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By The Telegraph

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 - (69)
3 George Soros American Investor & Philanthropist 25 1930 - (94)
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