Not that it means anything for this debate but LeCun has half as many citations as Hinton

Hinton 732,799 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JicYPdAAAAAJ

Bengio 730,391 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ

He 508,365 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ

Sutskever 454,430 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=x04W_mMAAAAJ

Girshick 418,751 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=W8VIEZgAAAAJ

Zisserman 389,748 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UZ5wscMAAAAJ

LeCun 332,027 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WLN3QrAAAAAJ