| Rank | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1st | Ainan Celeste Cawley 🇸🇬 | 250 | 1999 | Being a child prodigy with estimated IQ of 250. |
| 2 2nd | Sho Yano 🇺🇸 | 200 | 1990 | The youngest student at the University of Chicago to receive an MD, Yano had one degree under his be… |
| 3 3rd | Vitalik Buterin 🇷🇺 | 200 | 1994 | Ethereum founder, Bitcoin Magazine |
| 4 | Jacob Barnett 🇺🇸 | 170 | 1998 | Becoming a doctorate student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada at 18 years old. |
| 5 | Nolan Gould 🇺🇸 | 150 | 1998 | The Modern Family |
| 6 | Akrit Jaswal 🇮🇳 | 146 | 1993 | Performing a surgery on his neighbour at the age of seven. |
| 7 | Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 | — | 1990 | Being the current World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, and World Blitz Chess Champion. |
| 8 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 🇫🇷 | — | 1990 | |
| 9 | Sergey Karjakin 🇷🇺 | — | 1990 | Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12. |
| 10 | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 🇻🇳 | — | 1990 | Becoming a Grandmaster at the age of 11 years. |
| 11 | Yuriy Kuzubov 🇺🇦 | — | 1990 | Chess Grandmaster |
| 12 | Fabiano Caruana 🇮🇹 | — | 1992 | Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days. |
| 13 | Kit Armstrong 🇺🇸 | — | 1992 | Concerto debut at eight; Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years |
| 14 | Matt Savage 🇺🇸 | — | 1992 | Matt Savage Groove Experiment – Splash Variations (2018) |
| 15 | Parimarjan Negi 🇮🇳 | — | 1993 | Being the seventh youngest grandmaster in history. |
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Ainan Celeste Cawley is ranked #1 among geniuses born in the 1990s with an estimated IQ of 250, known for Being a child prodigy with estimated IQ of 250..
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The average estimated IQ of documented geniuses born in the 1990s is 186, with the highest recorded being 250.
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