The 100 Highest IQ Geniuses in History — Ranked

A data-driven ranking of the 100 highest-IQ minds across history and today. Scores are cited estimates.

1. Marnen Laibow-Koser

   1970–present · US
   —
2. Ainan Celeste Cawley

   1999–present · SG
   —
3. William James Sidis

   1898–1944 · US
   250
4. Chris Hirata

   1982–present · US
   —
5. Terence Chi-Shen Tao

   1975–present · AU
   —
6. Kim Ung-yong

   1962–present · KR
   —
7. Aristotle

   0384–? · GR
   —
8. Edith Stern

   1952–present · US
   —
9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   1749–1832 · DE
   200
10. Leonardo Da Vinci

    1452–1519 · IT
    200
11. Michael Grost

    1954–present · US
    —
12. Michael Kearney

    1984–present · US
    —
13. Nadia Camukova

    1976–present · RU
    —
14. Leopold and Loeb

    1905–1971 · US
    200
15. Sho Yano

    1990–present · US
    —
16. Vitalik Buterin

    1994–present · RU
    —
17. Evangelos Katsioulis

    1976–present · GR
    —
18. Walter O'Brien (Obrien)

    1975–present · IE
    —
19. Empedocles

    0490–? · GR
    —
20. Gilbert N. Lewis

    1875–1946 · US
    195
21. Henry Adams

    1838–1918 · US
    195
22. Hermann von Helmholtz

    1821–1894 · DE
    195
23. Ludwig Boltzmann

    1844–1906 · AT
    195
24. Nikola Tesla

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

    1749–1827 · FR
    195
26. Ramón Campayo

    1964–present · ES
    —
27. Mislav Predavec

    1967–present · HR
    —
28. Richard G. Rosner

    1960–present · US
    —
29. Archimedes

    0287–? · GR
    —
30. Athanasius Kircher

    1602–1680 · DE
    190
31. Baron d'Holbach

    1723–1789 · DE
    190
32. Carl Friedrich Gauss

    1777–1855 · DE
    190
33. Christiaan Huygens

    1629–1695 · NL
    190
34. Enrico Fermi

    1901–1954 · IT
    190
35. Erwin Schrödinger

    1887–1961 · AT
    190
36. Francis Bacon

    1561–1626 · ENG
    190
37. Voltaire

    1694–1778 · FR
    190
38. Friedrich Nietzsche

    1844–1900 · DE
    190
39. Garry Kasparov

    1963–present · AZ
    —
40. Giordano Bruno

    1548–1600 · IT
    190
41. Isaac Newton

    1643–1727 · ENG
    190
42. John von Neumann

    1903–1957 · HU
    190
43. Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    1736–1813 · IT
    190
44. Henri Poincaré

    1854–1912 · FR
    190
45. Leonhard Euler

    1707–1783 · CH
    190
46. Linus Pauling

    1901–1994 · US
    190
47. Max Planck

    1858–1947 · DE
    190
48. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

    1796–1832 · FR
    190
49. Paul Dirac

    1902–1984 · ENG
    190
50. Philip Emeagwali

    1954–present · NG
    —
51. Pierre Gassendi

    1592–1655 · FR
    190
52. Vilfredo Pareto

    1848–1923 · IT
    190
53. Wilhelm Ostwald

    1853–1932 · LV
    190
54. William Shakespeare

    1564–1616 · GB
    190
55. Marilyn vos Savant

    1946–present · US
    —
56. Adragon Eastwood De Mello

    1976–present · US
    —
57. Alan Turing

    1912–1954 · ENG
    185
58. Alfred J. Lotka

    1880–1949 · US
    185
59. Arthur Schopenhauer

    1788–1860 · DE
    185
60. Auguste Comte

    1798–1857 · FR
    185
61. Blaise Pascal

    1623–1662 · FR
    185
62. Ctesibius

    0285–0222 · EG
    185
63. Democritus

    0460–? · GR
    —
64. Epicurus

    0341–0270 · GR
    185
65. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

    1775–1854 · DE
    185
66. Gerald Massey

    1828–1907 · GB
    185
67. Heraclitus

    0535–0475 · GR
    185
68. Hero of Alexandria

    0010–0070 · GR
    185
69. Humphry Davy

    1778–1829 · GB
    185
70. Immanuel Kant

    1724–1804 · DE
    185
71. James Clerk Maxwell

    1831–1879 · SCT
    185
72. Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales

    1741–1816 · FR
    185
73. Jean le Rond d'Alembert

    1717–1783 · FR
    185
74. Leon Winiarski

    1865–1915 · PL
    185
75. Norman Dolloff

    1928–present · —
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76. Otto von Guericke

    1602–1686 · DE
    185
77. Percy Bysshe Shelley

    1792–1822 · ENG
    185
78. Percy Williams Bridgman

    1882–1961 · US
    185
79. Pierre Louis Maupertuis

    1698–1759 · FR
    185
80. Robert Boyle

    1627–1691 · IE
    185
81. Roger Joseph Boscovich

    1711–1787 · HR
    185
82. Satyendra Nath Bose

    1894–1974 · IN
    185
83. Sigmund Freud

    1856–1939 · AT
    185
84. Thomas Edison

    1847–1931 · US
    185
85. Thomas Young

    1773–1829 · GB
    185
86. Thomas Hobbes

    1588–1679 · GB
    185
87. William Gilbert (physician)

    1544–1603 · GB
    185
88. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

    1824–1907 · GB
    185
89. Ettore Majorana

    1906–1938 · IT
    183
90. Nikola Poljak

    1982–present · —
    —
91. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    1646–1716 · DE
    182
92. Theodor Schwann

    1810–1882 · DE
    182
93. Arthur Conan Doyle

    1859–1930 · SCT
    180
94. Albertus Magnus

    1200–1280 · —
    180
95. Alexander Graham Bell

    1847–1922 · SCT
    180
96. Alexander von Humboldt

    1769–1859 · DE
    180
97. Alexander Pope

    1688–1744 · GB
    180
98. Alexander the Great

    0356–0323 · MK
    180
99. Anaxagoras

    0500–0428 · GR
    180
100. Anaximander

     0610–0546 · GR
     180

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Scores draw from cited estimates in published biographies and psychometric literature. Historical IQ figures are reconstructions, not test results.