Living Geniuses Today

Brilliant minds still shaping our world

207 Geniuses

Living Geniuses Today

Meet 207 living geniuses who are actively contributing to science, technology, art, and human knowledge right now.

Marnen Laibow-Koser
b. 1970 · United States
Being a child prodigy, proficient with multiple musical instruments and programming techniques.
IQ 268
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Ainan Celeste Cawley
b. 1999 · SG
Being a child prodigy with estimated IQ of 250.
IQ 250
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Chris Hirata
b. 1982 · United States
Being the youngest U.S. citizen to receive an International Physics Olympiad gold medal. Starting wo
IQ 225
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Terence Chi-Shen Tao
b. 1975 · Australia
When he was two years old, he was able to perform simple arithmetic. By the time he was nine, he was
IQ 220
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Kim Ung-yong
b. 1962 · South Korea
Having one of the biggest IQs in the world.
IQ 210
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Aristotle
b. 384 · Greece
A genius whose philosophical ideas are still taught, but his contributions to physics retarded progr
IQ 200
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Edith Stern
b. 1952 · United States
Holding over 100 US patents and being awarded the ASME Kate Gleason Award.
IQ 200
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Michael Grost
b. 1954 · United States
Starting university at the tender age of 10, the maths prodigy is now a computer scientist, accordin
IQ 200
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Michael Kearney
b. 1984 · United States
Child prodigy, youngest person to ever graduate from college (age 10)
IQ 200
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Nadia Camukova
b. 1976 · Russia
It's been previously reported Camukova has the highest IQ in the world, and the talented linguist ha
IQ 200
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Sho Yano
b. 1990 · United States
The youngest student at the University of Chicago to receive an MD, Yano had one degree under his be
IQ 200
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Vitalik Buterin
b. 1994 · Russia
Ethereum founder, Bitcoin Magazine
IQ 200
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Evangelos Katsioulis
b. 1976 · Greece
<br> Highest adult IQ in the world (2012): IQ 198, sd 15 or IQ 205, sd 16 <br>
IQ 198
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Walter O'Brien (Obrien)
b. 1975 · Ireland
Inspiration of the television series Scorpion
IQ 197
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Empedocles
b. 490 · Greece
An ancient theory of natural selection; mass conservation; and the four elements which are now often
IQ 195
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Ramón Campayo
b. 1964 · Spain
Speed-Memory program, World Memory Records
IQ 194
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Mislav Predavec
b. 1967 · Croatia
His remarcable IQ test scores and considered therefore as one of the smartest people alive.
IQ 192
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Richard G. Rosner
b. 1960 · United States
IQ 192
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Archimedes
b. 287 · Greece
Archimedes' principleArchimedes' screwhydrostaticsleversinfinitesimalsNeuseis constructions
IQ 190
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Garry Kasparov
b. 1963 · AZ
Being the top chess player from 1984 until 2005
IQ 190
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Philip Emeagwali
b. 1954 · NG
being the "Bill Gates of Africa"
IQ 190
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Marilyn vos Savant
b. 1946 · United States
Penning the 'Ask Marilyn' column in Parade magazine and solving the 'Monty Hall Problem' in the proc
IQ 186
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Adragon Eastwood De Mello
b. 1976 · United States
Graduating from college at the age of 11.
IQ 185
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Democritus
b. 460 · Greece
Atomism and Aetiology
IQ 185
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Norman Dolloff
b. 1928
IQ 185
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Nikola Poljak
b. 1982
IQ 183
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Henry Bray
b. 1916
IQ 180
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John H. Sununu
b. 1939 · United States
Being White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
IQ 180
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Leucippus
b. 460 · Greece
Creating the philosophical theory of atomism.
IQ 180
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Parmenides
b. 515
IQ 180
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Pythagoras
b. 570 · Greece
Communalism • Metempsychosis • Musica universalis
IQ 180
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Roger Bacon
b. 1219 · United Kingdom
IQ 180
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Thales of Miletus
b. 626 · Greece
The first scientist in history, Thales looked for patterns in nature to explain the way the world wo
IQ 180
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Lucretius
Italy
On the Nature of Things
IQ 180
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Hipparchus
b. 190 · Greece
Discovery of precession of the equinoxes.
