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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H. S. Cheng
#163623
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Francesco Carinci
#163629
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#7153
Peter J. Maddison
#163645
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#7154
Michael Woo
#70996
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Michael K. Woo is an American politician and academic who was the dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 13 from 1985 to 1993, he was that body's first Asian American member and its youngest member upon his election, at 33.
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Shekhar Y. Borkar
#163681
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#7156
Gary Owens
#163684
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#7157
Guillermo Rein
#163686
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#7158
Shu-tao Xia
#163690
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#7159
Leon R. Glicksman
#163698
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#7160
Claude Chappert
#163705
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#7161
Gee‐kung Chang
#163720
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#7162
Karlheinz Eberl
#163721
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#7163
A. Terry Bahill
#163733
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1946 - Present (80 years)
#7164
Krste Asanovic̀
#163745
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#7165
Gregory T. Maclennan
#163746
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#7166
Reinder A. Feddes
#163770
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#7167
Gerhard Litscher
#163773
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#7168
Yong Man Ro
#163784
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#7169
Gerard Espinosa
#163790
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#7170
Thomas C. Corke
#163836
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#7171
Jonathan F. Lovell
#163837
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#7172
Roberta M. Feldman
#56158
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Roberta Feldman is an American architect and educator. She holds the title of Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago. She has worked with Chicago housing and community organizations to revitalize and preserve low-income neighborhoods.
Go to Profile#7173
Hang-sik Koong-dong Shin
#163866
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#7174
David Wei Zhang
#163874
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#7175
Rod Smallwood
#114062
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM , known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and computer scientist. Smallwood graduated in Physics from University College London, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the National Health Service in Sheffield and gaining a PhD from the University of Sheffield.
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Michael L. Chabinyc
#163876
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#7177
K. C. Park
#163884
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#7178
Yan-xin Wang
#163888
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#7179
Yoshiyasu Takefuji
#163893
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7180
Stefan A. Loening
#163895
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#7181
Heiko M. Schöder
#163920
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#7182
Haakon Sørbye
#110600
Overall Influence
1920 - 2016 (96 years)
Haakon Sørbye was a Norwegian engineer and resistance member during World War II. He was a member of the radio group Skylark B during the war. After the war he was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
Go to Profile#7183
Tianjin Li
#163933
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#7184
Mohamed Amir Chaker
#163945
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#7185
Morris N. Kotler
#163954
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#7186
Saroja Bharati
#163989
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#7187
Erik L. Hewlett
#164008
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#7188
Michael. Nicolaidis
#164041
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#7189
Hiromichi Arai
#164042
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#7190
Sergey Macheret
#157360
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Sergey O. Macheret is an American physicist and aerospace engineer known for his contributions to plasma science and engineering. Macheret formulas for endothermic exchange reactions and Macheret-Fridman model of vibration-dissociation coupling are widely used for analysis of hypersonic and other chemically reacting flows.
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Charles H. Papas
#126197
Overall Influence
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Charles Herach Papas was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer, known for his contributions to electromagnetic theory, microwaves, radiophysics, gravitational electromagnetics, astrophysics, guided waves, and remote sensing.
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Jacques Périaux
#164093
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#7193
Toshiharu Sugie
#164103
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#7194
Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe
#104319
Overall Influence
1951 - 2021 (70 years)
Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe was a Nigerian professor of Systems Engineering educational administrator and vice chancellor of the University of Lagos. He died from COVID-19 complications on 3 January 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
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Etsuo Akiba
#164118
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#7196
Jeffrey Yeenien Tsao
#164131
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#7197
F. C. Y. Lee
#164133
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#7198
George Ke Lun Wong
#164144
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#7199
A. Richard Palmer
#164171
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#7200
He Ping Tan
#164174
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