Ada Lovelace

IQ 160

English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Arfa Karim

A Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004.

Ayn Rand

IQ 160

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

A British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed

Charlotte Brontë

IQ 165

Jane Eyre
Villette

Edith Stern

IQ 200

An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan

Florence Nightingale

An English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and

Frances Oldham Kelsey

A Canadian-born American pharmacologist and physician. Kelsey's career intersected with the passage of laws strengthenin

George Sand

IQ 160

A French novelist, memoirist, and journalist who had a vibrant personal and literary life.

George Eliot

IQ 160

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

Germaine de Staël

IQ 175

A French woman of letters and political theorist of Genevan origin.

Harriet Martineau

IQ 160

An English social theorist and Whig writer often seen as the first female sociologist.

Hildegard of Bingen

IQ 160

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

Hou Yifan

A Chinese chess grandmaster and four time Women's World Chess Champion.

Hypatia

IQ 170

Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician who was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she

Inge Lehmann

A Danish seismologist and geophysicist who discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core.

Irène Joliot-Curie

A French chemist, physicist, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of

Jane Marcet

British writer

Jane Goodall

An English primatologist and anthropologist, most commonly known for her studies of chimpanzees.

Judit Polgár

IQ 170

A Hungarian chess player who is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.

Lili Boulanger

A French composer, and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize.

Linda B. Buck

An American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system,

Lise Meitner

IQ 165

A leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and

Lydia Sebastian

IQ 162

The Child Prodigy Who Knocked Down Einstein's IQ

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon

IQ 155

A French noblewoman who secretly married King Louis XIV.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné

IQ 160

A French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17t

Manahel Thabet

IQ 168

Yemeni economist

Marguerite Perey

A French physicist and a student of Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

IQ 180

A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Marilyn vos Savant

IQ 186

American columnist, author and lecturer

Martha Argerich

Classical concert pianist who is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time.

Martha Graham

IQ 148

An American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taugh

Mary Anning

An English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for finds she made in Jurassi

Mary Somerville

IQ 180

A Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath who played a crucial role in the women's rights movement in the United Kingdo

Mary Wollstonecraft

IQ 160

An English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

Minou Drouet

Arbre, mon ami

Nettie Stevens

An American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes.

Priyanshi Somani

Is a child gifted with enormous calculating abilities

Rachel Carson

An American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environm

Rosalind Franklin

An English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of

Ruth Lawrence

A British–Israeli mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Sappho

IQ 165

An Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a ly

Margaret Fuller

IQ 175

An American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcenden

Shakuntala Devi

An Indian mathematician, writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "Human Computer".

Sheila Sri Prakash

An architect and urban designer of Indian origin who is the first woman in India to have started and operated her own ar

Sofya Kovalevskaya

IQ 156

Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem and Kovalevskaya top

Sophie Germain

A French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.

Stephanie Kwolek

An American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar.

Sylvia Plath

IQ 140

American poet, novelist and short-story writer known for her books The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965)

Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer known for use of stream of consciousness and considered one of the more important modernist 20t

Tu Youyou

a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist who discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat mala

Brielle Milla

IQ 160

Child prodigy which today works mainly with chemistry

Gitanjali Rao

Indian-American inventor & Child Prodigy

Clara Schumann

A genius German piano virtuoso and compositor who gave her first concert at the age of 9.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A Mexican prodigy who learned to read at 3, learned Latin in 20 lessons.

Shree Bose

An American scientist, inventor, and speaker who is the cofounder of Piper, a STEM education company creating engineerin

Marian Bechtel

An American former child prodigy and scientist known for her landmine detector.

Saheela Ibraheem

A Nigerian-American former child prodigy who was admitted to Harvard at the age of 15

Talia Leman

The CEO and a founder of RandomKid, an organization that empowers young people to do good deeds

Adora Svitak

Writing stories since the age of 6

Brittany Wenger

An American student who was the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012.

Anna Komnene

A Byzantine princess and author of the Alexiad, an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine emperor, Alexios I

Esther Lederberg

An American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics

Anne Brontë

An English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Natalie Zemon Davis

A Canadian and American historian of the early modern period.

Shirley Ann Jackson

An American physicist who was the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute

Tawakkol Karman

A Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist

Aung San Suu Kyi

A Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Oprah Winfrey

An American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist.

Maya Plisetskaya

Mistress of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower (1959); Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (1963); Mahmene Banu in The Le

Anna Wintour

A British-American journalist, who has served as Editor-in-Chief of Vogue since 1988