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Renaissance Geniuses vs Enlightenment Geniuses

The rebirth of learning versus the age of reason — two golden eras compared.

Renaissance Geniuses

146 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: England
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Heřmanice
Alexander Pope
London
Andreas Vesalius
Brussels
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
London
Anthony van Dyck
Antwerp
Antoine Arnauld
Paris
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Delft
Athanasius Kircher
Geisa
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Seville
Baruch Spinoza
Amsterdam
Ben Jonson
Westminster
Benoît de Maillet
France
Blaise Pascal
Clermont-Ferrand
Cardinal Mazarin
Pescina
Cardinal Richelieu
Christiaan Huygens
The Hague
Christian Thomasius
Leipzig
Christian Wolff
Breslau
Christopher Wren
East Knoyle
Cornelius Jansen
Acquoy
Daniel Defoe
London
Daniel Sennert
Breslau
Denis Papin
Chitenay
Diego Velázquez
Seville
Edmond Halley
Haggerston
Edmund Spenser
London
Elizabeth I
Palace of Placentia
Emanuel Swedenborg
Stockholm
Francesco Redi
Arezzo
Francis Atterbury
Middleton
VS

Enlightenment Geniuses

216 Geniuses Avg IQ: 0 Max IQ: 0 Top: France
Adam Smith
Kirkcaldy
Adolphe Quetelet
Ghent
Adolphe Thiers
Bouc-Bel-Air
Adrien Marie Legendre
Paris
Albrecht von Haller
Bern
Alessandro Volta
Como
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Pushkin
Moscow
Alexander von Humboldt
Berlin
Ali Pasha of Ioannina
Beçisht
Alphonse de Lamartine
Mâcon
Amedeo Avogadro
Turin
Andrew Jackson
Waxhaw Settlement between North Carolina and South Carolina
André-Marie Ampère
Lyon
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
Varzy
André Masséna
Nice
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Antoine Lavoisier
Paris
Antonio Canova
Possagno
Arthur Schopenhauer
Danzig (Gdańsk)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
6 Merrion Street
August von Kotzebue
Weimar
Auguste Comte
Montpellier
Auguste de Marmont
Châtillon-sur-Seine
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Broglie
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Paris
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Geneva
Baron d'Holbach
Edesheim near Landau
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Copenhagen
Benjamin Constant
Lausanne

Analysis: Renaissance vs Enlightenment

MetricRenaissanceEnlightenment
Total Geniuses146216
Average IQ00
Highest IQ00
Lowest IQ00
IQ Data Available0 of 1460 of 216
Top CountryEnglandFrance

Enlightenment geniuses have a comparable average IQ by 0 points. The enlightenment group is larger with more recorded geniuses in our database.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who has a higher average IQ — Renaissance or Enlightenment geniuses?

Enlightenment geniuses have a higher average IQ (0) compared to 0 for the other group.

How many renaissance geniuses are there compared to enlightenment geniuses?

Our database includes 146 renaissance geniuses and 216 enlightenment geniuses.

What is the highest IQ among renaissance geniuses?

The highest recorded IQ among renaissance geniuses in our database is 0.

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