Famous Geniuses Born in February
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Brilliant Minds Born in February
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
February, the shortest month, contains Valentine's Day and often the coldest days of winter. Yet it produced some of history's warmest and most brilliant minds.
Top Geniuses Born in February
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in February, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
Walter O'Brien (Obrien)
Inspiration of the television series Scorpion
Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817
Ludwig Boltzmann
The development of statistical mechanics
Linus Pauling
Alpha sheet
Ancestral sequence reconstruction
Backbonding
Beta sheet
Bond order
Ancestral sequence reconstruction
Backbonding
Beta sheet
Bond order
Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation (1818)
Thomas Edison
The phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb
Leon Battista Alberti
Tempio Malatestiano, Palazzo Rucellai, and Santa Maria Novella.
Michel de Montaigne
Essais
Galileo Galilei
Analytical dynamics, heliocentrism, kinematics, observational astronomy
Thomas Paine
Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783
Jeremy Bentham
Being the founder of modern utilitarianism
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Ruy Blas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Ruy Blas
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle
On the Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
On the Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
Ernst Haeckel
Mapping a genealogical tree relating all life forms
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Being the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
Heinrich Hertz
Proving the existence of the electromagnetic waves
Antoine Arnauld
Being one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal.
John Witherspoon
Being a Founding Father of the United States.
Alessandro Volta
Invention of the electric cell
Discovery of methane
Volt
Voltage
Voltmeter
Discovery of methane
Volt
Voltage
Voltmeter
Robert Peel
Adolphe Quetelet
First to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations
Introduced the heig
Abraham Lincoln
16th American president Noted for his Emancipation Proclamation (1863) which ended slavery and brought a close to the c
Dmitri Mendeleev
Formulating the periodic table of chemical elements
Ernst Mach
Mach number
Mach's principle
Shock waves
Mach waves
Mach reflection effects
Mach band
Mach's principle
Shock waves
Mach waves
Mach reflection effects
Mach band
William Shockley
Point-contact transistor and GJT
Diffused-base transistor
Heterojunction bipolar transistor
Thyristor
Diffused-base transistor
Heterojunction bipolar transistor
Thyristor
Nicolaus Copernicus
HeliocentrismQuantity theory of moneyGresham–Copernicus law
Qin Shi Huang
John Napier
Logarithms Napier's bones Decimal notation
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
The Ruins: a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (1791)
Browse February by Date
Click any date below to see every genius born on that specific day, with full profiles and history.
Feb 1
John Napier
+2 geniuses
Feb 2
Ayn Rand
+4 geniuses
Feb 3
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
+4 geniuses
Feb 4
Ferdinand Magellan
+2 geniuses
Feb 5
John Witherspoon
+4 geniuses
Feb 6
Antoine Arnauld
+2 geniuses
Feb 7
Charles Dickens
+2 geniuses
Feb 8
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
+6 geniuses
Feb 9
Thomas Paine
+2 geniuses
Feb 11
Thomas Edison
+3 geniuses
Feb 12
Charles Darwin
+2 geniuses
Feb 13
William Shockley
+3 geniuses
Feb 14
Leon Battista Alberti
+3 geniuses
Feb 15
Galileo Galilei
+3 geniuses
Feb 16
Henry Adams
+4 geniuses
Feb 17
Ronald Fisher
+2 geniuses
Feb 18
Alessandro Volta
+5 geniuses
Feb 19
Nicolaus Copernicus
+1 genius
Feb 20
Ludwig Boltzmann
+1 genius
Feb 21
John Henry Newman
+1 genius
Feb 22
Arthur Schopenhauer
+5 geniuses
Feb 23
George Frideric Handel
+2 geniuses
Feb 24
Walter O'Brien (Obrien)
+2 geniuses
Feb 26
Victor Hugo
+4 geniuses
Feb 27
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+3 geniuses
Feb 28
Linus Pauling
+3 geniuses
Feb 29
Herman Hollerith
+2 geniuses
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Feb 1 — John Napier, André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (2)
Feb 2 — Ayn Rand, Jascha Heifetz, Arfa Karim... (4)
Feb 3 — Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, Marion Tinsley, Felix Mendelssohn... (4)
Feb 4 — Ferdinand Magellan, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (2)
Feb 5 — John Witherspoon, Robert Peel, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné... (4)
Feb 6 — Antoine Arnauld, Claudio Arrau (2)
Feb 7 — Charles Dickens, Tawakkol Karman (2)
Feb 8 — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Dmitri Mendeleev, Emanuel Swedenborg... (6)
Feb 9 — Thomas Paine, Parimarjan Negi (2)
Feb 11 — Thomas Edison, Poggio Bracciolini, Josiah Willard Gibbs (3)
Feb 12 — Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln (2)
Feb 13 — William Shockley, John Hunter (surgeon), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (3)
Feb 14 — Leon Battista Alberti, Frederick Douglass, Jean Victor Marie Moreau (3)
Feb 15 — Galileo Galilei, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich August Wolf (3)
Feb 16 — Henry Adams, Ernst Haeckel, Francis Galton... (4)
Feb 17 — Ronald Fisher, Michael Jordan (2)
Feb 18 — Alessandro Volta, Ernst Mach, Qin Shi Huang... (5)
Feb 19 — Nicolaus Copernicus (1)
Feb 20 — Ludwig Boltzmann (1)
Feb 21 — John Henry Newman (1)
Feb 22 — Arthur Schopenhauer, Heinrich Hertz, Adolphe Quetelet... (5)
Feb 23 — George Frideric Handel, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (2)
Feb 24 — Walter O'Brien (Obrien), Steve Jobs (2)
Feb 26 — Victor Hugo, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, François Arago... (4)
Feb 27 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alan Guth, Hou Yifan (3)
Feb 28 — Linus Pauling, Michel de Montaigne, Ernest Renan (3)
Feb 29 — Herman Hollerith, Gioachino Rossini (2)
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