Adam Smith

IQ 170

British economist, philosopher and author

Arthur Conan Doyle

IQ 180

British detective fiction author

Al-Kindi

A Muslim philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician who is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

Alan Watts

IQ 145

A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien

Ibn al-Haytham

IQ 175

A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred to as the father of mod

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

IQ 170

An English politician, philosopher, and writer.

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist, author and physician

Aristotle

IQ 200

A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

Arthur Schopenhauer

IQ 185

a German philosopher best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844).

Augustine of Hippo

IQ 180

A Catholic theologian, philosopher, Church Father, bishop and Christian saint

Averroes - Ibn Rushd

IQ 175

A Muslim Andalusi scholar and philosopher.

Avicenna

IQ 180

A Medieval Persian polymath, physician and philosopher

Ayn Rand

IQ 160

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

IQ 175

A Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin.

Ben Jonson

IQ 170

An English playwright and poet best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c

Benjamin Disraeli

IQ 165

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Bertrand Russell

IQ 180

A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobe

Bobby Fischer

An American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner

An American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

Carl Jung

IQ 165

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

Charles Sumner

IQ 160

An American statesman and United States Senator who was the leader of the Radical Republicans.

Charles Dickens

IQ 165

An English writer and social critic.

Charles Darwin

IQ 180

An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

Charles James Fox

IQ 155

A prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

IQ 140

The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
The Kid (1921)

Christian Wolff

IQ 160

A German philosopher.

Christoph Martin Wieland

IQ 160

A German poet and writer best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon) as well as

Christopher Langan

IQ 174

An American autodidact described as "the smartest man in America"

Clarence Darrow

An American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial

Claude Adrien Helvétius

IQ 160

A French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

Claudio Arrau

A Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, esp

Clive Staples Lewis

IQ 150

A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog

Daniel Defoe

IQ 165

An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.

Émile Durkheim

IQ 170

A French sociologist who is considered to be the principal architect of modern social science along with Max Weber

David Hume

IQ 180

A Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known for his highly inf

Marquis de Sade

IQ 165

A French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer best known for The 120 Days of Sodom and Justine.

Meister Eckhart

A German theologian, philosopher and mystic who rose into prominence during the Avignon Papacy.

Edmund Husserl

IQ 170

A German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology - the philosophical study of the structures of experience an

Emanuel Swedenborg

IQ 165

A Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic best known his book on the afterlife, Heav

Epictetus

IQ 170

A genius Greek Stoic philosopher who taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

An Austrian-born American composer and conductor who became one of the most important and influential composers in Holly

Erich Fromm

IQ 160

A German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was one o

Ernst Mach

IQ 175

An Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the study of shock waves. He was a

Ernst Haeckel

IQ 180

A genius German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, and philosopher who mapped a genealogical tree relating all life form

Erwin Schrödinger

IQ 190

A Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.

Euripides

IQ 180

A tragedian of classical Athens who is remembered by the plays Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Bacchae

Evangelos Katsioulis

IQ 198

A psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has the world's highest measured IQ of 205 and is also ranked first in the World

Felix Mendelssohn

IQ 165

A German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period best known for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Petrarch

IQ 175

A scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. He is remembered for the collections o

Francesco Guicciardini

IQ 165

An Italian historian and statesman best known for his book The History of Italy.

Francis Galton

IQ 145

An English Victorian era polymath who was proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics and scientific racism.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

IQ 145

Is an American novelist and screenwriter known across the world for his novel The Great Gatsby.

François-René de Chateaubriand

IQ 160

A French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who dominated the literary scene in France in the first half of the

Franz Liszt

A Hungarian composer who is regarded as one of the greatest pianists and was a friend of Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagne

Franz Mesmer

A doctor who theorised the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objec

Franz Kafka

A genius Czech novelist known for the surreal subject of his novel "Metamorphosis".

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

IQ 185

A German philosopher who was a prominent figure in the German idealism school.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

IQ 160

A German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the

Friedrich Nietzsche

IQ 190

German philosopher cultural critic, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellec

Fyodor Dostoevsky

IQ 180

One of the greatest Russian authors of the 19th century whose works deal with human nature, religion, atheism, revolutio

Julius Caesar

IQ 170

A Roman general and statesman.

Galen

IQ 170

A Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

IQ 170

Phenomenology of Spirit

George Boole

IQ 175

A largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician who layed the foundations for the information age

George Berkeley

IQ 180

An Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism"

George Eliot

IQ 160

An English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Giacomo Leopardi

IQ 180

An Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist.

Giuseppe Mazzini

IQ 165

An Italian politician, journalist, activist for the unification of Italy whose political ideas were twisted and used by

Glenn Gould

Canadian composer and pianist who is one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

IQ 182

A German philosopher, mathematician, scientist, diplomat and polymath. He is a prominent figure in both the history of p

Gottlob Frege

IQ 165

A genius German philosopher, logician, and mathematician who is considered to be the father of analytic philosophy

Gustav Fechner

IQ 165

A German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and physicist who was an early pioneer in experimental psychology and f

Hannah Arendt

IQ 140

A German-born American political theorist who was an avid critic of totalitarian regimes, Nazism and Fascism in particul

Heinrich Hertz

IQ 180

A German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves

Henry David Thoreau

IQ 160

An American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher best known for his book Walden.

Heraclitus

IQ 185

An Ancient Greek, pre-Socratic, Ionian philosopher best known for his work On Nature.

Hermann von Helmholtz

IQ 195

A German physicist and physician known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perceptio

Hildegard of Bingen

IQ 160

A German Benedictine abbess who is among the best best-known composers of sacred monophony

Honoré de Balzac

IQ 155

A French novelist and playwright best-known for his magnum opus novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Immanuel Kant

IQ 185

A German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.