Jewish Geniuses

William James Sidis1898 – 1944IQ 250 Leopold and Loeb1905 – 1971IQ 200 Richard G. Rosner1960 – PresentIQ 192 Athanasius Kircher1602 – 1680IQ 190 Enrico Fermi1901 – 1954IQ 190 Friedrich Nietzsche1844 – 1900IQ 190 Garry Kasparov1963 – PresentIQ 190 Henri Poincaré1854 – 1912IQ 190 John von Neumann1903 – 1957IQ 190 Max Planck1858 – 1947IQ 190 Voltaire1694 – 1778IQ 190 William Shakespeare1564 – 1616IQ 190 Arthur Schopenhauer1788 – 1860IQ 185 Heraclitus535 – 475IQ 185 James Clerk Maxwell1831 – 1879IQ 185 Sigmund Freud1856 – 1939IQ 185 Thomas Edison1847 – 1931IQ 185 Alexander von Humboldt1769 – 1859IQ 180 Claude Shannon1916 – 2001IQ 180 David Hume1711 – 1776IQ 180 Edward Gibbon1737 – 1794IQ 180 Ernst Haeckel1834 – 1919IQ 180 George Bernard Shaw1856 – 1950IQ 180 Heinrich Hertz1857 – 1894IQ 180 John Toland1670 – 1722IQ 180 Jorge Luis Borges1899 – 1986IQ 180 Karl Marx1818 – 1883IQ 180 Marie Curie1867 – 1934IQ 180 Michel de Montaigne1533 – 1592IQ 180 Niels Bohr1885 – 1962IQ 180 Parmenides515 – PresentIQ 180 Plato428 – 348IQ 180 Pythagoras570 – PresentIQ 180 Socrates470 – 399IQ 180 Søren Kierkegaard1813 – 1855IQ 180 Thomas Paine1737 – 1809IQ 180 Wernher von Braun1912 – 1977IQ 180 Baruch Spinoza1632 – 1677IQ 175 George Boole1815 – 1864IQ 175 Louis Pasteur1822 – 1895IQ 175 Lucian125 – 180IQ 175 Ludwig Wittgenstein1889 – 1951IQ 175 Origen184 – 253IQ 175 Pablo Picasso1881 – 1973IQ 175 R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz1887 – 1961IQ 175 Richard Wagner1813 – 1883IQ 175 Walther Nernst1864 – 1941IQ 175 Wolfgang Pauli1900 – 1958IQ 175 Akhenaten? – 1336IQ 170 Christopher Hitchens1949 – 2011IQ 170 David Strauss1808 – 1874IQ 170 Diego Velázquez1599 – 1660IQ 170 Edmund Husserl1859 – 1938IQ 170 Ernest Renan1823 – 1892IQ 170 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel1770 – 1831IQ 170 Hypatia350 – 415IQ 170 Ilya Prigogine1917 – 2003IQ 170 Isaac Asimov1920 – 1992IQ 170 Johann Reuchlin1455 – 1522IQ 170 John Maynard Keynes1883 – 1946IQ 170 Judit Polgár1976 – PresentIQ 170 Maimonides1138 – 1204IQ 170 Mark Twain1835 – 1910IQ 170 Max Weber1864 – 1920IQ 170 Norbert Wiener1894 – 1964IQ 170 Oswald Spengler1880 – 1936IQ 170 Plotinus204 – 270IQ 170 Virgil70 – PresentIQ 170 Émile Durkheim1858 – 1917IQ 170 Benjamin Disraeli1804 – 1881IQ 165 Carl Jung1875 – 1961IQ 165 Charles H. Townes1915 – 2015IQ 165 Edward Jenner1749 – 1823IQ 165 Felix Mendelssohn1809 – 1847IQ 165 Francisco Suárez1548 – 1617IQ 165 Frederick the Great1712 – 1786IQ 165 Gilbert Burnet1643 – 1715IQ 165 Heinrich Heine1797 – 1856IQ 165 Henry Ford1863 – 1947IQ 165 Johann Gottlieb Fichte1762 – 1814IQ 165 Johannes Brahms1833 – 1897IQ 165 Karl Pearson1857 – 1936IQ 165 Karl Popper1902 – 1994IQ 165 Lise Meitner1878 – 1968IQ 165 Ludvig Holberg1684 – 1754IQ 165 Martin Heidegger1889 – 1976IQ 165 Moses Mendelssohn1729 – 1786IQ 165 Albert Einstein1879 – 1955IQ 160 Ayn Rand1905 – 1982IQ 160 Erich Fromm1900 – 1980IQ 160 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing1729 – 1781IQ 160 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa1486 – 1535IQ 160 Hildegard of Bingen1098 – 1179IQ 160 Mahatma Gandhi1869 – 