Historical Geniuses

William James Sidis1898 – 1944IQ 250 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749 – 1832IQ 200 Leonardo Da Vinci1452 – 1519IQ 200 Leopold and Loeb1905 – 1971IQ 200 Gilbert N. Lewis1875 – 1946IQ 195 Henry Adams1838 – 1918IQ 195 Hermann von Helmholtz1821 – 1894IQ 195 Ludwig Boltzmann1844 – 1906IQ 195 Nikola Tesla1856 – 1943IQ 195 Pierre-Simon Laplace1749 – 1827IQ 195 Athanasius Kircher1602 – 1680IQ 190 Baron d'Holbach1723 – 1789IQ 190 Carl Friedrich Gauss1777 – 1855IQ 190 Christiaan Huygens1629 – 1695IQ 190 Enrico Fermi1901 – 1954IQ 190 Erwin Schrödinger1887 – 1961IQ 190 Francis Bacon1561 – 1626IQ 190 Friedrich Nietzsche1844 – 1900IQ 190 Giordano Bruno1548 – 1600IQ 190 Henri Poincaré1854 – 1912IQ 190 Isaac Newton1643 – 1727IQ 190 John von Neumann1903 – 1957IQ 190 Joseph-Louis Lagrange1736 – 1813IQ 190 Leonhard Euler1707 – 1783IQ 190 Linus Pauling1901 – 1994IQ 190 Max Planck1858 – 1947IQ 190 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot1796 – 1832IQ 190 Paul Dirac1902 – 1984IQ 190 Pierre Gassendi1592 – 1655IQ 190 Vilfredo Pareto1848 – 1923IQ 190 Voltaire1694 – 1778IQ 190 Wilhelm Ostwald1853 – 1932IQ 190 William Shakespeare1564 – 1616IQ 190 Alan Turing1912 – 1954IQ 185 Alfred J. Lotka1880 – 1949IQ 185 Arthur Schopenhauer1788 – 1860IQ 185 Auguste Comte1798 – 1857IQ 185 Blaise Pascal1623 – 1662IQ 185 Ctesibius285 – 222IQ 185 Epicurus341 – 270IQ 185 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling1775 – 1854IQ 185 Gerald Massey1828 – 1907IQ 185 Heraclitus535 – 475IQ 185 Hero of Alexandria10 – 70IQ 185 Humphry Davy1778 – 1829IQ 185 Immanuel Kant1724 – 1804IQ 185 James Clerk Maxwell1831 – 1879IQ 185 Jean le Rond d'Alembert1717 – 1783IQ 185 Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales1741 – 1816IQ 185 Leon Winiarski1865 – 1915IQ 185 Otto von Guericke1602 – 1686IQ 185 Percy Bysshe Shelley1792 – 1822IQ 185 Percy Williams Bridgman1882 – 1961IQ 185 Pierre Louis Maupertuis1698 – 1759IQ 185 Robert Boyle1627 – 1691IQ 185 Roger Joseph Boscovich1711 – 1787IQ 185 Satyendra Nath Bose1894 – 1974IQ 185 Sigmund Freud1856 – 1939IQ 185 Thomas Edison1847 – 1931IQ 185 Thomas Hobbes1588 – 1679IQ 185 Thomas Young1773 – 1829IQ 185 William Gilbert (physician)1544 – 1603IQ 185 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin1824 – 1907IQ 185 Ettore Majorana1906 – 1938IQ 183 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646 – 1716IQ 182 Theodor Schwann1810 – 1882IQ 182 Albertus Magnus1200 – 1280IQ 180 Alexander Graham Bell1847 – 1922IQ 180 Alexander Pope1688 – 1744IQ 180 Alexander the Great356 – 323IQ 180 Alexander von Humboldt1769 – 1859IQ 180 Anaxagoras500 – 428IQ 180 Anaximander610 – 546IQ 180 André-Marie Ampère1775 – 1836IQ 180 Antoine Lavoisier1743 – 1794IQ 180 Arthur Conan Doyle1859 – 1930IQ 180 Augustin-Jean Fresnel1788 – 1827IQ 180 Augustine of Hippo354 – 430IQ 180 Avicenna980 – 1037IQ 180 Barthold Georg Niebuhr1776 – 1831IQ 180 Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790IQ 180 Bernhard Riemann1826 – 1866IQ 180 Bertrand Russell1872 – 1970IQ 180 Carl Linnaeus1707 – 1778IQ 180 Charlemagne742 – 814IQ 180 Charles Darwin1809 – 1882IQ 180 Charles Scott Sherrington1857 – 1952IQ 180 Claude Shannon1916 – 2001IQ 180 David Hume1711 – 1776IQ 180 Denis Diderot1713 – 1784IQ 180 Denis Papin1647 – 1713IQ 180 Edward Gibbon1737 – 1794IQ 180 Ernst Haeckel1834 – 1919IQ 180 Euripides480 – 406IQ 180 