World’s Most Intelligent Person – Intelligent People – Highest IQ Ever Recorded
94Kim Ung Yonga
The world’s most intelligent person is not Billionaire Mukesh Ambani (worth $63.2), Carlos Slim Helu ($62.2993 billion), William Bill Gates ($62.29 billion), Warren Buffett ($55.9 billion), or Lakshmi Mittal ($50.9 billion). The world’s most intelligent person has been speculated to be Kim Ung Yonga of Korea.
At the age of only four years, Kim Ung Yonga could solve integral calculus problems. Kim Ung Yonga mental scale had an IQ of 210 which he scored at Stanford-Binet test. At 3, Kim Ung Yonga could speak Japanese, Korean, German, and English languages fluently.
Normal Social Skills
Kim Ung Yonga was born on March 8, 1962 to parents who were both professors. Kim attended Colorado StateUniversity where he obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at age 16. Upon return to South Korea, Kim decided to switch from physics to civil engineering where he also obtained a Ph.D in civil engineering.
As a child Kim portrayed normal social skills just like any other average child.
Marilyn vos Savant
And just like any other title, every country would want to have the world’s most intelligent person. Among many others who can be given the title of the world’s most intelligent person is Marilyn vos Savant. Marilyn vos Savant was born August 11, 1946 in USA and is of German and Italian ancestry. Her IQ is very controversial and has varied between 167, 180, 195, 215, and 230.
Marilyn has been writing the column “Ask Marilyn” where she specializes in solving puzzles of logic and mathematics together with answering questions about philosophy, physics, politics, education, and human nature.
Christopher Michael Langan
Another contender for the title is Christopher Michael Langan. Langan was born in 1952 and is reported to be one of the smartest persons in America. Lagman IQ has been been measured at between 195 and 210. Langan has his own theory of the relationship between mind and reality and which he calls the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe”
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More Intelligent People
1. William James Sidis with an IQ ranging 200 to 300
2. Engineer Philip Emeagwali with an IQ of 190
3. World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov with an IQ of 190
4. Sir Isaac Newton with an IQ of 190
5. Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) with an IQ 190
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein with an IQ 190
7. Leonardo da Vinci with an IQ of 180
8. Actor James Woods with an IQ of 180
9. Buonarroti Michelangelo with an IQ of 180
10. David Hume with an IQ 180
11. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an IQ of 180
12. Blaise Pascal with an IQ of 171
13. Microsoft Founder Paul Allen with an IQ of 160
14. Martin Luther with an IQ of 170
15. Michael Faraday with an IQ of 170
16. Galileo Galilei with an IQ of 165
17. Albert Einstein with an IQ of 160
18. Charles Darwin with IQ of 150
19. George Washington with an IQ of 140
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I didn't see George W. Bush. And I wonder how the numbers were arrived at for people who lived before I.Q. tests were invented??
George W. Bush has a high IQ? George W. Bush may have an IQ of 115 – one of the lowest IQ of all presidents of past 60 years or so - but it doesn’t matter because IQs are given by God.
So, you base the intelligence of a person on how well they can take a test?! Have you taken some of the MENSA tests? It's all in the timing. You can be a genius one minute and a dunce the next. Mr. Kim Ung Yonga has got the right view... he is laughing at how easily misled people are. Who is the Real Genius? Evaluation of history will show that the people who have gotten credit for major inventions or breakthrough technology were not the original people(person) to come up with the idea or concept. They just happen to be the one(s) who apply it or end up making it known. We have a distorted way of appreciating and honoring the One who is Truly the Creator.
I think we have best IQ score scorable people in many jails.
What about William James Sidis
wow-now that's fascinating, thanks
Thank you, Redsoxfan33. William James Sidis had exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities. His IQ was “estimated” to range between 200 and 300.
Interesting hub - thank you. I am a firm believer that you are born with your intelligence (or lack of it). But I have found the more MENSA type tests I practice with before I take an IQ test, the higher my score will be. The true test of someone's intelligence is what they accomplish with their gift.
Interesting facts. But is IQ measured on these standardized tests still equated with intelligence? I think we have moved away from that notion now.
Interesting, I enjoyed reading this.
By the way, I think you have a typo for #18. I'm pretty sure you meant that Charles Darwin had an IQ of 150, not 15. Just thought you'd want to know.
