# World's Smartest Person (besides Cecil Adams) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 13, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404 "2005-09-13T06:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/21 "2005-09-13T20:38:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Henry Kissinger signed my Birth Certificate! Were you that kid born at the Paris Peace Talks? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/22 "2005-09-13T20:44:33Z")
I’ll vote Uncle Albie and Telsa for deceased and Hawkings for Currently living. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/23 "2005-09-13T22:25:19Z")
How about Chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan in the living category? ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/24 "2005-09-14T00:16:19Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > I doubt anybody’s ever heard of the smartest person in the world. I mean, what are the chances that somebody would be the smartest person in the world _and_ ambitious _and_ lucky _and_ all the other things that would be required for anyone to have ever heard of them? Very true. The World’s Smartest Person is probably in a psychiatric ward somewhere, if the mental equilibrium of most incredibly smart people is anything to go by. Otherwise another vote for Stephen Hawking: Living Sir Isaac Newton: Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Xixox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/13edae/32.png) [@Xixox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xixox)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/25 "2005-09-14T04:04:42Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > I think you might mean _Nikola_. Er… well, you didn’t see my name on the list, didya? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/26 "2005-09-14T16:11:37Z")
Don’t know about smartest living person, but smartest dead person has to be Aristotle. He wrote about science, politics, poetry, theater, philosophy and ethics. And except for his science, everything he wrote then is worthy of study today. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/27 "2005-09-14T16:38:27Z")
Judging from this list women must be pretty dumb. Guess that neatly illustrates **BlackKnight** ’s point. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/28 "2005-09-14T16:51:52Z")
Not saying that I agree, but didn’t **Marilyn Vos Savant** at one time claim to be the world’s smartest person? Or maybe Parade Magazine made the claim on her behalf. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/29 "2005-09-14T17:02:04Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > Not saying that I agree, but didn’t **Marilyn Vos Savant** at one time claim to be the world’s smartest person? Or maybe Parade Magazine made the claim on her behalf. I make no claims but supply this link [http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn/marilyn.html](http://www.wiskit.com/marilyn/marilyn.html) Now I make my claim. I don’t believe she is one person. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404/30 "2005-09-15T22:57:05Z")
I keep hearing that Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world… 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-smartest-person-besides-cecil-adams/321404.md?page=1)