Ancient Geniuses vs Modern Geniuses

How do the great minds of antiquity compare with 20th century geniuses?

Ancient & Medieval Geniuses

159 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: Italy
Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri
Ma'arrat al-Nu'man
Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli
Gorgan
Abu Kamil
Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
Tous
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
Beruni
Aeschylus
Eleusis
Aesop
Thrace at a site on the Black Sea coast (later Mesembria)
Al-Battani
Harran
Al-Kindi
Kufa
Albertus Magnus
Lauingen
Albrecht Dürer
Nuremberg
Alexander the Great
Pella
Anaxagoras
Clazomenae
Anaximander
Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus
Andrea del Verrocchio
Florence
Anna Komnene
Archimedes
Syracuse
Aristarchus of Samos
Samos
Aristotle
Stagira
Augustine of Hippo
Averroes - Ibn Rushd
Córdoba
Avicenna
Afshona
Bede
Jarrow
Boethius
Rome
Brahmagupta
Bhinmal in Rajasthan
Callimachus
Cyrene
Charlemagne
Frankish Kingdom
Christopher Columbus
Genoa
Cicero
Arpinum
VS

Modern (20th-21st Century) Geniuses

477 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: United States
14th Dalai Lama
Taktser
Aage Niels Bohr
Copenhagen
Aaron Ciechanover
Haifa
Aaron Klug
Želva
Aaron Sorkin
Manhattan
Aaron Swartz
Highland Park
Abdus Salam
Jhang
Abhimanyu Mishra
New Jersey
Acharya S
Massachusetts
Ada Yonath
Jerusalem
Adam Neumann
Beersheba
Adam Riess
Washington
Adam Sandler
Brooklyn
Adi Shamir
Tel Aviv
Adin Steinsaltz
Jerusalem
Adora Svitak
Springfield
Adragon Eastwood De Mello
Ainan Celeste Cawley
Singapore
Akiane Kramarik
Mount Morris
Akrit Jaswal
Nurpur
Akshay Venkatesh
New Delhi
Alan Greenspan
New York
Alan Guth
New Brunswick
Alan Turing
Maida Vale
Alan Watts
Chislehurst
Albert Camus
Mondovi
Alex Karp
New York
Alice Munro
Wingham
Alireza Firouzja
Babol
Alma Deutscher
Basingstoke

Analysis: Ancient & Medieval vs Modern (20th-21st Century)

MetricAncient & MedievalModern (20th-21st Century)
Total Geniuses159477
Average IQ00
Highest IQ00
Lowest IQ00
IQ Data Available0 of 1590 of 477
Top CountryItalyUnited States

Modern (20th-21st Century) geniuses have a comparable average IQ by 0 points. The modern (20th-21st century) group is larger with more recorded geniuses in our database.

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Who has a higher average IQ — Ancient & Medieval or Modern (20th-21st Century) geniuses?

Modern (20th-21st Century) geniuses have a higher average IQ (0) compared to 0 for the other group.

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How many ancient & medieval geniuses are there compared to modern (20th-21st century) geniuses?

Our database includes 159 ancient & medieval geniuses and 477 modern (20th-21st century) geniuses.

What is the highest IQ among ancient & medieval geniuses?

The highest recorded IQ among ancient & medieval geniuses in our database is 0.