“That people who get high on IQ test results are striving more and are more intelligent”
by Angela Lee Duckworth
Intelligence is not measured in money and does not take account of boundaries, and the best example is that of Kim Ung Yong, South Korean considered the most intelligent man in the world. Currently he has the highest IQ score, though it didn’t bring him the same money or fame as those of billionaires Mukesh Ambani or Bill Gates.
With IQ of 210, established according to the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, Kim Ung Yong is considered in the present moment the man with the highest score by sometime!
At the age of only three years, Kim Ung Yong already spoke Japanese, Korean, German and English fluently, and at the age of four years he managed to fully solve computational problems.
Born on 8 March 1962, Kim studied in the United States at the University of Colorado, where he obtained his first Ph.D. in physics at the age of 16.
Title held by Yong is covered by other intelligent of the planet belonging from the list of the highest IQ ever, Marilyn vos Savant is also included - born in 1946 in the United States, whose IQ ranges between 187 and 230 (the highest IQ ever recorded was by her with 228; however that is a mental status ratio IQ (used for children), now she is the 5th in the list.
Christopher Michael Langan is another contender for the title of the smartest man in the world (from the list of the highest IQ ever), the American with an IQ between 195 and 210. Langan has his own theory on the relationship between mind and reality, which he called Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe.
List of the most intelligent people on earth (the highest IQ ever) continue with legendary names, or less known laymen, such as:
William James Sidis, with an IQ between 200 and 300
Kim Ung Yonga, with an IQ about 210
Engineer Philip Emeagwali, with an IQ of 190
World chess champion Garry Kasparov, with an IQ of 190
Isaac Newton, with an IQ of 190
Voltaire, with an IQ of 190
Ludwig Wittgenstein, with an IQ of 190
Leonardo da Vinci, with an IQ of 180
Actor James Woods, with an IQ of 180
Michelangelo Buonarroti, with an IQ of 180
David Hume, with an IQ of 180
Benjamin Netanyahu, with an IQ of 180
Blaise Pascal, with an IQ of 171
Paul Allen, Microsoft founder with an IQ of 160
Martin Luther, with an IQ of 170
Michael Faraday, with an IQ of 170
Galileo Galilei, with an IQ of 165
Albert Einstein, with an IQ of 160
Charles Darwin, with a 150 IQ
George Washington, with an IQ of 140
List of still alive people with highest IQ score:
Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
Author Marilyn vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154