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,
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Marco Chiani
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Bob Boucher
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1940 - 2009 (69 years)
Robert Francis Boucher, CBE, FREng , usually known as Bob Boucher, was a British mechanical engineer, and Vice-Chancellor of both UMIST the University of Sheffield . Boucher was born in Wembley on 25 April 1940 and was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, Borough Polytechnic, London, and gained a PhD from the University of Nottingham in Mechanical Engineering in 1966. After postdoctoral work at the same university he moved to Queen's University Belfast as a researcher then a lecturer in mechanical engineering.
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Dong‐ho Cho
#157096
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Toshinari Ichihashi
#157119
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Ezra Hauer
#157128
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Reuben Hackam
#157135
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Sebastian Kozerke
#157141
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#6608
David S. Ebert
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1964 - Present (62 years)
David S. Ebert is a computer scientist, holding the position of Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Purdue University. Ebert's research focuses on computer graphics and visualization. Currently, he is the director of U.S. DHS Center of Excellence in Visual Analytics . and Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
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Russ Rose
#69054
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Russell David Rose is an American author, professor and was the women's volleyball coach at Penn State University . His lifetime head coaching record is 1330–229, which ranks first in NCAA Division I history. He has the most wins and highest winning percentage of any Penn State intercollegiate athletic coach in Penn State history.
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Philip Edward Hall
#157153
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Sebastian A. Scherer
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Hongwei Liu
#157159
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Joseph J. Barboriak
#157174
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Florian Banhart
#157197
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E. Joseph Friebele
#157225
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Bernard A. Engel
#157242
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Teresa Meng
#146858
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Teresa Huai-Ying Meng is a Taiwanese-American academician and entrepreneur. She is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emerita, at Stanford University, and founder of Atheros Communications, a wireless semiconductor company acquired by Qualcomm, Inc.
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Alexander Mitsos
#157304
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1976 - Present (50 years)
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J. David Embury
#157329
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Qing-lai Wei
#157341
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Paul L. Denholm
#157343
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Tomohiro Tachi
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1982 - Present (44 years)
Tomohiro Tachi is a Japanese academic who studies origami from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining approaches from the mathematics of paper folding, structural rigidity, computational geometry, architecture, and materials science. His work was profiled in "The Origami Revolution" , part of the Nova series of US science documentaries. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo.
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Susumu Kuwabata
#157364
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Jonathan P. Stewart
#157366
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Shinsaku Imashuku
#157372
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Akbar Alemi
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1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Akbar Alemi was Iranian television presenter and documentary film director. He was also a Lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University. Life Akbar Alemi was born in Ahvaz in 1945, and because of his interest in cinema, he went to Tehran and studied radio and television at the College of Fine Arts and received a master's degree in cinema from Tarbiat Modares University. Then he got a doctorate degree in cinema from England and returned to Iran. Akbar Alemi was born in Ahvaz. Because of his interest in cinema, he went to Tehran and studied radio and television at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and received a master's degree in cinema from Tarbiat Modares University.
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Takashi Fukui
#157402
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Saman Amarasinghe
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Shao‐yuan Li
#157450
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Raffaele Marfella
#157451
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Hans-joachim Dr Kleebe
#157452
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Stefan Pischinger
#157457
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
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Kyung Kook Choi
#157469
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Joseph M. Spiteri
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2013 (79 years)
Joseph M. Spiteri or Joe Spiteri was a Maltese architect. Spiteri graduated from the University of Malta in 1958. From 1956 to 1975, he worked as an architect in the Public Works Department, and later as Senior Architect with MaltConsult. In 1979 he joined the University of Malta's Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, where he taught architectural design until 2002.
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Donna Niedzwiecki
#157482
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Yuan Taur
#157494
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Srinivas S. Garimella
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Xin-bing Wang
#157500
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Rex R. Perschbacher
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1940 - Present (86 years)
Rex R. Perschbacher was the Daniel J. Dykstra Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law, where he presided as Dean from 1998-2008. In addition to his impressive career as a legal scholar, he was credited with leading "an intellectual renaissance" at the Law School and with spearheading the King Hall Expansion and Renovation, a $30 million effort to upgrade the Law School's Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall.
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Salah Sukkarieh
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Antoine Kremer
#157547
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Tim Lancaster
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Regina Kunz
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Andrea Mari
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Warren M. Jackman
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Byung Hee Hong
#157601
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Dimitri P. Solomatine
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Héctor Velázquez Moreno
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2006 (84 years)
Héctor Velázquez Moreno was a Mexican architect. Biography Velázquez studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México after 1949, and afterwards at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Due to a scholarship he was enabled to visit also the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Hui Wu
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Hui Wu is a Chinese materials chemist and engineer. She is a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. Wu researches the synthesis, structure, solid state chemistry, and properties of complex oxides and hydrides. She received the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for producing an entirely new route to synthesizing hydrogen-storage materials for fuel cells based on the complex chemistry of amines and boranes.
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Kullaiah Byrappa
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