England is home to a deep and distinguished intellectual tradition. Explore 64 English geniuses below, ranked by impact, IQ, and contribution to human knowledge.
England has played a central role in the Western intellectual tradition, producing thinkers, scientists, and artists who defined entire fields of human inquiry.
From the classical and medieval scholars to the scientific revolution and the modern era, England's geniuses have shaped philosophy, physics, mathematics, literature, and art.
English thinkers have influenced fields as diverse as mathematics, philosophy, literature, and the sciences — with intellectual traditions spanning multiple centuries.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francis Bacon | 190 | 1561 | 🏴 English |
| 2 | Isaac Newton | 190 | 1643 | 🏴 English |
| 3 | Paul Dirac | 190 | 1902 | 🏴 English |
| 4 | Alan Turing | 185 | 1912 | 🏴 English |
| 5 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 185 | 1792 | 🏴 English |
| 6 | Charles Scott Sherrington | 180 | 1857 | 🏴 English |
| 7 | James Anthony Froude | 180 | 1818 | 🏴 English |
| 8 | James Prescott Joule | 180 | 1818 | 🏴 English |
| 9 | Lord Byron | 180 | 1788 | 🏴 English |
| 10 | Oliver Heaviside | 180 | 1850 | 🏴 English |
| 11 | William Harvey | 180 | 1578 | 🏴 English |
| 12 | George Boole | 175 | 1815 | 🏴 English |
| 13 | George Gore (electrochemist) | 175 | 1826 | 🏴 English |
| 14 | George Stephenson | 175 | 1781 | 🏴 English |
| 15 | Michael Faraday | 175 | 1791 | 🏴 English |
| 16 | Robert Taylor | 175 | 1784 | 🏴 English |
| 17 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 175 | 1772 | 🏴 English |
| 18 | Thomas Browne | 175 | 1605 | 🏴 English |
| 19 | Francis Crick | 173 | 1916 | 🏴 English |
| 20 | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury | 170 | 1671 | 🏴 English |
| 21 | Ben Jonson | 170 | 1572 | 🏴 English |
| 22 | Christopher Hitchens | 170 | 1949 | 🏴 English |
| 23 | Edmund Spenser | 170 | 1552 | 🏴 English |
| 24 | Francis Atterbury | 170 | 1663 | 🏴 English |
| 25 | John Maynard Keynes | 170 | 1883 | 🏴 English |
| 26 | Richard Bentley | 170 | 1662 | 🏴 English |
| 27 | Robert Southey | 170 | 1774 | 🏴 English |
| 28 | William of Ockham | 170 | 1285 | 🏴 English |
| 29 | Charles Dickens | 165 | 1812 | 🏴 English |
| 30 | Charlotte Brontë | 165 | 1816 | 🏴 English |
| 31 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 165 | 1340 | 🏴 English |
| 32 | Joseph Addison | 165 | 1672 | 🏴 English |
| 33 | Joseph Priestley | 165 | 1733 | 🏴 English |
| 34 | Karl Pearson | 165 | 1857 | 🏴 English |
| 35 | Samuel Johnson | 165 | 1709 | 🏴 English |
| 36 | Walter Raleigh | 165 | 1552 | 🏴 English |
| 37 | Bede | 160 | 0672 | 🏴 English |
| 38 | Elizabeth Gaskell | 160 | 1810 | 🏴 English |
| 39 | George Eliot | 160 | 1819 | 🏴 English |
| 40 | John Bunyan | 160 | 1628 | 🏴 English |
| 41 | John Dryden | 160 | 1631 | 🏴 English |
| 42 | John Wesley | 160 | 1703 | 🏴 English |
| 43 | Lancelot Andrewes | 160 | 1555 | 🏴 English |
| 44 | Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope | 160 | 1805 | 🏴 English |
| 45 | Ralph Cudworth | 160 | 1617 | 🏴 English |
| 46 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 155 | 1803 | 🏴 English |
| 47 | George Fox | 155 | 1624 | 🏴 English |
| 48 | Richard Baxter | 155 | 1615 | 🏴 English |
| 49 | John Wilkes | 150 | 1725 | 🏴 English |
| 50 | Joshua Reynolds | 145 | 1723 | 🏴 English |