Filippo Brunelleschi1377 – 1446IQ 180 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth1845 – 1926IQ 180 François Fénelon1651 – 1715IQ 180 Frederick Rossini1899 – 1990IQ 180 Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881IQ 180 Galileo Galilei1564 – 1642IQ 180 Genghis Khan1155 – 1227IQ 180 George Berkeley1685 – 1753IQ 180 George Bernard Shaw1856 – 1950IQ 180 George Green 1793 – 1841IQ 180 Giacomo Leopardi1798 – 1837IQ 180 Hans Christian Ørsted1777 – 1851IQ 180 Heinrich Hertz1857 – 1894IQ 180 Hendrik Lorentz1853 – 1928IQ 180 Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux1778 – 1868IQ 180 Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau1749 – 1791IQ 180 Ivan Pavlov1849 – 1936IQ 180 Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet1627 – 1704IQ 180 James Anthony Froude1818 – 1894IQ 180 James Madison1751 – 1836IQ 180 James Prescott Joule1818 – 1889IQ 180 Jean Fernel1497 – 1558IQ 180 Jean Sylvain Bailly1736 – 1793IQ 180 Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712 – 1778IQ 180 Jeremy Bentham1748 – 1832IQ 180 Johannes Kepler1571 – 1630IQ 180 John Bardeen1908 – 1991IQ 180 John Forbes Nash Jr.1928 – 2015IQ 180 John Locke1632 – 1704IQ 180 John Stuart Mill1806 – 1873IQ 180 John Toland1670 – 1722IQ 180 John Tukey1915 – 2000IQ 180 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh1842 – 1919IQ 180 Jorge Luis Borges1899 – 1986IQ 180 Joseph Fourier1768 – 1830IQ 180 Joseph John Thomson1856 – 1940IQ 180 Julius von Mayer1814 – 1878IQ 180 Jöns Jacob Berzelius1779 – 1848IQ 180 Karl Marx1818 – 1883IQ 180 Lawrence Joseph Henderson1878 – 1942IQ 180 Leo Tolstoy1828 – 1910IQ 180 Leon Battista Alberti1404 – 1472IQ 180 Lord Byron1788 – 1824IQ 180 Louis de Broglie1892 – 1987IQ 180 Ludwig Büchner1824 – 1899IQ 180 Ludwig van Beethoven1770 – 1827IQ 180 Macquorn Rankine1820 – 1872IQ 180 Marcus Aurelius121 – 180IQ 180 Marie Curie1867 – 1934IQ 180 Marquis de Condorcet1743 – 1794IQ 180 Mary Somerville1780 – 1872IQ 180 Michel de Montaigne1533 – 1592IQ 180 Mimar Sinan1488 – 1588IQ 180 Napoleon Bonaparte1769 – 1821IQ 180 Niccolò Machiavelli1469 – 1527IQ 180 Nicholas of Cusa1401 – 1464IQ 180 Niels Bohr1885 – 1962IQ 180 Oliver Heaviside1850 – 1925IQ 180 Paolo Sarpi1552 – 1623IQ 180 Phidias480 – 430IQ 180 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881 – 1955IQ 180 Plato428 – 348IQ 180 Socrates470 – 399IQ 180 Stephen Hawking1942 – 2018IQ 180 Strabo63 – 24IQ 180 Søren Kierkegaard1813 – 1855IQ 180 Thomas Paine1737 – 1809IQ 180 Thomas Wolsey1473 – 1530IQ 180 Tommaso Campanella1568 – 1639IQ 180 Torbern Bergman1735 – 1784IQ 180 Torquato Tasso1544 – 1595IQ 180 Victor Hugo1802 – 1885IQ 180 Werner Heisenberg1901 – 1976IQ 180 Wernher von Braun1912 – 1977IQ 180 Willem Jacob 's Gravesande1688 – 1742IQ 180 William Harvey1578 – 1657IQ 180 William Pitt the Younger1759 – 1806IQ 180 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire1772 – 1844IQ 180 Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri973 – 1057IQ 178 René Descartes1596 – 1650IQ 178 Erasmus1469 – 1536IQ 177 Michelangelo1475 – 1564IQ 177 Abraham Lincoln1809 – 1865IQ 175 Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan721 – 813IQ 175 Adolphe Quetelet1796 – 1874IQ 175 Adrien Marie Legendre1752 – 1833IQ 175 Albrecht von Haller1708 – 1777IQ 175 Alessandro Volta1745 – 1827IQ 175 Alfred Russel Wallace1823 – 1913IQ 175 Andrew Carnegie1835 – 1919IQ 175 Antoine