Highest IQ British Geniuses in History — Records

Newton, Darwin, Hawking — the UK's highest documented intellects.

1. Francis Bacon

   1561–1626 · England
   190
2. Isaac Newton

   1643–1727 · England
   190
3. Paul Dirac

   1902–1984 · England
   190
4. William Shakespeare

   1564–1616 · United Kingdom
   190
5. Alan Turing

   1912–1954 · England
   185
6. Gerald Massey

   1828–1907 · United Kingdom
   185
7. Humphry Davy

   1778–1829 · United Kingdom
   185
8. James Clerk Maxwell

   1831–1879 · Scotland
   185
9. Percy Bysshe Shelley

   1792–1822 · England
   185
10. Thomas Young

    1773–1829 · United Kingdom
    185
11. Thomas Hobbes

    1588–1679 · United Kingdom
    185
12. William Gilbert (physician)

    1544–1603 · United Kingdom
    185
13. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

    1824–1907 · United Kingdom
    185
14. Arthur Conan Doyle

    1859–1930 · Scotland
    180
15. Alexander Graham Bell

    1847–1922 · Scotland
    180
16. Alexander Pope

    1688–1744 · United Kingdom
    180
17. Bertrand Russell

    1872–1970 · United Kingdom
    180
18. Charles Darwin

    1809–1882 · United Kingdom
    180
19. Charles Scott Sherrington

    1857–1952 · England
    180
20. David Hume

    1711–1776 · Scotland
    180
21. Edward Gibbon

    1737–1794 · United Kingdom
    180
22. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

    1845–1926 · United Kingdom
    180
23. George Green

    1793–1841 · United Kingdom
    180
24. George Berkeley

    1685–1753 · United Kingdom
    180
25. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

    1778–1868 · United Kingdom
    180
26. James Anthony Froude

    1818–1894 · England
    180
27. James Prescott Joule

    1818–1889 · England
    180
28. Jeremy Bentham

    1748–1832 · United Kingdom
    180
29. John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

    1842–1919 · United Kingdom
    180
30. John Stuart Mill

    1806–1873 · United Kingdom
    180
31. John Locke

    1632–1704 · United Kingdom
    180
32. Joseph John Thomson

    1856–1940 · United Kingdom
    180
33. Lord Byron

    1788–1824 · England
    180
34. Mary Somerville

    1780–1872 · United Kingdom
    180
35. Oliver Heaviside

    1850–1925 · England
    180
36. Roger Bacon

    1219–present · United Kingdom
    180
37. Stephen Hawking

    1942–2018 · United Kingdom
    180
38. Thomas Wolsey

    1473–1530 · United Kingdom
    180
39. Thomas Paine

    1737–1809 · United Kingdom
    180
40. William Harvey

    1578–1657 · England
    180
41. Macquorn Rankine

    1820–1872 · United Kingdom
    180
42. William Pitt the Younger

    1759–1806 · United Kingdom
    180
43. Alfred Russel Wallace

    1823–1913 · United Kingdom
    175
44. Edmond Halley

    1656–1742 · United Kingdom
    175
45. Elizabeth I

    1533–1603 · United Kingdom
    175
46. Frederick Sanger

    1918–2013 · United Kingdom
    175
47. George Boole

    1815–1864 · England
    175
48. George Gore (electrochemist)

    1826–1908 · England
    175
49. George Stephenson

    1781–1848 · England
    175
50. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

    1678–1751 · United Kingdom
    175

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