Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567544/Top-100-living-geniuses.html
| Ranking | Name | Nationality | Occupation | Score | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1= | Albert Hoffman | Swiss | Chemist | 27 | 1906 -2008 (102) |
| 1= | Tim Berners-Lee | British | Computer Scientist | 27 | 1955 - (68) |
| 3 | George Soros | American | Investor & Philanthropist | 25 | 1930 - (93) |
| 4 | Matt Groening | American | Satirist & Animator | 24 | 1954 - (70) |
| 5= | Nelson Mandela | South African | Politician & Diplomat | 23 | 1918 - 2013 (95) |
| 5= | Frederick Sanger | British | Chemist | 23 | 1918 - 2013 (95) |
| 7= | Dario Fo | Italian | Writer & Dramatist | 22 | 1926 - 2016 (90) |
| 7= | Steven Hawking | British | Physicist | 22 | 1942 - (82) |
| 9= | Oscar Niemeyer | Brazilian | Architect | 21 | 1907 - 2012 (104) |
| 9= | Philip Glass | American | Composer | 21 | 1937 - (87) |
| 9= | Grigory Perelman | Russian | Mathematician | 21 | |
| 12= | Andrew Wiles | British | Mathematician | 20 | |
| 12= | Li Hongzhi | Chinese | Spiritual Leader | 20 | |
| 12= | Ali Javan | Iranian | Engineer | 20 | |
| 15= | Brian Eno | British | Composer | 19 | |
| 15= | Damian Hirst | British | Artist | 19 | |
| 15= | Daniel Tammet | British | Savant & Linguist | 19 | |
| 18 | Nicholson Baker | American | Writer | 18 | |
| 19 | Daniel Barenboim | N/A | Musician | 17 | |
| 20= | Robert Crumb | American | Artist | 16 | |
| 20= | Richard Dawkins | British | Biologist and philosopher | 16 | |
| 20= | Larry Page & Sergey Brin | American | Publishers | 16 | |
| 20= | Rupert Murdoch | American | Publisher | 16 | |
| 20= | Geoffrey Hill | British | Poet | 16 | |
| 25 | Garry Kasparov | Russian | Chess Player | 15 | |
| 26= | The Dalai Lama | Tibetan | Spiritual Leader | 14 | |
| 26= | Steven Spielberg | American | Film maker | 14 | |
| 26= | Hiroshi Ishiguro | Japanese | Roboticist | 14 | |
| 26= | Robert Edwards | British | Pioneer of IVF treatment | 14 | |
| 26= | Seamus Heaney | Irish | Poet | 14 | |
| 31 | Harold Pinter | British | Writer & Dramatist | 13 | 1930 - 2008 (78) |
| 32= | Flossie Wong-Staal | Chinese | Bio-technologist | 12 | |
| 32= | Bobby Fischer | American | Chess Player | 12 | |
| 32= | Prince | American | Musician | 12 | 1958 - 2016 (57) |
| 32= | Henrik Gorecki | Polish | Composer | 12 | 1933 - 2010 (76) |
| 32= | Avram Noam Chomski | American | Philosopher & linguist | 12 | 1928 - (95) |
| 32= | Sebastian Thrun | German | Probabilistic roboticist | 12 | |
| 32= | Nima Arkani Hamed | Canadian | Physicist | 12 | |
| 32= | Margaret Turnbull | American | Astrobiologist | 12 | |
| 40= | Elaine Pagels | American | Historian | 11 | |
| 40= | Enrique Ostrea | Philippino | Pediatrics & neonatology | 11 | |
| 40= | Gary Becker | American | Economist | 11 | 1930 - 2014 (83) |
| 43= | Mohammed Ali | American | Boxer | 10 | 1942 - 2016 (74) |
| 43= | Osama Bin Laden | Saudi | Islamicist | 10 | 1957 - 2011 (54) |
| 43= | Bill Gates | American | Businessman | 10 | |
| 43= | Philip Roth | American | Writer | 10 | |
| 43= | James West | American | Invented the foil electrical microphone | 10 | |