Arnauld1612 – 1694IQ 175 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek1632 – 1723IQ 175 Aristarchus of Samos310 – 230IQ 175 Arnold Sommerfeld1868 – 1951IQ 175 Averroes - Ibn Rushd1126 – 1198IQ 175 Baruch Spinoza1632 – 1677IQ 175 Boethius477 – 524IQ 175 Dante Alighieri1265 – 1321IQ 175 Dmitri Mendeleev1834 – 1907IQ 175 Edmond Halley1656 – 1742IQ 175 Elizabeth I1533 – 1603IQ 175 Eratosthenes276 – 194IQ 175 Ernst Mach1838 – 1916IQ 175 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor1194 – 1250IQ 175 Frederick Sanger1918 – 2013IQ 175 George Boole1815 – 1864IQ 175 George Gore (electrochemist)1826 – 1908IQ 175 George Stephenson1781 – 1848IQ 175 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon1707 – 1788IQ 175 Germaine de Staël1766 – 1817IQ 175 Gerolamo Cardano1501 – 1576IQ 175 Gustav Kirchhoff1824 – 1887IQ 175 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes1853 – 1926IQ 175 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke1678 – 1751IQ 175 Henry Thomas Buckle1821 – 1862IQ 175 Hernán Cortés1485 – 1547IQ 175 Herodotus484 – 425IQ 175 Hippocrates460 – 370IQ 175 Ibn al-Haytham965 – 1040IQ 175 Jacques Auguste de Thou1553 – 1617IQ 175 James Thomson (poet, born 1700)1700 – 1748IQ 175 Jean-François Champollion1790 – 1832IQ 175 John Adams1735 – 1826IQ 175 John Witherspoon1723 – 1794IQ 175 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac1778 – 1850IQ 175 Justus von Liebig1803 – 1873IQ 175 Lope de Vega1562 – 1635IQ 175 Louis Agassiz1807 – 1873IQ 175 Louis Pasteur1822 – 1895IQ 175 Lucian125 – 180IQ 175 Lucilio Vanini1585 – 1619IQ 175 Ludwig Wittgenstein1889 – 1951IQ 175 Luigi Galvani1737 – 1798IQ 175 Marcel Duchamp1887 – 1968IQ 175 Marcus Terentius Varro116 – 27IQ 175 Margaret Fuller1810 – 1850IQ 175 Mary Shelley1797 – 1851IQ 175 Michael Faraday1791 – 1867IQ 175 Nicolas Malebranche1638 – 1715IQ 175 Origen184 – 253IQ 175 Pablo Picasso1881 – 1973IQ 175 Paracelsus1493 – 1541IQ 175 Petrarch1304 – 1374IQ 175 Pherecydes of Syros580 – 520IQ 175 Pitirim Sorokin1889 – 1968IQ 175 Polybius200 – 118IQ 175 Ptolemy100 – 170IQ 175 R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz1887 – 1961IQ 175 Richard Wagner1813 – 1883IQ 175 Robert Andrews Millikan1868 – 1953IQ 175 Robert Bunsen1811 – 1899IQ 175 Robert Peel1788 – 1850IQ 175 Robert Taylor1784 – 1844IQ 175 Rudolf Clausius1822 – 1888IQ 175 Salvador Dalí1904 – 1989IQ 175 Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772 – 1834IQ 175 Srinivasa Ramanujan1887 – 1920IQ 175 Theodorus the Atheist340 – 250IQ 175 Theophrastus371 – 287IQ 175 Thomas Babington Macaulay1800 – 1859IQ 175 Thomas Browne1605 – 1682IQ 175 Walther Nernst1864 – 1941IQ 175 Wilhelm von Humboldt1767 – 1835IQ 175 William Kingdon Clifford1845 – 1879IQ 175 William Shockley1910 – 1989IQ 175 William Stanley Jevons1835 – 1882IQ 175 William Whewell1794 – 1866IQ 175 Wolfgang Pauli1900 – 1958IQ 175 Xavier Bichat1771 – 1802IQ 175 Xenophanes570 – 478IQ 175 Aeschylus524 – 455IQ 173 Francis Crick1916 – 2004IQ 173 Nicolaus Copernicus1473 – 1543IQ 173 Sophocles497 – 406IQ 173 Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli870 – 941IQ 170 Adam Smith1723 – 1790IQ 170 Akhenaten? – 1336IQ 170 Alfred de Musset1810 – 1857IQ 170 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot1727 – 1781IQ 170 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671 – 1713IQ 170 August von Kotzebue1761 – 1819IQ 170 Ben Jonson1572 – 