10 Smartest People Ever 

Leibniz: Invents calculus. (on the list) Newton: Invents calculus, laws of motion, universal law of gravitation, and theory of color. (not on the list)

bullshit. where is my name on this list?

Professor John von Neumann ( 28 December, 1903 - 8 February, 1957 ) Hungarian-American Mathematician, Physicist, Computer Scientist, Engineer, and Polymath. He made major contributions to a number of different fields including - MATHEMATICS - Foundations of Mathematics Functional Analysis Operator Algebras Representation Theory Ergodic Theory Geometry Topology Numerical Analysis PHYSICS - Quantum Mechanics Hydrodynamics Quantum Statistical Mechanics ECONOMICS - Game Theory COMPUTING - Von Neumann Architecture Linear Programming Self Replicating Machines Stochastic Computing STATISTICS

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Leonardo da Vinci not being on this list make's me cringe

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Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, and Isaac Newton should have been in the top three

Euler, newton, Einstein?

wheres Da Vinci, Einstein, Newton, Feynman, Bohr, Socrates.... this list is just random pickings... the ones i mentioned has all of them made a bigger difference in the world than the ones picked on the list i think...

Where the heck is Leonardo DaVinci??

Why is Charles Darwin on this list and not Albert Einstein?

Niccolo Machiavelli is a smart man, and he certainly was very influential in the way he recorded and wrote his thinking and theories, but there are many other minds far more deserving to replace him in this top ten. Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephen William Hawking, Carl Friedrich Gauss ...just to name a few.

Einstein? !

Da Vinci and Einstein are missing.

I'm just stunned at how callously they passed over putting Sir Isaac Newton on this list. Why? Because he spent some time studying alchemy and the Bible? So what? Many scientists, including ones listed, did similar things. Did you forget all the other contributions Newton made to science? There's a reason he's constantly put at or near the top of most influential people (not just limited to scientists) in all of history. I think other commenters have spoken for me on the also disappointing lack of Leonardo da Vinci as well as several others who are superior to most of those on this list. I and others have been noticing more and more errors and oversights in these videos as of late, and that's really disappointing because I've long thought very highly of this channel.

Nikola Tesla will always remain the most underrated ( and most genius for me) person ever.

I was waiting for Leonardo da Vinci. 🤔

Carl Friedrich Gauss?

Where's Avicenna? Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (The developer of algebra, algorithms, and Hindu-Arabic numerals)???

They asked Einstein how it felt to be the smartest man who ever lived and he replied " I don't know you will have to ask Nikola Tesla"

The main virtues that characterize the thinking man are the following: Intelligence Intellect Idealism Logic Lucidity Reason Analysis.

A few missed out: Carl Jung, Einstein, Kant, Ludwig von Mises, Aristotle, and Nagarjuna the Madhyamika Buddhist.

Great top 10; as usual. You always hit a home run!!! Thank you for the great work.

it's amazing how we as humans are able to think of such things

Alan Turing, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Charles Darwin. Wow. Almost half the list are Brits! Yay Britain!! 👏👏👏🙏 I have so much admiration for their contributions to society. It would be a dream to visit their academic institutions some day. 🙄

Just in the sciences missing here: Gauss? Euler? Da Vinci? Newton? Einstein? Gödel? Riemann? Dirac? Ramanujin? Poincaré? Wiles? Nash? Didn't any of these cross your mind?

Number 1 the guy that narrates this channel

Turings influence on Microbiology is almost as great as his influence on modern computing. If this list had taken that into account Turing would be in the top 3.

No Einstein? Da Vinci? Socrates? Sun Tzu??? What the fuck.

Sooo.... No Leonardo Da Vinci???

wow i love how this video is very well edited and organized, great job guys keep it up!

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi? Sun Tzu??? The sole fact that Leonardo da Vinci is missing from this list makes me laugh 😂😂😂

Newton solved the 2 body problem in all it's glory. This achievement represents perhaps the single greatest leap in the history of Science because Newton had to conjure his tools- the Theory of Gravitation and the Mathematical machinery of Calculus from thin air. Principia gave all the principles needed for Apollo and the Moon landings. In Principia-Part 3, Newton established the motions of the planets around the Sun and determined the Planetary masses relative to that of the Earth. He estimated the mass and Density of the Earth to within 20%. He accounted for the flattening of the poles due to the Earth's spin and derived the rate of Precession of the Earth's axis due it's non-spherical shape. He established a theory of Tidal action, calculated the irregularity of the Moon's orbit due to the attraction of the Sun and analyzed the orbits of the Comets so that their returns could be predicted. Each of these feats would have marked Newton for Scientific immortality, that one man accomplished them all is beyond comprehension.

