Tony Buzan's 2005 genius tabulation of the fourteen greatest geniuses of all-time. [18] |
Cox’s 1926 ranking of 300 Geniuses (by IQ) (1-100) | Buzan’s 1994 Ranking of 100 Geniuses (by IQ) (1-99) | Buzan’s 1994 Ranking of 100 Geniuses (by GS) (1-99) |
1. Goethe (IQ=210) 2. Leibnitz (IQ=205) 3. Grotius (IQ=200) 4. Wolsey (IQ=200) ----------------------------------------- 5. Pascal (IQ=195) 6. Sarpi (IQ=195) ----------------------------------------- 7. Newton (IQ=190) 8. Laplace (IQ=190) 9. Voltaire (IQ=190) 10. Schelling (IQ=190) 11. Arnauld (IQ=190) 12. Berkeley (IQ=190) 13. Haller (IQ=190) 14. Melanchthon (IQ=190) 15. Pitt (the Younger) (IQ=190) ----------------------------------------- 16. Galileo (IQ=185) 17. Lagrange (IQ=185) 18. Davy (IQ=185) 19. D'Alembert (IQ=185) 18. Comte (IQ=185) 17. Campanella (IQ=185) 21. Gassendi (IQ=185) 22. Humboldt, the Younger (IQ=185) 24. Leopardi (IQ=185) 25. Mirabeau (IQ=185) 26. Niebuhr (IQ=185) ----------------------------------------- 27. Da Vinci (IQ=180) 29. Descartes (IQ=180) 30. Bacon (IQ=180) 30. Michelangelo (IQ=180) 31.Mill (IQ=180) 32. Byron (IQ=180) 33. Arago (IQ=180) 34. Bailly (IQ=180) 35. Bentham (IQ=180) 36. Bossuet (IQ=180) 37. Brougham (IQ=180) 38. Chattterton (IQ=180) 39. Condorcet (IQ=180) 40. Dickens (IQ=180) 41. Erasmus (IQ=180) 42. Fenelon (IQ=180) 43. Gibbon (IQ=180) 44. Hugo (IQ=180) 45. Liebig (IQ=180) 46. Malebranche (IQ=180) 47. Milton (IQ=180) 48. Musset (IQ=180) 49. Oersted (IQ=180) 50. Peel (IQ=180) 51. Pope (IQ=180) 52. Scalinger (IQ=180) 53. Stael (IQ=180) 54. Tasso (IQ=180) ----------------------------------------- 55. Huygens (IQ=175) 56. Kepler (IQ=175) ● Spinoza (IQ=175) ● Kant (IQ=175) 58. Gay-Lussac (IQ=175) 59. Humboldt, W. (IQ=175) 60. Bunsen (IQ=175) 61. Spenser (IQ=175) 62. Adams, J. Q. (IQ=175) 63. Agassiz (IQ=175) 64. Bichat (IQ=175) 65. Buggon (IQ=175) 66. Calvin (IQ=175) 67. Cardan (IQ=175) 68. Coleridge (IQ=175) 69. Cuvier (IQ=175) 70. Jonson, B. (IQ=175) 71. Lamennais (IQ=175) 72. Macaulay (IQ=175) 73. Southey, R. (IQ=175) 74. Thou (IQ=175) 75. Vega, de (IQ=175) 76. Wolf, F.A. (IQ=175) ----------------------------------------- 77. Lavoisier (IQ=170) 78. Faraday (IQ=170) 79. Carnot (IQ=170) 80. Hamilton (IQ=170) 81. Atterbury (IQ=170) 82. Bentley (IQ=170) 83. Calderon (IQ=170) 84. Canope (IQ=170) 85. Chalmers (IQ=170) 86. Chalmers (IQ=170) 87. Constant (IQ=170) 88. Fichte (IQ=170) 89. Handel (IQ=170) 90. Irving W. (IQ=170) 91. Kotzebue (IQ=170) 92. Longfellow (IQ=170) 93. Luther (IQ=170) 94. Marat (IQ=170) 95. Metastasio (IQ=170) 96. Napier (IQ=170) 97. Penn (IQ=170) 98. Racine (IQ=170) 99. Raphael (IQ=170) 100. Renan (IQ=170) | 1.Da