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,
#7301
Lino Reggiani
#165475
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#7302
Udo Lindemann
#165482
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#7303
Heinz Emigholz
#114842
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1948 - Present (78 years)
Heinz Emigholz is a filmmaker, actor, artist, writer and producer. He lives and works in Berlin and Malta. Emigholz has produced a comprehensive filmic and artistic oeuvre and has also done performance art and acted in other directors’ films .
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Saeed Samarghandian
#165494
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#7305
Derin Orhon
#165513
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#7306
Robert J. Hinchliffe
#165551
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#7307
Roch A. Guérin
#165556
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#7308
Lee Hall
#86865
Overall Influence
1934 - 2017 (83 years)
Lee Hall was an American painter, writer, educator, and a university president. She was an abstract landscape painter. She served as the 13th president of Rhode Island School of Design . In 1993, Hall wrote a controversial book on the artists Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning.
Go to Profile#7309
Manuel Dujovny
#165559
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#7310
Zuyuan He
#165570
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#7311
Rodolphe Fischmeister
#165571
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
#7312
Jianghai Xia
#165583
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#7313
Yoke San Wong
#165591
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#7314
Robert M. Walker
#67041
Overall Influence
1929 - 2004 (75 years)
Robert M. Walker was an American physicist, a planetary scientist, the founder and director of McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, noted for his co-discovery of the etchability of nuclear particle tracks in solids, as well as his conjecture that meteorites and lunar rocks contain a record of the ancient radiation history of various stars including the Sun. Asteroid 6372 was named Walker in his honor by the International Astronomical Union. Walker was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Walker was also a fellow of the American Physical Soci...
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Juin‐jei Liou
#165611
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#7316
Zahra Shariatinia
#165628
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#7317
David James Molden
#165632
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#7318
Surya Santoso
#165641
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#7319
Mk Meint Smit
#165666
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#7320
Deric John Oehlers
#165693
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#7321
Siamak Talatahari
#165694
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#7322
Naim Alkhouri
#165696
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#7323
Takanori Shibata
#165727
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#7324
Simon Herngaung Yueh
#165735
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#7325
Jenni Sidey-Gibbons
#114612
Overall Influence
1988 - Present (38 years)
Jennifer Anne MacKinnon Sidey is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and academic. She was selected by the Canadian Space Agency as one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Joshua Kutryk. In 2023, CSA assigned her to be Jeremy Hansen's backup for the Artemis II lunar flyby mission. As of the 2023 CSA Artemis announcement, she goes by her married name, Jenni Gibbons.
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Bo Shen
#165766
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#7327
Marcus Tullius. Cicero
#165770
Overall Influence
#7328
J. M. Moreno Planas
#165776
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#7329
Matti Kummu
#165794
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
#7330
Yariv Yogev
#165805
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#7331
İsmail Güvenç
#165809
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#7332
Shi-yao Zhu
#165817
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#7333
Elie R. Bou-zeid
#165835
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#7334
Rajiv Dhand
#165837
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#7335
Chan B. Park
#165838
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#7336
Cunhua Pan
#165847
Overall Influence
#7337
Vahid Motevalli
#136678
Overall Influence
Vahid Motevalli is the director of the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. Prior to joining Penn State, he was Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Innovation and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. In his role, he was responsible for overall research activities of the college including two centers of excellence, Center for Manufacturing Research and Center for Energy Systems Research as well as coordination of graduate student funding, research strategies, research infrastructure and providing advice and administration of all research related functions.
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Hien Quoc Ngo
#165874
Overall Influence
#7339
Yannis Stylianou
#165877
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#7340
Tony Mendoza
#126969
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Tony Mendoza is a Cuban-American photographer. Life He was born as Antonio Mendoza in Havana and moved to Miami with his family in 1960. He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering and Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full-time photographic artist in 1973. Married to Maria del Carmen from Esperanza, Cuba, and they have two children Alex and Lydia.
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John R. Pluske
#165905
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#7342
Jim Woodhouse
#165915
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#7343
Jean‐françois Remacle
#165916
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#7344
Ricardo Villalba
#98176
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Ricardo Villalba is an Argentine forester and dendrochronologist specialized in paleoclimate studies. He is active at CRICYT in Mendoza, Argentina. He was one of the authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
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Mitchell D. Smooke
#165939
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#7346
Koichi Suzumori
#165942
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#7347
Peter B. Corr
#165947
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#7348
Eva Håkansson
#86609
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1981 - Present (45 years)
Eva Håkansson is a Swedish mechanical engineer and lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 2014 she became the world's fastest woman on an electric motorbike. Early life and education Håkansson grew up in Sweden. She studied Business Administration and Environmental Science at Mälardalen University College. Her father, Sven Håkansson, used to build motorcycles and her mother was the family mechanic. In 2007 she converted a motorcycle into an electronic bike with her father and the ElectroCat became the first registered e-bike in Sweden. In 2007, whilst writing a book about motorcycles and e...
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Alex Mihailidis
#166003
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#7350
Wen-ming Yang
#166026
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