Einstein? DaVInci? Hawking? There are three people right off the top of my head undoubtably smarter than your #1 pick. In fact, I'd place Darwin in the bottom half of the list if I even put him on it at all. Sure, the man was a genus, but the smartest man to ever live? I think not. Not by a long freaking shot.

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where is the creator of algebra?

an idea for another list would be 10 greatest engineer's and what they made weather it be ships, trains, cars, tanks or buildings

i'm smart you see, In 1608, a congregation of disgruntled English Protestants from the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, left England and moved to Leyden, a town in Holland. These “Separatists” did not want to pledge allegiance to the Church of England, which they believed was nearly as corrupt and idolatrous as the Catholic Church it had replaced, any longer. (They were not the same as the Puritans, who had many of the same objections to the English church but wanted to reform it from within.) The Separatists hoped that in Holland, they would be free to worship as they liked Did You Know? The Separatists who founded the Plymouth Colony referred to themselves as “Saints,” not “Pilgrims.” The use of the word “Pilgrim” to describe this group did not become common until the colony’s bicentennial. In fact, the Separatists (they called themselves “Saints”) did find religious freedom in Holland, but they also found a secular life that was more difficult to navigate than they’d anticipated. For one thing, Dutch craft guilds excluded the migrants, so they were relegated to menial, low-paying jobs. Even worse was Holland’s easygoing, cosmopolitan atmosphere, which proved alarmingly seductive to some of the Saints’ children. (These young people were “drawn away,” Separatist leader William Bradford wrote, “by evill [sic] example into extravagance and dangerous courses.”) For the strict, devout Separatists, this was the last straw. They decided to move again, this time to a place without government interference or worldly distraction: the “New World” across the Atlantic Ocean. THE MAYFLOWER First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission to establish a settlement, or “plantation,” on the East Coast between 38 and 41 degrees north latitude (roughly between the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the Hudson River). And the King of England gave them permission to leave the Church of England, “provided they carried themselves peaceably.” In August 1620, a group of about 40 Saints joined a much larger group of (comparatively) secular colonists-“Strangers,” to the Saints-and set sail from England on two merchant ships: the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell began to leak almost immediately, however, and the ships headed back to port. The travelers squeezed themselves and their belongings onto the Mayflower and set sail once again. Because of the delay caused by the leaky Speedwell, the Mayflower had to cross the Atlantic at the height of storm season. As a result, the journey was horribly unpleasant. Many of the passengers were so seasick they could scarcely get up, and the waves were so rough that one “Stranger” was swept overboard and drowned. (It was “the just hand of God upon him,” Bradford wrote later, for the young sailor had been “a proud and very profane yonge man.”) THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT After two miserable months at sea, the ship finally reached the New World. There, the Mayflower’s passengers found an abandoned Indian village and not much else. They also found that they were in the wrong place: Cape Cod was located at 42 degrees north latitude, well north of the Virginia Company’s territory. Technically, the Mayflower colonists had no right to be there at all. In order to establish themselves as a legitimate colony (“Plymouth,” named after the English port from which they had departed) under these dubious circumstances, 41 of the Saints and Strangers drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create a “civil Body Politick” governed by elected officials and “just and equal laws.” It also swore allegiance to the English king. PLYMOUTH COLONY AND THE FIRST THANKSGIVING The colonists spent the first winter, which only 53 passengers and half the crew survived, living onboard the Mayflower. (The Mayflower sailed back to England in April 1621.) Once they moved ashore, the colonists faced even more challenges. During their first winter in America, more than half of the Plymouth colonists died from malnutrition, disease and exposure to the harsh New England weather. In fact, without the help of the area’s native people, it is likely that none of the colonists would have survived. An English-speaking Pawtuxet named Samoset helped the colonists form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to hunt local animals, gather shellfish and grow corn, beans and squash. At the end of the next summer, the Plymouth colonists celebrated their first successful harvest with a three-day festival of thanksgiving. We still commemorate this feast today. Eventually, the Plymouth colonists were absorbed into the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. Still, the Mayflower Saints and their descendants remained convinced that they alone had been specially chosen by God to act as a beacon for Christians around the world. “As one small candle may light a thousand,” Bradford wrote, “so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

This list is more noteworthy for who's not on it: Einstein, Newton, Copernicus, Euler, Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Voltaire, Epictetus, etc, etc. Making a top 10 list is kind of absurd. Random trivia: Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day.