1637IQ 170 Benjamin Constant1767 – 1830IQ 170 Charles Babbage1791 – 1871IQ 170 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb1736 – 1806IQ 170 Christian Doppler1803 – 1853IQ 170 Christian Thomasius1655 – 1728IQ 170 Christopher Hitchens1949 – 2011IQ 170 Confucius551 – 479IQ 170 Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney1757 – 1820IQ 170 Daniel Sennert1572 – 1637IQ 170 David Strauss1808 – 1874IQ 170 Diego Velázquez1599 – 1660IQ 170 Diogenes412 – 323IQ 170 Edmund Husserl1859 – 1938IQ 170 Edmund Spenser1552 – 1599IQ 170 Edwin Hubble1889 – 1953IQ 170 Epictetus50 – 135IQ 170 Ernest Hemingway1899 – 1961IQ 170 Ernest Renan1823 – 1892IQ 170 Eudoxus of Cnidus408 – 355IQ 170 Francis Atterbury1663 – 1732IQ 170 François Rabelais1483 – 1553IQ 170 François de La Mothe Le Vayer1588 – 1672IQ 170 François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)1613 – 1680IQ 170 Friedrich August Wolf1759 – 1824IQ 170 Galen129 – 200IQ 170 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg1742 – 1799IQ 170 Georg Ernst Stahl1659 – 1734IQ 170 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770 – 1831IQ 170 Georges Cuvier1769 – 1832IQ 170 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807 – 1882IQ 170 Herman Hollerith1860 – 1929IQ 170 Howard Robard Hughes1905 – 1976IQ 170 Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais1782 – 1854IQ 170 Hypatia350 – 415IQ 170 Ilya Prigogine1917 – 2003IQ 170 Isaac Asimov1920 – 1992IQ 170 Jean Meslier1664 – 1729IQ 170 Jean Racine1639 – 1699IQ 170 Jean-Paul Marat1743 – 1793IQ 170 Johann Joachim Becher1635 – 1682IQ 170 Johann Reuchlin1455 – 1522IQ 170 John Burroughs1837 – 1921IQ 170 John Dewey1859 – 1952IQ 170 John Maynard Keynes1883 – 1946IQ 170 John Napier1550 – 1617IQ 170 John Quincy Adams1767 – 1848IQ 170 John Ray1627 – 1705IQ 170 John Tyndall1820 – 1893IQ 170 Julien Offray de La Mettrie1709 – 1751IQ 170 Julius Caesar100 – 44IQ 170 Kurt Gödel1906 – 1978IQ 170 Laozi6 – 4IQ 170 Lazare Carnot1753 – 1823IQ 170 Ludwig Feuerbach1804 – 1872IQ 170 Maimonides1138 – 1204IQ 170 Marion Tinsley1927 – 1995IQ 170 Mark Twain1835 – 1910IQ 170 Martin Luther1483 – 1546IQ 170 Max Weber1864 – 1920IQ 170 Maximilien Robespierre1758 – 1794IQ 170 Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi854 – 932IQ 170 Nicolaas Hartsoeker1656 – 1725IQ 170 Norbert Wiener1894 – 1964IQ 170 Novalis1772 – 1801IQ 170 Oswald Spengler1880 – 1936IQ 170 Pedro Calderón de la Barca1600 – 1681IQ 170 Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud1753 – 1793IQ 170 Pietro Metastasio1698 – 1782IQ 170 Pliny the Elder24 – 79IQ 170 Plotinus204 – 270IQ 170 Posidonius135 – 51IQ 170 Qin Shi Huang259 – 210IQ 170 Raphael1483 – 1520IQ 170 Regiomontanus1436 – 1476IQ 170 Richard Bentley1662 – 1742IQ 170 Robert M. Pirsig1928 – 2017IQ 170 Robert Southey1774 – 1843IQ 170 Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet1788 – 1856IQ 170 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910 – 1995IQ 170 Thomas Aquinas1225 – 1274IQ 170 Thomas Chalmers1780 – 1847IQ 170 Thomas Chatterton1752 – 1770IQ 170 Thomas Henry Huxley1825 – 1895IQ 170 Washington Irving1783 – 1859IQ 170 Wilder Penfield1891 – 1976IQ 170 William Butler Yeats1865 – 1939IQ 170 William James1842 – 1910IQ 170 William Penn1644 – 1718IQ 170 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham1708 – 1778IQ 170 William of Ockham1285 – 1347IQ 170 