| 43= | Tuan Vo-Dinh | Vietnamese | Bio-Medical Scientist | 10 | |
| 49= | Brian Wilson | American | Musician | 9 | |
| 49= | Stevie Wonder | American | Singer songwriter | 9 | |
| 49= | Vint Cerf | American | Computer scientist | 9 | |
| 49= | Henry Kissinger | American | Diplomat and politician | 9 | |
| 49= | Richard Branson | British | Publicist | 9 | |
| 49= | Pardis Sabeti | Iranian | Biological anthropologist | 9 | |
| 49= | Jon de Mol | Dutch | Television producer | 9 | |
| 49= | Meryl Streep | American | Actress | 9 | |
| 49= | Margaret Attwood | Canadian | Writer | 9 | |
| 58= | Placido Domingo | Spanish | Singer | 8 | |
| 58= | John Lasseter | American | Digital Animator | 8 | |
| 58= | Shunpei Yamazaki | Japanese | Computer scientist & physicist | 8 | |
| 58= | Jane Goodall | British | Ethologist & Anthropologist | 8 | |
| 58= | Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri | Indian | Historian | 8 | |
| 58= | John Goto | British | Photographer | 8 | |
| 58= | Paul McCartney | British | Musician | 8 | |
| 58= | Stephen King | American | Writer | 8 | |
| 58= | Leonard Cohen | Canadian | Poet & musician | 8 | |
| 67= | Aretha Franklin | American | Musician | 7 | |
| 67= | David Bowie | British | Musician | 7 | |
| 67= | Emily Oster | American | Economist | 7 | |
| 67= | Steve Wozniak | American | Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers | 7 | |
| 67= | Martin Cooper | American | Inventor of the cell phone | 7 | |
| 72= | George Lucas | American | Film maker | 6 | |
| 72= | Niles Rogers | American | Musician | 6 | |
| 72= | Hans Zimmer | German | Composer | 6 | |
| 72= | John Williams | American | Composer | 6 | |
| 72= | Annette Baier | New Zealander | Philosopher | 6 | |
| 72= | Dorothy Rowe | British | Psychologist | 6 | |
| 72= | Ivan Marchuk | Ukrainian | Artist & sculptor | 6 | |
| 72= | Robin Escovado | American | Composer | 6 | |
| 72= | Mark Dean | American | Inventor & computer scientist | 6 | |
| 72= | Rick Rubin | American | Musician & producer | 6 | |
| 72= | Stan Lee | American | Publisher | 6 | |
| 83= | David Warren | Australian | Engineer | 5 | |
| 83= | Jon Fosse | Norwegian | Writer & dramatist | ||
| 83= | Gjertrud Schnackenberg | American | Poet | 5 | |
| 83= | Graham Linehan | Irish | Writer & dramatist | 5 | |
| 83= | JK Rowling | British | Writer | 5 | |
| 83= | Ken Russell | British | Film maker | 5 | |
| 83= | Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov | Russian | Small arms designer | 5 | |
| 83= | Erich Jarvis | American | Neurobiologist | 5 | |
| 91=. | Chad Varah | British | Founder of Samaritans | 4 | |
| 91= | Nicolas Hayek | Swiss | Businessman and founder of Swatch | 4 | |
| 91= | Alastair Hannay | British | Philosopher | 4 | |
| 94= | Patricia Bath | American | Ophthalmologist | ||
| 94= | Thomas A. Jackson | American | Aerospace engineer | 3 | |
| 94= | Dolly Parton | American | Singer | 3 | |
| 94= | Morissey | British | Singer | 3 | |
| 94= | Michael Eavis | British | Organiser of Glastonbury | 3 | |
| 94= | Ranulph Fiennes | British | Adventurer | 3 | |
| 100= | Quentin Tarantino | American | Filmmaker | 2 |