We all have to go through IQ tests in school, colleges, universities, professional or whole of our lives. The term”IQ” means to measure intelligence when a person gets scores appearing for many standard tests. The general score ranges is between 70-130. We have given the details of 12 people with highest IQs in the world.
- Sharon Stone with IQ level- 154
Sharon Stone
She has been nominated and received several awards. The bold and beautiful actress has an IQ that left many people in shock. She was always a bright student and entered second standard at the age of five. When Sharon was just 15 years old she received a scholarship to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and started study creative writing and fine arts.
- Paul Allen with IQ Level- 160
Paul Allen
He is the co founder of Microsoft beside Bill Gates. The Microsoft and IBM had a deal that created history and Paul became 53rd richest man in the World. Because of Pau Allen’s brilliance IBM believed that old Microsoft actually had a Disk Operating System that worked on Intel chips, although it didn’t. Paul went on to. In the SAT, He scored a perfect 1600 more than of Bill Gates.
- Stephen Hawking with IQ Level- 160
Stephen Hawking
He is an author, cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the Cambridge. Regardless of being paralyzed completely; his brain had recorded an IQ of 154 that made the world shocked.
- Albert Einstein with IQ Level 160-190
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein with IQ Level 160-190 needs no introduction. He was the one to develop the theory of relativity introduces most chapters in Physics, a Nobel laureate, discoverer of the law of the photoelectric effect, gravitational fields etc.
- Judit Polgar with IQ Level- 170
Judit Polgar
She is the best female chess player, a youngest Grandmaster at the age of 15 and still holds that record. She is the only woman ranks number 63 in FIDE’s Top 100 list.
- Garry Kasparov with IQ Level – 190
Kasparov
- He is a greatest chess player, ranked world no. 1 for 225 times. In 2003 he played against a chess computer to calculate 3 million moves per second. He is also a political activist and writer.
- Philip Emeagwali with IQ Level- 190
Philip Emeagwali
This Nigerian man is an engineer, writer, mathematician and geologist. On the other hand, he will always be a hero to his countrymen as he left his school at the age of 13 to be a part of the Nigerian-Biafran war and he continued his self studies to gain degrees.
- Christopher Michael Langan with IQ Level- 195
Christopher Michael Langan
Langan began talking at the age of six months and start reading when he was just three years old. He gains a perfect score in SAT. He was expelled from Montana University as he stated that he could teach his university lecturers more than they could teach him.
- Kim Ung-Yong with IQ Level- 210
Kim Ung-Yong
He began speaking fluently at the age of six months old. He was a guest student in Physics at 3 at Hanyang University. He wrote poetry and two short stories at four years age and serves in the Chungbuk National University these days.
- Christopher Hirata with IQ Level- 225
Christopher Hirata
He is an outstanding role model of child prodigy. He completed his college level courses at 12. He started working on a project with the NASA. He won a gold medal in international Science Olympiad at the age of 13. At the age of 18 he began his PhD in astrophysics.
- Terence Tao with IQ Level- 225-230
Terence Tao
Another child prodigy taught arithmetic to a 5 year old at 2. He started mathematics courses of the university level at 9 years of age. He attended the Research Science Institute at 14, and received his Bachelors and Masters degree at 16, received his Doctorate at 20 as well and was the youngest professor at UCLA by24.
- William James Sidis with IQ Level- 250-300
William James Sidis
He was a perfect mathematician. He joined grammar school at 6 and graduated in 7 months. He attended Harvard at 11 and mastered over 40 languages. He left the job in Texas and started a political career.
