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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Gerasimos Lyberatos
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Jean-pierre Bérenger
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Chuan Qin
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Aimee Morgans
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Aimee Sian Morgans is a British engineer who is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research considers thermoacoustic instabilities. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.
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Yih-Chun Hu
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Robert G Nelson
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Peter J. Stern
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Chang-jin “cj” Kim
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Howard Goldfine
#157681
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Josette Bellan
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Josette Bellan is a Romanian-French-American aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist known for her research on turbulence in high-pressure reactions, and on the interactions between fluid dynamics and thermodynamics in these reactions. She is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and visiting associate in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering of the California Institute of Technology .
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Iris D. Tommelein
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Alin Olimpiu Albu-schäffer
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George F. Turner
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Jorge Juan Gabriel Rocca
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Rodney A. Brooks
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John J. Gart
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Michael Grandage
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Michael Grandage CBE is a British theatre director and producer. He is currently Artistic Director of the Michael Grandage Company. From 2002 to 2012 he was Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in London and from 2000 to 2005 he was Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres.
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Zhang
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Gunther Schoeck
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Werner Prof. Dr. Weppner
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Shan‐tung Tu
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Klaus C. J. Dietmayer
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Alex D. D. Craik
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Michael A. Butler
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Alfred Prof.dr.-ing. Leipertz
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James C. Lin
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Mario Morino
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Ronald J. Stoney
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Leslie Y. Yeo
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1975 - Present (51 years)
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Alikhani Azadeh
#157871
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Ali Rahim
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Ali Rahim is an architect living in the United States. He is a full professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design , and the founding director of the firm Contemporary Architecture Practice in New York City.
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Alan Hanjalic
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Alan Hanjalic is an engineer who is a full professor at the Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to multimedia information retrieval.
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William L. MacDonald
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1921 - 2010 (89 years)
William Lloyd MacDonald Jr. was an American architectural historian, specializing in Roman architecture. He was born in Putnam, CT and grew up in Peterborough, NH. He served during WWII in the U.S. Army Air Forces. In 1953, while a graduate student at Harvard, he married Dale Ely. MacDonald earned A.B., A.M., and PhD degrees at Harvard between 1946 and 1956. In the last year he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, where he became acquainted with another Fellow Robert Venturi whose ideas influenced MacDonald's scholarship. He was hired immediately by Yale where he quickly was given tenure, but just as quickly left Yale - along with several other junior scholars - in 1965.
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Sheila A. Macneil
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William Margolin
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Shankar Mall
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Torsten Dau
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Peter W. Sauer
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Amnon Altman
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George Albert Saunders
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Jorge D. Reyes
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Jorge D. Reyes is an American surgeon and academic. Reyes is focused on enhancing organ transplant options and availability, improving outcomes post-transplant, and minimizing immunosuppression and tolerance induction. Reyes is currently the Roger K. Giesecke Distinguished Chair in Transplant Surgery at the University of Washington.
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Sanjay Mehrotra
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Ricardo Dobry
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David Wilkinson
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David S. Wilkinson is a Canadian material scientist and engineer, Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University. He was formerly Dean if Engineering and then Provost and Vice-President of the university . In 1985–1986 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for research in Germany, held at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart. 1996, Elected Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics. 1996, Best Materials Paper, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly 1999, Fellowship of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum 2000 2000 ...
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Alexander Peter Annan
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Thomas R. Neu
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1954 - Present (72 years)
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Jiancheng Shi
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Jiancheng Shi from the Institute for Remote Sensing Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to active and passive microwave remote sensing.
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Gregory G. Rose
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Gregory G. "Greg" Rose was a senior vice president of technology for Qualcomm. Rose is noted for designing the SOBER family of stream ciphers for wireless telephony. Together with Philip Hawkes, he also designed Turing, a cipher system based on the SOBER-t32. It was developed to address encryption issues, particularly the limitations to processing power, program space, and memory present in software encryption algorithms.
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Curtis Edward Margo
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