Top 10 smartest people alive

Top 10 smartest people alive The list includes Hollywood star James Wood and television script writer, Rick Rosner.

Terence Tao Age 37 IQ level 230 Was able to calculate simple arithmetic by age of 2. Youngest ever full professor at 24 at UCLA.

Christopher Hirata Age 30 IQ level 225 Was in Caltech by 14 and working with NASA on projects colonizing Mars by the age of 16

Age 50 IQ level of 210 The Guinness Book of World Records lists him as having the highest confirmed IQ in the world. By the time he was two he was able to speak four languages. By the time he was four he was auditing university courses.

Rick Rosner Age 52 IQ level 192 The television script writer who has worked with Jimmy Kimmel, boasts an unusual resume that includes job titles such as stripper, nude model, roller-skating waiter and bouncer.

Garry Kasparov Age 49 IQ level 190 The former chess champion still holds on to the title the youngest undisputed world chess champion when he won the title at the young age of 22. He retired from the sport in 2005.

James Woods Age 65 IQ level 180 Enrolled in linear algebra in UCLA while in high school and even won a scholarship to MIT, where he started acting and dropped out of college.

Sir Andrew Wiles Age 59 IQ level 170 Proved the world's most difficult match problem, "Fermat's Last Theorem".

Judit Polgar Age 36 IQ level 170 Raised by her father in experiment in education, in an attempt to prove that children can make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a young age. She became the youngest chess grand champion at the age of 15, beating Bobby Fischer's record by a month.

Paul Allen Age 59 IQ level 170 Co-founder of Microsoft.

Stephen W. Hawkins Age 70 IQ level 160 Made groundbreaking research into theoretical physics and explained the universe. -edvantage