People With the Highest IQs Ever Recorded

Abraham Lincoln

American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865

Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri

Blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer who Lived during the Islamic Golden Age

Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan

His ‘three principles’ theory of generalized chemical properties, one of which, sulphur representative of combustion, wa

Ada Lovelace

English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Adam Smith

British economist, philosopher and author

Adolphe Quetelet

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Adolphe Thiers

A French statesman and historian.

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age

Adrien Marie Legendre

A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Aeschylus

An ancient Greek tragedian

Arthur Conan Doyle

British detective fiction author

Ainan Celeste Cawley

A Singaporean child prodigy

Akhenaten

A 18th Dynasty pharaoh

Alan Turing

An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

Albert Einstein

Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds

Albertus Magnus

A 13th century German Dominican friar and saint

Albrecht von Haller

A Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet who is often referred to as "the fath

Alessandro Volta

An Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery.

Sandro Botticelli

An Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Alexander Graham Bell

A scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Alexander von Humboldt

A German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

Alexander Pope

Is one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century.

Alexander the Great

A king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

Alfred Wegener

A German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.

Alfred J. Lotka

A US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.

Alfred Russel Wallace

A British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.

Ibn al-Haytham

A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred to as the father of mod

Alphonse de Lamartine

A French author, poet and statesman.

Anaxagoras

Ancient Greek philosopher

Anaximander

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

André-Marie Ampère

A French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism.

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin

Serving in as President of the Chamber of Deputies for 7 years.

Andrew Carnegie

A Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

A French economist and statesman.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

An English politician, philosopher, and writer.

Antoine Lavoisier

A French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution.

Antoine Arnauld

A French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

Antonio Canova

An Italian Neoclassical sculptor.

Archimedes

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristarchus of Samos

An ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at th

Aristotle

A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Arnold Sommerfeld

A German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics

Arthur Schopenhauer

a German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844).

Athanasius Kircher

A German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works.

August von Kotzebue

A German dramatist and writer who also worked as a consul in Russia and Germany.

Auguste Comte

A French philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

A French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

A French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory

Augustine of Hippo

A Catholic theologian, philosopher, Church Father, bishop and Christian saint

Averroes - Ibn Rushd

A Muslim Andalusi scholar and philosopher.

Avicenna

A Medieval Persian polymath, physician and philosopher

Ayn Rand

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Baron d'Holbach

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian

Baruch Spinoza

A Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin.

Bede

An English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul.

Ben Jonson

An English playwright and poet best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c

Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and a Founding Father of the United States.

Benjamin Constant

A Swiss-French political activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

George Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist known for writing Man and Superman (1902

Bernhard Riemann

A German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.

Bertrand Russell

A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobe

Bill Gates

An American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Blaise Pascal

Pascal's law

Boethius

A Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French scientist & naturalist of the 18th century

Callimachus

Architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Cardinal Richelieu

A French clergyman and statesman.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science.

Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

Carl Linnaeus

A Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of nami

Charlemagne

The King of the Franks, the King of the Lombards, and the Emperor of the Romans who united the majority of western and c

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Coulomb's law

Charles-Guillaume Étienne

A 19th-century French playwright.

Charles Babbage

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

Charles Sumner

An American statesman and United States Senator who was the leader of the Radical Republicans.

Charles Dickens

An English writer and social critic.

Charles Darwin

An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.