Among the Highest IQs: the IQ Stratosphere

In the mainstream media these three individuals have become famous as being the highest IQs, but there are many individuals in the 'higher-iq-societies' community (e.g. Kevin Langon, Steve Schuessler) who have IQs in the same range. A link into this community can be found here.

• Korean physicist / engineer  Kim Ung-Yong has a verified IQ of 210 (Stanford-Binet IQ test). Born: 1962. One of the highest IQs. 

Kim Ung-Yong was also a child prodigy. He was able to read Korean, Japanese, German  , and English  by his third birthday. At age 4 he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation. He was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 until he was 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA where he finished his university studies, getting a Ph.D. in physics before he was 15 at Colorado State University. 

• American author and columnist Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186 (Hoeflin's Mega Test). Born: 1946.  Among the highest IQs. 

Since 1986 Marilyn Vos Savant has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she solves puzzles and answers questions from the general public. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Economic Education and on the advisory boards of the National Association for Gifted Children and the National Women's History Museum. She is married to Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik artificial heart. She is Chief Financial Officer of Jarvik Heart, Inc. and is involved in cardiovascular disease research and prevention. She is a member of the high IQ societies Mensa International and the Prometheus Society.  Learn more about Marilyn Vos Savant here.

• American doorman and horse-rancher Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195. Born: 1952. One of the highest IQs. 

Langan began talking at 6 months, taught himself to read before he was four, and repeatedly skipped years in school. He achieved a perfect score in the SAT exam, but left college before graduating believing "he could literally teach [his professors] more than they could teach [him]". By  his mid-40s had been a construction worker, cowboy, forest service firefighter, farmhand - for over twenty years - a doorman (bouncer). He says he developed a "double-life strategy": a 'regular guy' on the one side, and on the other side coming home to perform equations, working in isolation on a theory of the relationship between mind and reality. Since 2004 he has owned and managed a horse ranch with his wife Gina, a clinical neuro-psychologist.  Learn more about Christopher Langan here . 

Child prodigies: the greatest of them all? W. J. Sidis

"Hi s name was William James Sidis, and his IQ was estimated at between 250 and 300. At eighteen months he could read The New York Times, at two he taught himself Latin, at three he learned Greek. By the time he was an adult he could speak more than forty languages and dialects. He gained entrance to Harvard at eleven, and gave a lecture on four-dimensional bodies to the Harvard Mathematical Club his first year. He graduated cum laude at sixteen, and became the youngest professor in history. He deduced the possibility of black holes more than twenty years before Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar published An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure. His life held possibilities for achievement that few people can imagine. Of all the prodigies for which there are records, his was probably the most powerful intellect of all."

Quoted from Grady M. Towers's Promethius high IQ society article: 'The Outsiders '

More interesting information on William Sidis can be found here.