It's a fascinating read! Personally my IQ tests results falter ranging from 112 to 200 plus.You see, if you're applying for a certain high-paying job, HRD personnel still implement this procedure.
Very interesting!..it tickles my curiosity..thank you for sharing! :)
This was very fascinating. After having read this, I'd like to find out what some other famous people I.Q.s are. Thank you.
I wish I was Kim Ung Yonga. Thumbs up for this one.
I read an article about Chris Langan and also about Oppenheimer. Geniuses spring up in the most unlikely places, but without the right opportunities their intellect doesn't always get used to the best advantage. Fascinating stuff.
Awesome hub, I love learning about this kind of stuff. I think Einstein should have ranked higher.
Ngureco, interesting hub. How did you compute Galileo's IQ?
I have to agree with those commentators who noted that good ability at IQ test taking is not necessarily the same as intelligence under the pressure of a real life situation, or the best that a person can do when truly engaged by a subject.
Interesting hub. I wonder about the validity of IQ tests. I've tested anywhere between 121 and 147. Also wonder how the Galileo IQ of 165 was derived. A high IQ on the tests doesn't ensure good life skills or financial or commercial success, or happiness, for that matter. Still, interesting...well done, good job, thank you!
Wow! What a neat article! Thanks for writing this one! I wonder what my IQ is, I havent been tested in forever and I dont remember what the score was.
This just goes to show that money does not equal intelligence.
My father is also a very successful man. He told me success is about two things: acquiring knowledge and going outside of your safety zone. One point of knowledge is about keeping yourself focused on your task and thinking of ways to get results, not like that other person, just employed who has a break and reads magazines, than having a break whilst still being available and alert. Success is about motivation, not really I.Q. It has to have rewards to keep you focused on the job.
Oops, not safety zone, comfort zone. I heard David Bowie once collapsed onstage from over-exhaustion, and high achieving personalities have a drink from the hard work, but risk into becoming like Bob Dylan or David Bowie, one too many, and another. Quite a different reason from just a drinker. Most successful people I know after work, have a few drinks. If one family member is successful and others aren't, it's not I.Q. because they all have about the same. And some are beneficiaries, some educated with a little money, and some straight into a trade or occupation focusing on the rewards of money and rich
interesting hub thanks for the info
interesting hub thanks for the info
good info thanks
Are you implying the relationship between intelligence and income is not inversely proportional to the relationship between.... ouch my brain hurts :P
Very interesting :)
I'm a highly intelligent person but I suffer in the area of maths seeing as I never paid attention in this subject, should this effect my IQ?
My family members who are very highly successful, for e.g. from poverty to a millionaire, then accumulating, in 10 years, leaving a marriage, and giving all away for say mum and the kids,then doing it again, I believe have schizotypical personality disorders. Self-sufficient, express turndowns of wanting anything from you, not needing to form close relationships, at the office, not seeing family, you go to them only, thickskinned, expects you to survive alone, go elsewhere, not near them and work alone. IQ doesn't seem to be a factor in our family. They all say they are not that bright, yet their faces are in magazines with interviewers asking for their comments. Slight change of actually giving to others in old age, but only ridgidly on the right occassion, obsessive-compulsive??? Very insensitive temperaments.And wouldn't care what you said about them in the slightest. Nice personalities? I don't really think so. Full of different personality disorders I think. But high achievement and wealthy. I mean none did very well at school. I think achievement and occupation gives others something to think it's an honour, but I think they've got problems
i have a iq of 2
To Cranoo
No it doesn't effect your I.Q. It just means you have not stumbled across it before. My mother was a school teacher before higher professions and I finished school before form 5. I don't know words she knows, languages, literature, or maths. I believe it does effect the IQ tests. I remember asking her the same question and that was the reply she gave me. Also, I will do an IQ test and fall under the average population, where-as when I was at school, I was in all classes among the bright ones, and later seperated from main stream to do extra subjects, and not need help the average person wished. The only reason kids get to be bright at school is because of the strictness in the family home, not the IQ. In class we don't talk, we get to class. We do our homework. Or we get in trouble. More successful families have extremely strict homes to the point that to the average population, it is viewed your parents are mean. I left school and I've fallen on the tests. My father was not bright at all so left and did a trade, where-as my also not bright mother went the academic way. He