Abraham Lincoln
IQ 175American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Adragon Eastwood De Mello
IQ 185Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age
Alan Guth
An American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
Alexander Hamilton
IQ 155An American founding father and statesman
Alfred J. Lotka
IQ 185A US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.
Alfred M. Mayer
IQ 150An American physicist.
Andrew Jackson
IQ 145An American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
Andrew Carnegie
IQ 175A Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
Arthur Compton
An American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect.
Awonder Liang
An American chess prodigy.
Barbara McClintock
An American scientist and cytogeneticist.
Benjamin Franklin
IQ 180American polymath and a Founding Father of the United States.
Bill Gates
IQ 160An American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Bobby Fischer
An American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
An American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
Carl David Anderson
An American physicist best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932.
Carl Woese
Discovery of Archaea
Carl Sagan
IQ 130American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
A British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed
Charles Sumner
IQ 160An American statesman and United States Senator who was the leader of the Radical Republicans.
Charles H. Townes
IQ 165An American physicist who worked on the theory and application of the maser and laser devices.
Chris Hirata
IQ 225An American cosmologist and astrophysicist.
Christopher Langan
IQ 174An American autodidact described as "the smartest man in America"
Clarence Darrow
An American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial
Claude Shannon
IQ 180An American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Craig Venter
An American biotechnologist and businessman known for leading the first draft sequence of the human genome and assemblin
Daniel Webster
IQ 165One of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century who worked on over 200 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court
Dariusz Świercz
A Polish-American chess player playing for the United States.
Donald Knuth
An American computer scientist who is called the "father of the analysis of algorithms" and is known for the work The Ar
Acharya S
IQ 160An American genius writer supporting the theory that Jesus never existed as a historical person.
Edgar Allan Poe
IQ 145An American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is considered the inventor of the detective fiction and is kno
Edith Stern
IQ 200An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan
Edward Witten
An American mathematical and theoretical physicist who was awarded a Fields Medal for the proof of the positive energy t
Edwin Hubble
IQ 170A genius American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observa
Emily Bear
A genius American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer who started playing the piano and composing music as a small
Ernest Lawrence
A pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclot
Ernest Hemingway
IQ 170An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman best known for his novels For Whom the Bell Tolls, A
Ethan Bortnick
An American pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer and musician who discovered a set of music skills when he was o
F. Scott Fitzgerald
IQ 145Is an American novelist and screenwriter known across the world for his novel The Great Gatsby.
Frank Drake
IQ 140An American astronomer and astrophysicist who was part of Project Ozma.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
IQ 151An American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
Frederick Douglass
IQ 160An American former slave, outspoken abolitionist and politician who was known for being able to peacefully debate with p
Frederick Rossini
IQ 180An American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
An American geologist whose ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission.
George Wald
An American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. His findings helped to determine how genetics influence the co
George Washington
IQ 140Being the first president of the United States
Gilbert N. Lewis
IQ 195Covalent bondLewis dot structuresValence bond theoryElectronic theory of acids and basesChemical thermodynamicsFugacityH
Glenn T. Seaborg
An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned
Grace Hopper
An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral who was one of the first programmers of the Harvard M
Harold Urey
An American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the d
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
An American astronomers who discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables
Henry Ford
IQ 165An American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company
Henry Adams
IQ 195American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents
Henry David Thoreau
IQ 160An American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher best known for his book Walden.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IQ 170American poet and educator who was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
IQ 168A United States Army general who led all coalition forces in the Gulf War.
Herman Hollerith
IQ 170An American businessman, inventor, and statistician who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched ca
Howard Robard Hughes
IQ 170An American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist who went mad b
Isaac Asimov
IQ 170An American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who is considered one of the most influential sci-
J Harlen Bretz
An American geologist, best known for his research that led to the acceptance of the Missoula Floods
Jack Horner (paleontologist)
An American paleontologist most famous for discovering and naming Maiasaura
Jacob Barnett
IQ 170A gifted American physics student and former child prodigy.
James Madison
IQ 180An American statesman and Founding Father who drafted and promoted the Constitution of the United States.
Jay Gould
IQ 145An American railroad magnate and financial speculator who is generally identified as one of the Robber barons of the Gil
Jeffery Xiong
American chess prodigy
Jerry Newport
An author and public speaker whose life was the basis for the 2005 feature-length movie Mozart and the Whale
John H. Sununu
IQ 180An American politician who was White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
John Dewey
IQ 170An American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer who was one of the most prominent American scholars in t
John F. Kennedy
IQ 155An American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the
John Tukey
IQ 180An American mathematician best known for development of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot.
John Quincy Adams
IQ 170An American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States.
John Witherspoon
IQ 175A Scottish American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States.
John Bardeen
IQ 180An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
John Burroughs
IQ 170An American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
IQ 180An American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of par
John Adams
IQ 175An American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United
Josef Hofmann
Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor
Joseph Henry
An American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Joseph Leidy
IQ 150An American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist.
Kit Armstrong
An American classical pianist, composer, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.