1948IQ 160 Marvin Minsky1927 – 2016IQ 160 Sergei Rachmaninoff1873 – 1943IQ 160 Alexander Hamilton1755 – 1804IQ 155 Daniel O'Connell1775 – 1847IQ 155 Hannibal247 – 183IQ 155 Jean-Paul Sartre1905 – 1980IQ 155 Miguel de Cervantes1547 – 1616IQ 155 Milton Friedman1912 – 2006IQ 155 Otto Weininger1880 – 1903IQ 155 Thomas Carlyle1795 – 1881IQ 155 William Blake1757 – 1827IQ 155 Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 – 1945IQ 151 Aesop620 – 564IQ 150 Clive Staples Lewis1898 – 1963IQ 150 Rembrandt1606 – 1669IQ 150 Robert Burns1759 – 1796IQ 150 Stanley Kubrick1928 – 1999IQ 150 Martha Graham1894 – 1991IQ 148 Alan Watts1915 – 1973IQ 145 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769 – 1852IQ 145 Francis Galton1822 – 1911IQ 145 Hans Christian Andersen1805 – 1875IQ 145 Titian1488 – 1576IQ 145 Willem Klein1912 – 1986IQ 145 William Hogarth1697 – 1764IQ 145 Charlie Spencer Chaplin1889 – 1977IQ 140 Hannah Arendt1906 – 1975IQ 140 Martin Luther King Jr.1929 – 1968IQ 140 Sylvia Plath1932 – 1963IQ 140 Carl Sagan1934 – 1996IQ 130 Walt Disney1901 – 1966IQ 123 14th Dalai Lama1935 – Present Aage Niels Bohr1922 – 2009 Alan Guth1947 – Present Ariel Lanyi1997 – Present Banksy? – Present Barack Obama1961 – Present Bob Dylan1941 – Present Bobby Fischer1943 – 2008 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi1804 – 1851 Charles-Valentin Alkan1813 – 1888 Cleopatra69 – 30 Coen brothers1954 – Present Daniel Barenboim1942 – Present David Hilbert1862 – 1943 Edward Witten1951 – Present Elie Wiesel1928 – 2016 Elizabeth Blackwell1821 – 1910 Emmy Noether1882 – 1935 Erich Wolfgang Korngold1897 – 1957 Erwin Chargaff1905 – 2002 Esther Lederberg1922 – 2006 Ethan Bortnick2000 – Present Evgeny Kissin1971 – Present Fabiano Caruana1992 – Present Fibonacci1170 – 1250 Franz Kafka1883 – 1924 Fritz Albert Lipmann1899 – 1986 George Wald1906 – 1997 George de Hevesy1885 – 1966 Georges Bizet1838 – 1874 Glenn Gould1932 – 1982 Glenn T. Seaborg1912 – 1999 Grigori Perelman1966 – Present Henri Matisse1869 – 1954 J. Robert Oppenheimer1904 – 1967 James Lovelock1919 – Present Jascha Heifetz1901 – 1987 Joan Miró1893 – 1983 John Calvin1509 – 1564 Joseph Joachim1831 – 1907 Joseph Justus Scaliger1540 – 1609 Josephus37 – 100 Karl Landsteiner1868 – 1943 L. L. Zamenhof1859 – 1917 Larry Page1973 – Present Leo Ornstein1895 – 2002 Lev Landau1908 – 1968 Mark Zuckerberg1984 – Present Martha Argerich1941 – Present Maya Plisetskaya1925 – 2015 Natalie Zemon Davis1928 – Present Nate Silver1978 – Present Nikolai Gogol1809 – 1852 Noam Chomsky1928 – Present Oliver Cromwell1599 – 1658 Oswald Avery1877 – 1955 Paul Broca1824 – 1880 Richard Feynman1918 – 1988 Rudolf Virchow1821 – 1902 Ruth Lawrence1971 – Present Sam Altman1985 – Present Samuel Reshevsky1911 – 1992 Saul Kripke1940 – Present Selman Waksman1888 – 1973 Stan Lee1922 – 2018 Stephen Fry1957 – Present Stephen Jay Gould1941 – 2002 Steven Pinker1954 – Present Suleiman the Magnificent1494 – 1566 Tatyana Afanasyeva1876 – 1964 Tom Stoppard1937 – Present Ulysses S. Grant1822 – 1885 Vilna Gaon1720 – 1797 Virginia Woolf1882 – 1941 Yehudi Menuhin1916 – 1999 Yeshayahu Leibowitz1903 – 1994