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,
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Kenneth Frank Binmoeller
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Kenneth Allen Gall
#160631
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Thilo Hofmann
#160640
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1967 - Present (59 years)
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Daniel Guyomar
#160647
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Francesco Ciucci
#160674
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Philippe Coussot
#160690
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Metin Akay
#160691
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1958 - Present (68 years)
#6908
Reza Ranjbar
#160716
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Stacia K. Keller
#160752
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Masaaki Inaba
#160755
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Marco Claudio Campi
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Marco Claudio Campi is an engineer and a mathematician who specializes in data science and inductive methods. He holds a permanent appointment with the University of Brescia, Italy, while also collaborating with various research institutions, universities and NASA. Since 2012, he has been a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and since 2020 a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control.
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Mehran Karimi
#160786
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Dr. Donald S. Gann
#160790
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Heinz Gg. Wagner
#160803
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Gad Hetsroni
#160811
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Antonie Arij Stoorvogel
#160813
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Kenneth Alan. Miles
#160830
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Stephen Gardiner
#80819
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1924 - 2007 (83 years)
Stephen Gardiner was a British architect, teacher and writer. Gardiner was born and raised in Chelsea in London. He was the younger son of Clive Gardiner, painter and principal of Goldsmiths College from 1929 to 1958, and Lilian Lancaster, also a painter and one of Walter Sickert's favourite pupils at the Slade. His paternal grandfather was the journalist A. G. Gardiner. His elder brother, Patrick Gardiner, became a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford.
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Sven Norbert Reske
#160844
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Zhong-hao Rao
#160870
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Emil Simiu
#160887
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Elizabeth E. Shriberg
#160897
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Sina Farsiu
#160901
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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
#130903
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Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and holds the Orrin H. Ingram Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Her research considers the development of optical techniques for clinical diagnosis and surgical guidance, particularly using Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. She serves on the Board of Directors of SPIE, and is a Fellow of SPIE, The Optical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery. She was elected to serve as the 2020 Vice President of SPIE. With her election, Mahadevan-Jansen j...
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Vincent P. Drnevich
#160954
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Vincent Paul Drnevich is an American engineer and emeritus professor from Purdue University. He is known for his research contributions focused upon the engineering properties of soils and concrete. In honor of his contributions, he had been named a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Testing and Materials, National Society of Professional Engineers, and Indiana Society of Professional Engineers.
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Richard W. Longman
#160967
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Michael Schütze
#160974
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Roy Rochester Craig
#160982
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Mary Golda Ross
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1908 - 2008 (100 years)
Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American female engineer. She was also the first female engineer in the history of the Lockheed Corporation. She worked at Lockheed from 1942 until her retirement in 1973, where she was best remembered for her work on aerospace design. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project while at Lockheed Corporation. Throughout her life, Ross was dedicated to the advancement of young women and Native Americans in STEM fields.Ten years after her death, in 2018, Ross was chosen to be depicted on the 2019 Native American $1 Coin by the U.S.
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Gordon E. Moore
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Alain D. Meunier
#161047
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Chee Chong. Chan
#161065
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Robert Maurice Clark
#161068
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C. J. Eliezer
#73262
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1918 - 2000 (82 years)
Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, physicist and academic. Early life and family Eliezer was born on 12 June 1918 in Navatkuli in northern Ceylon. He was the son of Jacob Richard Eliezer and Elizabeth Ponnammah Vairakiam. Both of his parents died when he was young. Eliezer was educated at the Wesleyan Mission School, Puloly and Hartley College, Point Pedro where he passed the Cambridge Local Examinations with honours and distinction. He then spent a year studying at St. Joseph's College, Colombo before joining Ceylon University College in 1935, graduating with a first class honours B.Sc.
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Oliver Sawodny
#161078
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Noureddine Zerhouni
#161085
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Subimal Ghosh
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Subimal Ghosh is Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Convener of the Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with research interests in hydrology and hydro-climatology. He obtained PhD degree in 2007 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on a thesis titled "Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change: Uncertainty Modelling", and ME degree in 2004 from the same institute.
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Hermann Dr. Rer. Nat. Rohling
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Zhe‐ming Wang
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David A. Richards
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Brendon A. Bradley
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Robert M. Pilliar
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Michael Leon
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He-yong He
#161167
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Carlos Arturo Torres Gastelú
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Ralph Greif
#161176
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José Eduardo Tanus‐santos
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Tomohiro Akiyama
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Jack W. Singer
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Mohamed. A. Elbestawi
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