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.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#4601
Gary, J. Kelloff
#132261
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#4602
Stewart D. Personick
#103062
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Stewart David Personick is an American researcher in telecommunications and computer networking. He worked at Bell Labs, TRW, and Bellcore , researching optical fiber receiver design, propagation in multi-mode optical fibers, time-domain reflectometry, and the end-to-end modeling of fiber-optic communication systems.
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Norman M. Wereley
#132270
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#4604
Zhu Di
#124257
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Dr. Zhu Di is a Chinese mechanical engineer, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2011. He is a professor at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics , and served as the President of NUAA from September 2009 until June 2013, when he was replaced by Nie Hong .
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Marco Pavone
#132332
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#4606
Ronald N. Allan
#132342
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#4607
Yongli Gao
#132348
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#4608
Francis Georges Robert Garnier
#132392
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#4609
Kyriakos Komvopoulos
#132395
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#4610
Lute Maleki
#132418
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#4611
Dr. David Kittelson
#132424
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#4612
Warren M. Grill
#132427
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#4613
Merritt Bucholz
#85423
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Merritt Bucholz is an American architect who has set up practice in Ireland with his partner Karen McEvoy. He lectures frequently in various universities in Europe and America. Early life Merritt Bucholz was born in Chicago.
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Lester Kobzik
#132437
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#4615
Emad A. Rakha
#132457
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#4616
Rebecca T. Hahn
#132492
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#4617
Tsutomu Minami
#132505
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#4618
Mohan J. Edirisinghe
#132523
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#4619
Nipon Chattipakorn
#132545
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#4620
Mia Lehrer
#95337
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Mia Lehrer, born Mía Guttfreund is a Salvadoran American landscape architect. She received a B.A. from Tufts University with a degree in environmental design and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Lehrer is one of the first professionals to incorporate both of her degrees to design sustainable landscapes.
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Yahia. M. M. Antar
#132588
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#4622
Jessica Winter
#98322
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Jessica O. Winter is an American bioengineer. She is a Professor of Chemical, Biomolecular, and Biomedical Engineering and an Associate Director of the MRSEC Center for Emergent Materials at the Ohio State University. Her research interests include nanoparticles for cancer imaging, diagnostics, and drug delivery; and cell migration in the brain tumor microenvironment. In 2021, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, and Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Alexander Zarbock
#132616
Overall Influence
#4624
Daniel Inman
#118470
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Daniel J. Inman is an American mechanical engineer, Kelly Johnson Collegiate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. Education Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980. He received his Master of Arts in Teaching Physics from Michigan State University in the Year 1975 and he Pursued Graduate Studies at Grand Valley State College in 1970.
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Max Qing-hu Meng
#132651
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#4626
Hua Kuang
#132663
Overall Influence
#4627
Susan Krumdieck
#82179
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Areas of Specialization: Energy Transition Engineering, Antimicrobial Coatings Susan Krumdieck was born in New Zealand. She is currently Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Krumdieck received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1983 from Colorado State University, and her master’s degree in energy systems in 1989 from Arizona State University. She then obtained her PhD in mechanical engineering in 1999 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Krumdieck joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury in 2000.
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Herman Bouwer
#132680
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#4629
Umberto Berardi
#132684
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#4630
Paolo Lugli
#132695
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
#4631
John McCanny
#70437
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Sir John Vincent McCanny is the emeritus Regius Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Queen's University Belfast, and director of the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology.
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Rida Taji Farouki
#132716
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#4633
Stefano Stramigioli
#128813
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Stefano Stramigioli is a scientist and engineer born in Italy and now living since 1992 in the Netherlands and holding both the Italian and Dutch nationality. He is affiliated with the University of Twente where he leads the Robotics And Mechatronics Lab. He is also covering a guest co-chair position at the International Laboratory of BioMechatronics and Energy Efficient Robotics at ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Range Experiment Station
#132728
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Xian'guo Li
#132748
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#4636
Shmuel S. Oren
#132755
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#4637
Yannick Allanore
#132770
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
#4638
Peter Kellman
#132780
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#4639
Yong‐ping Yang
#132786
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#4640
Paul Howard Holloway
#132793
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#4641
Arianna Menciassi
#132801
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#4642
Cemal Basaran
#132820
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Cemalettin Basaran is a Turkish-born American engineer who is currently a professor in the department of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
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Alexander L. Fradkov
#132824
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
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David Avison
#87327
Overall Influence
1937 - 2004 (67 years)
David Avison was an American photographer and physicist, best known for his use of a wide angle lens to capture nature, crowds, and portraits. Focused on panoramic photography, Avison photographed Chicago's urban landscapes, turning to Chicago's beaches for his contribution to the documentary project Changing Chicago . Avison spent the bulk of his photographic career in Chicago before moving to Boston in 1997.
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Paul Florian
#106712
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Paul Florian is the lead designer at Florian Architects, an architecture firm based in Chicago. Florian’s portfolio includes the renovation of the landmark Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank Building, retail prototypes and nationwide roll-outs for H2O Plus, Cellular One, and United Audio Centers , retail stores and showrooms for Sotheby’s, Chiasso, and Oilily, museum exhibits for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry, and numerous single- and multi- family residences.
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Mohamed Sanad
#108519
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Mohamed Sanad is an Egyptian antenna scientist and professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He made contributions to antennas, and holds sixteen patents in the area. The most recent of which is "Design of single and multi-band PIFA" . He has also published thirty peer-reviewed papers or conference proceedings; the most recent are three papers at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium , 2010, IEEE, He also worked with Nokia and Motorola on mobile phones.
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Michel Rappaz
#132847
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#4648
Antonio Gens
#132848
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
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Cyril A. Hogarth
#132849
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Bosse Sundman
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