Highest IQ Composers in History — Records

Mozart, Beethoven, Bach — the highest-IQ composers documented.

1. Marnen Laibow-Koser

   1970–present · United States
   268
2. Ainan Celeste Cawley

   1999–present · SG
   250
3. William James Sidis

   1898–1944 · United States
   250
4. Aristotle

   0384–present · Greece
   200
5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   1749–1832 · Germany
   200
6. Leopold and Loeb

   1905–1971 · United States
   200
7. Vitalik Buterin

   1994–present · Russia
   200
8. Empedocles

   0490–present · Greece
   195
9. Nikola Tesla

   1856–1943 · HR
   195
10. Pierre-Simon Laplace

    1749–1827 · France
    195
11. Christiaan Huygens

    1629–1695 · Netherlands
    190
12. Enrico Fermi

    1901–1954 · Italy
    190
13. Francis Bacon

    1561–1626 · England
    190
14. Voltaire

    1694–1778 · France
    190
15. Friedrich Nietzsche

    1844–1900 · Germany
    190
16. Garry Kasparov

    1963–present · AZ
    190
17. Giordano Bruno

    1548–1600 · Italy
    190
18. John von Neumann

    1903–1957 · Hungary
    190
19. Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    1736–1813 · Italy
    190
20. Leonhard Euler

    1707–1783 · Switzerland
    190
21. Linus Pauling

    1901–1994 · United States
    190
22. Max Planck

    1858–1947 · Germany
    190
23. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

    1796–1832 · France
    190
24. Paul Dirac

    1902–1984 · England
    190
25. Pierre Gassendi

    1592–1655 · France
    190
26. William Shakespeare

    1564–1616 · United Kingdom
    190
27. Marilyn vos Savant

    1946–present · United States
    186
28. Alan Turing

    1912–1954 · England
    185
29. Arthur Schopenhauer

    1788–1860 · Germany
    185
30. Auguste Comte

    1798–1857 · France
    185
31. Epicurus

    0341–0270 · Greece
    185
32. Gerald Massey

    1828–1907 · United Kingdom
    185
33. Hero of Alexandria

    0010–0070 · Greece
    185
34. Humphry Davy

    1778–1829 · United Kingdom
    185
35. Immanuel Kant

    1724–1804 · Germany
    185
36. James Clerk Maxwell

    1831–1879 · Scotland
    185
37. Jean le Rond d'Alembert

    1717–1783 · France
    185
38. Leon Winiarski

    1865–1915 · Poland
    185
39. Otto von Guericke

    1602–1686 · Germany
    185
40. Percy Williams Bridgman

    1882–1961 · United States
    185

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