| Rank | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1st | Alan Turing | 185 | 1912 | Cryptanalysis of the Enigma <br> Turing's proof <br> Turing machine <br> Turing test <br> Unorganise… |
| 2 2nd | Wernher von Braun 🇩🇪 | 180 | 1912 | Chief architect of the Apollo Saturn V rocket; development of the V-2 rocket |
| 3 3rd | John Tukey 🇺🇸 | 180 | 1915 | Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot |
| 4 | Claude Shannon 🇺🇸 | 180 | 1916 | Information theory |
| 5 | William Shockley 🇺🇸 | 175 | 1910 | Point-contact transistor and GJT <br> Diffused-base transistor <br> Heterojunction bipolar transisto… |
| 6 | Frederick Sanger 🇬🇧 | 175 | 1918 | Determining the amino acid sequence of insulin <br> Sanger sequencing <br> Sanger Centre |
| 7 | Francis Crick | 173 | 1916 | DNA structure Central Dogma Consciousness Adaptor hypothesis |
| 8 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 | 170 | 1910 | Chandrasekhar limit <br> Chandrasekhar number <br> Chandrasekhar friction <br> Chandrasekhar–Kendall… |
| 9 | Ilya Prigogine 🇷🇺 | 170 | 1917 | Dissipative structures Brusselator |
| 10 | Charles H. Townes 🇺🇸 | 165 | 1915 | Lasers |
| 11 | Milton Friedman 🇺🇸 | 155 | 1912 | For explaining the role of money supply in economic and inflation fluctuations |
| 12 | Albert Camus | 155 | 1913 | The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. |
| 13 | John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 | 155 | 1917 | Being the 35th president of the United States |
| 14 | Willem Klein 🇳🇱 | 145 | 1912 | Doing mathematical calculations in his head |
| 15 | Alan Watts 🇬🇧 | 145 | 1915 |
World War I shattered the optimism of the Belle Époque and killed an entire generation of Europe's young men. Einstein's general theory of relativity was proven by solar eclipse observations in 1919, the Russian Revolution transformed global politics, and Freud's ideas were becoming mainstream. The old empires were collapsing and the twentieth century's defining conflicts — between democracy, fascism, and communism — were being prefigured.
Alan Turing is ranked #1 among geniuses born in the 1910s with an estimated IQ of 185, known for Cryptanalysis of the Enigma <br> Turing's proof <br> Turing machine <br> Turing test <br> Unorganised machine <br> Turin….
Our database includes 32 notable geniuses born between 1910–1919, spanning fields from science and mathematics to philosophy, literature, and the arts.
The average estimated IQ of documented geniuses born in the 1910s is 167, with the highest recorded being 185.
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