In the early days, there were many influential geniuses who changed the world and created history. People like Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Socrates brought groundbreaking ideas that have lived on long after their deaths and benefited the world.

Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking were some of the smartest people in the world who had outstanding IQ scores. The world we are living today was built upon the contributions of these geniuses. Without their work and intelligence we could not know even the fundamental areas of knowledge, such as gravity, physics, or how to properly wear suspenders.

While these brilliant people are no longer around, there are some influential geniuses alive today who have high IQ scores.  

What is IQ?

IQ stands for "Intelligence Quotient". It is basically the sum of score derived from some standardized tests designed to check a person's  intelligence. People with high IQ level, hold the ability to get, analyze and handle information in a deep level. They complete the process faster as compared to normal people.

We take a look at 10 person with the highest IQ in the world, they are famous and are known as absolute geniuses around the world.

Marilyan vos Savant

Marilyan vos Savant

Vos Savant has one of the world's highest IQs (228), and she is known as the smartest person in the comment. Her name is recorded in the Guinness World Record for smarts. Although Savant is more than capable of holding her own in intellectual circles, she has opted to follow a less traditional path than more verified geniuses. She has run the famous Column named "Ask Marilyn" for Parade for more than 30 years. Through her column, she answers for different questions. She is married to the inventor of the artificial heart .

Marilyn was born on 11 August, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Apart from being famous for her IQ, she is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and playwright.

Chris Hirata

Chris Hirata

With the IQ level of 225, Chris Hirata is in the second position among the people with the highest IQ in the world. He could have had a starring role in Baby Geniuses. By the time Chris was a preteen, he had his profile in the Chicago Tribute showing his virtuosic ability. As per  the piece, as a curious kid, Chris used to entertain himself by estimating the cost of the grocery bill as they wound their way through the supermarket.

 He was able to price each item by weight, quantity and any discount that might be applied. He was even considering the sales tax into his calculation.  Chris Hirata was born on November 30, 1982 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He won the gold medal in 1996 at the Intentional Physician Olympiad when he was just 13 year old. He studied physics at Caltech from the age of 14 to 18 and he did his graduation in 2001.  

Judit Polgar

Judit Polgar

The greatest female chess player, Judit Polgar has an IQ of 170. She and her sisters were homeschooled by their father, it was an experimental curriculum that used chess as the central foundation. Instead of gaining traditional knowledge, Judit Polgar became the youngest Grandmaster ever when she was just 15 year old. She held the rank of top female player for 25 years before her retirement.  

Judit was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest and she is considered as the strongest female chess player of all time. Presently, she is providing guidance to the men's national team in her home country of Hungary. Because of her successful efforts in opening doors for female players and promoting chess education, she has been honoured with Hungary's highest honour, the Order of Saint Stephen.  

Kim Ung-yong

Kim Ung-yong

Kim Ung-yong is a classic genius case of starting… young and is among the smartest people in the world. You will surprise to know that at his fifth birthday, Kim could speak four languages because he was studying differential calculus by age three.

He holds the Guinness World Record for IQ at 210 and he was invited as a guest student in physics at Hanyang University when he was three year old. He was  invited to America by NASA at age eight, he worked at the space organization for ten years and then returned to Korea. Despite his amazing intelligence, Ung-yong stressed that a high IQ does not bring happiness and there are other more important things in life. That's why he chose a provincial college to earn his Ph.D. in civil engineering instead of attending Korea's most prestigious institution. Later, he became an adjunct faculty member at Chungbuk National University.

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Terence Too

Terence Too

Terence Too's IQ  is estimated to be around 225 and he has become UCLA's youngest ever full professor. In 2006, Too received the prestigious Fields Medal for his outstanding contribution to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory.

Too's skill and talent were visible in his childhood days only. At age two, he begins teaching five-year-old children to speel and to add numbers. When he was asked how he learned to do this in this small age, he said that he learned it from watching Sesame Street. When he reached 7 year, Too was reading calculus books for hours a day and at ten, became the youngest ever gold medallist in the International Mathematical Olympiads.

Sabrina Gonzales Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzales Pasterski

Sabrina Gonzales Pasterski

Sabrina is a young and among Millennial and one of the persons with the highest IQ level. She has been labelled as the Next Einstein. She did her graduation from MIT with a measly 5.00 GPA before getting her Harvard physician Ph.D. with a 4.00. and in 2016, at an age most of us are still trying to find out how to show up to class on time.

The aircraft building thing happened when she was just 14 years old and started working on a single engine phone. She would fly that thing a few years later, supporting it to lead to the recognition that would help her to gain a standing job in leading companies.  She was born on 3 June 1993 in Chicago, United States. She describes herself as a proud first-generation Cuban-American & Chicago Public Schools Alumna.

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov is the king of chess and considered as a mean, lean, chess-winning machine. He is famous as a Russian chess grandmaster, writer and political activist. According to the sources, his IQ reaches 190. Besides, he rose to prominence as the youngest-ever, outright world champion. He held this position for three times that is longer than anyone else.

Kasparov was recognized as a king of chess in 1996, when he took on IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer  and won 4-2 and brought artificial intelligence as well as chess into the mainstream in the process. Garry Kasparovwas born on 13 April 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Edward Witten

Edward Witten

Edward Witten is widely popular for his work on string theory, M-theory, quantum gravity and super symmetry. Witten, Edward is a Baltimore native and is one of the world's greatest living theoretical physicists. He was honoured as Time 100's most influential people into the world list in 2004. Like Hawking, Edward Witten is also a recipient of the Albert Einstein Award.

Over the course of his career, he has influenced everything including String theory, particle physic, and quantum dynamics. These days, Edward is a professor of mathematical physicals at Princeton and a long standing member on the board of directors for Americans for Peace Now.

Tim Berners

Tim Berners

Time Berners, the man who invented the internet, he often gets credit for the accomplishment in the internet Hall of Fame. When he first brought the baby World Wide Web into the world on March 12, 1989, he saw it as existing in a simple, unicorn sky world. No doubt, people have found plenty of ways to use and abuse the internet.

Presently, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a Web standards organization founded in 1994. The organization develops interoperable technologies to clear the web to its full potential.

Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

When it comes to the person with the highest IQ alive how we can forget the English mathematician, Andrew Wiles. He is mainly known for cracking Fermat's Last Theorem that was a 358-year-old theory. It makes him the person who solved the longest-standing math problem ever.

This is also a personal achievement for Wiles that he originally learned of the theorem when he was just a year old and was browsing his local librabat.

The Cambridge native garnered numerous awards for his work in mathematics, including an International Mathematical Union Silver Plaque, a National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics and The Shaw Prize.

Last Verdict

It is a fact that Einstein and Newton were super smart, but today, we've found a new class of 'smart'.These are the 10 smartest people living in the world right now. Some people are inborn intelligent and shown their intelligence during their childhood also, while some people become intelligent over time with their experience and regular study.

That's it on the smartest people in the world. We hope you find it interesting to learn about the person with the highest IQ. What do you think about this post? What is your favourite intellectual? Let us know in the comment section below, we will be happy to hear from you.