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THE MOST INTIMIDATING LIST OF IQ'S TO DATE

 

FROM THE PAST

In 1926, psychologist Dr. Catherine Morris Cox who had been assisted by Dr. Lewis M. Terman, Dr. Florence L. Goodenaugh, and Dr. Kate Gordon – published a study “of the most eminent men and women” who had lived between 1450 and 1850 to estimate what their IQs might have been. Data from that study as well as other sources around the net were compiled to form the following list. Please drop me a comment if you have additions or corrections (make sure and cite sources).

 

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 РCarl von Linn̩
165 – John Locke
165 – Joseph Priestley
165 – Ludwig van Beethoven
165 – Samuel Johnson
162 РRen̩ 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

 

PRESENTLY STILL ALIVE

Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154