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756 – 1791IQ 170 Zeno of Citium334 – 262IQ 170 Émile Durkheim1858 – 1917IQ 170 Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934 – 2012IQ 168 Andrea del Verrocchio1435 – 1488IQ 166 Antoni Gaudí1852 – 1926IQ 165 Benjamin Disraeli1804 – 1881IQ 165 Callimachus500 – 429IQ 165 Carl Jung1875 – 1961IQ 165 Carl Maria von Weber1786 – 1826IQ 165 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve1804 – 1869IQ 165 Charles Dickens1812 – 1870IQ 165 Charles H. Townes1915 – 2015IQ 165 Charlotte Brontë1816 – 1855IQ 165 Christopher Wren1632 – 1723IQ 165 Daniel Defoe1660 – 1731IQ 165 Daniel Webster1782 – 1852IQ 165 Edward Jenner1749 – 1823IQ 165 Emanuel Swedenborg1688 – 1772IQ 165 Ennius239 – 169IQ 165 Felix Mendelssohn1809 – 1847IQ 165 Francesco Guicciardini1483 – 1540IQ 165 Francisco Suárez1548 – 1617IQ 165 François Guizot1787 – 1874IQ 165 François Quesnay1694 – 1774IQ 165 Frederick the Great1712 – 1786IQ 165 Frédéric Chopin1810 – 1849IQ 165 Gaius Lucilius180 – 102IQ 165 Geoffrey Chaucer1340 – 1400IQ 165 George Canning1770 – 1827IQ 165 George Frideric Handel1685 – 1759IQ 165 Gilbert Burnet1643 – 1715IQ 165 Giuseppe Mazzini1807 – 1872IQ 165 Giuseppe Verdi1813 – 1901IQ 165 Gottlob Frege1848 – 1925IQ 165 Gregor Mendel1822 – 1884IQ 165 Guglielmo Marconi1874 – 1937IQ 165 Gustav Fechner1801 – 1887IQ 165 Heinrich Heine1797 – 1856IQ 165 Henri de Saint-Simon1760 – 1825IQ 165 Henry Fielding1707 – 1754IQ 165 Henry Ford1863 – 1947IQ 165 Herman Boerhaave1668 – 1738IQ 165 Huldrych Zwingli1484 – 1531IQ 165 Igor Stravinsky1882 – 1971IQ 165 James Watt1736 – 1819IQ 165 Jean de La Bruyère1645 – 1696IQ 165 Johann Gottfried Herder1744 – 1803IQ 165 Johann Gottlieb Fichte1762 – 1814IQ 165 Johann Joachim Winckelmann1717 – 1768IQ 165 Johann Sebastian Bach1685 – 1750IQ 165 Johannes Brahms1833 – 1897IQ 165 John Henry Newman1801 – 1890IQ 165 John Law1671 – 1729IQ 165 Joseph Addison1672 – 1719IQ 165 Joseph Fouché1759 – 1820IQ 165 Joseph Lister1827 – 1912IQ 165 Joseph Priestley1733 – 1804IQ 165 Karl Pearson1857 – 1936IQ 165 Karl Popper1902 – 1994IQ 165 Lise Meitner1878 – 1968IQ 165 Ludvig Holberg1684 – 1754IQ 165 Marcello Malpighi1628 – 1694IQ 165 Marquis de Sade1740 – 1814IQ 165 Martin Heidegger1889 – 1976IQ 165 Montesquieu1689 – 1755IQ 165 Moses Mendelssohn1729 – 1786IQ 165 Pierre Bayle1647 – 1706IQ 165 Pierre Beaumarchais1732 – 1799IQ 165 Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751 – 1816IQ 165 Samuel Johnson1709 – 1784IQ 165 Sappho630 – 570IQ 165 Seneca the Younger4 – 65IQ 165 Sun Tzu544 – 496IQ 165 Theodore Beza1519 – 1605IQ 165 Theodore Maiman1927 – 2007IQ 165 Tycho Brahe1546 – 1601IQ 165 Vincenzo Galilei1520 – 1591IQ 165 Walter Raleigh1552 – 1618IQ 165 Walter Scott1771 – 1832IQ 165 Warren Hastings1732 – 1818IQ 165 William Herschel1738 – 1822IQ 165 William Robertson (historian)1721 – 1793IQ 165 William Wordsworth1770 – 1850IQ 165 Wright brothers1867 – 1948IQ 165 Évariste Galois1811 – 1832IQ 165 Acharya S1960 – 2015IQ 160 Ada Lovelace1815 – 1852IQ 160 Adolphe Thiers1797 – 1877IQ 160 Albert Einstein1879 – 1955IQ 160 Alfred Wegener1880 – 1930IQ 160 Alphonse de Lamartine1790 – 1869IQ 160 André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin1783 – 1865IQ 160 Antonio Canova1757 – 1822IQ 160 Augustin-Louis Cauchy1789 – 1857IQ 160 Ayn Rand1905 – 1982IQ 160 Bede672 – 735IQ 160 Cardinal Mazarin1602 – 1661IQ 160 Cardinal Richelieu1585 – 1642IQ 160 Charles Sumner1811 – 1874IQ 160 Charles-Guillaume Étienne1778 – 1845IQ 160 Christian Wolff 1679 – 1754IQ 160 Christoph Martin Wieland1733 – 1813IQ 160 Claude Adrien Helvétius1715 – 1771IQ 160 Claude Bernard1813 – 1878IQ 160 Cornelius Jansen1585 – 1638IQ 160 Demosthenes384 – 322IQ 160 Diodorus Siculus90 – 30IQ 160 Elizabeth Gaskell1810 – 1865IQ 160 Erich Fromm1900 – 1980IQ 160 François-René de Chateaubriand1768 – 1848IQ 160 Frederick Douglass1818 – 1895IQ 160 Friedrich Schleiermacher1768 – 1834IQ 160 George Eliot1819 – 1880IQ 160 George Grote1794 – 1871IQ 160 George Sand1804 – 1876IQ 160 George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon1800 – 1870IQ 160 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1729 – 1781IQ 160 Harriet Martineau1802 – 1876IQ 160 Hector Berlioz1803 – 1869IQ 160 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa1486 – 1535IQ 160 Henry David Thoreau1817 – 1862IQ 160 Hildegard of Bingen1098 – 1179IQ 160 Jacob Grimm1785 – 1863IQ 160 John Bunyan1628 – 1688IQ 160 John Dryden1631 – 1700IQ 160 John Hunter (surgeon)1728 – 1793IQ 160 John Wesley1703 – 1791IQ 160 Joseph Haydn1732 – 1809IQ 160 Joseph Marie Jacquard1752 – 1834IQ 160 Lancelot Andrewes1555 – 1626IQ 160 Léon Foucault1819 – 1868IQ 160 Macrobius370 – 430IQ 160 Mahatma Gandhi1869 – 1948IQ 160 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné1626 – 1696IQ 160 Marvin Minsky1927 – 2016IQ 160 Mary Wollstonecraft1759 – 1797IQ 160 Michel de l'Hôpital1507 – 1573IQ 160 Molière1622 – 1673IQ 160 Omar Khayyam1048 – 1131IQ 160 Paul Allen1953 – 2018IQ 160 Peter Abelard1079 – 1142IQ 160 Peter Paul Rubens1577 – 1640IQ 160 Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope1805 – 1875IQ 160 Pierre Corneille1606 – 1684IQ 160 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840 – 1893IQ 160 Ralph Cudworth1617 – 1688IQ 160 Samuel Clarke1675 – 1729IQ 160 Sandro Botticelli? – 1510IQ 160 Sergei Rachmaninoff1873 – 1943IQ 160 Steve Jobs1955 – 2011IQ 160 Tertullian155 – 240IQ 160 Vergilius of Salzburg700 – 784IQ 160 Vittorio Alfieri1749 – 1803IQ 160 William Cowper1731 – 1800IQ 160 William Ellery Channing1780 – 1842IQ 160 William Godwin1756 – 1836IQ 160 Xenophon430 – 354IQ 160 Sofya Kovalevskaya1850 – 1891IQ 156 Albert Camus1913 – 1960IQ 155 Albrecht Dürer1471 – 1528IQ 155 Alexander Hamilton1755 – 1804IQ 155 Anthony van Dyck1599 – 1641IQ 155 Charles James Fox1749 – 1806IQ 155 Daniel O'Connell1775 – 1847IQ 155 E. A. Wallis Budge1857 – 1934IQ 155 Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803 – 1873IQ 155 Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon1635 – 1719IQ 155 George Fox1624 – 1691IQ 155 Georges Danton1759 – 1794IQ 155 Giacomo Casanova1725 – 1798IQ 155 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina1525 – 1594IQ 155 Girolamo Savonarola1452 – 1498IQ 155 Hannibal247 – 183IQ 155 Honoré de Balzac1799 – 1850IQ 155 Hugh Miller1802 – 1856IQ 155 Jacques Necker1732 – 1804IQ 155 Jean de La Fontaine1621 – 1695IQ 155 Jean-Paul Sartre1905 – 1980IQ 155 John F. Kennedy1917 – 1963IQ 155 Livy59 – 17IQ 155 Ludwig Tieck1773 – 1853IQ 155 Léon Gambetta1838 – 1882IQ 155 Maria Montessori1870 – 1952IQ 155 Miguel de Cervantes1547 – 1616IQ 155 Milton Friedman1912 – 2006IQ 155 Nathaniel Hawthorne1804 – 1864IQ 155 Orestes Brownson1803 – 1876IQ 155 Otto Weininger1880 – 1903IQ 155 Pierre-Jean de Béranger1780 – 1857IQ 155 Ralph Waldo Emerson1803 – 