Vinci (IQ=220) 2. Goethe (IQ=215) 3. Shakespeare (IQ=210) 4. Einstein (IQ=205) ----------------------------------------- 5. Newton (IQ=195) 6. Edison (IQ=195) 7. Jefferson (IQ=195) ----------------------------------------- 8. Aristotle (IQ=190) 9. Archimedes (IQ=190) 10. Brunelleschi (IQ=190) ----------------------------------------- 11. Copernicus (IQ=185) 12. Mill (IQ=185) 13. Franklin (IQ=185) 14. Eliot (IQ=185) ----------------------------------------- 15. Leibnitz (IQ=182) 16. Euclid (IQ=182) 17. Borges (IQ=182) ----------------------------------------- 18. Galileo (IQ=180) 19. Faraday (IQ=180) 20. Curie (IQ=180) 21. Hawking (IQ=180) 22. Plato (IQ=180) 23. Alberti (IQ=180) 24. Bell (IQ=180) 25. Pitt (the Elder) (IQ=180) 26. Bonaparte (IQ=180) 27. Alexander the Great (IQ=180) 28. Khan (IQ=180) 29. Pavlov (IQ=180) 30. Phidias (IQ=180) 31. Dali (IQ=180) 32. Stravnsky (IQ=180) 33. Elizabeth I (IQ=180) 34. Carnegie (IQ=180) 35. Sinan (IQ=180) 36. Duchamp (IQ=180) ----------------------------------------- 37. Doyle (IQ=182) 38. Tinsley (IQ=182) ----------------------------------------- 39.Descartes (IQ=175) 40.Michelangelo (IQ=175) 41.Spinoza (IQ=175) 42. Dante (IQ=175) 43. Homer (IQ=175) 44. Picasso (IQ=175) 45. 1st Ch'in Emperor (IQ=175) 46. Averroes (IQ=175) 47. Suli (IQ=175) 48. Erasmus, D. (IQ=175) ----------------------------------------- 49. Heisenberg (IQ=173) 50. Gates (IQ=173) 51. Darwin (IQ=173) 52. Crick (IQ=173) 53. Sophocles (IQ=173) 54. Milton (IQ=173) 55. Stephenson (IQ=173) 56. Aeschylus (IQ=173) 57. Euripides (IQ=173) 58. Lao-Tzu (IQ=173) ----------------------------------------- 59. Cesar (IQ=170) 60. Confucious (IQ=170) 61. Lincoln (IQ=170) 62. Raphael (IQ=170) ----------------------------------------- 63. Marconi (IQ=165) 64. Wright (IQ=165) 65. Beethoven (IQ=165) 66. Machiavelli (IQ=165) 67. Aquinas (IQ=165) 68. Bach (IQ=165) 69. Lister (IQ=165) 70. Wren (IQ=165) 71. Brunel (IQ=165) 72. Sun Tzu (IQ=165) 73. Sappho (IQ=165) ----------------------------------------- 74. Socrates (IQ=160) 75. Mozart (IQ=160) 76. Jung (IQ=160) 77. Suleyman (IQ=160) 78. Gandhi (IQ=160) ----------------------------------------- 79. Montessori (IQ=157) 80. Vyasa (IQ=156) 81. Hannibal (IQ=155) 82. Alexander, F.M. (IQ=150) 83. Verdi (IQ=150) 84. Dickens (IQ=150) ----------------------------------------- 85. Cezanne (IQ=149) 86. Graham (IQ=148) 87. Ali (IQ=147) 88. Megellan (IQ=145) 89. Wellesley (IQ=145) 90. Nelson (IQ=145) 91. Titan (IQ=145) 92. Rembrandt (IQ=145) 93. Zizka (IQ=145) 94. Gutenberg (IQ=140) 95. Washington (IQ=140) 96. Columbus (IQ=140) 97. Chaplin (IQ=140) ----------------------------------------- 98. Ueshiba (IQ=131) 99. Disney (IQ=123) | 1.Da Vinci (GS=822) 2. Shakespeare (GS=818) 2. Goethe (GS=816) 4.Michelangelo (GS=814) 5. Newton (GS=810) 6. Jefferson (GS=809) 7. Alexander the Great (GS=808) 8. Phidias (GS=808) 9. Einstein (GS= 804) 10. Edison (GS=799) 11. Homer (GS=797) 12. Plato (GS=797) 13. Euclid (GS=795) 14. Elizabeth I (GS=795) 15. Archimedes (GS=798) 16. Aristotle (GS=798) 17. Brunelleschi (GS=788) 18. Carnegie (GS=785) 19. 1st Ch'in Emperor (GS=783) 20. Sinan (GS=782) 21. Copernicus (GS=780) 22. Beethoven (GS=779) 23. Picasso (GS=777) 24. Alberti (GS=777) 25. Pavlov (GS=776) 26. Faraday (GS=776) 27. Stravnsky (GS=770) 28. Franklin (GS=770) 29. Darwin (GS=769) 30. Sophocles (784) 31. Ali (GS=763) 32. Vyasa (GS=756) 33. Doyle (GS=755) 34. Bell (GS=754) 35. Dali (GS=752) 36. Aquinas (GS=750) 37. Borges (GS=750) 38. Milton (GS=746) 39. Khan (GS=744) 40. Bach (GS=741) 41. Disney (GS=740) 42. Columbus (GS=739) 43. Ueshiba (GS=739) 44. Graham (GS=739) 45. Curie (GS=738) 46. Leibnitz (GS=737) 47. Cezanne (GS=734) 48. Marconi (GS=733) 49. Wright (GS=732) 50. Stephenson (GS=731) 51. Aeschylus (GS=730) 52. Crick (GS=725) 53. Montessori (GS=723) 54. Wren (GS=723) 55. Heisenberg (GS=722) 56. Socrates (GS=715) 57. Brunel (GS=714) 58. Gates (GS=713) 59. Cesar (GS=713) 60. Bonaparte (GS=712) 61. Lister (GS=710) 62. Jung (GS=708) 63. Hawking (GS=708) 64. Galileo (GS=707) 65. Alexander, F.M. (GS=707) 66. Suleyman (GS=706) 67. Pitt (the Elder) (GS=701) 68. Megellan (GS=699) 69. Eliot (GS=699) 70. Duchamp (GS=697) 71. Tinsley (GS=689) 72. Verdi (GS=689) 73. Dickens (GS=688) 74. Confucious (GS=687) 75. Lincoln (GS=683) 76. Chaplin (GS=680) 77. Mozart (GS=676) 78. Nelson (GS=675) 79. Euripides (GS=673) 80. Wellesley (GS=672) 81. Lao-Tzu (GS=671) 82. Averroes (GS=655) 83. Raphael (GS=654) 84. Dante (GS=653) 85. Sun Tzu (GS=652) 86. Gandhi (GS=639) 87. Washington (GS=638) 88. Suli (GS=632) 89. Mill (GS=620) 90. Titan (GS=611) 91. Descartes (GS=609) 92. Machiavelli (GS=597) 93. Erasmus, D. (GS=569) 94. Rembrandt (GS=549) 95. Zizka (GS=540) 96. Hannibal (GS=536) 97. Gutenberg (GS=529) 98. Sappho (GS=514) 99. Spinoza (GS=491) |
Cox’s 1926 ranking of 300 Geniuses (by IQ) (101-200) | Cox’s 1926 ranking of 300 Geniuses (by IQ) (201-300) | Ranking Methodology (notes) |
