Greatest Art Geniuses — Ranked by IQ
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Total Art Geniuses
75
Highest IQ
185
Average IQ
164
#1 Genius
Arthur
Top 15 Art Geniuses by IQ
Ranked by estimated IQ score, based on historical records and psychometric research.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Ansel Adams | 140 | 1902 | US |
| — | Harrison Ford | 140 | 1942 | US |
| — | Jim Carrey | 145 | 1962 | CA |
| — | Ryan Gosling | 132 | 1980 | CA |
| — | Timothée Chalamet | 133 | 1995 | US |
| — | Tom Holland | 125 | 1996 | GB |
| — | Paul Thomas Anderson | 142 | 1970 | US |
| 1 | Arthur Schopenhauer | 185 | 1788 | The World as Will and Representation (1818) |
| 2 | Phidias | 180 | 0480 | Greek sculptor; noted for statue of Zeus at Olympia, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Anci |
| 3 | Thomas Wolsey | 180 | 1473 | Remembered second to Henry VIII, Wolsey was a seriously smart statesman who masterfully controlled t |
| 4 | Michel de Montaigne | 180 | 1533 | Essais |
| 5 | Napoleon Bonaparte | 180 | 1769 | Military genius First emperor of france conqueror |
| 6 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr | 180 | 1776 | Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome, Father of modern scholarly historiography. |
| 7 | John Stuart Mill | 180 | 1806 | On Liberty, The Subjection of Women |
| 8 | Arthur Conan Doyle | 180 | 1859 | Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World |
| 9 | Stephen Hawking | 180 | 1942 | Hawking radiation, A Brief History of Time, Penrose–Hawking theorems, Black hole information paradox |
| 10 | Gerolamo Cardano | 175 | 1501 | Cardano–Tartaglia formulaFirst systematic use of negative numbers in Europe |
| 11 | Pablo Picasso | 175 | 1881 | Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing |
| 12 | Salvador Dalí | 175 | 1904 | Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, jewelry |
| 13 | Lycurgus of Sparta | 170 | 0820 | Establishing or promoting the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness, an |
| 14 | Martin Luther | 170 | 1483 | Being the key figurine in Reformation. |
| 15 | Raphael | 170 | 1483 | PaintingArchitecture |
More Art Geniuses
Nicolaas Hartsoeker
Contributions to microscopy, preformationism
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 13 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, Requiem, The Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto and Symphony N
Maximilien Robespierre
Playing an important part in the agitation which brought about the fall of the French monarchy on 10
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
Solon
Greek statesman, lawmaker, philosopher, and poet, one of the seven sages (Ѻ); credited with being th
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Walter Raleigh
Playing a leading part in English colonisation of North America,
Henry Fielding
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (The History of Art in Antiquity; 1764)
Walter Scott
Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor,
Felix Mendelssohn
grandson of Moses Mendelssohn; student of Carl Zelter; Mendelssohn first appeared in concert at the
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time (1927)
Lydia Sebastian
started speaking when she was just six months old and at the age of four, she started playing the vi
Peter Paul Rubens
Painting, drawing, tapestry design, print design
Molière
Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Learned Women; The School for Wives; L'Avare
Christoph Martin Wieland
Oberon and Bildungsroman
Alphonse de Lamartine
Graziella (1852)
Harriet Martineau
Illustrations of Political Economy (1834)
Society in America (1837)
Deerbrook (1839)
Society in America (1837)
Deerbrook (1839)
Marvin Minsky
Artificial intelligence
Confocal microscope
Useless machine
Triadex Muse
Percept
Confocal microscope
Useless machine
Triadex Muse
Percept
Albrecht Dürer
Painting, printmaking
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness and Existentialism Is a Humanism
Horace
Odes"The Art of Poetry"
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Naval victories, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars
Stanley Kubrick
Spartacus
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Martha Graham
Dance and choreography
Ferdinand Magellan
The first circumnavigation of the Earth
Nicolas Poussin
Painting
William Hogarth
A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode
Jean Victor Marie Moreau
French general; helped Napoleon Bonaparte to power, but later became a rival and was banished to the
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Commanding forces during the battle of Waterloo.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights movement, Peace movement
Heraclides Ponticus
Suggesting that the Earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours
Ibn Arabi
His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.
Meister Eckhart
His work with pious lay groups such as the Friends of God
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Cardano–Tartaglia formulaEarly research into ballisticsTartaglia's triangle
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