In the book 'Buzan's book of genius', Buzan and Keene
have ranked the greatest geniuses in human history. They have used an IQ
estimate plus many other important attributes that made them geniuses.
In total all the categories used are
Dominance in field, life span in years, active longevity,
polymath/versatility, strength and energy, I.Q., on-going influence, prolificness,
achievement prime goal, universal vision, originality and academic.
The rank works from the highest rated genius as
number one and so on. Also the estimated IQ is placed beside the name.
(Here we go!!) The Hall of Fame
| Name | Dev. IQ | Rat.IQ |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 190 | 233 |
| William Shakespeare | 190 | 233 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 190 | 233 |
| Albert Einstein | 190 | 233 |
| Sir Isaac Newton | 185 | 222 |
| Thomas Jefferson | 185 | 222 |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 185 | 222 |
| Archimedes | 185 | 222 |
| Aristotle | 185 | 222 |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | 185 | 222 |
| Nicolas Copernicus | 185 | 222 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 185 | 222 |
| George Elliot | 185 | 222 |
| John Stuart Mill | 185 | 222 |
| Euclid | 182 | 216 |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 182 | 216 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 182 | 216 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 182 | 216 |
| Marion Tinsley | 182 | 216 |
| Great Pyramid Builders | 180 | 212 |
| Alexander the Great | 180 | 212 |
| Phidias | 180 | 212 |
| Homer | 180 | 212 |
| Plato | 180 | 212 |
| Elizabeth I | 180 | 212 |
| Andrew Carnegie | 180 | 212 |
| Sinan | 180 | 212 |
| Leon Battisa Alberti | 180 | 212 |
| Ivan Pavlov | 180 | 212 |
| Michael Faraday | 180 | 212 |
| Igor Stravinsky | 180 | 212 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 180 | 212 |
| Salvador Dali | 180 | 212 |
| Genghis Khan | 180 | 212 |
| Marie Curie | 180 | 212 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 180 | 212 |
| Stephen Hawking | 180 | 212 |
| Galileo | 180 | 212 |
| William Pitt the Elder, the Earl of Chatham | 180 | 212 |
| Marcel Duchamp | 180 | 212 |
| Julius Caesar | 177 | 206 |
| Michelangelo | 175 | 202 |
| 1st Ch'in Emperor | 175 | 202 |
| Pablo Picassso | 175 | 202 |
| Averroes | 175 | 202 |
| Aligheri Dante | 175 | 202 |
| As Suli | 175 | 202 |
| Rene Descartes | 175 | 202 |
| Desiderius Erasmus | 175 | 202 |
| Benedict de Spinoza | 175 | 202 |
| Charles Darwin | 173 | 198 |
| Sophocles | 173 | 198 |
| John Milton | 173 | 198 |
| George Stephenson | 173 | 198 |
| Aeschylus | 173 | 198 |
| Francis Crick and James Dewey Watson | 173 | 198 |
| Werner Karl Heisenberg | 173 | 198 |
| William Gates | 173 | 198 |
| Euripides | 173 | 198 |
| Lao-Tzu | 173 | 198 |
| Confucius | 170 | 193 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 170 | 193 |
| Raphael | 170 | 193 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 165 | 184 |
| Sir Thomas Aquinas | 165 | 184 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 165 | 184 |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 165 | 184 |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | 165 | 184 |
| Sir Christopher Wren | 165 | 184 |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 165 | 184 |
| Baron Joseph Lister | 165 | 184 |
| Sun Tzu | 165 | 184 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | 165 | 184 |
| Sappho | 165 | 184 |
| Socrates | 160 | 176 |
| Carl Gustav Jung | 160 | 176 |
| Suleyman the Magnificent | 160 | 176 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 160 | 176 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 160 | 176 |
| Vyasa | 157 | 171 |
| Maria Montessori | 157 | 171 |
| Hannibal | 155 | 168 |
| Paul Cezanne | 150 | 160 |
| Frederick Matthias Alexander | 150 | 160 |
| Giuseppe Verdi | 150 | 160 |
| Charles Dickens | 150 | 160 |
| Muhammad Ali | 148 | 157 |
| Martha Graham | 148 | 157 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 145 | 153 |
| Horatio Nelson | 145 | 153 |
| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 145 | 153 |
| Titian | 145 | 153 |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | 145 | 153 |
| John Zizka | 145 | 153 |
| Christopher Columbus | 140 | 146 |
| Charlie Chaplin | 140 | 146 |
| George Washington | 140 | 146 |
| Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg | 140 | 146 |
| Ueshiba | 132 | 135 |
| Walt Disney | 123 | 124 |