2007-08-08 07:13:42 · 6 answers · asked by alan w 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
According to Guiness Book of Records, the smartest person in the world is Marilyn vos Savant who scored IQ 228 Terman as a 10 year old. This would, according to recent research, correspond to about IQ 185 at adult age. That score is, at least, surpassed by the chess player Bobby Fisher (187).
No one knows who is the smartest person that ever lived, that is for sure. But some psychologists believe that William James Sidis reached the maximum capacity possible for a human. The same may apply for eg., the seer of visions, Emanuel Swedenborg, who was so intelligent that he turned mad in the later part of his life.
In the Buzan's Book of Mental World Records, the highest IQ score ever attained is assigned to the history's greatest universal genius Leonardo da Vinci. The estimate is a nearly unbelievable adult IQ of 220 St-Bin!
Here are some famous people with high IQ's
IQ 140
Madonna (Singer)
Jean M. Auel (Author)
Geena Davis (Actress)
IQ 150
Sharon Stone (154) (Actress)
Carol Vorderman (154; Cattell?) (TV presenter)
Sir Clive Sinclair (159) (Inventor)
IQ 160
Bill Gates (CEO, Microsoft)
Jill St. John (Actress)
Paul Allen (160+, Microsoft cofounder)
Stephen W. Hawking (160+) (Physicist)
IQ 170
Andrew J. Wiles (Mathematician; solved Fermat's Last Theorem)
Judith Polgar (Formula based; Female World Champion in Chess)
IQ 180
James Woods (Actor)
John H. Sununu (Chief of Staff for President Bush)
Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister)
Marilyn Vos Savant (186) (Author)
Bobby Fischer (187) (Former World Champion in Chess)
IQ 190
Philip Emeagwali (Extrapolated; Nigerian Mathematician)
IQ 200
Kim Ung-Yong (S. Korea; Showed similar child capabilities as J.S. Mill)
2007-08-08 07:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
I think it's Stephen Hawking. I don't know if he has the highest I.Q. ever, but I believe he has the highest I.Q. of any living person today.
2007-08-08 14:21:31 · answer #2 · answered by fizzygurrl1980 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i think it may be that marilyn vos savant from the Ask Marilyn column. I have seen her touted at the most intelligent person. she is listed in guiness and it has been reported that her IQ is 228 or in other sources 230.
2007-08-08 14:21:25 · answer #3 · answered by island3girl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i would say steven hawkings. hes so smart a computer reads his mind and talks for him
2007-08-08 14:26:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
George (dubya) Bush ... NOT!
2007-08-08 14:41:43 · answer #5 · answered by Sir Marksalot 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why, me of course!
(lol jks, its you =])
2007-08-08 14:21:34 · answer #6 · answered by little.miss.hot.lips 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