has at least 6 times over the amount of money she has. In contrast I had some kids who began school with high grades, and I had chosen a father, pretty much the average guy. Not so much strictness, so they loved him more, same as why I chose him. When they decided to live with him instead because mum is mean, their school grades went down. Teachers once acknowledged them as very bright kids who came in the top 10 in NZ for maths and computing, living with me-to- by high school following years living with Dad, unable to pass exams, with teachers not convinced they are bright. None of my family would bother taking the tests. My kids are happy with Dad and I am happy I fought my way out of discipline. And I mean the brighties which is contraversial and the successful people have extremely strict families like you will not believe!!!! Like bed at 7 and if you get up once you are answerable plus talked to and if it happens again, punished. Like it doesn't matter what anyone else does, it's what you did. Their own kids are never sided with. Any turn in the wrong direction and you are yelled and screamed at. So in psychology at children 0-7, the kid learns fear of authority so in the class, the kid listens and learns and does not talk, so they learn day by day by day an accumulation of facts which is building up, so you take school tests for that age group, jump years at school, get put into seperated classes. My mother was called in and advised the school could not cater for me and I needed other materials. She said no. I want my kid to be like everyone else. I left school at form 5 and taking any test at my age of adulthood, my scores honestly are very low now. My mother worked helping kids behind in subjects for years and told me the kids are bright but they have lived overseas where the education is not as good, or the background such as kids not receiving books at home prior to school, or parents not interested in encouraging a child too much in this area for various reasons, or non-attendance. When they fall behind they think they are dumb. I have dated many guys who thought they were dumb at school and laughed at and I don't believe they actually are. It's about lifestyle and personalities. And you can throw something at most kids from a child and they would be genius. But the most important thing for everyone is to accept we are all individually different and love everyone and be our kindest to everyone to counteract our bad days and always stay with our family to be with them because true genius is who we are and how we can be there for everyone who feels just like us with our weaknesses. Be flexible with everyone and do not hate.
So you want to score a high IQ? Lets try for 12 months time. Bed is at 10 everynight. Door doesn't open. At the table by 6am. Chores. Chuck smokes out right now! Answer is no and all drugs and alcohol. Appointment for the Dr. Do as you are told and do not talk back to me. Be at work on time. There is no such thing as sick. You will only have similar type friends from my authority. After work, you will go to your room and study. Or you will ask in advance to see a friend for it to be okay. If not the kettle cord, police called in with us telling lies, us phoning others to tell and have them angry at you, including cutting off friends due to insolence or any measure or form to make you so frightened, will occur. You have no say. Now isn't this fun, it's a book, it's so exciting to learn. We will have fun over the next 12 months. I want to see 3 hours learning after work. (I need that cigarette!! Pain!) I see you are beginning to get creativity inside you caused by disciplinary hardship. Well done. People wish to see you. You write very well. Don't tell anyone you just wet your pants last week. And don't tell anyone about those marks I gave you. Or you will be punished more. Need the garden done and we clean the house every week. Genius is creativity. Creativity comes from hell. What you get out of life you really put in. You are also probably mentally disordered or close to it in some way. Congradulations, it has been 12 months, you look healthy from bed, food, exercise and your IQ is very high. Wet your pants again and you'll get another slash.
I really think this is interesting from a higher education standpoint. It encourages young adults like myself to further our education. I need to hit the books!
Like money, investing it, and a compatible partner to educate each other with problems. Not books, accountbalance. "It is for the wealthy to have the priviledge to a great education so as to benefit others by passing on the knowledge." Quote, some book. Education is very expensive. A bank account is necessary to live. Company is necessary for happiness. From money then fame. From behaviour then achievement. From feeling blue or bored, love.
quite interesting indeed.
you should write about those actresses
who have high iq's like pam anderson.
she is a member of mensa.
very good hub
i took a mensa test and scored 169. i am still a poor(financially) disinfranchised black female. Money makes the difference in this material world and opportunity.
I've discovered that no matter how intelligent one is, there's always some official with the IQ of a tree standing in your way.
Cheers (133, BTW)
Chef Jeff
Great Hub!
nice hub :)
wish i can as intelligent as some of these people are.