1882IQ 155 Richard Baxter1615 – 1691IQ 155 Richard Cobden1804 – 1865IQ 155 Robert Blake (admiral)1598 – 1657IQ 155 Robert Fulton1765 – 1815IQ 155 Robert Koch1843 – 1910IQ 155 Robert Walpole1676 – 1745IQ 155 Simón Bolívar1783 – 1830IQ 155 Theodore Roosevelt1858 – 1919IQ 155 Thomas Carlyle1795 – 1881IQ 155 Thomas Moore1779 – 1852IQ 155 William Blake1757 – 1827IQ 155 William H. Prescott1796 – 1859IQ 155 William H. Seward1801 – 1872IQ 155 William Temple (logician)1555 – 1627IQ 155 William Warburton1698 – 1779IQ 155 William Wilberforce1759 – 1833IQ 155 Woodrow Wilson1856 – 1924IQ 155 Zeno of Elea495 – 430IQ 155 Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826IQ 154 Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 – 1945IQ 151 Aesop620 – 564IQ 150 Alfred M. Mayer1836 – 1897IQ 150 Auguste de Marmont1774 – 1852IQ 150 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo1617 – 1682IQ 150 Benoît de Maillet1656 – 1738IQ 150 Charles Lyell1797 – 1875IQ 150 Clive Staples Lewis1898 – 1963IQ 150 Frederick Matthias Alexander1869 – 1955IQ 150 Georges-Louis Le Sage1724 – 1803IQ 150 Hans Lipperhey1570 – 1619IQ 150 Hesiod750 – 650IQ 150 Horace65 – 8IQ 150 Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson1758 – 1805IQ 150 Jean-de-Dieu Soult1769 – 1851IQ 150 John Bright1811 – 1889IQ 150 John Franklin1786 – 1847IQ 150 John Wilkes1725 – 1797IQ 150 Joseph Leidy1823 – 1891IQ 150 Muhammad Ali1942 – 2016IQ 150 Rembrandt1606 – 1669IQ 150 Robert Burns1759 – 1796IQ 150 Stanley Kubrick1928 – 1999IQ 150 Thorstein Veblen1857 – 1929IQ 150 Truman Capote1924 – 1984IQ 150 William Cobbett1763 – 1835IQ 150 William Makepeace Thackeray1811 – 1863IQ 150 Martha Graham1894 – 1991IQ 148 Alan Watts1915 – 1973IQ 145 Andrew Jackson1767 – 1845IQ 145 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769 – 1852IQ 145 Christoph Willibald Gluck1714 – 1787IQ 145 Edgar Allan Poe1809 – 1849IQ 145 F. Scott Fitzgerald1896 – 1940IQ 145 Ferdinand Magellan1480 – 1521IQ 145 Francis Galton1822 – 1911IQ 145 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher1742 – 1819IQ 145 Gioachino Rossini1792 – 1868IQ 145 Giulio Alberoni1664 – 1752IQ 145 Hans Christian Andersen1805 – 1875IQ 145 Hippolyte Taine1828 – 1893IQ 145 Jan Žižka1360 – 1424IQ 145 Jay Gould1836 – 1892IQ 145 Jean Victor Marie Moreau1763 – 1813IQ 145 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough1650 – 1722IQ 145 Joshua Reynolds1723 – 1792IQ 145 Marco Polo1254 – 1324IQ 145 Muhammad Ali of Egypt1769 – 1849IQ 145 Nicolas Poussin1594 – 1665IQ 145 Poggio Bracciolini1380 – 1459IQ 145 Robert Frost1874 – 1963IQ 145 Titian1488 – 1576IQ 145 Willem Klein1912 – 1986IQ 145 William Hogarth1697 – 1764IQ 145 William Lloyd Garrison1805 – 1879IQ 145 William Tecumseh Sherman1820 – 1891IQ 145 Charles XIV John1763 – 1844IQ 140 Charlie Spencer Chaplin1889 – 1977IQ 140 Christopher Columbus1451 – 1506IQ 140 George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle1608 – 1670IQ 140 George Washington1732 – 1799IQ 140 Giuseppe Garibaldi1807 – 1882IQ 140 Hannah Arendt1906 – 1975IQ 140 Johannes Gutenberg1400 – 1468IQ 140 Martin Luther King Jr.1929 – 1968IQ 140 Robert Clive1725 – 1774IQ 140 Robert E. Lee1807 – 1870IQ 140 Sylvia Plath1932 – 1963IQ 140 Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban1633 – 1707IQ 140 Carl Sagan1934 – 1996IQ 130 Walt Disney1901 – 1966IQ 123 Kim Peek1951 – 2009IQ 87 James Bernoulli1654 – 1705 Aage