What is the definition of smart according to you? A person who looks good and has a decent brain would be smart for you. Well, you got it right, somewhat. A smart person has a brain that works well, but the smartest person has a brain that could answer anything you pose to him. He would give an answer to all your question, no matters how difficult they are. Our history has witnessed some of the smartest people that know everything about anything. These people had a very good IQ level that makes them able to answer from simple arithmetic questions to hardcore rocket science questions. Our education system has witnessed a change in recent times, but there is nothing wrong in saying that there are much fewer smart people now as compared to that in the past.
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Highest Recorded IQ
Here is a list that would tell you about some of the smartest people with high IQs who can give answers to all your questions:
10. James Woods with IQ 180
James Woods is a famous actor who has acted in various movies and television shows. His amazing performance and talent helped him in grabbing 2 Emmy Awards. He did a fabulous performance in My name is Bill W and promise. He was also nominated 2 times for the Academy Awards. But that is not all; he had an IQ of 180 and has some amazing mathematical whiz in his mind. Before starting his career as an actor, he showed his talent in the field of linear algebra. He was also a scholar from MIT and one of the smartest persons that showed his talent in mathematics and acting.
9. Marilyn Vos Savant with IQ 190
It is not like only men can have the highest IQ. Marilyn Von Savant holds the Guinness Record of having the highest IQ. She is a famous American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. She is writing in the famous column Ask Marilyn where she solves puzzles and gives answers to some of the difficult questions asked by the people.
8. Kenneth Ferrell with IQ 190
Kenneth Ferrell is the man behind the design of IQ tests QUINTIO and 12345 IQ tests. He is a very well-known doctor and is an elite member of many well-known academies worldwide. Order of Imhotep, the Epimetheus society, and GenerIQ society are some of the places where he offers his intelligence. Talking about intelligence, he has an IQ of 190, and he loves doing IQ tests for fun. He decided to design some different kinds of tests for checking the IQ of people and with that, he came up with QUINTIO and 12345 IQ tests.
7. Garry Kasparov with IQ 190
Garry Kasparov is a world know chess champion with an intelligence quotient of 190. He is one of the smartest chess players and has won numerous chess championships. He became the youngest undisputed chess champion in 1985 at the early age of 22 years. He holds the record of 15 consecutive tournament victories and 11 consecutive Oscar victories. His first defeat was against the IBM smart computer deep blue in the year 1997, but then also he is one of the most well-known and undisputed chess champions of all time.
6. Mislav Predavec with IQ 192
He is no different than other teenagers. He plays Mafia Wars and listens to rock music, but above all, he is the president and the founder of the GenerIQ society. This organization gathers the smartest people in the world to come together to work on some fascinating ideas.
5. Rick Rosner with IQ 192
Being a person with an exceptional IQ, Rick does not seem to have an exciting career. He worked as a waiter, stripper, and nude model. But then he realized his intelligence and thought to use it for some good. He became a writer and producer for some of the well-known quiz shows, and he is the one who sued the famous show Who Wants to be a Millionaire over an allegedly flawed question.
4. Evangelos Katsioulis with IQ 198
He is a Greece national who founded the World Intelligence Network, which is an international organization of high IQ societies. He is currently working as a psychiatrist and owns some respectable degrees in psychopharmacology, medical research technology, and philosophy. He has achieved the highest recorded IQ of 198 which is expected by only 1 person out of 38,000,000,000 people.
3. Kim Ung Yong with IQ 210
He is a genius who started talking at the age of six months and was taking college courses at the age of 4 years. This genius was able to read many languages like English, German, Japanese and Korean from an early age. He has published 90 papers and has even worked for NASA.
2. Christopher Hirata with IQ 225
At the age of 13 years, Christopher won a gold medal at an international physics Olympiad. He is one of the geniuses that can do many things with his brain. He is currently employed in NASA on the project of Mars Colonization.
1. Terrance Tao with IQ 230
He is considered the smartest person you could ever meet. With an IQ of 230, Terrance was able to become a professor at UCLA at an age of 24 years. He has mastered different fields like random matrix theory, analytic number theory, and additive combination. These names are enough to make someone develop a phobia of mathematics, but Terrance started learning maths when he was very young. He is one of the geniuses with such amazing qualities.