10 smartest people in the world

10 Smartest people in the world

1. Terence Tao

IQ: 230.

Terence Tao is most intelligent person in world. He is an Australian, American mathematician who works on many areas of math like harmonic analysis, partial differential equation, arithmetic combinatorics, algebraic combinatorics and many others.

The smartest person in the world has IQ level of 230. He got many awards like Bocher Memorial Prize in 2002, the 2003 clay research award, and Salem Prize in 2000 and many other also.

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When he was just 5 year old he was teaching how to add, how to spell numbers. He won bronze medal in 1986 from the international mathematical Olympiad, in 1987 won silver and in 1988 he won gold medal to becoming the youngest ever gold medalist in the mathematical Olympiad.

 When he was 8 year old, he achieved a score of 760 on the pre-1995 SAT and received a Ph.D from Princeton at 20 year and at 24 became the youngest ever full professor at UCLA. 

2. Christopher Hirata

IQ: 225.

Christopher Hirata verified IQ level of 225 and he is second smartest person in the world. He is genius form his childhood days. In first grade he was doing algebra.

At age 12 he was talking college level course in physics and multivariable calculus.

At age 13 he made wave by getting gold medal form the international Physics Olympiad. When he was just 14 year old he started his University education.

At just 16 he was working with NASA to exploring the possibility of colonizing Mars. At 22 he got his ph.d from Princeton University.

Currently Hirata is teaching astrophysics in the CIT California Institute of Technology. He is an authorized child genius. 

Hirata together with his teammates he took 4 place in the famous Putnam mathematics competition in 2000.

3. Kim Ung-Yong

IQ: 210.

Kim Ung-Yong has more brain power than Hawking and Einstein. His name recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records with an IQ of 210. He is 53 year old. He is a civil engineer in Korea, he is rated as the master in child Prodigy.

When he was just 6 year old, he was able to speak and understand the Korean and other language also. And when he was 3 year old, he able to solve complex problem on Japanese television and read many language like German, English etc. 

At same age his father claimed that Una-Yong had memorized about 2000 word in both English and German and he also write poem in different language.

At 4 he was taking course as a guest physics student at Hanyang University. At 8 he invited form NASA to study in the United States.

4. Christopher Langan

IQ:  195.

Christopher Langan is 65 year old Americans autodidact with an IQ reported to between 195 and 210. He is rated as the smartest man in America and smartest man in world by media.

In 2001 he gave the world most difficult IQ test in omni magazine and he gives his IQ between 195 and 210.

He scored full marks in SAT even thought he slept his way through the exam. He has developed a theory between mind and reality that he calls the Cognitive-Theoretic model of the Universe.

When he was just six month, he began talking and taught himself to read when he was 3 year old.

He have many popular culture likes he appeared on ABC news in 2000, he appeared on BBC make me smart with Michel Mosley in 2012 and many more.

5. Ricky Rosner

IQ: 192.

Probably you heard the name of Ricky Rosner as TV producer. He is American TV producer famous for making the TV show clips. He has amazing IQ level of 192.

He has been striper, roller-skating waiter, bouncer and nude model. He is the world fifth smartest man. He is a rough and tough demeanor and spent most of time as a bar bouncer.

He developed portable satellite television in partnership with DirecTV. He pops 50 pills including Omega 3 fish oil capsules, a baby Aspirin and Avodart to maintain his IQ of 192 and remain smarter.

6. Garry Kasparov

IQ: 190.

Garry Kasparov is Russian chess wizard and the youngest undisputed world chess champion by defeating the Anatoly Karpov at age of 22. He has IQ level of 190.

He has totally amazed the world when he played to draw against a chess computer that could calculate three million positions per second in 2003.

He holds the records of consecutive 15 professional tournament victories and 11 chess Oscars that formed the united civil front movement to oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policies.

7. Judit Polgar

IQ: 170.

Judit Polgar was born in Hungary. She is rated as an amazing chess grandmaster. She created history when she was just 15 year old by defeating Bobby Fischer and became the youngest Grandmaster. And second time in 2002 when she beat the world number one Garry Kasparov.

Judit is only woman in FIDE’s top 100 list. And she is the only woman who qualified for a world championship tournament having done so in 2005. In 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess.

In 1991 Polgar received the grandmaster title by winning the Hungarian National Championship.

She was the number 1 woman on rating list from 1989 to 2015. She received Hungary’s highest decoration in Grand cross of the order of saint Stephen of Hungary.

8. Sir Andrew Wiles

IQ: 170.

Sir Andrew wiles is a royal Research professor at Oxford University. His intelligence is very high. He is one of the most intelligent man in the world. He is British mathematician who focusing in number theory and most effective person in the world.

He is the award winning English mathematician cracked the 358 year old format last Theorem listed by The Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world’s “most difficult mathematical problems”, in 1995.

He received 15 awards for his contribution in mathematics including an International Mathematic Union silver plaque and many more.

9. Paul Gardner Allen

IQ: 170.

Paul Gardner Allen is cofounder of Microsoft, he has IQ level of 170. In 2013, he is 51 richest man on the planet, with worth of $17.5 billion. He is an American business tycoon, 

stockholder and philanthropist.

He is rated as most significant person in the world and also known to be good conclusion maker.

Paul has own NFL’s Seahawks and NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and has donated more than $1.8 billion so far towards the advancement of science, technology, education, wildlife conservation, and community services.

10. Stephen Hawking

IQ: 160.

You are surprised to know Stephen hawking rank 10 in most intelligent person in the world. He is theoretical physicist, cosmologist and Stephen Hawking is one of the most intelligent people on the planet. He has IQ level of 160.

He was born in Oxford, England he had consider that the most gifted person many times. He suffered for paralysis.

But his great IQ level made him evolve beyond his paralysis. 

His knowledge make him equal to Albert Einstein. His Science and Cosmology input is unmatched as he has efficiently used quantum mechanics and the famous theory of relativity in making an summary of cosmology to individuals all around the world.

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