20 highest IQs ever
Who has the highest IQ in history? The answer may surprise you. Intelligence is a complex thing. As great beauty, great intelligence can be a blessing or a curse to those who possess it. Sometimes the smartest of us live the most difficult lives. Other times, they are just amazing people who make others look really stupid. While there are many different ways to measure intelligence, as well as different types of intelligence, this list focuses on the highest IQ scores. Read on to find out about the 20 highest IQs in history.
20 PHOTOS
1. Albert Einstein.
Born in Germany, Albert Einstein is such a famous genius that his last name is a general term that people use to refer to someone very smart. He is also one of only two theoretical physicists that the average person with no interest in physics can name. He wrote over 300 scholarly papers in his life, in addition to a letter to President Roosevelt to warn him of the dangers of nuclear weapons, being a committed political activist who was a member of the NAACP and a well-known Zionist who helped found the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His IQ was reported to be between 160 and 190.
2. Nathan Leopold.
Nathan Leopold was a child prodigy with an IQ of 210. He had a difficult childhood with several friends and was sexually abused by a governess at age 12. He was also a murderer obsessed with committing a "perfect crime." In 1924, he teamed up with Richard Loeb to kill Loeb's 14-year-old cousin. Despite obvious premeditation, both escaped the death penalty, and Leopold lived to see his release from prison. After prison, Leopold moved to Puerto Rico, where he taught mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico.
3. Nadia Kamukova.
Nadia Kamukova has an IQ of 200. The Moscow-born professor can speak seven languages, eight Turkish dialects and is currently a professor in Turkey.
4. Jacob Barnett.
Jacob Barnett's parents were told when he was very young that he was severely autistic and would probably never learn to tie his shoes. Instead, he has an IQ of 170 and became a doctoral student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
5. Richard Rosner.
Richard Rosner has an IQ of 192, but his resume is almost as interesting. Rosner has worked as a writer, bouncer, nude model and once appeared in a Domino commercial. He also takes over 30 tablets and supplements a day and works for at least two and a half hours. He declares that this is part of his personality.
6. William J. Sideis.
Saidis's parents set out to make a genius child, and made him with an IQ of over 250. His mother, Sarah, was a doctor (there were almost no female doctors in the late 1800s), and his father, Boris, was a college professor. Boris and Sarah start caring for their child to make him a child prodigy. William spoke in simple terms, like the "door" at six months. By the age of 7, he spoke seven different languages and studied subjects at the high school level. Unfortunately, William had no time to be a child. He was accepted by Harvard at age 9, but was not allowed to attend until age 12 due to "emotional immaturity." As an adult, he traveled from city to city, taking odd jobs and changing his name frequently. He has written several books, most of which are awful and boring. He is said to be very childishly unhappy and died of a stroke at just 46 years old. His life is a cautionary tale for parents who want too much from their children.
7. Paul Allen.
Paul Allen was a Seattle-born billionaire with an IQ of anywhere between 160 and 170. Bill Gates' longtime friend, Allen worked at Microsoft until his retirement in 2000. He has owned Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Seahawks and is a well-known philanthropist. Unfortunately, he passed away on October 15, 2018 from septic shock from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
8. Judit Polgar.
Hungarian Chess Champion Judit Polgar has an IQ of 170. She was awarded the title of Chess Grandmaster when she was only 15 years old. She is considered the greatest chess player in history.
9. Terence Tao.
Terence Tao was born in Australia to parents who immigrated from Hong Kong. He published his first research paper at age 15 and received his doctorate from Princeton University when he was only 21 years old. At 24, he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, becoming the youngest of all to do so. He has one of the highest IQs in the world at 225.
10. Christopher Langan.
Christopher Langan is considered by some to be the smartest person in America. He taught himself to read before he was four, and eventually dropped out of college because he felt that his professors had little to teach him. Like others on this list, he has had many casual pursuits - farmer, forest firefighter and bouncer to name a few - but he is best known for his "Cognitive Theoretical Model of the Universe", which deals with the relationship between mind and reality. His IQ is 195.
11. Kim Un Yong.
By the time he was three, Kim Woon Young was fluent in four different languages, so his IQ of 210 came as no surprise. Born in South Korea, Kim eventually moved to the United States and worked for NASA for ten years before returning home to Korea. He has something definite to say about being special: “People always try to be special, neglecting their usual happiness. But they need to know that happiness means ordinary things that we take for granted, like appreciating friendships, sharing memorable moments with friends, and so on ... That's why I know what I'm saying is important. Being special is not as important as living an ordinary life. "
12. Chris Hirata.
Michigan-born astrophysicist Chris Hirata is the youngest American laureate of the International Physics Olympiad. (Yes, that's really impressive.) He received his BA from California Institute of Technology in 2001 and at 16 he started working at NASA on this pesky "Can We Colonize Mars" issue that everyone is talking about. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard (he was 22 years old). Hirata is currently at Ohio State University as a professor of physics and astronomy. His IQ is 225.
13. Garry Kasparov.
Garry Kasparov, a native of Russia, is considered the greatest chess player of all time. In 1996 and 1997, he played chess against IBM's "Deep Blue" supercomputer. Kasparov won the first match, Deep Blue won the second. This was the first time that a machine had beaten a world chess champion in a classic game according to tournament rules. Kasparov is also a writer and politician, with an IQ of 194.
14. Stephen Hawking.
Stephen Hawking was perhaps the most famous theoretical physicist in world history, meaning that he is one of only two theoretical physicists that most people outside of physics can name. He is the author of A Brief History of Time, which is one of the most respected and famous works ever written on the big bang theory. When he was only 12 years old, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease from which most people die within 5 years. However, Professor Hawking lived to be 76 years old. He moved and communicated through a special wheelchair that includes a voice synthesizer. His IQ was 160.
15. Walter O'Brien.
Walter O'Brien is an Irish businessman and tech mogul with an IQ of over 190. As a child, his teachers were suspected of autism. When they examined him, they did not find autism, he was just too smart for school. At 13, he hacked into NASA's main security servers and stole the space shuttle plans because he could. He is known to joke that his business, Scorpion Computer Services, was founded as a way to escape jail.
16. Marilyn Vos Savant.
Marilyn Vos Savant, born in Missouri, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1986 as the person with the highest IQ in the world at 228. Since the mid-1980s, Parade magazine has had a column called “Ask Marilyn”.
17. Leonardo da Vinici.
Unfortunately, there were no established tests for measuring IQ during the Renaissance, but it was estimated that Leonardo da Vinci's IQ was between 180 and 190. Although most people know da Vinci from his paintings, he was an expert in many fields, including mathematics, geology, cartography and engineering. He was also one of the most accomplished and talented artists who ever lived.
18. Nikola Tesla.
As with da Vinci, there was no IQ test when Nikola Tesla was alive; however, it has been estimated that his IQ would be around 200, which is not surprising given that humans have invented many things (like remotes) that most of us use on a daily basis (some of which Thomas Edison took over). Man predicted cell phones in 1926; he must be super smart.
19. Sir Andrew Wiles.
Sir Andrew Wiles is a mathematician at the University of Oxford. He was able to prove Fermat's last theorem, which others could not do for over 350 years. His IQ is reportedly 170.
20. Geena Davis.
Academy Award-winning actress Gina Davis has an IQ of 140 and is also fluent in Swedish. She founded the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in the Media Foundation, which aims to make women more visible in the media.
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