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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William Roland Hudson
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Tsong Yueh Chen
#161214
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#6953
Lewis Michael Nashner
#161220
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#6954
Prasanna
#20789
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Prasanna , is a major Indian theatre director and playwright from Karnataka. He is one of the pioneers of modern Kannada theatre. He graduated from the National School of Drama . He founded Samudaya and gave a creative direction to Kannada theatre in the 1970s with other activists. Prasanna lives in Heggodu in Karnataka. He is known for his organisational skills and new ideas and innovations in theatre. He is a Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee. He has directed plays for National School of Drama , Ninasam, Rangamandal-Bhopal, Rangayana and worked with many theatre organizations of India. He electe...
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Yaser A. Sheikh
#161256
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#6956
Hans‐wolf Reinhardt
#161271
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#6957
Janina Decker
#161272
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#6958
George S. Sopko
#161276
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#6959
Andrew Laine
#97703
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Andrew F. Laine is an American biomedical engineer, currently the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor at Columbia University and is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.
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Richard C. Daly
#161307
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#6961
Marios Savvides
#161319
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#6962
Sang Ouk Kim
#161320
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#6963
Reza Ghodssi
#144571
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Reza Ghodssi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he directs the MEMS Sensors and Actuators Lab and holds the Herbert Rabin Distinguished Chair in Engineering. Ghodssi is also the Inaugural Executive Director of Research and Innovation for the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland . He is best known for his work designing micro- and nano-devices for healthcare applications, particularly for systems requiring small...
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Eric Beyne
#161353
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#6965
Jae Sung Lim
#161359
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#6966
Djemel Ziou
#161389
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#6967
Kyongtae Ty Bae
#161395
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#6968
Sung‐cheng Huang
#161407
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#6969
Ravinder Kumar Kotnala
#161412
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#6970
Jason M. Jonkman
#161416
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#6971
Robert J. Homer
#161423
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#6972
Yervant Zorian
#161447
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#6973
Ernesto Limiti
#161451
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#6974
T. N. Narasimhan
#161497
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#6975
Mehran Mehregany
#161499
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#6976
Petrus Antonius Cornelius Raats
#161501
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#6977
Seemant Chaturvedi
#161522
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#6978
Robert Edgar Wood
#161527
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#6979
Edward A. Stadtmauer
#161575
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#6980
Ali‐reza Sepaskhah
#161580
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#6981
Stergios Roumeliotis
#145181
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Stergios Roumeliotis is an engineer and adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to visual-inertial navigation and cooperative localization.
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Geoffrey Boothroyd
#161588
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#6983
Michael A. Sleigh
#161601
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#6984
Etienne Burdet
#161621
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Etienne Burdet is professor of human robotics at Imperial College London. He is known for presenting experimental evidence that the central nervous system controls unstable dynamics by learning optimal impedance e.g. magnitude and direction of body stiffness are changed via learning to cope with dynamically unstable tasks.
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John Mavor
#125908
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John Mavor was a pioneer in the design of MOS transistors and Charge-Coupled Devices for signal processing. During his career as an educator and researcher at the University of Edinburgh he was appointed Professor before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He was subsequently appointed as Principal and Vice-Chancellor at Edinburgh Napier University.
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Zhiyong Jason Ren
#161632
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#6987
Michael H. Brill
#161634
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#6988
James R. Mickelson
#161659
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#6989
S. -c. Huang
#161660
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#6990
Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh
#161665
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#6991
Malú Gámez Tansey
#161666
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#6992
Kathryn Stecke
#143894
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Kathryn Elizabeth Stecke is an American industrial engineer and management scientist known for her expertise in flexible manufacturing, supply chains, and seru, a Japanese production system based on using small groups of workers to assemble whole products instead of using assembly lines in which each worker handles only a small and repetitive sub-assembly task. She is a professor of operations management in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she holds the Naveen Jindal School Advisory Council Chair.
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Mario Sznaier
#161679
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#6994
Norihiro Hagita
#161691
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#6995
K. N. Chandrashekhara
#161696
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#6996
Tareq Yousuf Al-naffouri
#161710
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#6997
J. Max Bond Sr.
#64104
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1902 - 1991 (89 years)
J. Max Bond Sr. was an American educator who was President of the University of Liberia during the 1950s. Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Congregational minister named James Bond and Jane Alice Bond . He attended Roosevelt College in Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Southern California.
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Hongguang Jin
#161719
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#6999
Dimitrios Vamvatsikos
#161735
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Seth Shipman
#67201
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1983 - Present (43 years)
Seth Shipman is an American scientist. Shipman is an assistant professor at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco, where he researches synthetic biology, genetics, and neuroscience.
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