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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Kiyotaka Wasa
#166727
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Athanassia Athanassiou
#166733
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#7403
Eugene J. Carragee
#166743
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#7404
Jack Bowden
#166762
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#7405
Widen Tabakoff
#166777
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#7406
A. Alan B. Pritsker
#166785
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#7407
Dallas M. Hyde
#166814
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#7408
Robert Freer
#166821
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#7409
Giorgio Franceschetti
#166827
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#7410
Joy Laskar
#166831
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#7411
Bernardo Rodríguez‐iturbe
#166842
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#7412
Alan Mark Nahum
#166857
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#7413
I. Solomon Raju
#166861
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#7414
Ranjan Mallik
#125113
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Ranjan Kumar Mallik is an Indian electrical and communications engineer and a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He held the Jai Gupta Chair at IIT Delhi from 2007 to 2012 and the Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair from 2012 to 2017. He is known for his researches on multiple-input multi-output systems and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, and The National Academy of Sciences, India. He is also an elected fellow of The World Academy...
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Gustavo de Veciana
#135397
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Gustavo de Veciana is an American computer scientist and engineer, who is currently a Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 1993 Ph.D. graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunication networks, probability and random processes, analysis and design of communication networks, digital communications, and information theory. His research focuses on the analysis and design of communication and computing networks, data-driven decision-making in man-machine systems, and applied probability and queueing theory.
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Hiroyuki Kokawa
#166916
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#7417
Rudy R. Negenborn
#166919
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#7418
Anna Ploszajski
#103232
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1991 - Present (35 years)
Anna Ploszajski is a materials scientist, engineer, and writer. Her book, Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 18 May 2021. Education Ploszajski attended Dame Alice Harpur School choosing to study A-Level mathematics, further mathematics, physics and music. She went on to study at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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Debra Laefer
#162387
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Debra Laefer is the Director of Citizen Science program within NYU's Center for Urban Science + Progress and Associate Professor of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. Previously a professor at University College, Dublin, her research in geotechnical and structural engineering focuses on ways to preserve architecturally significant buildings from sub-surface construction.
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Rik Van De Walle
#166998
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#7421
Joseph Shamir
#167001
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#7422
Joachim Piprek
#167016
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#7423
Chung-kuan Cheng
#167023
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#7424
R. Cengiz Ertekin
#146882
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1954 - Present (72 years)
R. Cengiz Ertekin is a professor of Marine Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering. He currently holds a guest professor position at Harbin Engineering University of China. He is best known for his contributions to the development of nonlinear water wave theories, hydroelasticity of very large floating structures , wave energy, and tsunami and storm impact on coastal bridges. He is also the co-developer, along with Professor H. Ronald Riggs of the University of Hawaiʻi, of the computer program HYDRAN for solving linear fluid-structure interaction problems of floating and fixed bodies.
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Andreas C. Cangellaris
#167034
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#7426
Rudolf Shiu Sun Wu
#167073
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#7427
Allen R. Hanson
#167079
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#7428
Dagmar Sternad
#117853
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Dagmar Sternad is a German-American scientist and engineer. Sternad is University Distinguished Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics at Northeastern University. She is also a core member of the Institute of Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University.
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Nikhil Gupta
#167104
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#7430
S. Mark Spearing
#167124
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#7431
Fabrice Labeau
#167131
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#7432
Michael Nosonovsky
#167132
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#7433
Sung Wook Baik
#167138
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#7434
Carlo Cecati
#167139
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1957 - Present (69 years)
#7435
Takashi Hisatomi
#167142
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#7436
Arpad Horvath
#167148
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#7437
Stig Lennart Andersson
#160753
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Stig Lennart Andersson usually referred to as Stig L. Andersson, is a Danish landscape architect, founder and Creative Director of Copenhagen-based SLA which has developed into an interdisciplinary organisation working with landscape, urban spaces and urban planning.
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Sharon Gannot
#167163
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#7439
Nader Behdad
#167169
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#7440
Andrea Bezjak
#167178
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#7441
William J. Aronson
#167180
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#7442
Nuno Borges Carvalho
#166315
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1972 - Present (54 years)
Nuno Miguel Gonçalves Borges de Carvalho from the Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions on characterization and design of nonlinear RF circuits.
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Michael G. Jr. Hanna
#167208
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Scott J. Mubarak
#167221
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#7445
Despina Stratigakos
#122775
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Despina Stratigakos is a Canadian-born architectural historian, writer, former vice provost, and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo. Education Stratigakos was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received her undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
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Henry Rusinek
#167244
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#7447
Timothy Francis Bell
#167246
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Stéphanie P. Lacour
#133315
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Stéphanie P. Lacour is a French neurotechnologist and full professor holding the Foundation Bertarelli Chair in Neuroprosthetic Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne . Lacour is a pioneer in the field of stretchable electronics and directs a laboratory at EPFL which specializes in the development of Soft BioElectronic Interfaces to enable seamless integration of neuroprosthetic devices into human tissues. Lacour is also a co-founding member and director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics at the EPFL Satellite Campus in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Budugur Lakshminarayana
#167287
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#7450
Jesper Henri Hattel
#167325
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