IQ 175
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Homer
b. -800 · Greece
IQ 175
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Imhotep
b. 27 · Egypt
architect of Djoser's step pyramid (probable)
IQ 175
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Pierre de Fermat
b. 1607 · France
Fermat's Last Theorem
IQ 175
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Christopher Langan
b. 1952 · United States
Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
IQ 174
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Ivan Ivec
b. 1976 · Croatia
IQ 174
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Jacob Barnett
b. 1998 · United States
Becoming a doctorate student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada at 18 years old.
IQ 170
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Judit Polgár
b. 1976 · Hungary
Being the strongest female chess player of all time.
IQ 170
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Lycurgus of Sparta
b. 820 · Greece
Establishing or promoting the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness, an
IQ 170
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Ovid
b. 43 · Italy
IQ 170
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Virgil
b. 70 · Italy
Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
IQ 170
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Pyrrho
b. -360 · Greece
Founding Pyrrhonism
IQ 170
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Solon
Greece
Greek statesman, lawmaker, philosopher, and poet, one of the seven sages (Ѻ); credited with being th
IQ 170
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Manahel Thabet
b. 1981 · YE
the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. In 2012 she came up wi
IQ 168
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Lydia Sebastian
b. 2003 · India
started speaking when she was just six months old and at the age of four, she started playing the vi
IQ 162
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Mahnoor Cheema
b. 2007 · United Kingdom
achieving 34 GCSE subjects & IQ score of 161
IQ 161
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Bill Gates
b. 1955 · United States
Co-founding Microsoft
IQ 160
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Brielle Milla
b. 2012 · United States
Child Prodigy who attended the Allen Show
IQ 160
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Vyasa
India
Compilation of the four Vedas; Mahabharata
IQ 156
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Diagoras of Melos
Greece
Chopping up a wooden statue of Heracles and used it to roast his lentils and revealed the secrets of
IQ 155
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Diogenes Laërtius
Greece
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
IQ 155
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Elon Musk
b. 1971 · South Africa
Elon Musk is known for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which launched a landmark commercial spacec
IQ 155
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Nolan Gould
b. 1998 · United States
The Modern Family
IQ 150
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Jaxon Cota
b. 2007 · United States
Having an IQ of 148
IQ 148
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Akrit Jaswal
b. 1993 · India
Performing a surgery on his neighbour at the age of seven.
IQ 146
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Warren Buffett
b. 1930 · United States
Leadership of Berkshire Hathaway with Charlie Munger
IQ 145
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Frank Drake
b. 1930 · United States
SETI • Drake equation
IQ 140
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Leslie Lemke
b. 1952 · United States
Being able to play any musical piece on a piano after hearing it once.
IQ 58
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Stephen Wiltshire
b. 1974 · United Kingdom
His ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once
IQ 52
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Akshay Venkatesh
b. 1981 · India
Mathematical Work, Former Child Prodigy
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Alan Guth
b. 1947 · United States
Cosmic inflation • Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem • Inflaton
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Alireza Firouzja
b. 2003 · Iran
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Alma Deutscher
b. 2005 · England
The Sweeper of Dreams at 7, Full-length opera Cinderella at, Piano concerto at 12.
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Andrew Wiles
b. 1953 · United Kingdom
Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
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Anish Kumar Giri
b. 1994 · Russia
Achieving the title of Grandmaster at the age of 14 years.
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Arjun Erigaisi
b. 2003 · India
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 15.
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Aryan Chopra
b. 2001 · India
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Awonder Liang
b. 2003 · United States
Being the second youngest American to qualify for the title of Grandmaster at the age of 14.
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Bogdan-Daniel Deac
b. 2001 · Romania
Earning his grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 27 days.
