Smartest People In The World

It’s the brain and the ability to think and evaluate that draws a line between Human superiority among World Species. How intelligent a human brain can be to create heavy flying planes in air and huge ships sailing in the ocean. From creating machines to make everyday life easy to discover the hidden treasures of the world, From creating Mobile phones to connect people in two different places of earth to making the whole world a global village through Internet, Human did wonders in every field of life. Intelligence is define as the mental capability you are born with and on the other hand education will help you to just develop your intelligence with time and experience. Some people are born genius without even going to proper collage. Almost every brilliant scientist was a school drop out. The world have seen extremely genius and smartest people like Elbert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Thomas Edison. But the thing here is no one knows what exactly their IQ was in numbers. There is just estimation that Einstein have the IQ in between 160 to 170. At that time there were no special advance intelligence tests. So today we are going to emit the greatest scientists and list currently smartest people in the world.

Terence Tao

Terence Chi-shen Tao is an Australian American mathematician. He was born in 17 July 1975. Terence is considered the greatest living mathematician in the world with the record of highest IQ of 230. He was able to perform simple arithmetic at the age of 2 years. Tao showed that the set of prime numbers contains arithmetic progressions of any length. He published his first research paper at the age of 15 and he received his bachelors and masters degree at the age of 16. He completed his PHD at the age of 20. He became a professor at the young age of 24. He made his valuable contribution in the field of computer and statistical analysis.

Christopher Hirat

Christopher Hirata is an American cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was born in November 30, 1982. Hirata was reported to have an IQ of 225 and he proved it by winning Gold medal in International physics Olympiad at the age of just 13 years old. Hirata skipped school and join NASA at the age of 16 and started on the research of colonizing Mars. He earned his PHD in astrophysics at the age of 22.

Kim Ung-Yong

Born with extraordinary abilities, Kim Ung-Yong was able to speak fluently at the age of 6 month. He was invited as a guest student at the Hangyang University by the time he was Three years old. He was born in South Korea in 8^th march 1962. The most amazing fact about him is that he earned his PHD degree at the age of Just 8 years. His IQ was estimated 210 and he had the Guinness world record of Highest IQ.He made his contribution in the fields of civil engineering and nuclear physics. NASA approached him to make him work with them when he was just 8 years old.

Christopher Michael Langan

When it was said the education and intelligence are two different things then this is what it mean. Christopher Michael langan was reported to have an IQ between the ranges of 195 to 210. He is a horse rancher and autodidact. He was dropped out from Montana state university when he stated that the professors aren’t qualified enough to teach him. He scored highest in SAT. The fun fact about Langan is that he taught himself how to read at the age of 3 years.

Philip Emeagwal

Phillip is better known for inventing the connection machine and 65, 536 microprocessors to make 3.1 billion calculations per second. It the fastest computational record. Philip Emeagwal is from Nigeria and he was dropped out from school because his father couldn’t pay his fees. He won 989 Gordon Bell Prize for price-performance in high-performance computing applications. He is considered Bill gates of Africa. Philip Emeagwal is alleged to have an IQ of 190.

Marilyn vos Savant

Marilyn is an American columnist and author. She was born in 1946 in Missouri. The world recognize her first in 1986 when she was named in Guinness book of world records for having the highest IQ of 228. She is crowned as the "Women with highest IQ in the world" for five consecutive years. She Score highest in many intelligence and IQ tests such as controversial mega test and Stanford Binet test.

William James Sidis

The next person in this list is William James Sidis. Even though he died in July 1944 but still his intelligence is recorded highest up till date. Sidis was alleged to have an IQ of 300 that is twice the IQ of Einstein. He went to Harvard at the age of 11 years, which was the youngest age in the world to enter Harvard. Sidis is best known for his book The Animate and the Inanimate, which was published in 1920. In this book Sidis speculated the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics. He was an absolute genius to invent a language at the age of 8 and named it vendergood. He is believed to know 25 languages. He brought in to public light when he lectured in the Harvard mathematical club in early 1910. He earned his Bachelors degree in 1914. But after his graduation he decided to live a private life away from the spotlight. That’s why most of the people don’t know this highest IQ person.

Jacob Barnett

Jacob will be the youngest in this list. He was born in 26 May 1998 with IQ of 170. He started reciting alphabets forward and backwards at the age of three. He first got recognized when his parents took him to a planetarium where he stunned audience by correctly answering about the gravitational pull of Mars upon its moons. At the age of 9 while playing with shapes he generated a series of mathematical models that expended Einstein’s famous theory of relativity. is a paid researcher at Quantum Physics.

Judit Polgár

Judit is from Hungary and she is a master in chess. She was born in 1976 in Budapest. In 1991, she achieve the title of chess grandmaster at the age of 14 that was the youngest age to get that title. She is considered the strongest woman chess player in the world. He has defeated 10 world champions. She is the only woman to enlist in world chess federation’s top 100 players. She had the high IQ of 170. Judit is 46 years old now and retired from championships. She now trains national men chess team of Hungary.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen hawking is alleged to have an IQ level of 160 same as Einstein. He wass enrolled in Oxford University at the age of 17 on scholarship to study physics and chemistry. But then unfortunately he was diagnosed with the motor neuron disorder, which sent him in depression and he gave up on studies. But he continued his studies after getting inspiration from his fiancé and soon to be wife and pursuit his PHD in 1965. He is known for his thrilling theories of Black holes.