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Child prodigies are the most documented cases of raw cognitive talent. The 135 profiles below include musical composers who wrote symphonies at 8, mathematicians who published at 14, and chess grandmasters who beat adults at 6.

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

IQ 185

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age

Ainan Celeste Cawley

Ainan Celeste Cawley

IQ 250

A Singaporean child prodigy

Akrit Jaswal

Akrit Jaswal

IQ 146

An Indian adolescent who performed his first surgery at the age of 7.

Akshay Venkatesh

Akshay Venkatesh

Mathematical Work, Former Child Prodigy

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

IQ 160

Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds

Alireza Firouzja

Alireza Firouzja

An Iranian chess player who earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 14.

Alma Deutscher

Alma Deutscher

Is an English composer, pianist and violinist who completed a short opera The Sweeper of Dreams at age 7.

Anish Kumar Giri

Anish Kumar Giri

Anish Kumar Giri is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster title

Arfa Karim

Arfa Karim

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

Arjun Erigaisi

Arjun Erigaisi

An Indian chess grandmaster.

Aryan Chopra

Aryan Chopra

An Indian chess prodigy who became a grandmaster (GM) in 2016.

Awonder Liang

Awonder Liang

An American chess prodigy.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

IQ 185

Pascal's law

Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer

An American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

Bogdan-Daniel Deac

Bogdan-Daniel Deac

Romanian chess player

Bu Xiangzhi

Bu Xiangzhi

A Chinese chess player who became the 10th grandmaster from China at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 13 days,

Carl Filtsch

Carl Filtsch

A Transylvanian pianist and composer who was a student of Frédéric Chopin.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

IQ 165

An English writer and social critic.

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

Charlie Spencer Chaplin

IQ 140

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

Chris Hirata

Chris Hirata

IQ 225

An American cosmologist and astrophysicist.

Daniil Dubov

Daniil Dubov

Is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Dariusz Świercz

Dariusz Świercz

A Polish-American chess player playing for the United States.

Edith Stern

Edith Stern

IQ 200

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

Edmund Thomas Clint

Edmund Thomas Clint

An Indian child prodigy known for having drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.

Emily Bear

Emily Bear

A genius American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer who started playing the piano and composing music as a small

Ethan Bortnick

Ethan Bortnick

An American pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer and musician who discovered a set of music skills when he was o

Étienne Bacrot

Étienne Bacrot

A French chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy who became the first French player to enter the top 10 in January 20

Ettore Majorana

Ettore Majorana

IQ 183

An Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named af

Fabiano Caruana

Fabiano Caruana

An Italian and American chess player and chess prodigy. He became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 2

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

IQ 165

Polish composer and pianist who is regarded as a leading musician of his era

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

IQ 190

A Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist and commentator

Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

An Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas

Grigori Perelman

Grigori Perelman

Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and g

Gukesh D

Gukesh D

An Indian chess player who is the second youngest person in history to qualify for the title of Grandmaster

Hou Yifan

Hou Yifan

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

Koneru Humpy

Koneru Humpy

A genius Indian chess player who holds the number one spot among speed chess players.

Illya Nyzhnyk

Illya Nyzhnyk

Illya Igorevich Nyzhnyk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2011)

Jacob Barnett

Jacob Barnett

IQ 170

A gifted American physics student and former child prodigy.

Jascha Heifetz

Jascha Heifetz

A Russian-American violinist who was a child virtuoso and one of the leading violinists of the 20th century.

Javokhir Sindarov

Javokhir Sindarov

Uzbek chess player

Jeffery Xiong

Jeffery Xiong

American chess prodigy

Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

IQ 180

An English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

Jerry Newport

Jerry Newport

An author and public speaker whose life was the basis for the 2005 feature-length movie Mozart and the Whale

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

IQ 180

An English philosopher and political economist who was an influential thinker in the history of classical liberalism.

John von Neumann

John von Neumann

IQ 190

Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Jorge Cori

Jorge Cori

Is a Peruvian chess grandmaster who achieved the title of Grandmaster at 14.

Josef Hofmann

Josef Hofmann

Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga

A Spanish Basque composer who was nicknamed "the Spanish Mozart".

Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár

IQ 170

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

Kim Ung-yong

Kim Ung-yong

IQ 210

Having one of the biggest IQs in the world.

Kirill Shevchenko

Kirill Shevchenko

A Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

Kishan Shrikanth

Kishan Shrikanth

A Child Prodigy, film actor and director from Karnataka

Kit Armstrong

Kit Armstrong

An American classical pianist, composer, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.

Lang Lang

Lang Lang

A Chinese concert pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, the United States, and Europe

Leo Ornstein

Leo Ornstein

An American experimental composer and pianist of the early twentieth century.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

IQ 200

Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest minds and painters of all time

Lili Boulanger

Lili Boulanger

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

Lydia Sebastian

Lydia Sebastian

IQ 162

The Child Prodigy Who Knocked Down Einstein's IQ

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

A Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the current World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, and World Blitz Chess

Marnen Laibow-Koser

Marnen Laibow-Koser

IQ 268

Is a genius with a proclaimed IQ of 268, who started studying and playing music at the age of 3 and is a multi-instrumen

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

A French chess Grandmaster, ranked second in his country.

Michael Grost

Michael Grost

IQ 200

An American child prodigy with an IQ of 200.

Michael Kearney

Michael Kearney

IQ 200

An American college professor and game show contestant. He is known for setting several world records related to graduat

Minou Drouet

Minou Drouet

Arbre, mon ami

Mislav Predavec

Mislav Predavec

IQ 192

Math Genius

Nadia Camukova

Nadia Camukova

IQ 200

Mysterious-claimed-to-be genius

Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini

An Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer.

Nihal Sarin

Nihal Sarin

Being a Chess Prodigy

Nino Rota

Nino Rota

An Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who composed the music for the first two films of Francis Ford Copp

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Uzbek chess player

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

IQ 175

A Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer

Parimarjan Negi

Parimarjan Negi

An Indian chess grandmaster who achieved the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 20 days.

Peter Leko

Peter Leko

A Hungarian chess player who became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994.

Priyanshi Somani

Priyanshi Somani

Is a child gifted with enormous calculating abilities

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

An Indian chess player who.is the fifth-youngest person ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster

Ray Robson

Ray Robson

An American chess player who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 16 days.

Richárd Rapport

Richárd Rapport

A Hungarian chess grandmaster who was the youngest player to achieve the title in his home country.

Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Ponomariov

A Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004.

Ruth Lawrence

Ruth Lawrence

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

Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Reshevsky

A Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

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常见问题

Who is the smartest child prodigy ever?

William James Sidis, with an estimated IQ of 250-300, entered Harvard at 11 and spoke 25+ languages by his teens.

What is a child prodigy?

A child prodigy is a person who, before age 10, performs at the level of a highly trained adult in a demanding domain — music, math, chess, language.

Did Einstein show prodigy traits as a child?

Einstein was a late talker but showed remarkable spatial reasoning early; he was not a classical prodigy like Mozart or Gauss.

Who is the youngest college graduate ever?

Michael Kearney graduated from the University of South Alabama at age 10 in 1994.

What happens to most child prodigies?

Research by David Feldman and Ellen Winner found most prodigies either specialize narrowly as adults or struggle to sustain their childhood intensity into maturity.