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Bu Xiangzhi
b. 1985 · China
Becoming a chess grandmaster in 1999
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Yang Chen-Ning
b. 1922 · China
Yang–Mills theory • Gauge theory • Yang–Mills–Higgs equations
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Craig Venter
b. 1946 · United States
Metagenomics • Synthetic genomics • Shotgun approach to genome sequencing
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Daniel Barenboim
b. 1942 · Argentina
Giving his first formal concert in his hometown at the age of seven
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Daniil Dubov
b. 1996 · Russia
Being a chess Grandmaster at the age of 14.
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Dariusz Świercz
b. 1994 · United States
Achieving the rank of Grandmaster at 14.
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Donald Knuth
b. 1938 · United States
The Art of Computer Programming • TeX • METAFONT • Computer Modern
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Ecphantus the Pythagorean
Greece
Being one of the first philosophers to accept the existence of atoms
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Edward Witten
b. 1951 · United States
M-theory • Seiberg–Witten theory • Seiberg-Witten map • Seiberg–Witten invariants • Wess–Zumino–Witt
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Emily Bear
b. 2001 · United States
Composed and released her first piano album at age five
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Ethan Bortnick
b. 2000 · United States
Having a perfect pitch at age 3, composing at age 5, playing first concert at age 6.
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Étienne Bacrot
b. 1983 · France
Becoming a Grandmaster in March 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months
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Evgeny Kissin
b. 1971 · Russia
Entered music school at age six
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Fabiano Caruana
b. 1992 · Italy
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days.
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Grigori Perelman
b. 1966 · Russia
Riemannian geometry • Geometric topology • Proof of the soul conjecture • Proof of the Poincaré conj
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Gukesh D
b. 2006 · India
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 13.
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Hou Yifan
b. 1994 · China
Being the youngest female player to qualify for the title of grandmaster (at the age of 14 years 6 m
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Howard Florey
b. 1898 · Australia
Discovery of penicillin's properties
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Koneru Humpy
b. 1987 · India
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Illya Nyzhnyk
b. 1996 · Ukraine
Achieving the title of grandmaster at the age of 2015.
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Jack Horner (paleontologist)
b. 1946 · United States
Popularizer of science: discovered that dinosaurs cared for their young and some nested in colonies.
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James Lovelock
b. 1919 · United Kingdom
Electron capture detector and Gaia hypothesis
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Jane Goodall
b. 1934 · England
Study of chimpanzees, conservation, animal welfare
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Javokhir Sindarov
b. 2005 · UZ
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Jeffery Xiong
b. 2000 · United States
Being the third youngest in the US to qualify, at age fourteen, for the title of Grandmaster
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Jerry Newport
b. 1948 · United States
Being a public speaker with Asperger syndrome
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Jorge Cori
b. 1995 · PE
Achieving the title of Grandmaster at 14.
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Kirill Shevchenko
b. 2002 · Ukraine
Achieving the grandmaster title in 2017 at the age of 14 years 10 months.
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Kishan Shrikanth
b. 1996 · India
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Kit Armstrong
b. 1992 · United States
Concerto debut at eight; Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years
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Lang Lang
b. 1982 · China
Entering the Beijing Conservatory at age eight
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Larry Page
b. 1973 · United States
Co-founding Google Co-founding Alphabet Inc. Co-creator PageRank
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Leslie Howard (musician)
b. 1948 · Australia
Perfect pitch, and ability to recall anything by ear, first cited in The Herald, Melbourne, when he
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Linda B. Buck
b. 1947 · United States
Olfactory receptors
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Magnus Carlsen
b. 1990 · Norway
Being the current World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, and World Blitz Chess Champion.
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Martha Argerich
b. 1941 · Argentina
Orchestral debut at age six, being one of the best pianists in the world.
