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- Jim Dykstra
- This woman is a true Savant. It figures that someone whose last name literally means "a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist" would be one of the world's brightest.
- Chris Hirata is one of the smartest living people on the planet. Chris Hirata could've had a starring role in Baby Geniuses. By the time he was a preteen, he had a feature-length profile in the Chicago Tribune detailing his virtuosic abilities.
- Judit Polgar pulverized the competition. Judit Polgar has an IQ of 170, and she and her sisters were homeschooled by their father in an experimental curriculum that used chess as the central foundation.
- Kim Ung-yong was the original child prodigy. Kim Ung-yong is a classic genius case of starting ... "yong." Just how young was he when he began his reign of mental supremacy?
- Paul Allen
- Christopher Langan
- Judit Polgár
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- John H. Sununu
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Kim Ung-Yong
- Mislav Predavec
- Manahel Thabet
- Richard Rosner
Billionaire Paul Allen reportedly has an IQ of between 160 and 170. Allen was born in 1953 in Seattle and made friends with Bill Gates while still at school. He attended Washington State University but quit his studies in 1974 and then talked Gates into leaving Harvard. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. After he was told...
Born in San Francisco in 1952, self-educated Christopher Langan is a special kind of genius. By the time he turned four, he’d already taught himself how to read. At high school, according to Langan, he tutored himself in “advanced math, physics, philosophy, Latin and Greek, all that.” What’s more, he allegedly got 100 percent on his SAT test, even ...
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976, Judit Polgár is acknowledged as without doubt the best female chess player in history. Polgár was a chess-playing child prodigy and overcame her first grandmaster when she was just 11. At present, she is the only woman in the World Chess Federation’s Top 100 Players. She has also beaten nine world champions, inclu...
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946 in Missouri. In 1986 the columnist and author made history when she was named in The Guinness Book of World Records as the person possessing the highest IQ, with a reported score of 228. She is said to have achieved the score on the Stanford-Binet test at the age of ten. In the mid 1980s, Savant also took the con...
With a reported IQ of 180, John H. Sununu is another individual who has proved equal to the eligibility criteria for acceptance into the Mega Society high IQ club. Born in 1939 in Havana, Cuba, Sununu studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, achieving his bachelor’s degree in 1961, his master’s in 1963 and his Ph...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a high-profile American astrophysicist and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, and he is also Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Tyson was born in New York in 1958 and loved astronomy from a young age. In 1980 he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in p...
Before The Guinness Book of World Recordswithdrew its Highest IQ category in 1990, South Korean former child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong made the list with a score of 210. Kim was born in Seoul in 1963, and by the time he turned three, he could already read Korean, Japanese, English and German. When he was just eight years old, Kim moved to America to wor...
Mislav Predavec is a Croatian mathematics professor with a reported IQ of 190. “I always felt I was a step ahead of others. As material in school increased, I just solved the problems faster and better,” he has explained. Predavec was born in Zagreb in 1967, and his unique abilities were obvious from a young age. As for his adult achievements, sinc...
In 2008, aged 25, Yemeni economist and scientist Manahel Thabet became the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. Thabet earned the degree at the University of Illinois and has since worked towards a second Ph.D. in quantum mathematics. In 2012 she came up with a revolutionary 350-page formula to calculate distanc...
U.S. television writer and pseudo-celebrity Richard Rosner is an unusual case. Born in 1960, he has led a somewhat checkered professional life: as well writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other TV shows, Rosner has, he says, been employed as a stripper, doorman, male model and waiter. In 2000 he infamously appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,...
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- Jacob Barnett: IQ 170. Jacob Barnett was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at two years old, and doctors predicted he’d never learn to tie his own shoes.
- Judit Polgár: IQ 170. The Hungarian chess master is considered the best female chess player of all time. When she was 15 years and 4 months old in 1991, she was the youngest player to become an International Grandmaster.
- Rick Rosner: IQ 192–198. Rick Rosner has taken more than 30 IQ tests, revealing his IQ is between 192 and 198, depending on how the tests define their scores.
- Evangelos Katsioulis: IQ 198. With a score of 198, Evangelos Katsioulis, MD, MSc, MA, PhD, has the highest tested IQ in the world, according to the World Genius Directory.
- Johann Goethe. Johann Goethe was a German polymath who lived in the 1800s, and his estimated IQ score ranged from 210 to 225. He founded the science of human chemistry and developed an early theory of evolution.
- Leonardo da Vinci. A legendary painter with works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most celebrated geniuses ever to live.
- James Maxwell. Having an estimated IQ score ranging from 190 to 205, James Maxwell was a mathematical physicist from Scotland. He’s best known for creating the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation.
- Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer hailing from Poland. Boasting an estimated IQ score ranging from 160 to 200, he was the one who discovered that the sun, rather than the Earth, is the center of our solar system.
- Austin Harvey
- Albert Einstein. Born on March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is considered one of the most brilliant minds of all time. The German-born theoretical physicist is best known for his theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc².
- Marilyn vos Savant. Born on August 11, 1946, Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist who was honored in the Guinness Book of Records in 1986 for holding the highest IQ ever recorded: 228.
- Ainan Celeste Cawley. Ainan Celeste Cawley was born on November 23, 1999 in Singapore. A child prodigy, he gave his first chemistry lecture at just six years old, and a year later, he passed the General Certificate of Secondary Education, moving on to study chemistry at Singapore Polytechnic by the time he was eight.
- Richard "Rick" Rosner. Rick Rosner was born on May 2, 1960 and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He initially graduated from high school in 1978, but later decided to forge documents so he could attend another high school in New Mexico.
Sep 18, 2016 · 24 of the smartest people who ever lived. The smartest humans in history are ranked. Making a list of the smartest people who ever lived may not be a smart thing to do. After all,...
Da Vinci, famed painter and theorist, is estimated to have had IQ scores ranging from 180 to 220, according to parade.com. Savant has the highest recorded IQ, receiving a score of 228, and was...
