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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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#6701
Robin J. Knops
#158055
Overall Influence
#6702
Evangelos Tsotsas
#158065
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
#6703
Francis Heylighen
#158066
Overall Influence
#6704
Behdad Moghtaderi
#158088
Overall Influence
#6705
Chandra Mohan
#158093
Overall Influence
#6706
Douglas Noll
#111234
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Douglas C. Noll is an American bioengineer currently the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Professor of Bioengineering at University of Michigan, where he also is professor of radiology and co-director of the Functional MRI Laboratory.
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Ikuo Towhata
#158134
Overall Influence
#6708
Zheng-he Feng
#158137
Overall Influence
#6709
David Hung-chang Du
#158142
Overall Influence
#6710
Venkatachalam Anantharam
#158154
Overall Influence
#6711
Liz Ogbu
#65512
Overall Influence
Liz Ogbu is an American architect, designer and urbanist whose work focuses on issues related to community building and spatial justice. She is the founder and principal of the design consulting firm Studio O.
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Tharmalingam Ratnarajah
#158186
Overall Influence
#6713
Jawad Faiz
#158204
Overall Influence
#6714
Timothy J. Deming
#158210
Overall Influence
#6715
Bernardus J. Geurts
#158226
Overall Influence
#6716
Cathy Eng
#158242
Overall Influence
#6717
Bashir Al-Hashimi
#124225
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi, CBE, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS is a recognised multidisciplinary global researcher with sustained and pioneering contributions to computer engineering and a prominent academic and higher education leader. He is Vice President and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London in the United Kingdom. He was the co-founder and co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, an industry-university collaboration partnership involving the University of Southampton and ARM. He is actively involved in promoting science and engineering for young people...
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Edl Schamiloglu
#111662
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Edl Schamiloglu is an American physicist, electrical engineer, pulsed power expert, inventor, and distinguished professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has been known in public media for his expertise in the design and operation of directed-energy weapons. He is also known for his assessment on the possible origins of alleged health damages presumably caused on U.S. embassy personnel in Cuba in 2016 as part of the Havana syndrome incident. He is the associate dean for research and innovation at the UNM School of Engineering, where...
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Timothy White
#29741
Overall Influence
Timothy White is an American celebrity photographer. He has photographed film actors and music artists, and shot for movie posters, magazine and music album covers. He has directed advertising campaigns and television commercials. He has published books of his photography works.
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Alain Molinari
#158292
Overall Influence
#6721
William Dana Middleton
#158303
Overall Influence
#6722
Newton Howard
#39596
Overall Influence
Newton Howard is a brain and cognitive scientist, the former founder and director of the MIT Mind Machine Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is a professor of computational neurology and functional neurosurgery at Georgetown University. He was a professor of at the University of Oxford, where he directed the Oxford Computational Neuroscience Laboratory. He is also the director of MIT's Synthetic Intelligence Lab, the founder of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and the chairman of the Brain Sciences Foundation. Professor Howard is also a senior fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital at Oxford, a senior scientist at INSERM in Paris and a P.A.H.
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Aristides A.g. And Voelcker H.b. Requicha
#158320
Overall Influence
#6724
Anthony M. J. Bull
#158324
Overall Influence
#6725
Yahachi Saito
#158328
Overall Influence
#6726
Marek. E. Bialkowski
#158347
Overall Influence
#6727
Hans-christian Schaub
#158402
Overall Influence
#6728
Wifredo Ricart
#158418
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6729
John J. Cullen
#158478
Overall Influence
#6730
Kazumasa Hiramatsu
#158479
Overall Influence
#6731
H. Norman Abramson
#158496
Overall Influence
#6732
Nae‐eung Lee
#158508
Overall Influence
#6733
Pliny Fisk III
#91619
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Pliny Fisk III is a co-founder and co-director of the "Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems" , a sustainable design and planning 501c3 non-profit established in 1975. Fisk also serves as Fellow in Sustainable Urbanism and Fellow in Health Systems Design at Texas A & M University, where he holds a joint position as signature faculty in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning. Fisk has previously held positions at: Ball State University, The University of Texas , Mississippi State University and the University of Oklahoma.
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Gill Matthewson
#120273
Overall Influence
Gill Matthewson is a New Zealand architect, scholar and educator, based since 2016 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Early life and education Matthewson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and educated at Tawa College. She received her bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Auckland, School of Architecture, in New Zealand, followed by a master's degree in architecture from University of East London for a study on the work of Lilly Reich titled "Sex, Lies and the Barcelona Pavilion" . She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2015 on the topic "Dim...
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Thomas R. Rimmele
#158538
Overall Influence
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Marie-Chantal Croft
#115807
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Marie-Chantal Croft is an architect in Quebec, Canada. She teaches architectural design at the School of Architecture of Laval University. Biography She graduated from Laval University in 1992. She was a co-founder of the firm "Croft Pelletier" architectes in 1995 together with Patkau Architects. "Croft Pelletier" architectes designed the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal. The firm also won the competition to design a major expansion to the bibliothèque de Charlesbourg in Quebec City and received the Henry Adams Certificate of the American Institute of Architecture.
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Ramon O'Callaghan
#71000
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Ramón O'Callaghan is a Spanish organizational theorist, emeritus professor of information systems and innovation management at the Tilburg University, and dean of Porto Business School, the business school of the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal. He is particularly known for his work on electronic data interchange.
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Yang Hongxun
#123987
Overall Influence
1931 - 2016 (85 years)
Yang Hongxun was a Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a founder of the field of architectural archaeology in China. He published a number of acclaimed books in the fields of architectural history and archaeology of China, and designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing and the Longshan Culture Museum.
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Annika von Hausswolff
#93504
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Annika von Hausswolff, born March 30, 1967, is a Swedish visual artist. She studied at Sven Winquists School of Photography in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1987 to 1989; Konstfack, University College of Arts, Craft & Design, Stockholm from 1991 to 1994 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts from 1995 to 1996. She received a ten-year grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee in 2002. She has had solo shows at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden; and the Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden....
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Anita Kay Simonds
#158562
Overall Influence
#6741
Michael J. Rogers
#158564
Overall Influence
#6742
Sanjay Lall
#98293
Overall Influence
Sanjay Lall from Stanford University was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to control of networked systems.
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Takao Fusayama
#158576
Overall Influence
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Anthony J. Weiss
#158614
Overall Influence
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Serge Lefrant
#158626
Overall Influence
#6746
László Monostori
#158654
Overall Influence
#6747
Max Reis
#88019
Overall Influence
1927 - 2014 (87 years)
Max Walter Reis is a chemical engineer who was President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1986–1990. Biography Reis attended Imperial College London, where he obtained a PhD. in chemical engineering. Reis was President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1986–1990.
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Bing-man. Fung
#158674
Overall Influence
#6749
Tetsuyas Kawanishi
#158704
Overall Influence
#6750
Yewande Akinola
#111547
Overall Influence
1984 - Present (42 years)
Yewande Akinola is a Chartered Engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as Principal Engineer for Laing O'Rourke and hosts television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic.
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