To investigate and promote design practices that are a catalyst for the social, economic and environmen...
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Ming-yi Hong
#156902
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#6582
Da-yong Wang
#156909
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#6583
James R. Lewis
#156912
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#6584
John Neil Cape
#156913
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#6585
Kaan Ozbay
#156923
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#6586
Ove Edfors
#156929
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
#6587
Gil Wernovsky
#156950
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1956 - Present (70 years)
#6588
Hans Jürgen Kreuzer
#156968
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#6589
Kevin M. Spencer
#156970
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#6590
Jianchao Yang
#156974
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#6591
Walter Dr Kellermann
#156995
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#6592
Mir Ali Farajzadeh
#156998
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#6593
Oriol Gomis‐bellmunt
#157006
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#6594
Roger Y. Tsai
#157013
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#6595
Francisco Valero-Cuevas
#83521
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Francisco Javier Valero-Cuevas is an engineer of Mexican origin, and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is known for his work on how the human hand works, and its clinical applications. He is notable for several inventions, including devices for measuring hand function and leg function, and the construction of archways in civil engineering. Among his scholarly contributions is a textbook on the mathematical foundations underlying the study of motor control and biomechanics.
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Josep Miquel Jornet
#157018
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#6597
Igor R. Efimov
#157022
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
#6598
Nima Shamsaei
#157039
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Marco Hutter
#157046
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1985 - Present (41 years)
#6600
Subbarayan Pasupathy
#157051
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