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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Ellen Longmire
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Ellen Kathryn Longmire is an American applied physicist and mechanical engineer known for her research in experimental fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota, where she is also Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Science & Engineering,, the former chair of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, and one of three editors-in-chief of the journal Experiments in Fluids.
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Bernard C. Levy
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Rinaldo Cubeddu
#164836
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Homer Rahnejat
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Vipul Jairath
#164915
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Bryan Talmadge Kelly
#164925
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An‐nan Zhou
#164941
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Mykola Bevz
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Mykola Bevz — Ukrainian scientist, architect, member of ICOMOS from Ukraine. Born in a family of teachers, Buchach farm-college Graduated in Buchach sec. school in 1972, and graduated from Buchach children's art school . 1972-1977 gg. studied at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Architecture . 1977-1978 worked as an architect in student design office at Lviv Polytechnic Institute .
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Jinoos Yazdany
#164957
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Prasanta Kumar Banerjee
#164964
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Milton Ohring
#164973
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Lihuang Zhu
#164987
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Rendon C. Nelson
#164992
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Hallie C. Prescott
#164997
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Dong-yu Kim
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Mitchell Schwarzer
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Mitchell Schwarzer is a historian who writes on architecture and the built environment. He is Professor of Architectural and Urban History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts. His wife Marjorie is a professor of museum studies.
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Salvatore Petta
#165034
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Yan-li Yao
#165050
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Jean Adams
#161910
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Jean Adams is an epidemiologist and Professor of Dietary Public Health at the MRC Epidemiology Unit based at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Education Adams earned a MSc in 2007 at the City, University of London in Health Psychology; in 2004, a Ph.D. at Newcastle University in Epidemiology and Public Health and a MBBS there in 2001 as well as a BMedSci in Health Psychology and Psychiatry in 1998.
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Haijun Jiang
#165084
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Petros G. Koutsoukos
#165089
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Sami Viskin
#165123
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Timothy Joseph Ross
#165125
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Ranga P. Dias
#93360
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Ranga P. Dias is a researcher and academic who specializes in condensed matter physics. He is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and a scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.
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David Mendlovic
#165153
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Emily Talen
#139851
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Emily Talen is professor of urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship , and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Her work has attracted close to 15,000 citations listed on Google Scholar.
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Chun Huh
#165157
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Dennis. M. Bushnell
#165163
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Lutgarde Raskin
#165169
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Thomas. F. Eibert
#165182
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Gavin Turrell
#165184
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Frederic L. Wightman
#165239
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Lukáš Burget
#165248
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Ozan K. Tonguz
#165249
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Zuhuan Zhang
#165261
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T. Rajendar
#14228
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Thesingu Rajendar , also known as Vijaya T. Rajendar or T. R., is an Indian actor, filmmaker, musician, cinematographer and distributor who works primarily in the Tamil film industry. He is also a politician in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Rajendar is known for being able to speak in rhyming sentences spontaneously.
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Yilu Liu
#165293
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Yoshiyuki Sankai
#165296
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Bahman Yousefi
#165318
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Felicia Cosman
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Alan Charles Eckbreth
#165333
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Masahiko Ikeuchi
#165354
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Dan Givoli†
#165361
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Brian T. Cunningham
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Brian T. Cunningham is an American engineer, researcher and academic. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a professor of Bioengineering.
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Ronald. L. Klueh
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Douglas C. Burton
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Lianyang Zhangl. Zhang
#165421
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James C. Sisson
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Clive S. Fraser
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Diane Pearson
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Diane M. Pearson is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a 1998 PhD titled 'The impact of human activity on landscape diversity in space and time : measurement and analysis of spatial structure and change in the Milton-Ulladulla area of NSW' at the Australian National University, Peason moved to the Charles Darwin University and then Massey University, rising to full professor.
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