101. Reuchlin (IQ=170) 102. Robespierre (IQ=170) 103. Smith, A. (IQ=170) 104. Strauss (IQ=170) 105. Tennyson (IQ=170) 106. Turgot (IQ=170) 107. Velasquez (IQ=170) 108. Vergniaud (IQ=170) 109. Wagner (IQ=170) 110. Wieland (IQ=170) ----------------------------------------- 111.Boerhaave (IQ=165) 112.Darwin (IQ=165) 113.Watt (IQ=165) 114.Diderot (IQ=165) 115.Beethoven (IQ=165) 116.Bach (IQ=165) 117. Addison (IQ=165) 118. Bayle (IQ=165) 119. Beaumarchais (IQ=165) 120. Beza (IQ=165) 121. Bronte, C. (IQ=165) 122. Burnet (IQ=165) 123. Canning (IQ=165) 124. DeFoe (IQ=165) 125. Disraeli (IQ=165) 126. Fielding (IQ=165) 127. Fouche (IQ=165) 128. Guicciardini (IQ=165) 129. Guizot (IQ=165) 130. Guizot (IQ=165) 131. Hastings (IQ=165) 132. Hegel (IQ=165) 133. Heine (IQ=165) 134. Herder (IQ=165) 135. Herschel, W. (IQ=165) 136. Hobbes (IQ=165) 137. Holberg, L. von (IQ=165) 138. Jenner (IQ=165) 139. Johnson (IQ=165) 140. Law (IQ=165) 141. Linnaeus (IQ=165) 142. Locke (IQ=165) 143. Mazzini (IQ=165) 144. Mendelssohn (IQ=165) 145. Montaigne (IQ=165) 146. Mozart (IQ=165) 147. Newman, J.H. (IQ=165) 148. Priestley (IQ=165) 149.Raleigh (IQ=165) 150. Robertson (IQ=165) 151. Sainte-Beuve (IQ=165) 152.Schiller (IQ=165) 153. Scott (IQ=165) 154. Shaftesbury (IQ=165) 155. Sheridan, R.B. (IQ=165) 156. St. Simon (IQ=165) 157. Swedenborg (IQ=165) 158. Tieck (IQ=165) 159. Weber (IQ=165) 160. Webster (IQ=165) 161. Winckelmann (IQ=165) 162. Wordsworth (IQ=165) 163. Zwingli (IQ=165) ----------------------------------------- 164. Alfieri (IQ=160) 165. Andrewes (IQ=160) 166. Berzelius (IQ=160) 167.Boyle (IQ=160) 168. Bunyan (IQ=160) 169. Canova (IQ=160) 170. Channing (IQ=160) 171. Chateaubriand (IQ=160) 172. Chesterfield (IQ=160) 173. Claredon (IQ=160) 174. Clarke, S. (IQ=160) 175. Copernicus (IQ=160) 176. Corneille (IQ=160) 177. Cowper (IQ=160) 178. Dryden (IQ=160) 179. Dupin (IQ=160) 180. Eliot, G. (IQ=160) 181. Etienne (IQ=160) 182. Franklin, B. (IQ=160) 183. Gaskell, E.C.S. (IQ=160) 184. Grimm, J.L. (IQ=160) 185. Grote (IQ=160) 186. Haydn (IQ=160) 187. Helvetius (IQ=160) 188. Hunter (IQ=160) 189. Jansen (IQ=160) 190. Jefferson (IQ=160) 191. Lamartine (IQ=160) 192. Lessing (IQ=160) 193. L'Hopital (IQ=160) 194. Madison (IQ=160) 195. Martineau, H. (IQ=160) 196. Mazarin (IQ=160) 197. Moliere (IQ=160) 198. Richelieu (IQ=160) 199. Rubens (IQ=160) 200. Sand (IQ=160) | 201. Schleiermacher (IQ=160) 202. Sevigne (IQ=160) 203. Sumner, C. (IQ=160) 204. Thiers (IQ=160) 205. Wesley (IQ=160) ----------------------------------------- 206. Adams, J. (IQ=155) 207. Ait Weil Zade (IQ=155) 208. Balzac (IQ=155) 209. Baxter (IQ=155) 210. Beranger (IQ=155) 211. Bolivar (IQ=155) Bulwer (IQ=155) Cervantes (IQ=155) Pitt (the Younter) (IQ=155) Cervantes (IQ=155) Cobden (IQ=155) Danton (IQ=155) Durer (IQ=155) Emerson (IQ=155) Fox, G. J. (IQ=155) Fox, George (IQ=155) Fulton, R. (IQ=155) Gambetta, L.M. (IQ=155) Hamilton, A. (IQ=155) Hawthorne, N. (IQ=155) La Fontaine (IQ=155) Maintenon (IQ=155) Miller, Hugh (IQ=155) More (IQ=155) Necker (IQ=155) O’Connell (IQ=155) Palestrina (IQ=155) Pitt (the Elder) (IQ=155) Prescott (IQ=155) Rembrandt (IQ=155) Savonarola (IQ=155) Seward (IQ=155) Swift (IQ=155) Temple, W. (IQ=155) Van Dyck (IQ=155) Walpole (IQ=155) Warburton (IQ=155) Wilberforce (IQ=155) Blake, H. (IQ=155) -------------------------- Bright (IQ=150) Burns (IQ=150) Cobbett (IQ=150) Franklin (IQ=150) Lincoln (IQ=150) Marmont (IQ=150) Moore (IQ=150) Murillo (IQ=150) Nelson (IQ=150) Rousseau (IQ=150) Soult (IQ=150) Thackeray (IQ=150) Wilkes (IQ=150) --------------- Alberoni (IQ=145) Anderson, H. C. (IQ=145) Blucher (IQ=145) Garrison, W.L. (IQ=145) Gluck (IQ=145) Hogarth (IQ=145) Jackson, A. (IQ=145) Marlborough (IQ=145) Meheme Ali (IQ=145) Moreau (IQ=145) Napoleon (IQ=145) Poussin (IQ=145) Reynolds (IQ=145) Rossini (IQ=145) Sherman (IQ=145) ---------------------- Bernadotte (IQ=140) Clive (IQ=140) Cortez (IQ=140) Garibaldi (IQ=140) Lee, R.E. (IQ=140) Monk (IQ=140) Vauban (IQ=140) Washington (IQ=140) + 11 more below 140 | Cox Ranking Methodology ● Methodology: to make this list, a team led by Stanford psychologist Catherine Cox, and Lewis Terman, the co-inventor of the IQ test, and psychologists Florence Goodenaugh, and Kate Gordon, gave an historically determined IQ ranked listing of the top 300 geniuses who lived between 1450 and 1850, by reading through 1,500 biographies and to each genius independently assign an estimated intelligence quotient, based on The Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale, based on each individual’s life accomplishments and childhood abilities.● Cox, Catharine, M. (1926). Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses (Genetic Studies of Genius Series). Stanford Univ Press. ● Estimated IQs of the Greatest Geniuses – (Goethe ranked 1st (IQ = 210)) ● Cox's IQ Estimates of 301 Geniuses - IQComparisonSite.com. Buzan Ranking Methodology ● Methodology: to make this list, English accelerated-learning expert Tony Buzan and English chess grandmaster Raymond Keene scored the world’s leading minds on an 835-point scale (GS=Genius Score): dominance in the field (100), active longevity (100), polymath (100), versatility (100), strength and energy (100), IQ (100), ongoing influence (100), prolificness and achievement of prime goal (100), universality of vision (15), outstanding originality (10), deliberate desire to create teaching avenues or academies to further the genius’ ideas (10). ● Methodology (Buzan 100 Geniuses) – Braintrust.org. ● Buzan, Tony and Keene, Raymond. (1994). Book of Genius. Stanley Paul. ● Greatest Geniuses of All Time (1-50) – Buzan’s book of Genius. ● Top 10 Geniuses of All Time (1-10) - Buzan's Book Of Genius. |