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Smartest People Ever: The People with the Highest IQs in History
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These are the smartest people in the history of the world according to IQ (and some are still alive today):
| | 210 - Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210 |
| | 195 - Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195 |
| | 190 - Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190 |
| | 190 - World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190 |
| | 190 - Sir Isaac Newton |
| | 190 - Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) |
| | 190 - Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| | 186 - Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186 |
| | 180 - Leonardo da Vinci |
| | 180 - Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180 |
| | 180 - Buonarroti Michelangelo |
| | 180 - David Hume |
| | 180 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180 |
| | 180 - Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180 |
| | 179 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| | 176 - Emanuel Swedenborg |
| | 176 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz |
| | 175 - Edmund Spenser |
| | 175 - Baruch Spinoza |
| | 175 - Johannes Kepler |
| | 174 - John Stuart Mill |
| | 171 - Blaise Pascal |
| | 170 - Antoine Lavoisier |
| | 170 - Martin Luther |
| | 170 - World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167 |
| | 170 - Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170 |
| | 170 - World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170 |
| | 170 - Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170 |
| | 170 - Michael Faraday |
| | 170 - George Friedrich Handel |
| | 167 - Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160 |
| | 165 - Samuel Johnson |
| | 165 - Ludwig van Beethoven |
| | 165 - Joseph Priestley |
| | 165 - John Locke |
| | 165 - Thomas Hobbes |
| | 165 - Charlotte Bronte |
| | 165 - Galileo Galilei |
| | 165 - Johann Sebastian Bach |
| | 165 - Carl von Linne |
| | 162 - Madame De Stael |
| | 162 - Rene Descartes |
| | 160 - Robert Boyle |
| | 160 - Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160 |
| | 160 - Benjamin Franklin |
| | 160 - Albert Einstein |
| | 159 - Immanuel Kant |
| | 156 - Olof Palme |
| | 156 - Thomas Chatterton |
| | 156 - Linus Carl Pauling |
| | 156 - Sofia Kovalevskaya |
| | 155 - Jonathan Swift |
| | 155 - Miguel de Cervantes |
| | 155 - Rembrandt van Rijn |
| | 154 - Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154 |
| | 153 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| | 153 - Charles Darwin |
| | 150 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) |
| | 150 - Nicolaus Copernicus |
| | 150 - Abraham Lincoln |
| | 145 - Anna Lindh |
| | 145 - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| | 143 - George Sand (Aurore Dupin) |
| | 140 - George Washington |
| | 130 - Ulysses S. Grant |
| | 130 - Sir Francis Drake |
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Cool list. Includes people I didn't know were smart, or allegedly smart. Comment by: MacGyver Whoever wrote this list is irresponsible. It's a terrible list. If you had left out the actual IQs, you might have had some credibility, but it's pretty obvious that people with IQs of 130 are NOT among the smartest 50 people in the world. That would put me in the list, which is absurd. This "list of smartest people" was obviously compiled by one of the stupidest people in the world. Comment by: inanity The made at the beginning of the list:
"These are the smartest people in the history of the world according to IQ"
is an outright lie. You have some journalistic responsibility when you publish information like this to at least make some attempt to ensure that what you publish is factual. This list is pure garbage. Get rid of it completely, or do some actual research. Comment by: inanity The made at the beginning of the list:
"These are the smartest people in the history of the world according to IQ"
is an outright lie. You have some journalistic responsibility when you publish information like this to at least make some attempt to ensure that what you publish is factual. This list is pure garbage. Get rid of it completely, or do some actual research. Comment by: inanity
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