Famous Geniuses Born in January
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Brilliant Minds Born in January
From ancient philosophers to modern scientists — ranked by estimated IQ
January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings. It hosts the most New Year resolutions — and some of history's most determined minds.
Top Geniuses Born in January
These are the 30 highest-IQ geniuses born in January, ranked by estimated intelligence quotient.
Nadia Camukova
It's been previously reported Camukova has the highest IQ in the world, and the talented linguist has mastered seven lan
Michael Kearney
Child prodigy, youngest person to ever graduate from college (age 10)
Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum founder, Bitcoin Magazine
Evangelos Katsioulis
Highest adult IQ in the world (2012): IQ 198, sd 15 or IQ 205, sd 16
Francis Bacon
Pierre Gassendi
Calor vitalis (vital heat)
Isaac Newton
Newtonian mechanics
Universal gravitation
Calculus
Newton's laws of motion
Optics
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Universal gravitation
Calculus
Newton's laws of motion
Optics
Binomial seri
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Analytical mechanics, celestial mechanics, mathematical analysis, number theory, theory of equations
Robert Boyle
Boyle's law and Corpuscularianism
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Naturphilosophie
Auguste Comte
Formulating the doctrine of positivism.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Bose–Einstein condensateBose–Einstein statisticsBose–Einstein distributionBose–Einstein correlationsBose gasBosonIdeal B
Benjamin Franklin
Being the founding father of the USA
Shaping the understanding of electricity
Inventing the lightning rod and
Shaping the understanding of electricity
Inventing the lightning rod and
André-Marie Ampère
Ampère's circuital law
Ampère's force law
Ampère's right hand grip rule
Avogadro-Ampère hypothesis
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Ampère's force law
Ampère's right hand grip rule
Avogadro-Ampère hypothesis
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Lord Byron
Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Stephen Hawking
Hawking radiation, A Brief History of Time, Penrose–Hawking theorems, Black hole information paradox, Micro black hole,
Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
His ‘three principles’ theory of generalized chemical properties, one of which, sulphur representative of combustion, wa
Jacob Bernoulli
Ars Conjectandi
Rudolf Clausius
Second law of thermodynamics
Originator of the concept of entropy
Clausius-Mossotti relation
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Originator of the concept of entropy
Clausius-Mossotti relation
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Co-discovery of natural selection, Pioneering work on biogeography, Wallace Line Wallace effect
George Gore (electrochemist)
His research with phosphorus
Pitirim Sorokin
Leaves of a Russian Diar
Johann Reuchlin
German-born humanist and Greek and Hebrew scholar.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Christian Thomasius
Essays on Church, State, and Politics
Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence: With Selections from Foundations of the l
Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence: With Selections from Foundations of the l
Richard Bentley
Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris (1699)
Pietro Metastasio
Demetrio, Olimpiade, Demofoonte, La clemenza di Tito, and Attilio Regolo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 13 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, Requiem, The Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
David Strauss
Pioneering in the historical investigation of Jesus.
William James
Will to believe doctrine
Browse January by Date
Click any date below to see every genius born on that specific day, with full profiles and history.
Jan 1
Nadia Camukova
+10 geniuses
Jan 2
Rudolf Clausius
+3 geniuses
Jan 3
Pietro Metastasio
+2 geniuses
Jan 4
Isaac Newton
+2 geniuses
Jan 5
Francisco Suárez
+2 geniuses
Jan 6
Jacob Bernoulli
+5 geniuses
Jan 8
Stephen Hawking
+3 geniuses
Jan 10
Michel Ney
+2 geniuses
Jan 11
William James
+2 geniuses
Jan 12
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
+4 geniuses
Jan 13
Christian Thomasius
+2 geniuses
Jan 14
Matthew Fontaine Maury
+1 genius
Jan 15
Molière
+3 geniuses
Jan 16
Vittorio Alfieri
+1 genius
Jan 17
Benjamin Franklin
+3 geniuses
Jan 18
Michael Kearney
+4 geniuses
Jan 19
Evangelos Katsioulis
+6 geniuses
Jan 20
André-Marie Ampère
+3 geniuses
Jan 21
Pitirim Sorokin
+4 geniuses
Jan 22
Francis Bacon
+8 geniuses
Jan 23
David Hilbert
+1 genius
Jan 24
Frederick the Great
+5 geniuses
Jan 25
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
+5 geniuses
Jan 26
Wilder Penfield
+5 geniuses
Jan 27
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
+6 geniuses
Jan 29
Johann Reuchlin
+6 geniuses
Jan 30
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
+2 geniuses
Jan 31
Vitalik Buterin
+4 geniuses
Day-by-Day Breakdown
Jan 1 — Nadia Camukova, Satyendra Nath Bose, Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan... (10)
Jan 2 — Rudolf Clausius, Isaac Asimov, James Croll (3)
Jan 3 — Pietro Metastasio, Cicero (2)
Jan 4 — Isaac Newton, Jacob Grimm (2)
Jan 5 — Francisco Suárez, Charles-Guillaume Étienne (2)
Jan 6 — Jacob Bernoulli, Charles Sumner, Alan Watts... (5)
Jan 8 — Stephen Hawking, Alfred Russel Wallace, Jack Andraka (3)
Jan 10 — Michel Ney, Donald Knuth (2)
Jan 11 — William James, Alexander Hamilton (2)
Jan 12 — George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Edmund Burke... (4)
Jan 13 — Christian Thomasius, Nate Silver (2)
Jan 14 — Matthew Fontaine Maury (1)
Jan 15 — Molière, Sofya Kovalevskaya, Martin Luther King Jr. (3)
Jan 16 — Vittorio Alfieri (1)
Jan 17 — Benjamin Franklin, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Muhammad Ali (3)
Jan 18 — Michael Kearney, Montesquieu, Daniel Webster... (4)
Jan 19 — Evangelos Katsioulis, Auguste Comte, James Watt... (6)
Jan 20 — André-Marie Ampère, Frederick Matthias Alexander, Josef Hofmann (3)
Jan 21 — Pitirim Sorokin, Paul Allen, Plácido Domingo... (4)
Jan 22 — Francis Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Lord Byron... (8)
Jan 23 — David Hilbert (1)
Jan 24 — Frederick the Great, Pierre Beaumarchais, Christian Wolff ... (5)
Jan 25 — Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Robert Boyle, Ilya Prigogine... (5)
Jan 26 — Wilder Penfield, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Charles XIV John... (5)
Jan 27 — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Richard Bentley, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... (6)
Jan 29 — Johann Reuchlin, Anton Chekhov, Yeshayahu Leibowitz... (6)
Jan 30 — Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Franklin D. Roosevelt (2)
Jan 31 — Vitalik Buterin, Leslie Lemke, Franz Schubert... (4)
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