A list of people with the highest IQ's on record... See if your name is listed here.

Some years ago I wrote a paper on IQ (intelectual quotient), EQ (emotional quotient) and SQ (spiritual quotient). If you're interested in these concepts read the blurb below and download the paper, otherwise just scroll beyond it to see who the REALLY smart people are!

Title: Spiritual Quotient: A neuro-theological key to wellness and wholeness.

Abstract: Research in both science and theology has begun to move away from reductionist and mechanistic views of the human person towards approaches that emphasise the interaction and inter-relationship of the various systems of human being. This paper aims to discuss some of the implications that intelligence, and in particular spiritual intelligence (also called SQ), may have upon the wellness of a person as a whole living, spiritual, being. The paper will start with a discussion on the three primary systems that constitute a whole person. Next there will be some insight into the functioning of the human brain. This will be followed by a presentation of the three dominant forms of intelligence (IQ, EQ and SQ). These are commonly identified through a study of the functioning of the human brain. After that some time will be spent looking at the theological implications (neuro-theology) of spiritual intelligence, discussing some possible effects that this form of intelligence could have on wholeness and wellness in human being. Finally, the paper will end with some suggestions on the development of a spiritual life that will be beneficial to wellness.

Here is the paper itself: (please note that it is not in final form, and so is not yet suitable for quoting. Thank you).

SQ paper TSSA 2005 draft.doc

OK, enough of that, so are you ready to find out who the smart folks are?

Here goes (this post comes from here):

Background Info

In order to establish a baseline knowledge, IQ (intelligence quotient) is a score derived from attempting to measure the actual mental horsepower of any given individual. Personally I place little value in IQ tests, but I do acknowledge that they are an indicator of some common potential success factors, so we’ll leave it at that.

The “average” IQ is by definition 100, so if you score below that you are dumber than average, and above it means smarter than average.

The distribution of IQ scores is as follows:

• 50% of IQ scores fall between 90 and 110
• 70% of IQ scores fall between 85 and 115
• 95% of IQ scores fall between 70 and 130
• 99.5% of IQ scores fall between 60 and 140
• A score of 132 equals the top 2%
• A score of 134 equals the top 1%
• A score of 68 equals the bottom 2%
• A score of 66 equals the bottom 1%

People Still Alive

• 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

From the Past

In 1926, psychologist Dr. Catherine Morris Cox - who had been assisted by Dr. Lewis M. Terman, Dr. Florence L. Goodenaugh, and Dr. Kate Gordon - published a study "of the most eminent men and women" who had lived between 1450 and 1850 to estimate what their IQs might have been. Data from that study as well as other sources around the net were compiled to form the following list. Please drop me a comment if you have additions or corrections (make sure and cite sources).

190 - Ludwig Wittgenstein 190 - Sir Isaac Newton 190 - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) 180 - Leonardo da Vinci 180 - David Hume 180 - Buonarroti Michelangelo 179 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 176 - Emanuel Swedenborg 176 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 175 - Johannes Kepler 175 - Edmund Spenser 175 - Baruch Spinoza 174 - John Stuart Mill 171 - Blaise Pascal 170 - Michael Faraday 170 - George Friedrich Händel 170 - Antoine Lavoisier

170 - Martin Luther 165 - Galileo Galilei 165 - Charlotte Bronte 165 - Johann Sebastian Bach 165 - Thomas Hobbes 165 - Carl von Linne 165 - John Locke 165 - Joseph Priestley 165 - Ludwig van Beethoven 165 - Samuel Johnson 162 - Rene Descartes 162 - Madame De Stael 160 - Albert Einstein 160 - Robert Boyle 160 - Benjamin Franklin 159 - Immanuel Kant 156 - Linus Carl Pauling

156 - Sofia Kovalevskaya 156 - Thomas Chatterton 156 - Olof Palme 155 - Rembrandt van Rijn 155 - Miguel de Cervantes 155 - Jonathan Swift 153 - Charles Darwin 153 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 150 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 150 - Nicolaus Copernicus 150 - Abraham Lincoln 145 - Napoleon Bonaparte 145 - Anna Lindh 143 - George Sand (Aurore Dupin) 140 - George Washington 130 - Ulysses S. Grant 130 - Sir Francis Drake

Also, see Wikipedia's list of Universal Genius (Polymaths).

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