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.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
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Mark Donowitz
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Hossein Gharib
#129114
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H. J. Jr. Ramey
#129116
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#4354
Brian Vincent
#129120
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#4355
Ryuichi Kitamura
#129123
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#4356
Abbas Rajabifard
#105825
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Abbas Rajabifard is a Professor and the Director of the Smart and Sustainable Development and Discipline Leader of the Geomatics Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the Director of the Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration .
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John H Healey
#129147
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#4358
Andrew Damien Short
#129155
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#4359
Nathaniel I. Durlach
#129164
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#4360
Aubert Y. Coran
#98684
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Aubert Y. Coran was an American scientist noted for his contributions to thermoplastic elastomers and vulcanization chemistry of rubber. In 1983, he won the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award, bestowed by the American Chemical Society to individuals "who have exhibited exceptional technical competency by making significant and repeated contributions to rubber science and technology". In 1995, the rubber division of the American Chemical Society bestowed on Coran the Charles Goodyear Medal in honor of his international contributions to polymer science and development.
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Egbert Torenbeek
#110549
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Egbert Torenbeek is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerodynamics, Wind Energy, Flight Performance & Propulsion at Delft University of Technology. He is known for his contributions to Aircraft Design, especially with his book "Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design" published in 1976. This standard work was also translated into Russian and Chinese. Professor Torenbeek received the 58th Ludwig Prandtl Ring "in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of aircraft design in teaching, research and application" from the German Society for Aeronautics and Astron...
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Patricia J. Culligan
#117701
Overall Influence
Patricia J. Culligan is the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a professor of Civil Engineering. She is a former Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, and also served on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in Geo-environmental Engineering, with an emphasis on water management and resources. Her most recent work is focused on issues related to urban sustainability.
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Qi-wen Zhan
#129228
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Yoshihide Wada
#129231
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Naresh K. Sinha
#129275
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Jyotirmoy Mazumder
#129283
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#4367
Marcelo Simoes
#46360
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Marcelo Godoy Simões is a Brazilian-American scientist engineer, professor in Electrical Engineering in Flexible and Smart Power Systems, at the University of Vaasa. He was with Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, Colorado, for almost 21 years, where he is a Professor Emeritus. He was elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for applications of artificial intelligence in control of power electronics systems.
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Albert O. Leon-garcia
#129296
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#4369
John J. Fruin
#107196
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John J. Fruin is an engineer, urban planner, and author known for his work in the field of crowd science. In 1983, he received the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation Engineering Award.
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Johannes Schoonman
#129322
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#4371
Peter John Hunter
#129347
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
#4372
Clifford Kwan-Gett
#66029
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Clifford Stanley Kwan-Gett is an Australian-born Chinese American engineer, physician, and artificial heart pioneer. Kwan-Gett was born as Clifford Gett in 1934 in Emmaville, New South Wales, a small tin mining town in the Australian bush. His father Walter Gett owned the Yow Sing & Co. General Store in Emmaville. Kwan-Gett was the eighth of ten children and the first in his family to attend college. At the University of Sydney, while a resident in Wesley College, he obtained degrees in Science and Engineering and later in Medicine. He married Joo Een Tan, then adopted his Chinese family n...
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Qiang Meng
#129359
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Ying Xuan Jia
#129379
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Kellogg S. Stelle
#129384
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Sanjeev P. Khudanpur
#129391
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#4377
R. Bruce Hoadley
#85016
Overall Influence
1933 - 2019 (86 years)
R. Bruce Hoadley was Professor Emeritus of Building and Construction Materials in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His main research interests were wood identification and dimensional changes due to wood-moisture relationships. He is known to the general public primarily as the author of popular books on the anatomy, properties and processing of wood, and for his work as a contributing editor and technical consultant for Fine Woodworking magazine. His expertise in wood identification has been utilized in analysis of antique furniture an...
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Christian A. Gueymard
#129406
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Peter Schnohr
#129434
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Guang-ming Shi
#129453
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#4381
Eugene Tssui
#97077
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Eugene Tssui is an American architect noted for his use of ecological principles and "biologic" design, a term coined by Tssui himself in the 2010 issue of World Architecture Review. He has proposed a number of projects such as a bridge across the Strait of Gibraltar to connect the continents of Africa and Europe as well as a 2-mile-high tower capable of housing 1 million residents.
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Judith L. Macmanus‐driscoll
#129478
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Paul A. Durbin
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Dewayne E. Perry
#76622
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Dewayne E. Perry is an American engineer. He was formerly the Motorola Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and SIGSOFT. He is the co-author, with Alexander L. Wolf, of the most-cited paper in software engineering since 1999.
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Stephen P. Fortmann
#129557
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Xun Zhu
#129577
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Jonathan Chernoff
#129610
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
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Rob Koll
#87015
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Rob Koll is an American college wrestling coach. He is currently head wrestling coach at University of North Carolina. He is the son of Wrestling Hall of Fame member and three-time NCAA wrestling champion Bill Koll.
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David J. Allstot
#111499
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
David J. Allstot , is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oregon State University. His research includes work on analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency integrated circuits. He was formerly a professor at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington.
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Y. C. Simhadri
#82932
Overall Influence
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Yedla C. Simhadri was an Indian academician and administrator. He has been the vice-chancellor of many Indian universities including Banaras Hindu University, Patna University, Andhra University, and Acharya Nagarjuna University.
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Beth Pruitt
#126681
Overall Influence
Beth L. Pruitt is an American engineer. Upon completing her master's degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford University, Pruitt served as an officer in the United States Navy. She is a full professor of mechanical engineering, biological engineering, and biomolecular science & engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a fellow of both ASME and AIMBE.
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Giulio Sandini
#129669
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
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Chen-to Tai
#129675
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Mark G. Stewart
#129687
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Federico Bussolino
#129697
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#4396
S. C. Dutta Roy
#101672
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Suhash Chandra Dutta Roy is an Indian electrical engineer and a former professor and head of the department of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is known for his studies on analog and digital signal processing and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Systems Society of India and Acoustical Society of...
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Ernest Lenard Hall
#103447
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Ernest Lenard Hall, PhD, PE, is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in the School of Dynamic Systems in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati. He was also the Paul E. Geier Professor of Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He has also held joint appointments at the University of Cincinnati with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He regularly collaborates with faculty and students in other colleges at University of Cincinnati, as well ...
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John B. Moore
#80423
Overall Influence
1941 - 2013 (72 years)
John Barratt Moore, PhD, FAA, FIEAust, FIEEE, FTSE was an Australian engineer specialising in signal processing and control systems. Moore completed his undergraduate and Masters studies in engineering at the University of Queensland in 1962 and 1963 respectively; he then went on to work for Fairchild Semiconductor and received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Santa Clara in 1966. He returned to Australia and took an academic position at the University of Newcastle; he moved to the Department of Information Engineering at the Australian National University in 1982. Moo...
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Jatinder N. D. Gupta
#129722
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Emil Levi
#129725
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