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These are the smartest people in the history of the world according to IQ (and some are still alive today):

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    		• 210 - Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
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    		• 195 - Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
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    		• 190 - Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
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    		• 190 - World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
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    		• 190 - Sir Isaac Newton
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    		• 190 - Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
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    		• 190 - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    		• 186 - Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
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    		• 180 - Leonardo da Vinci
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    		• 180 - Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
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    		• 180 - Buonarroti Michelangelo
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    		• 180 - David Hume
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    		• 180 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
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    		• 180 - Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
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    		• 179 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    		• 176 - Emanuel Swedenborg
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    		• 176 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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    		• 175 - Edmund Spenser
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    		• 175 - Baruch Spinoza
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    		• 175 - Johannes Kepler
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    		• 174 - John Stuart Mill
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    		• 171 - Blaise Pascal
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    		• 170 - Antoine Lavoisier
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    		• 170 - Martin Luther
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    		• 170 - World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
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    		• 170 - Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
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    		• 170 - World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
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    		• 170 - Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
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    		• 170 - Michael Faraday
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    		• 170 - George Friedrich Handel
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    		• 167 - Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
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    		• 165 - Samuel Johnson
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    		• 165 - Ludwig van Beethoven
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    		• 165 - Joseph Priestley
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    		• 165 - John Locke
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    		• 165 - Thomas Hobbes
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    		• 165 - Charlotte Bronte
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    		• 165 - Galileo Galilei
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    		• 165 - Johann Sebastian Bach
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    		• 165 - Carl von Linne
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    		• 162 - Madame De Stael
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    		• 162 - Rene Descartes
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    		• 160 - Robert Boyle
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    		• 160 - Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
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    		• 160 - Benjamin Franklin
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    		• 160 - Albert Einstein
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    		• 159 - Immanuel Kant
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    		• 156 - Olof Palme
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    		• 156 - Thomas Chatterton
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    		• 156 - Linus Carl Pauling
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    		• 156 - Sofia Kovalevskaya
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    		• 155 - Jonathan Swift
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    		• 155 - Miguel de Cervantes
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    		• 155 - Rembrandt van Rijn
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    		• 154 - Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154
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    		• 153 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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    		• 153 - Charles Darwin
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    		• 150 - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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    		• 150 - Nicolaus Copernicus
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    		• 150 - Abraham Lincoln
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    		• 145 - Anna Lindh
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    		• 145 - Napoleon Bonaparte
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    		• 143 - George Sand (Aurore Dupin)
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    		• 140 - George Washington
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    		• 130 - Ulysses S. Grant
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    		• 130 - Sir Francis Drake

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    Cool list. Includes people I didn't know were smart, or allegedly smart.
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