These are the smartest people in the world

10. Gari Kasparov

Gari Kasparov's IQ is 190. In 1996, he became the first world champion to lose a game against a computer, although he won the match 4:2. In 2003, he tackled the computer again, this time with X3D Fritz, a version of one of the most powerful computer chess programs. The match ended in a draw with two draws and one win for each player. Kasparov held the record for the highest rating achievement of all time (2851 points) until Magnus Carlsen surpassed it in 2013. In 2005, Kasparov stopped playing chess professionally and devoted himself to politics and writing chess literature.

9. Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali also boasts an IQ of 190. He is a well-known geologist, engineer, computer scientist and mathematician who won the Gordon Bell Prize in 1989 for outstanding achievements in computer applications.

8. Marilyn vos Savant

Marilyn vos Savant's IQ (190) was added to the Guinness Book of Records in 1985. In addition, Marilyn was the woman with the highest IQ in the Guinness Book of Records for five years in a row. She is a lecturer, author and popular columnist for Parade Magazine.

7. Mislav Predavec

Croatian mathematics professor Mislav Predavec can boast of an IQ of 192. He is the founder and president of the elite association GenerIQ, whose members are people with above-average intelligence.

6. Rick Rosner

The IQ of an American is 192. Rick Rosner is a television personality and author, and is known for participating in things that have nothing to do with the world of genius. In the past, Rosner was also engaged in striptease, was a waiter on roller skates, a security guard, a screenwriter, and he also posed as a nude model.

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5. Christopher Langan

Christopher Langan is the proud owner of an IQ between 195 and 210. He was already speaking at six months, and reading and writing at three. He dropped out of college because he scored on an intelligence test that only confirmed that his professors weren't smart enough to teach him. He continued his education on his own, especially in the field of mathematics. He was never tempted by an academic career, preferring instead to work in construction and forestry, and is also a cowboy and writer.

4. Evangelos Katsioulis

Katsioulis is known, among other things, for his incredible intelligence quotient, namely as much as 198. He participated in the research of medical technology, philosophy and psychopharmacology. This amazing man is, among other things, the founder of the World Intelligence Network, an elite international organization that brings together people with above-average IQ.

3. Kim Ung-Yong

A Korean with an IQ of 210 was fluent at six months old and was the youngest physics student at three years old.

2. Christopher Hirata

The American, who dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to work for NASA on the Mars settlement project, has an IQ of 225. He later received a doctorate from the prestigious Princeton University, and is currently a professor of astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology.

1. Terence Tao

It is confirmed that the IQ of the smartest person in the world is currently 230. The Australian's main field is mathematics, but he is also the youngest full-time professor at the American UCLA. This incredible human being has already received many awards for his work in his lifetime: the Salem Prize, the Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Clay Research Award and many others.

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