Why haven't you written about Aryabhatta? No mathematical philosophy and cosmology is complete without him. Its very shameful if you don't know about him.

no Aristotle? no einstein? wtf?

I should be on this list, I invented the Buttscratcher 5000.

Saw a hungarian, gave a like. Neumann was not only genius, but really mad, too. You can read some funny stories about him on internet, worth it

Where is Albert Einstein?

I understand that we live in an "english" world and Francis Bacon was undoubtedly one of the great minds that humanity has had, and no one can deny the importance of its work on the inductive method (from the philosophical point of view). But if we talk of science the "father of scientific method" it's only one.. Galileo Galilei.(universally recognized by any physicist, mathematician and scientist in general).

Einstein should replace Machavelli on this list. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, and won the Nobel Prize for discovering of the law of the photoelectric effect. Machavelli wrote a guide book for dictators

what's the editing software name you used in this video ?

such an awesome list but then you put Darwin as #1 really? smh

Albert Einstein was once asked how it was to be the smartest man alive, his reply: I don't know, ask Tesla

Ramanujan should be on this list. Developed mathematics and number theory while having zero higher education.

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Yes your list is incomplete for sure. You failed to mention Newton in any real depth, as well as the great sin of failing to mention ( or even know of ) Goethe. I Love how you mentioned Panini and Neumann however..... most people will never know of these men. Where in the hell is Leonardo Da Vinci ????

tesla was head and shoulders above anyone

I think you left off quite a few biggies... Einstein William James Sidis DaVinci Newton Gauss Mozart (for the musicians) Ben Franklin (my personal fav)

Alan Turing couldn't have cracked the code without polish mathematicians.

Leonardo Da Vinci should have been number one, hands down... and where is Albert Einstein ? :/ What about Srinivasa Ramanujan ?? .... Darwin should not even be on this list, in my opinion - his theory is still questionable.

Tesla should be at #1

Nothing of this could have been possible without Aryabhattas invention of zero.

At first i thought this is just another mediocre list, but when i saw the #1 pick, i realized this is a joke on the viewers! Well played, Top Lists! Literally everyone on that list was smarter than Darwin.

they were all built on someone else's hard work.

I would really like to see a top 10 greatest generals of all times, possibly even more than 10, because they're really too many, and 10 are really not enough, you would miss a lot of them

Genius? Many, many, years ago, I shared a taxi on a journey from the port of La Spezia, Italy, to Nice airport in France. We were four British Merchant Marine officers, homeward bound for a bit of leave. We had partied aboard our ship the night before - we had the mother of all hangovers! We stopped for a break. One of our number purchased a raffia bound flagon of Ruffino. Desperate for a sip of the red, and, lacking a cork-screw, we each tried to remove the cork - making a right mess of things! Then, barely conscious of his whereabouts - befogged within an alcoholic haze, one of my companions, an engineer, a son of Glasgow's Govan docklands, and completely un-intelligible to my English ears, grabbed the bottle from my hands, fumbled in his pockets, whipped out a ball-point pen and thrust into the neck of the bottle with such force that the remnants of the cork shot inwards into the Bacchus juice. He lifted the bottle above his head and partook of the crimson liquid, then, with a banal grin on his boozy face, passed it around amongst us. Now, gentlemen, that's what I call, pure, undiluted genius! If that did not qualify for the benefit of his fellow humans', then, I remain speechless. Perhaps we could etch out his facial features on the cliff side of Ben Nevis, celebrating a truly Scottish genius!

Alan Turing broke the Enigma code based on work of polish cryptanalists ;) it wasn't really almost single handed..

The number one slot goes to a guy who is known for a singular theory(which he denounced) that has languished without any significant advances for generations. Evolutionary theory as it pertains to humanity is no clearer today than it was 200 years ago. I could literally think of 50 people more deserving of the top spot.

Anyone else notice the time on the vid is 9 11

polish matematics cracked enigma code and tesla did not invited x rays lel

Didn't a guy named Babbage invent the earliest computer, long before Turing.

Wow! They were all white men. How brave you are to be so honest in this crazy 'be politically correct' age.