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
b. 1990 · France
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Michio Kaku
b. 1947 · United States
String field theory • Physics of the Impossible • Physics of the Future • The Future of the Mind
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Minou Drouet
b. 1947 · France
Arbre, mon ami
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
b. 1958 · United States
PBS show NOVA
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Nihal Sarin
b. 2004 · India
Being a Chess Prodigy
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Noam Chomsky
b. 1928 · United States
Writing in excess of 100 books and was named the “world’s top public intellectual” in a poll conduct
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Nodirbek Abdusattorov
b. 2004 · UZ
Chess Prodigy
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Parimarjan Negi
b. 1993 · India
Being the seventh youngest grandmaster in history.
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Peter Leko
b. 1979 · Hungary
Being the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994
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Priyanshi Somani
b. 1998 · India
Mental calculator
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
b. 2005 · India
Being the fifth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster
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Ray Robson
b. 1994 · United States
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Richárd Rapport
b. 1996 · Hungary
Hungarian Chess Champion in 2017.
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Ruslan Ponomariov
b. 1983 · Ukraine
Being the FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004
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Ruth Lawrence
b. 1971 · United Kingdom
Lawrence–Krammer representation
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Samuel Sevian
b. 2000 · United States
Earning the title of Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 27 days
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Saul Kripke
b. 1940 · United States
Kripke-Platek set theory.
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Scott Aaronson
b. 1981 · United States
Quantum Turing machine with postselection • Algebrization • Boson sampling
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Sergey Karjakin
b. 1990 · Russia
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12.
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Shahriar Afshar
b. 1971 · Iran
Afshar experiment, KOR-fx, SoundKix, and acousto-haptics
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Sheila Sri Prakash
b. 1955 · India
Founding the Shilpa Architects
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Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
b. 1990 · VN
Becoming a Grandmaster at the age of 11 years.
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Steven Pinker
b. 1954 · Canada
The Language Instinct (1994) • How the Mind Works (1997) • The Blank Slate (2002) • The Better Angel
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Susumu Tonegawa
b. 1939 · Japan
Antibody diversity, E-boxV(D) and J recombination
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Teimour Radjabov
b. 1987 · AZ
Starting playing chess at the age of 3
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Wei Yi
b. 1999 · China
The fifth-youngest grandmaster in history
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Wesley So
b. 1993 · United States
The fifth-highest-rated player in history.in March of 2017
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Yu Yangyi
b. 1994 · China
Chinese chess grandmaster
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Tu Youyou
b. 1930 · China
Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin
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Yuriy Kuzubov
b. 1990 · Ukraine
Chess Grandmaster
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Ariel Lanyi
b. 1997 · Israel
Music Prodigy Pianist
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Flo and Kay Lyman
b. 1956 · United States
Their Memory • World's only female autistic savant twins
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Gitanjali Rao
b. 2005 · United States
Water lead-level measuring device (2018)
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Daniel Tammet
b. 1979 · England
Born on a Blue Day (2006)
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TEST TEST
Israel
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Akiane Kramarik
b. 1994 · United States
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William Zhang
b. 2014 · United States
Winning his first competition at the age of 6.
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Tanishq Abraham
b. 2003 · United States
Being the youngest American to receive a degree in biomedical engineering.
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Santiago Gonzalez
b. 1997 · United States
Graduating from university at 17.
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Jason Padgett
b. 1970 · United States
Being a mathematical savant & Artist
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Matt Savage
b. 1992 · United States
Matt Savage Groove Experiment – Splash Variations (2018)
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Jack Andraka
b. 1997 · United States
His method of detecting cancer at early stages
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Shree Bose
b. 1994 · United States
Cofounding Piper, a STEM education company creating engineering kits for children.
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Marian Bechtel
b. 1997 · United States
Creating a landmine detector
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Marko Čalasan
b. 2000 · MK
Becoming the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator at the age of eight and the youngest
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Colin Carlson
b. 1995 · United States
Winning the Harry S. Truman Scholarship at 14
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Nick D'Aloisio
b. 1995 · United Kingdom
Summly
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Kelvin Doe
b. 1996 · SL
Teaching himself engineering at the age of 12 and building his own radio station in Sierra Leone
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Saheela Ibraheem
b. 1996 · United States
Enrolling into Harvard at the age of 15.
