The Highest IQs

People Still Alive

Kim Ung-yong 210

Christopher Michael Langan 195

Philip Emeagwali 190

Garry Kasparov 190

Marilyn Vos Savant 186

James Woods is alleged 180

John H. Sununu is alleged 180

Benjamin Netanyahu is 180

Andrew Wiles 170

Judith Polgar 170

Robert Byrne 170

Bobby Fischer 167

Stephen W. Hawking 160

Paul Allen 160

Sharon Stone 154

From the past

190 – Ludwig Wittgenstein

190 – Sir Isaac Newton

190 – François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

180 – Leonardo da Vinci

180 – David Hume

180 – Buonarroti Michelangelo

179 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

176 – Emanuel Swedenborg

176 – Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

175 – Johannes Kepler

175 – Edmund Spenser

175 – Baruch Spinoza

174 – John Stuart Mill

171 – Blaise Pascal

170 – Michael Faraday

170 – George Friedrich Händel

170 – Antoine Lavoisier

170 – Martin Luther

165 – Galileo Galilei

165 – Charlotte Brontë

165 – Johann Sebastian Bach

165 – Thomas Hobbes

165 – Carl von Linné

165 – John Locke

165 – Joseph Priestley

165 – Ludwig van Beethoven

165 – Samuel Johnson

162 – René Descartes

162 – Madame De Stael

160 – Albert Einstein

160 – Robert Boyle

160 – Benjamin Franklin

159 – Immanuel Kant

156 – Linus Carl Pauling

156 – Sofia Kovalevskaya

156 – Thomas Chatterton

156 – Olof Palme

155 – Rembrandt van Rijn

155 – Miguel de Cervantes

155 – Jonathan Swift

153 – Charles Darwin

153 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

150 – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

150 – Nicolaus Copernicus

150 – Abraham Lincoln

145 – Napoleon Bonaparte

145 – Anna Lindh

143 – George Sand (Aurore Dupin)

140 – George Washington

130 – Ulysses S. Grant

130 – Sir Francis Drake