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♍ Virgo Geniuses

Discover 71 geniuses born under Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22). Explore IQ scores, biographies, and the achievements of history's greatest Virgo minds including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

📅 Aug 23 – Sep 22 🔥 Earth ✦ Precise, analytical, systematic 71 Geniuses
71
Geniuses in Database
66
in Science
200
Highest IQ (Johann)
6
Fields Represented

Top 15 Virgo Geniuses Ranked

#GeniusIQBorn
1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science · Holy Roman Empire
200 1749
2 Hermann von Helmholtz
Mathematics · German Confederation
195 1821
3 Wilhelm Ostwald
Science · Russian Empire
190 1853
4 Tommaso Campanella
Science · Calabria
180 1568
5 John Locke
Science · England
180 1632
6 Jean Sylvain Bailly
Science · France
180 1736
7 Antoine Lavoisier
Science · France
180 1743
8 Marquis de Condorcet
Science · France
180 1743
9 Alexander von Humboldt
Science · Holy Roman Empire
180 1769
10 Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Science · Denmark
180 1776
11 Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Science · Edinburgh
180 1778
12 Bernhard Riemann
Science · Kingdom of Hanover (modern-day Germany)
180 1826
13 Leo Tolstoy
Science
180 1828
14 Jorge Luis Borges
Science · Argentina
180 1899
15 Elizabeth I
Music · England
175 1533

More Virgo Geniuses

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Science · b.1678
IQ 175
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
Science · b.1700
IQ 175
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Science · b.1707
IQ 175
Luigi Galvani
Science · b.1737
IQ 175
Adrien Marie Legendre
Science · b.1752
IQ 175
Michael Faraday
Science · b.1791
IQ 175
Mary Shelley
Science · b.1797
IQ 175
William Stanley Jevons
Science · b.1835
IQ 175
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Science · b.1853
IQ 175
François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
Science · b.1613
IQ 170
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Science · b.1770
IQ 170
Robert M. Pirsig
Science · b.1928
IQ 170
Gilbert Burnet
Science · b.1643
IQ 165
Samuel Johnson
Science · b.1709
IQ 165
William Robertson (historian)
Science · b.1721
IQ 165
Moses Mendelssohn
Science · b.1729
IQ 165
Johann Gottfried Herder
Science · b.1744
IQ 165
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Philosophy · b.1486
IQ 160
Cardinal Richelieu
Science · b.1585
IQ 160
Christoph Martin Wieland
Science · b.1733
IQ 160
François-René de Chateaubriand
Science · b.1768
IQ 160
Léon Foucault
Science · b.1819
IQ 160
Girolamo Savonarola
Science · b.1452
IQ 155
Jean de La Fontaine
Science · b.1621
IQ 155
Robert Walpole
Science · b.1676
IQ 155
William Wilberforce
Science · b.1759
IQ 155
Orestes Brownson
Science · b.1803
IQ 155
Maria Montessori
Science · b.1870
IQ 155
Joseph Leidy
Science · b.1823
IQ 150
Warren Buffett
Science · b.1930
IQ 145
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
Physics · b.0973
Ludovico Ariosto
Science · b.1474
John Dalton
Science · b.1766
Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen
Science · b.1791
Zerah Colburn
Science · b.1804
Clara Schumann
Science · b.1819
Sergei Winogradsky
Science · b.1856
Charles Nicolle
Science · b.1866
Herbert George Wells
Science · b.1866
Ernest Rutherford
Science · b.1871
J Harlen Bretz
Science · b.1882
Arthur Compton
Science · b.1892
Irène Joliot-Curie
Science · b.1897
Carl David Anderson
Science · b.1905
Maurice Hilleman
Science · b.1919
Lee Kuan Yew
Science · b.1923
Susumu Tonegawa
Science · b.1939
Stephen Jay Gould
Science · b.1941
Edward Witten
Science · b.1951
Steven Pinker
Science · b.1954
Stephen Fry
Science · b.1957
Peter Leko
Science · b.1979
Emily Bear
Science · b.2001
Kirill Shevchenko
Science · b.2002
Arjun Erigaisi
Science · b.2003
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Chess · b.2004

About Virgo in Genius History

Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) is an Earth sign associated with traits of precise, analytical, systematic. Among history's greatest minds, 71 geniuses in the Geniuses.Club database were born under Virgo, spanning Science, Physics, Music, Philosophy and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the most famous Virgo genius?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the highest-ranked Virgo genius in our database, with an estimated IQ of 200. Other notable Virgo geniuses include Hermann von Helmholtz, Wilhelm Ostwald, Tommaso Campanella.

What fields did Virgo geniuses work in?

Virgo geniuses in our database worked primarily in Science, Physics, Music, Philosophy. The sign appears across all major intellectual disciplines.

What are the Virgo birth dates?

Virgo covers Aug 23 – Sep 22. The element is Earth and the sign is associated with: Precise, analytical, systematic.

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