Very stupid list. Darwin #1? LOL

And yet, we still have people thinking Earth is flat...

Where is Newton? Einstein? Oppenheimer? A list without these is clearly made by a genius.

Einstein Einstein Einstein Einstein

Pablo Picasso should be on this list. Totally changed the direction of 20th century art and set the bases for modern and contemporary art movements.

Alfred Austin ( 30 May, 1835 - 2 June,1913 ) English Poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. WRITER Critic Journalist Novelist Playwright Prose Writer BARRISTER EDITOR He was the Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire.

James Clerk Maxwell invented our modern world and died aged 42, Einstein had a photo of his mentor Maxwell on his desk everywhere he worked and Feynman be lives him to be the greatest genius of our modern age. Leonardo da Vinci had a vision of technologies far in advance of the world around him.

very accurate selection ... with this in mind, everyone else is somehow a derivative (including Riemann, Boltzmann and Einstein) and I am not biased

I should be on this list. I've created genius work such as, "how to make a spaghetti monster" and "why North Korea is a great place to live". I think my work has revolutionized human thought! It's amazing!

A far more accurate or fitting title for this particular list would be Ten Relatively Brilliant Men. To put Shakespeare and Machiavelli on a list of the smartest people ever while excluding Einstein as well as Da Vinci is absolute madness. For that matter I would think that even Spinoza should deserve recognition before Shakespeare or Machiavelli. But then Bacon made the list yet what of Descartes? I mean if we are being honest here no one truly knows who the "smartest" people were, we simply know who the most productive and famous geniuses might be. If we are talking raw intellectual power then to exclude William James Sidis would be a grave error, and Ramanujan should probably deserve recognition in such a list as well.

Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Stephen Hawking

I'm smarter then most of the guys...because i'm still alive and they aren't

Top list why arent There any islamic or Arabic figures. there where a lot of smart people if you make a quick search in different fields such as medicine science and mathematics from around 800 years ago and all of this list is like 300 years max pls reply

Schrödinger? Ramanujan? WTF ,what about them. I can agree with most of the video, especially with Darwin being first,but those two were just unparalleled genius, Schrödinger was the one who laid the foundation for modern quantum physics, and Ramanujan arguably one of the greatest mathematician in history. These two deserved to be mentioned in this video

Really? No Richard Feynman? Einstein? Newton? Pauli? Bohr? Curie? Faraday? Pauling? Mendeleev? Maxwell? Schrödinger? Mendel? Watson? Crick? Franklin? I could keep going.

Did we miss any?

Where is _____ on this list !!

No Child of Lübek? No Steven Hawking? No Hedy Lamarr?

What? Where is the guy who invented beer?

Top 10 Most Brilliant People - William McGonagall Patrick Moore Sarah Palin Lucy Worsley Thomas Shadwell Harrison Birtwistle Rowan Williams Verdi Julian Schwinger Art Garfunkel.

This is anglo saxon biased bs... Shakespeare... Really???

I don't need to watch this to know that William James Siddis isn't on it.

I seriously doubt that the electric car dates back to Tesla (born 1856), since the concept was developed in the 1820s and 30s, and the first production model was produced in 1884, when a young Tesla was still working with Edison on the telephone.

You forgot Donald trump

Nikola Tesla should be number 1

Leonardo Da Vinci? Adam Smith? Carl Marx? Albert Einstein? Stephen Hawking? Terence Tao? Christopher Hirata? Kim Ung Yong? Christopher Langan? Garry Kasparov? Bill Gates? John D.Rockefeller Sr.? Judit Polgar?

What about Immanuel Kant? He just has created the entire contemporary ethics and moral principles and was the maximus expoent of the actual concept of society 300 years ago. Everything just thinking alone in his city in Germany that he never left.

Karl Marx.

Some of these I agree with but others like Darwin I think don't deserve their spots on this list. Evolution has been proven false and there is no evidence of any missing links up to this day. Niccolo Machiavelli (I hope I wrote that right) I think was generally correct but dishonourable so I personally don't like him but his statement about "it is better to be feared than loved" is true as history demonstrates. Tesla definitely deserved a spot on this list, in my opinion. Shakespeare was a really smart individual as well

To all the Croats: They did not said anything about country where Tesla was born, they said he was a Serb, because his parents where Serbs.

You adding the Tesla cannon from Fallout 3 is the reason I'm subscribed to you! Keep up the good videos