Famous people's IQs - a test with a certificate (2024)

Articles and Interesting Facts about IQ

Do you think that anyone exceptionally successful in his/her subject had an above average IQ? We prepared a list of IQ scores of famous personalities from various subjects and eras. Look at their IQ, you may be surprised.

Name	Occupation	Nationality	IQ
Albert Einstein	Physicist	USA	160
Brad Pitt	Hollywood actor	USA	126
Abraham Lincoln	Politician	United States	148
Andy Warhol	Artist	USA	86
Jodie Foster	Actress	USA	132
Madonna	Singer	USA	140
Arnold Schwarzenegger	Actor / Politician	Austria	135
Benjamin Franklin	Writer, scientist, politician	USA	160
Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime minister	Israel	180
Bill Gates	Microsoft founder	USA	160
Bill (William) Jefferson Clinton	President	USA	137
Blaise Pascal	Mathematician, religious philosopher	France	195
Garry Kasparov	Chess player	Russia	190
George W. Bush	President	USA	125
George Washington	President	USA	118
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton	Politician	USA	140
Isaac Newton	Scientist	England	190
John F. Kennedy	Former president	USA	117
Nicole Kidman	Actress	USA	132
Jodie Foster	Actress	USA	132
Sharon Stone	Actress, producer	USA	154
Shakira	Singer	Columbia	140
Stephen Hawking	Physicist, mathematician	Great Britain	160
Quentin Tarantino	Scriptwriter, director and actor	USA	160
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Composer	Austria	165
Adolf Hitler	Nazi leader	Germany	141
Albrecht von Haller	Scientist	Switzerland	190
Alexander Pope	Writer	Great Britain	180
Andrew Wiles	Mathematician	Great Britain	170
Bobby Fischer	Chess player	USA	187
Buonarrotti Michelangelo	Artist	Italy	180
Clive Sinclair	Inventor	Great Britain	159
Emanuel Swedenborg	Scientist	Sweden	205
Francis Galton	Scientist	Great Britain	200
Galileo Galilei	Physician	Italy	185
Hans Ch. Andersen	Writer	Denmark	145
Hugo Grotiu	Philosopher	Netherlands	200
Charles Darwin	Scientist	Great Britain	165
Charles Dickens	Writer	Great Britain	180
James Watt	Scientist	Great Britain	165
James Woods	Actor	USA	180
Johann Sebastian Bach	Composer	Germany	165
Johann Strauss	Composer	Austria	170
J.Wolfgang von Goethe	Writer	Germany	210
Johannes Kepler	Physicist	Germany	175
John Stuart Mill	Economist	France	200
Kim Ung Yong	Mathematician	Korea	210
Leonardo da Vinci	Scientist	Italy	220
Napoleon Bonaparte	Emperor	France	145
Neil Armstrong	Astronaut	USA	139
Ludwig van Beethoven	Composer	Germany	190
Max Planck	Scientist	Germany	160
Miguel de Cervantes	Writer	Spain	155
Muhammad Ali	Boxer	USA	72
Nicolas Copernicus	Astronomer	Poland	160
Philip Emeagwali	Mathematician	Nigeria	190
Plato	Philosopher	Greece	170
Rembrandt	Artist	Netherlands	155
René Descartes	Mathematician	France	185
Richard Nixon	Us president	USA	143
Richard Wagner	Composer	Germany	170
Robert Byrne	Chess player	USA	170
Stephen Hawking	Physicist	Great Britain	160
Voltaire	Writer	France	190