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Talia Leman
b. 1995 · United States
Creating the RandomKid organization
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Dalumuzi Mhlanga
b. 1995 · ZW
Founder & CEO of Notto Inc
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Raghav Sood
b. 1997 · India
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Adora Svitak
b. 1997 · United States
Writing stories since the age of 6
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Brittany Wenger
b. 1994 · United States
Winning the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012
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Taylor Wilson
b. 1994 · United States
Achieving nuclear fusion using an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device
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Elias James Corey
b. 1928 · United States
Retrosynthetic analysis
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Banksy
b. 1974 · United Kingdom
Ozone's Angel
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Jackie Chan
b. 1954 · HK
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Robert Christgau
b. 1942 · United States
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Coen brothers
b. 1954 · United States
Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother,
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Natalie Zemon Davis
b. 1928 · United States
Trickster Travels (2006)
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Richard Dawkins
b. 1941 · United Kingdom
Gene-centred view of evolution Concept of the meme Middle World Extended phenotype Advocacy of scie
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Plácido Domingo
b. 1941 · Spain
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Bob Dylan
b. 1941 · United States
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Ashton Eaton
b. 1988 · United States
Holding the world record in the indoor heptathlon
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Federico Faggin
b. 1941 · United States
MOS silicon-gate technology and Intel 4004
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Shawn Fanning
b. 1980 · United States
Co-founder and lead software engineer of Napster
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Stephen Fry
b. 1957 · United Kingdom
A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
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Wayne Gretzky
b. 1961 · Canada
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14th Dalai Lama
b. 1935 · China
Religious leader of Tibet
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GZA
b. 1966 · United States
Being the founding member of Wu-Tang Clan
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Tony Hawk
b. 1968 · United States
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Shirley Ann Jackson
b. 1946 · United States
Being the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of
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Bill James
b. 1949 · United States
Sabermetrics
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Michael Jordan
b. 1963 · United States
Being one of the top players in NBA's history
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Tawakkol Karman
b. 1979 · YE
Winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
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Yo Yo Ma
b. 1955 · United States
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Cormac McCarthy
b. 1933 · United States
Suttree (1979) • Blood Meridian (1985) • All the Pretty Horses (1992) • No Country for Old Men (2005
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Ian McKellen
b. 1939 · United Kingdom
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies
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Barack Obama
b. 1961 · United States
Being in the 44th president of the United State
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Conan O'Brien
b. 1963 · United States
Saturday Night Live (writer, 1987–1991) • The Simpsons(writer, producer, 1991–1993) • Late Night wit
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Amartya Sen
b. 1933 · India
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Tom Stoppard
b. 1937 · United Kingdom
Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, Tra
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Aung San Suu Kyi
b. 1945 · Myanmar
Activism
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Oprah Winfrey
b. 1954 · United States
The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Nate Silver
b. 1978 · United States
PECOTA, FiveThirtyEight
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Peter Thiel
b. 1967 · Germany
Founding PayPal
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Anna Wintour
b. 1949 · United Kingdom
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Mark Zuckerberg
b. 1984 · United States
Co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc.
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Jim Carollo
b. 1958 · United States
Becoming a math genius after a car crash
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Kadence Clover Hawk
b. 2008 · United States
Remarkable skateboarder
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Abhimanyu Mishra
b. 2009 · United States
Youngest ever Grand Master and IM in the world. Winner of Spring Classic 2022 (group B). Tied for 2n
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Bernoulli family
SZ
One of the most brilliant families
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Nadia Comaneci
b. 1961 · Romania
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Sam Altman
b. 1985 · United States
am Altman is best known for his work in the field of artificial intelligence • He is the Preside
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Shirin Ebadi
b. 1947 · Iran
Defenders of Human Rights Center
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Kazuo Ishiguro
b. 1954 · Japan
An Artist of the Floating WorldThe Remains of the DayWhen We Were OrphansNever Let Me GoKlara and th
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Alice Munro
b. 1931 · Canada
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