Artificial intelligence · Curated list
Alan Turing, Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
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Most written-about first. Each description summarises the person's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
1
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Alan Mathison Turing, an English mathematician, logician, computer scientist, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He shaped the development of theoretical computer science deeply, formalising the ideas of computation and algorithm with the Turing machine, which can be regarded as a model of a general-purpose computer.
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American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)
Samuel Harris Altman, an American investor and entrepreneur, chief executive officer (CEO) of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company, since 2019.
Wikidata · Photo: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0
3
British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1947)
Geoffrey Everest Hinton, a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive psychologist and cognitive scientist, and a Nobel laureate, whose work on artificial neural networks earned him the name "the Godfather of AI". He is a University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
4
American scientist (1927–2011)
An American cognitive scientist and computer scientist, one of those who founded artificial intelligence as a discipline, and one of a small group of AI researchers of the 1950s and 1960s.
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American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)
Marvin Lee Minsky, an American mathematician who researched the cognitive and computing sides of artificial intelligence (AI). He spent three years in Harvard's Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow, then in 1958 joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he stayed for the rest of his career.
Wikidata · Photo: The original uploader was Sethwoodworth at English Wikipedia ., CC BY 3.0
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6
British AI researcher (born 1976)
Sir Demis Hassabis, a British entrepreneur and researcher in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded and chairs Google DeepMind, is Alphabet's chief scientist, and co-founded and runs Isomorphic Labs as chief executive officer.
Wikidata · Photo: John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0
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7
American scientist (born 1933)
John Joseph Hopfield, an American physicist and emeritus professor at Princeton University, best known for his 1982 study of associative neural networks and for developing the Hopfield network.
Wikidata · Photo: Arthur Petron, CC BY-SA 4.0
8
German professor of marketing
Andreas Marcus Kaplan, a university administrator and professor of digital transformation, who is president of Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg.
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9
Taiwanese and American businessman (born 1963)
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang, a Taiwanese and American electrical engineer and business executive who co-founded Nvidia, today the most valuable company on Earth, and is its president and CEO. In September 2026 Forbes put his net worth above US$190 billion, the eighth-largest personal fortune in the world.
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10
Azerbaijani scientist (1921–2017)
Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh, a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and AI researcher who taught computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, a group of fuzzy concepts: fuzzy sets, logic, algorithms, semantics, languages, control, systems, probabilities, events and information.
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11
French computer scientist (born 1960)
A French-American computer scientist whose fields are robotics, image compression, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He holds the Jacob T. Schwartz chair in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Wikidata · Photo: Ecole polytechnique from Paris, CC BY-SA 2.0
12
American computer scientist (born 1976)
An American computer scientist, born in China, best known for creating ImageNet, the dataset behind the rapid progress of computer vision in the 2010s. A professor of computer science at Stanford University, she researches cognitive neuroscience, computer vision, deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Wikidata · Photo: ITU Pictures, CC BY 2.0
13
Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
A Canadian computer scientist, and one of the pioneers of deep learning and artificial neural networks.
Wikidata · Photo: Maryse Boyce, CC BY 4.0
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14
Albanian-American business executive
Ermira "Mira" Murati, an Albanian-American business executive. She co-founded and leads Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company she started in February 2025.
15
Indian-born American computer scientist (born 1937)
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy, an American computer scientist born in India, among the first to pioneer artificial intelligence, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford for more than 50 years.
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Chinese software engineer and billionaire internet entrepreneur (born 1968)
Robin Li Yanhong, a Chinese billionaire internet entrepreneur and software engineer, co-founder and chief executive officer of Baidu, the Chinese multinational technology company. In May 2025 Forbes estimated his net worth at US$5.5 billion.
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17
American AI entrepreneur (born 1983)
An American entrepreneur and researcher in artificial intelligence (AI). In 2021 he and his sister, Daniela Amodei, were among the co-founders of Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude series of large language models.
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18
American computer scientist
Edward Albert Feigenbaum, an American computer scientist in artificial intelligence, winner with Raj Reddy of the ACM Turing Award for 1994. He is often called the "father of expert systems".
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19
Eritrean computer scientist (born 1982/3)
Timnit W. Gebru, an Eritrean computer scientist born in Ethiopia, who works on data mining, algorithmic bias and artificial intelligence (AI). She co-founded Black in AI, an advocacy group that has campaigned for more Black people in AI research and development.
Wikidata · Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
20
American scientist and podcast host (born 1983)
Alexei "Lex" Fridman, an American podcaster and computer scientist. Since 2018 he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast, interviewing notable people from fields such as politics, the arts, sports, technology and science.
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21
British computer scientist and author (born 1962)
Stuart Jonathan Russell, a British computer scientist known for his work in AI. He teaches computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, as a professor, and from 2008 to 2011 also held an adjunct professorship of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wikidata · Photo: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0
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22
Taiwanese computer scientist and investor
A Taiwanese author, investor and computer scientist. From 1998 to 2000 he was the founding director of Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, and from 2005 to 2009 he was president of Google China.
Wikidata · Photo: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0
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23
American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky, an American researcher in artificial intelligence and writer on ethics and decision theory, known for popularising ideas about friendly artificial intelligence. He founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a private non-profit research body in Berkeley, California, and is a research fellow there.
24
British engineer and robotics researcher
An English engineer, formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for studying direct links between the human nervous system and computer systems, and has also researched robotics.
Wikidata · Photo: Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0
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25
Computer scientist (born 1986)
A computer scientist born in the Soviet Union, Israeli and Canadian by nationality, who specialises in machine learning. His major contributions to deep learning include sequence-to-sequence learning, reasoning models and GPT models, and work on AlphaGo, DALL-E and CLIP.
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26
American philosopher
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus, an American philosopher who taught philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests were existentialism, phenomenology, the philosophy of literature and of psychology, and what artificial intelligence means for philosophy.
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American computer scientist
An American computer scientist and engineer specialising in robotics. At the University of California, Berkeley, she is a professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences, and director emerita of the CITRIS institute.
Wikidata · Photo: Franc Solina, CC BY-SA 4.0
American computer scientist (1901–1990)
Arthur Lee Samuel, an American computer scientist who pioneered artificial intelligence and computer games. He coined the term machine learning, in 1959.
American researcher in genetic algorithms (1929–2015)
An American scientist who taught electrical engineering and computer science as a professor at the University of Michigan. He pioneered what came to be called genetic algorithms.
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Australian roboticist (born 1954)
Rodney Allen Brooks, a roboticist from Australia, elected a Fellow of its Academy of Science, who made the actionist approach to robotics popular. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he held a Panasonic Professorship of Robotics, and for a time he directed MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Wikidata · Photo: Staff photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Every Wikidata item that is a person whose field of work, on Wikidata, is artificial intelligence, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
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