XD
This was interesting. My husband is not known outside our circle of friends and family, but my brother refers to him as being "scary smart." My brother says my husband is the most intelligent person he's ever met...and my brother is a pretty smart guy.
Good information,I entertain with it.
I heard the highest IQ person was a bouncer at a bar.
When one reaches a certain level of intellegence, that person often wishes they didn't KNOW so much so that they could be like the rest of a population and just fit in!
Just to be happy, be average, be loving.
My dad, (rest his soul) used to refer to my older brother as an "educated idiot!" Now my brother is a teacher for a high school in Houston, Texas. He is just as smart as your average teacher, possibly smarter than some?
My point is this, you can score high on an IQ test with math and other testing means, but fail miserably when it comes to everyday activities that we all face. I'm in sales and it requires me to think on my feet. I would fair pretty well on a typical IQ test, but I'm confident that when up against some of the people on your list I could leave some in the dust when it comes to selling a product.
So the moral of the story is this. IQ tests are great, but having a degree in "street smarts" might be a better award to have hanging on your wall.
Great hub though!
Jeff
I enjoyed this hub. IQ is just a number like age which doesn't define a person. Even people with low IQ may have flashes of brilliance while their high IQ counterparts possibly waste time doing nothing with what they were born with.
intresting, keep on hubbing
awesome
I tuned in because I assumed this article was about me. Though initially disappointed, I overcame this and enjoyed your presentation. :D
I am surprised by not seeing the name of Stephen Hawking in this elite listing!!! He is having the highest number PhD degrees in a single subject in the history of mankind!!!
THE most intelligent person of all time..was King Solomon. Travel to Israel and see the remains of his many accomplishments. Read his thoughts in Proverbs, and then in Ecclesiastes, later in the Song of Solomon. Delve into the mind of pure genius when he describes riches, glory, honor, pleasures..and a life so very empty. One day we all pass away like grass. Knowing Christ, the Lord of all, brings fulfillment now, and for eternity. One day EVERY tongue will confess "the ultimate mind..the
all-knowing one" as Lord. (Revalation 20:10-15)
GEN Robert E Lee (a genius in his own right) said, "I am but a poor lost sinner, saved by grace." Jesus Christ said, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me..." Like the brilliant Wise Men of old...Wise men and women...seek HIM as Lord, God and Savior.
What about dr john dee he had more books than the whole of britain had at the time He also wrote quite a few as well
and dr john wilkins, christopher wren, isacc newton was among these and all have contributed some great knowledge.
Don't forget Roger bacon.
Although ones IQ can be tested, what about common sense? Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed reading this. As noted by many hubbers, doing well on intelligence tests is different from coping with the challenges of life. I wonder if intelligent people are happier as a result of their high intelligence?
Interesting hub.. thanks for teh information given in the hub..
I think the fact he's Asian is a little bit sad. Anyone with any knowledge on the world would know at least some English. Most Asian people who migrate to our country have very poor English skills. Perhaps he cheated on his IQ test. I don't care If he thinks he is so much brighter than everyone else in the world, perhaps they should do an MRI scan of his brain to tell if he is actually that brainy. Being Japanese he is likely to eat so much sushi.
Excellent hub.Very interestingly I see that people with very high IQ do not guarantee that they will be innovative.thanks for sharing.
When people speak of their IQ level it sounds like they talk about their golf handicap... I keep lowering my golf handicap but I also feel like I lower my IQ level...
great information. want to know more about how to measure IQ.
Ive never taken an IQ test before.
i wish one day sord87 as an inteliigent person of the world!nice hub!
I enjoy reading articles like this. I have noticed that many of the more intelligent people in my life always choose a selfish path- myself included. It is a waste that some of the brightest of us choose not to do something for others with our minds. I love hearing about people using their insight and considerations to enlighten others and encourage open minds. Which all of us do just by interaction, but I like seeing it happen with a core of desire for helping others.
Also...Jack...I hope that your post was a joke.
I also wonder about transcending the knowledge of dark things in the world that comes with intelligence to balance that with a healthy view on things; seeing the bigger picture. I would love if the "most intelligent" men and women in the world wrote a book containing their insights into things I have cemented into my brain, so I could absorb new ideas to combat my sophistry.
Eve Ngure says:
3 months ago
Interesting