Niels Bohr1922 – 2009 Abdus Salam1926 – 1996 Abu Kamil850 – 930 Abu Rayhan al-Biruni973 – 1048 Al-Battani858 – 929 Al-Kindi801 – 873 Albrecht von Wallenstein1583 – 1634 Alexander Fleming1881 – 1955 Alexander Pushkin1799 – 1837 Alexandre Dumas1802 – 1870 Alfred Nobel1833 – 1896 Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809 – 1892 Ali Pasha of Ioannina1740 – 1822 Amedeo Avogadro1776 – 1856 Anaximenes of Miletus586 – 526 Andreas Vesalius1514 – 1564 André Masséna1758 – 1817 Anna Komnene1083 – 1150 Anne Brontë1820 – 1849 Anton Chekhov1860 – 1904 Arfa Karim1995 – 2012 Arthur Compton1892 – 1962 Auguste Rodin1840 – 1917 Augustin Pyramus de Candolle1778 – 1841 Barbara McClintock1902 – 1992 Benjamin Bradley (inventor)1836 – 1904 Bobby Fischer1943 – 2008 Brahmagupta598 – 668 Burrhus Frederic Skinner1904 – 1990 C. V. Raman1888 – 1970 Camille Saint-Saëns1835 – 1921 Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour1810 – 1861 Carl David Anderson1905 – 1991 Carl Filtsch1830 – 1845 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi1804 – 1851 Carl Woese1928 – 2012 Caroline Herschel1750 – 1848 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin1900 – 1979 Charles Glover Barkla1877 – 1944 Charles Nicolle1866 – 1936 Charles-Valentin Alkan1813 – 1888 Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen1791 – 1860 Cicero106 – 43 Clara Schumann1819 – 1896 Clarence Darrow1857 – 1938 Claude Monet1840 – 1926 Claudio Arrau1903 – 1991 Cleanthes330 – 230 Cleopatra69 – 30 Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong1938 – 2015 Daniel Bernoulli1700 – 1782 David Farragut1801 – 1870 David Hilbert1862 – 1943 David Livingstone1813 – 1873 Diophantus214 – 298 Edmund Burke1729 – 1797 Edmund Thomas Clint1976 – 1983 Elie Wiesel1928 – 2016 Elizabeth Blackwell1821 – 1910 Emmy Noether1882 – 1935 Erich Wolfgang Korngold1897 – 1957 Ernest Lawrence1901 – 1958 Ernest Rutherford1871 – 1937 Ernest Walton1903 – 1995 Erwin Chargaff1905 – 2002 Esther Lederberg1922 – 2006 Euclid325 – 270 Eugene Merle Shoemaker1928 – 1997 Felix Klein1849 – 1925 Fibonacci1170 – 1250 Florence Nightingale1820 – 1910 Frances Oldham Kelsey1914 – 2015 Francesco Redi1626 – 1697 Francis Drake1540 – 1596 Franz Kafka1883 – 1924 Franz Liszt1811 – 1886 Franz Mesmer1734 – 1815 Franz Schubert1797 – 1828 François Arago1786 – 1853 Fred Hoyle1915 – 2001 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock1724 – 1803 Friedrich Schiller1759 – 1805 Fritz Albert Lipmann1899 – 1986 Georg Brandt1694 – 1768 George Wald1906 – 1997 George Washington Carver1860 – 1943 George de Hevesy1885 – 1966 Georges Bizet1838 – 1874 Georges Lemaître1894 – 1966 Gian Carlo Menotti1911 – 2007 Giulio Natta1903 – 1979 Glenn Gould1932 – 1982 Glenn T. Seaborg1912 – 1999 Grace Hopper1906 – 1992 Guillaume de l'Hôpital1661 – 1704 György Cziffra1921 – 1994 Harold Urey1893 – 1981 Hennig Brand1630 – 1710 Henri Matisse1869 – 1954 Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868 – 1921 Henry B. Guppy1854 – 1926 Henry Cavendish1731 – 1810 Henry Moseley1887 – 1915 Heraclides Ponticus390 – 310 Herbert George Wells1866 – 1946 Hermann Staudinger1881 – 1965 Hugo Grotius1583 – 1645 Ibn Arabi1165 – 1240 Inge Lehmann1888 – 1993 Irène Joliot-Curie1897 – 1956 Isaac Barrow1630 – 1677 Isambard Kingdom Brunel1806 – 1859 Ivan Turgenev1818 – 1883 J Harlen Bretz1882 – 1981 J. 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