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,
#7101
Alan H. Gnauck
#163006
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#7102
Gerald Rosen
#163013
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#7103
Nathan Judson Mcdannold
#163014
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#7104
Stephen W. Freiman
#163017
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#7105
Li-li Hu
#163018
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#7106
Christopher E. Cann
#163036
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#7107
Guang-hui Su
#163060
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#7108
Kyu‐hwan Oh
#163062
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#7109
Giovanni Apolone
#163066
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#7110
Saeed Shahrokhian
#163074
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#7111
Yuan Xie
#163093
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#7112
Shuai Leng
#163134
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#7113
Gin–ya Adachi
#163141
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#7114
Serkan Kiranyaz
#163164
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#7115
Hugh John Willison
#163177
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#7116
Toshinobu Yoko
#163181
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#7117
Sreekumaran Thampi
#81223
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Sreekumaran Thampi is an Indian lyricist, music director, director, producer, and screenwriter in Malayalam cinema. He also writes poetry and is a recipient of the Vallathol Award. In 2017, he was awarded the J. C. Daniel Award, Kerala government's highest honour for contributions to Malayalam cinema.
Go to Profile#7118
Michael John Gill
#163185
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#7119
Afshin Gangi
#163206
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#7120
Cheryl Kerfeld
#108583
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Cheryl Ann Kerfeld is an American bioengineer who is Hannah Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She holds a joint position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research considers bioinformatics, cellular imaging and structural biology.
Go to Profile#7121
John H. White
#51050
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
John H. White is an American photojournalist, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 1982. Early life When John H. White was nine years old, a teacher told him that he would grow up to work on a garbage truck because he was slow in math. At home, his father told him to grow up to be his best, to look for the best in others, and if he were to work on a garbage truck, fine—just be sure he's the driver. White has said that this was a turning point in his life.
Go to Profile#7122
Kai-Mei Fu
#147777
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Kai-Mei Fu is an American electrical engineer and physicist. They are an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington where they are the director of the Optical Spintronics and Sensing Lab.
Go to Profile#7123
Erchin Serpedin
#163245
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Erchin Serpedin is a professor from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to synchronization of communication systems.
Go to Profile#7124
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
#163249
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#7125
Ferhan Çeçen
#127184
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Ferhan Çeçen is a Turkish environmental engineer and chemist researching wastewater treatment, environmental biotechnology, and adsorption processes. She is a professor at the Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences.
Go to Profile#7126
Terence Bennett
#163270
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#7127
Yehoshua Y. Josh Zeevi
#163282
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#7128
Rodger Kram
#163319
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#7129
Lisa Su
#117536
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Lisa Su is a Taiwanese-born American business executive and electrical engineer, who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center.
Go to Profile#7130
Javad Mostaghimi
#163334
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#7131
Robert W. Farquhar
#75320
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1932 - 2015 (83 years)
Robert Willard Farquhar was an American mission design specialist who worked for NASA. He designed halo orbits and was involved in a number of spaceflight missions. Farquhar was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for deep space missions to asteroids and comets and for leading the NEAR mission to Eros.
Go to Profile#7132
Eva Herrmann
#163362
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#7133
Kari A. I. Halonen
#163416
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#7134
Bernard Silvi
#163445
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#7135
Subramanian Iyer
#117299
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Subramanian S. Iyer is an American engineer of Indian origin. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA and holds the Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a joint appointment in the Department of Material Science and engineering. He is also Director of the Center for Heterogeneous Integration and Performance Scaling at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA in 2015, he was an IBM Fellow and Director of Packaging Development. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, The International Microelectronics Assembly and...
Go to Profile#7136
Thomas James Mueller
#163478
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#7137
Chao-qun Liu
#163480
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#7138
Wilfrid Perruquetti
#163481
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
#7139
John Shannon Hendrix
#89599
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1959 - Present (67 years)
John Shannon Hendrix is an architectural historian and philosopher who has written and lectured extensively on the subjects of architecture, art, philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, science, culture and history. Much of his work focuses on connections among those topics, such as interactions of vision, perception, and sensation with the arts and architecture, the relationships between psychoanalysis and architecture, physical sciences and architecture, and philosophy and architecture. His career focuses on research and writing about "mostly European precedents in architecture and philos...
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Timothy J. Bunning
#163489
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#7141
Samir Kouro
#163508
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#7142
Y. K. Lin
#163514
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#7143
Mahesh Kumar Varanasi
#163542
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#7144
Leif Gustavsson
#163544
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#7145
Taha Merghoub
#163548
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#7146
De‐yuan Zhang
#163574
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#7147
H. Rex Gaskins
#163583
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#7148
Lori Brown
#113536
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Lori Brown is American architect and the co-founder of ArchiteXX, a group dedicated to transforming the architecture profession for women. She is a registered architect, author and Distinguished professor at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships. She is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the American Association of University Women.
Go to Profile#7149
Phillip C. Wankat
#163590
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#7150
Qifa Zhou
#163604
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