| Rank | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1st | Henry Adams 🇺🇸 | 195 | 1838 | The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817 |
| 2 2nd | James Clerk Maxwell | 185 | 1831 | Statistical mechanics <br> Maxwell's equations <br> Displacement current <br> Maxwell relations |
| 3 3rd | Ernst Haeckel 🇩🇪 | 180 | 1834 | Mapping a genealogical tree relating all life forms |
| 4 | Dmitri Mendeleev 🇷🇺 | 175 | 1834 | Formulating the periodic table of chemical elements |
| 5 | Andrew Carnegie 🇺🇸 | 175 | 1835 | Founding and leading the Carnegie Steel Company, the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Institution for Scie… |
| 6 | William Stanley Jevons | 175 | 1835 | Marginal utility theoryJevons paradox |
| 7 | Ernst Mach 🇦🇹 | 175 | 1838 | Mach number <br> Mach's principle <br> Shock waves <br> Mach waves <br> Mach reflection effects <br>… |
| 8 | Mark Twain 🇺🇸 | 170 | 1835 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer <br> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| 9 | John Burroughs 🇺🇸 | 170 | 1837 | Being an active in the U.S. conservation movement. |
| 10 | Johannes Brahms 🇩🇪 | 165 | 1833 | Hungarian Dance No. 5 |
| 11 | Léon Gambetta 🇫🇷 | 155 | 1838 | |
| 12 | Alfred M. Mayer 🇺🇸 | 150 | 1836 | Experiments with sound. |
| 13 | Jay Gould 🇺🇸 | 145 | 1836 | Being one of America's most infamous financial speculators |
| 14 | Carl Filtsch 🇷🇴 | — | 1830 | Composed concerto at thirteen; died at age fourteen |
| 15 | Joseph Joachim 🇭🇺 | — | 1831 | Joachim Quartet |
The Victorian age was dawning as railways began knitting nations together and the telegraph era approached. Darwin set sail on the Beagle, laying the groundwork for the theory of evolution, while Dickens was beginning to document industrial society's costs. Revolutions rippled across Europe in 1830, and the pace of scientific and technological change was accelerating beyond anything previous generations had imagined.
Henry Adams is ranked #1 among geniuses born in the 1830s with an estimated IQ of 195, known for The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817.
Our database includes 26 notable geniuses born between 1830–1839, spanning fields from science and mathematics to philosophy, literature, and the arts.
The average estimated IQ of documented geniuses born in the 1830s is 170, with the highest recorded being 195.
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