Here Are 11 Geniuses With Higher IQ Than Albert Einstein You Should Know (2024)

For a person to be considered a genius, one needs to have an IQ of at least 140. Not many individuals have this characteristic, but they do exist, and they are among us. Many have common professions, such as magazine columnists, horse breeders, or psychologists. While some of them are dedicated to innovative research, others prefer to maintain a lifestyle focused on simplicity.

Albert Einstein is a name that is considered synonymous with intelligence. Einstein was a Theoretical Physicist who is considered to be the greatest physicist in the world. People at the time were so impressed and obsessed with his mind that after his death, Thomas Harvey made 170 pieces of his brain and sent it to different scientists for research. Now understand how curious people around the world were to know about the mind of this person.

Here are we bought some more genius than Einstein:

What is IQ?

Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a measure of an individual's mental capacity. In other words, the intelligence level of it. In order to measure this mental capacity, the participant is subjected to a series of tests including different areas.

Through Intelligence Quotient (IQ), the intellectual level of a person is assessed. There are many tests to assess this, such as Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and Peabody Individual Achievement Test. 100 is called average IQ and people whose IQ is more than 140 are called geniuses.

Jacob Barnett (IQ - 170)

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Jacob Barnett is a gifted American physics student and former child prodigy born in 1998 who had been diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at age of two. At school, Jacob was very slow in the study and it was difficult for him to react at the same speed as other children it was obvious that there was some serious learning problem. Then his mother took him to a specialist then the news of autism came and doctors predicted that he would never figure out how to do the basic things like never learning to tie his own shoes but he defied all the odds when he completed grades 6 through 12 in a year and went to college at the age of 10. At the age of 11, he published his article in a famous scientific journal. He got the Ted Talk stage at the age of 13. He is currently a doctoral student at the Perimeter Institute for Advanced Theoretical Physics. His mother, Kristine Barnett, wrote a book about him called The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius.

Judit Polgár - (IQ - 170)

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The Hungarian chess grandmaster, Judit Polgár who is known as the best female chess player in history. In 1991, Judit became the youngest grandmaster at the age of 15 years and four months earlier that record was held by Bobby Fischer. She was the top-ranked female player in the world for more than 26 years. Polgar has defeated other world champions like Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Spassky, Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov. Her IQ is recorded as 170. She announced her retirement from chess in 2014 and was even awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary.

Evangelos Katsioulis (IQ - 198)

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According to the World Genius Dictionary, Evangelos Katsioulis has the highest IQ ever in the world and was regarded as one of the world’s most intelligent people. He has given record-breaking performance in many Tests. Evangelos is a Greek physician and psychiatrist. According to an article in Reader's Digest, Evangelos has an IQ of 198. He has obtained MD, MSc, MA, PhD degrees. He also has degrees in Philosophy and Medical Research Technology. Evangelos is the founder of the World Intelligence Network (WIN), an international organisation of high IQ societies and of AAAA.GR is an organisation for the detection and support of gifted individuals in Greece.

Adhara Perez (IQ - 162)

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Adhara Prez was three years old when doctors told her that she had a disease called Asperger's. Prez had to face difficulties in studies and fell asleep in class and acted as if she didn’t want to be there. She also became a victim of bullying in school. She was called “weirdo,” and “oddball,”. When Perez was only 8 years old, her IQ test was done. Surprisingly, his IQ turned out to be higher than Einstein and Stephen Hawking. When she was just 5, Pérez finished elementary school and at the age of 6, she finished middle school and only at the age of 8, she finished high school. This girl from Mexico wants to become an astronaut and wants to go to Mars. Currently, Adhara is studying Industrial engineering in mathematics at UNITEC and systems engineering at CNCI. The University of Arizona has offered her a scholarship. She was also named one of the 100 powerful women of Mexico by Forbes magazine. Her dream is to work for NASA and want to go to space to colonize Mars.

Marilyn Vos Savant (IQ - 228)

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Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946 when Marilyn Vos Savant was 10 years old, in an adult level Stanford-Binet Test found out that her IQ is 228. Due to this record-breaking result, her name was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. This category was removed in 1990 because IQ results were considered uncertain. Marilyn is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer and has been answering philosophical and mathematical questions for Parade magazine readers in her “Ask Marilyn” column since 1986.

Rick Rosner (IQ - 192-198)

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Rick Rosner gave more than 30 IQ tests and his IQ came between 192-198. Before becoming a TV writer, he used to work as a bouncer, stripper and naked model. He is considered one of the wisest men in the world. Rick sued ABC network for a badly written question after losing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at the $16,000 level. He was asked, "What capital city is located at the highest altitude above sea level? and options were Kathmandu, Mexico City, Quito and Bogotá. But he lost the case.

Sho Yano- (IQ - 200)

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A former child prodigy Sho Yano is an American doctor who was the first to be awarded as the youngest graduate of Doctor of Medicine by the University of Chicago in June 2010. Yano started college at the age of 9 and began medical school three years later. When Yano was 2 years old he knew how to read and started writing and composing music at 5. By the time he was 21 he earned an MD and PhD degrees. This American genius is projected to have an IQ of 200.

Ainan Cawley: IQ 263

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At just 21 years old, he has an IQ of 263. He joined third-year chemistry courses at Singapore Polytechnic at the age of 8. When he was nine, he’d memorized the first 518 decimal spots of pi. The young man has worked in the film industry since he was 12, as a composer. Incidentally, in 2013 he wrote, directed and edited his own film, The Sempiternal and wrote the script and composed music for a short film called Reflection when he was 12.

Michael Kearney - (IQ - 200–325)

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He is known for setting world records as the youngest man to graduate and teach at the university, as a teenager and with an IQ between 200 and 325. He completed his bachelor's degree at the University of South Alabama, USA, at age 10. And at 14, he got his Masters in Chemistry from Middle Tennessee University, also in the US, and a second degree, in computer science, from another US university, Vanderbilt, at 18.

Srinivasa Ramanujan - (IQ 185)

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December 22 is celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day, commemorating the life and contributions of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of India’s most remarkable mathematicians. Born on this day in the year 1887, at Erode, in Tamil Nadu to a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. Ramanujan was a child prodigy and a mathematical genius. Despite having little or no exposure to advanced mathematics, his extraordinary talents propelled him to the top of his field. He never had any friends in school because his peers rarely understood him at school, & were always in awe of his mathematical acumen! Ramanujan became the second Indian Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918, and the first Indian Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in the same year.

Barnaby Swinburne - (IQ - 162)

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Perhaps the smartest man in history is Albert Einstein but recently, Barnaby Swinburne became the smarter young boy than theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Barnaby is a 12-year, young boy from Bristol who has just obtained the results of his Mensa test. And the results are more than encouraging! Barnaby has just been accepted into the club with a high IQ after the young boy obtained a score of 162 in an IQ test which is higher than that of Albert Einstein, whose IQ was believed to be 160. The IQ test takes place in two stages: In the first, he is in the first percent and in the second in the top four percent of the world population.

The Mensa test is not the first the young boy has taken. Indeed, he had already carried out several tests. In his first Cattell II B test , Barnaby achieved a score of 162 which placed him in the top percent of entrants. As for the second Culture Fair test, the young boy obtained a score of 128 which ranks him in the top 4%.

The young want to become a programmer and love mathematics and chemistry. He is checking out university courses and plans to attend Oxford University.

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