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.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
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Stuart B. Bauer
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R. Bruce Martin
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Ronald J. Quinn
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John F. Soechting
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N. Richard Sandeep
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Philip J. Johnson
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Arun Kumar Shukla
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John D. Verhoeven
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David Y. Thomas
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Anthony D. Dandridge
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William R. Wagner
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Steven T. Zalesak
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Christopher Juhlin
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Hasan Garan
#160125
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Mgd Marc Geers
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Stefan Andersson-Engels
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Stefan Andersson-Engels is a Swedish biophysicist specializing in the field of biophotonics. He is professor at University College Cork and the deputy director of the Irish Photonics Integration Center within the Science Foundation Ireland. Before joining University College Cork, he was Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University. He has co-founded 3 biophotonics companies Spectracure, Lumito, BioPixS. He also co-founded biannual biophotonics summer school.
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J. Joshua Yang
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William L. Baker
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Dinei Florencio
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Dinei Florencio is an electrical engineer with Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to statistical and signal processing approaches to adversarial and security problems.
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Sharath S. Girimaji
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Fauzia Ahmad
#138082
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Fauzia Ahmad is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Temple University. Her research considers statistical signal processing and ultrasonic guided wave structural health monitoring. She serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and SPIE.
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Naohiro Inohara
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Malcolm Stuart Mellor
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Marco Jan Starink
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Mischa Dohler
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Mischa Dohler is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . He was a Chair Professor of Wireless Communications at King's College London, where he worked on 6G and the Internet of Skills. He has been appointed to the Spectrum Advisory Board of Ofcom.
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Anant Sahai
#160230
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Kenneth L. Shepard
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Charles R. Steele
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1933 - 2021 (88 years)
Charles Richard Steele was an American Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Steele was known for his work analyzing stresses and deformation of beams, membranes, and shells, and for modeling and analyzing the mechanics of the cochlea . In 1995, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "For contributions to the theory of thin shells, to understanding of human hearing, and to bioengineering."
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Dean Ho
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Dean Ho is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology, Director of the N.1 Institute for Health, and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He was previously a professor at UCLA, and associate professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Full Member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University, Illinois, United States.
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Kai Kuang. Ma
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Brian Raught
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Eberhard Bassenge
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Mark J. O’malley
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Vadim Backman
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1973 - Present (53 years)
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Erol Tutumluer
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Francisco D. Galiana
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Henrik Sandberg
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Seong‐wook Park
#160449
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David Atienza
#134446
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1978 - Present (48 years)
David Atienza Alonso is a Spanish/Swiss scientist in the disciplines of computer and electrical engineering. His research focuses on hardware‐software co‐design and management for energy‐efficient and thermal-aware computing systems, always starting from a system‐level perspective to the actual electronic design. He is a full professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory . He is an IEEE Fellow , and an ACM Fellow .
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Kang Ryoung Park
#160468
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Nils Anders Olsson
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Xian‐ming Zhang
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Udo Schumacher
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Dale Ian Pullin
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Ingeborg Kühler
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Ingeborg Kühler is a German architect, engineer and university lecturer. She was the first female design professor at a West German architecture faculty and designed the plans for the Technoseum in Mannheim.
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De-cheng Wan
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Gianluca Iacobellis
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Gustavo Scheps
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Juan Gustavo Scheps Grandal is a Uruguayan architect and professor. In 2009 he was elected Dean of the School of Architecture, University of the Republic. He was reelected in 2013. Works Family houses , 1981–2008.Refurbishing of the old Machinery Hall of the School of Engineering, 1994–1998.Ciudad de las Tres Cruces , 1995–2004.Centro Regional Norte, Universidad de la República, Salto , 1996–2002.Restoration of Julio Vilamajó's home and studio, 2007–2008.
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Mrinal Sen
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1923 - 2018 (95 years)
Mrinal Sen was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India.
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Michel Quintard
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