Ada Lovelace

IQ 160

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

Adam Smith

IQ 170

British economist, philosopher and author

Arthur Conan Doyle

IQ 180

British detective fiction author

Alan Turing

IQ 185

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

Alan Watts

IQ 145

A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien

Alexander Fleming

A Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

Alexander Graham Bell

IQ 180

A scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone

Alexander Pope

IQ 180

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

Alfred Russel Wallace

IQ 175

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Alma Deutscher

Is an English composer, pianist and violinist who completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams at age 7.

Andrew Wiles

Proving Fermat's Last Theorem

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

IQ 170

An English politician, philosopher, and writer.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

IQ 145

An Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Brit

Bede

IQ 160

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

Ben Jonson

IQ 170

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

Benjamin Disraeli

IQ 165

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

George Bernard Shaw

IQ 180

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

Bertrand Russell

IQ 180

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

Caroline Herschel

Being the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and to hold a government position in England.

Charles Glover Barkla

A British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917

Charles Lyell

IQ 150

A Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining Earth's history.

Charles Babbage

IQ 170

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer.

Charles Dickens

IQ 165

An English writer and social critic.

Charles Darwin

IQ 180

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

Charles James Fox

IQ 155

A prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years

Charles Scott Sherrington

IQ 180

An English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

IQ 140

The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
The Kid (1921)

Charlotte Brontë

IQ 165

Jane Eyre
Villette

Christopher Wren

IQ 165

An acclaimed English architect, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist.

Christopher Hitchens

IQ 170

An English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist an

Clive Staples Lewis

IQ 150

A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog

Daniel Defoe

IQ 165

An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.

Daniel O'Connell

IQ 155

The acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century whose actio

David Hume

IQ 180

A Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known for his highly inf

David Livingstone

A Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary who is one of the most popular British heroes

Edmond Halley

IQ 175

An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist whos observations helped to determine t

Edmund Spenser

IQ 170

An English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty an

Edmund Burke

An Irish statesman and philosopher who supported the rights of the British colonists to resist metropolitan authority.

Edward Jenner

IQ 165

An English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

IQ 155

An English writer and politician coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is

Edward Gibbon

IQ 180

Probably the greatest English historian of all times. Famous for his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Rom

Elizabeth Gaskell

IQ 160

An English novelist, biographer and short story writer most famous for her novels "Cranford", "North and South, and "Wiv

Elizabeth Blackwell

A British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

Elizabeth I

IQ 175

A Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last of the five monarchs of t

Ernest Walton

An Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who became the first person in history to split the atom.

E. A. Wallis Budge

IQ 155

An English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who made numerous trips to Egypt and the Sudan and was knighted fo

Florence Nightingale

An English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and

Francis Crick

IQ 173

A British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist best known for the discoveries concerning the molecular

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

IQ 180

An Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics durin

Francis Galton

IQ 145

An English Victorian era polymath who was proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics and scientific racism.

Francis Bacon

IQ 190

An English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.

Francis Atterbury

IQ 170

An English man of letters, politician and bishop best known for his work An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of

Fred Hoyle

An English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis

Frederick Sanger

IQ 175

A genius British biochemist who discovered the structure of insulin and one two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.

Geoffrey Chaucer

IQ 165

An English poet and author who is credited as the creator of modern English poetry and literature as a whole.

George Washington Carver

an American agricultural scientist and inventor who was one of the first to recognize the problem of soil depletion and

George Boole

IQ 175

A largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician who layed the foundations for the information age

George Canning

IQ 165

British Tory statesman. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from April to August 1827

George Gore (electrochemist)

IQ 175

An English electrochemist whose research with phosphorus has led to the creation of matches.

George Green

IQ 180

British mathematical physicist who was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism.

George Stephenson

IQ 175

A British civil engineer and mechanical engineer responsible for creating the standard of railroad tracks

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon

IQ 160

An English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family whose skills helped to stop the bloody Crimean War.

George Fox

IQ 155

Founding the Religious Society of Friends,

George Grote

IQ 160

An English political radical and classical historian best known for the voluminous History of Greece.

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

IQ 140

An English soldier and politician, and a key figure on both sides of the English Civil War, as well as the Restoration o

George Berkeley

IQ 180

An Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"

George Eliot

IQ 160

An English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Gerald Massey

IQ 185

An English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt.

Gilbert Burnet

IQ 165

A Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury who was one of the few close friends in whom King William

Harriet Martineau

IQ 160

An English social theorist and Whig writer often seen as the first female sociologist.

Henry Moseley

An English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics lead to the discovery of the X-Ray spectrum.

Henry Cavendish

An English natural philosopher who discovered nitrogen

Henry Fielding

IQ 165

An English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire. His comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appr

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

IQ 175

An English politician, government official and political philosopher who supported the Church of England.

Henry B. Guppy

A British surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer who wrote extensively about the people of Solomon Islands.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

IQ 180

A British statesman who played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.

Henry Thomas Buckle

IQ 175

An English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization considered to be the Father of Scientific Hist

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

IQ 150

An English flag officer in the Royal Navy widely regarded as one of the best Navy commanders in history.

Hugh Miller

IQ 155

A self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.