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Greek Geniuses — The Greatest Minds from Greece

Greece is home to a deep and distinguished intellectual tradition. Explore 53 Greek geniuses below, ranked by impact, IQ, and contribution to human knowledge.

Greece 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, Greece's geniuses have shaped philosophy, physics, mathematics, literature, and art.

Defining Greek Genius
A genius whose philosophical ideas are still taught, but his contributions to physics retarded progress for almost two millennia.
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Greek thinkers have influenced fields as diverse as mathematics, philosophy, literature, and the sciences — with intellectual traditions spanning multiple centuries.

All Greek Geniuses

#NameIQBornField
1 Aristotle 200 0384 🇬🇷 Greek
2 Evangelos Katsioulis 198 1976 🇬🇷 Greek
3 Empedocles 195 0490 🇬🇷 Greek
4 Archimedes 190 0287 🇬🇷 Greek
5 Democritus 185 0460 🇬🇷 Greek
6 Epicurus 185 0341 🇬🇷 Greek
7 Heraclitus 185 0535 🇬🇷 Greek
8 Hero of Alexandria 185 0010 🇬🇷 Greek
9 Anaxagoras 180 0500 🇬🇷 Greek
10 Anaximander 180 0610 🇬🇷 Greek
11 Euripides 180 0480 🇬🇷 Greek
12 Leucippus 180 0460 🇬🇷 Greek
13 Phidias 180 0480 🇬🇷 Greek
14 Plato 180 0428 🇬🇷 Greek
15 Pythagoras 180 0570 🇬🇷 Greek
16 Socrates 180 0470 🇬🇷 Greek
17 Thales of Miletus 180 0626 🇬🇷 Greek
18 Aristarchus of Samos 175 0310 🇬🇷 Greek
19 Hipparchus 175 0190 🇬🇷 Greek
20 Hippocrates 175 0460 🇬🇷 Greek
21 Homer 175 🇬🇷 Greek
22 Pherecydes of Syros 175 0580 🇬🇷 Greek
23 Polybius 175 0200 🇬🇷 Greek
24 Theodorus the Atheist 175 0340 🇬🇷 Greek
25 Theophrastus 175 0371 🇬🇷 Greek
26 Xenophanes 175 0570 🇬🇷 Greek
27 Aeschylus 173 0524 🇬🇷 Greek
28 Sophocles 173 0497 🇬🇷 Greek
29 Epictetus 170 0050 🇬🇷 Greek
30 Eudoxus of Cnidus 170 0408 🇬🇷 Greek
31 Galen 170 0129 🇬🇷 Greek
32 Lycurgus of Sparta 170 0820 🇬🇷 Greek
33 Pyrrho 170 🇬🇷 Greek
34 Solon 170 🇬🇷 Greek
35 Callimachus 165 0500 🇬🇷 Greek
36 Sappho 165 0630 🇬🇷 Greek
37 Demosthenes 160 0384 🇬🇷 Greek
38 Diodorus Siculus 160 0090 🇬🇷 Greek
39 Xenophon 160 0430 🇬🇷 Greek
40 Diagoras of Melos 155 🇬🇷 Greek
41 Diogenes Laërtius 155 0000 🇬🇷 Greek
42 Zeno of Elea 155 0495 🇬🇷 Greek
43 Aesop 150 0620 🇬🇷 Greek
44 Hesiod 150 0750 🇬🇷 Greek
45 Anaximenes of Miletus 0586 🇬🇷 Greek
46 Cleanthes 0330 🇬🇷 Greek
47 Ecphantus the Pythagorean 🇬🇷 Greek
48 Euclid 0325 🇬🇷 Greek
49 Proclus 0412 🇬🇷 Greek
50 Theon of Alexandria 0335 🇬🇷 Greek

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