Top 10 Smartest (Intelligent) People on Earth

The topic itself, is a live wire. I am sure we all have
different answers to that. However this is my attempt to
answer the question as honest and bias-less as possible.

First of all few rules. I have selected people on basis of the rules below

• Person should be still alive (No, not in memories,
  I mean Breathing, Movable and responding to stimuli).
• Person should have done anything worthy with
  his/her intelligence.
• Motivation of action should be preferably positive
  so Dear Mr Usamah bin Mu?ammad bin `Awa? bin Ladin although being extremely smart will not qualify as his motivations don’t interest me and presumably most of the readers

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Frank Owen Gehry .

He is one of the world’s most influential architects. His designs for the likes of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA are bold statements that have imposed a new aesthetic of architecture on the world at large, enlivening streetscapes and creating new destinations. Mr Gehry has extended his vision beyond brick-and-mortar too, collaborating with artists such as Claes Oldenberg and Richard Serra, and designing watches, teapots and a line of jewelry for Tiffany & Co.

Now in his 70s, Mr Gehry refuses to slow down or compromise his fierce vision: He and his team at Gehry Partners are working on a $4 billion development of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, and a spectacular Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, which interprets local architecture traditions into a language all his own. Incorporating local architectural motifs without simply paying lip service to Middle Eastern culture, the building bears all the hallmarks of a classic Gehry design.

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Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr

Albert Arnold Gore(Al Gore) an American environmental activist, author, and businessperson. He is also a former journalist and politician.

Gore was involved in American politics for over three decades and was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. During this period, Gore introduced legislation and policies to develop what he called “The Information Superhighway” (most notably, the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 which led to the creation of the National Information Infrastructure). He received a Webby Award for this work in 2005. In 2000, Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the presidential election. He only won the popular vote .

In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is a renown hacker and founder of GNU and the free software movement and The Free Software Foundation. His contributions include GNU C compiler, GNU debugger, and the GNU Emacs. The GNU project was created by Stallman in 1983 as a way of creating a “free operating system.” This meant that the operating system can be modified, copied, and redistributed without restrictions.

The GNU system is often combined with the Kernel Linux, which forms as a functional operating system. On January 5, 1984, Stallman quit his job at MIT so
that they could not claim any rights to his project and interfere with free software development. Since Unix’s architecture was excellent, Stallman wrote the program to be compatible with Unix.

He has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

He is also a major reason we are witnessing “Word is Flat 3.0″ with free knowledge as the core philosophy.

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Yonezo Kanno

Mr. Kanno has developed the concept of using the forehead as a remote sensor since 1998 and holds the patent for a device using the forehead as an another sense of touch.

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Warren Buffet

Warren Edward Buffett, also known as “the Oracle of Omaha”, was born 30 August 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska (USA). He studied in Nebraska University, and after that, a master’s degree in Columbia Business School, where he was student of Benjamin Graham, authors of books such as “Security Analysis” or “The intelligent Investor”. After that period, he worked with Graham, following the investment rules of this master. He came back to Omaha in 1956 without any plan in his mind, since some people asked him to manage their investments. Warren Buffett started that way. In 1965, he bought a company of the textile sector with financial problems, called Berkshire Hathaway. It was transformed in a holding for his investments in media, insurance and consumer products, among others. Buffett bought several of these companies at a very low price in the 1973/1974 recession.

His political ideas are related to the Democratic Party. He has positioned himself several times in favour of an increase on taxes for the richest people and in favour of an increase on inheritance tax, since, according to Buffett, it is an obstacle to meritocracy. Buffett is also famous by its philanthropy. In fact, he has gone down in history thanks to its donation to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of over 30 billion, which is the highest donation in history.

Buffett is the most successful long-term investor, with a compounded annual rate of return of 22.3% during 36 years, which means 128,515%. The purchase of Coca-Cola stocks by Buffett meant for Berkshire’s Shareholders a profitability of near 800% in 12 years. Another less well-known investment was the purchase of Interpublic marketing company in 1973, with a profitability of over 900% in 11 years. He bought Berkshire Hathaway’s shares at a price between $7.60 and $14.86. Berkshire Hathaway’s current share price is over $140.000. His estimated net worth is $56.9 billion.

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Steve Jobs

He is an inspiration in himself currently the CEO of Apple (he was thrown from the same company few years ago), which he co-founded in 1976. Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award-winning Macintosh computers, OS X operating system, and consumer and professional applications software. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution, having sold over 110 million iPods and over three billion songs from its iTunes online store. Apple entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.

Steve also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios, which has created eight of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its films have grossed more than $4 billion at the worldwide box office to date. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney’s board of directors. Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three children.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

The world knows Arnold Schwarzenegger as a famous bodybuilder and a Hollywood action hero, but he is also a successful businessman, generous philanthropist and California’s 38th Governor. Since he took office, Governor Schwarzenegger’s responsible fiscal policies have brought California back from the brink of bankruptcy, reinvigorating the economy, creating a better environment for business and creating more than 680,000 new jobs. Improved state revenues have paid down the state’s debt and afforded record investments in schools, roads and affordable healthcare for children.

Governor Schwarzenegger’s most notable accomplishments include a bipartisan agreement to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions by signing landmark legislation in 2006, increasing the minimum wage while lowering the state’s unemployment rate and overhauling the workers’ compensation system – cutting costs by more than 35 percent. In addition, Governor Schwarzenegger is the first governor in decades to make major investments in improving California’s aging infrastructure through his Strategic Growth Plan, helping to reduce congestion and clean the air. He established the Hydrogen Highway and Million Solar Roofs Plan, continuing his leadership in creating a greener environment.

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Muhammad Yunus

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics and is famous for his successful application of microcredit – the extension of small loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. He is the author of Banker to the Poor and a founding board member of Grameen Foundation.

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Hunter (Patch) Adams

Hunter (Patch) Adams, MD, has been putting into practice the idea that “healing should be a loving human interchange, not a business transaction” for more than 20 years. He is the founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community that has provided free medical care to thousands of patients since it began in 1971.

It is an “experiment in holism with a medical focus on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, and the world. Gesundheit is a sociopolitical act that grows out of a deep concern for the quality of people’s lives in a world dominated by the values inherent in greed and power”. At its height the Institute was staffed by 20 medical workers, including two physicians in addition to Adams. Between 1971 and 1983 15,000 patients received free medical care, and Adams has a tall stack of letters from them attesting that his clinic’s humor and compassion helped when others could not.

“The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed – by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.”

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Nelson Mandela

Mandela’s words, “The struggle is my life,” are not to be taken lightly.

Nelson Mandela personifies struggle. He is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigour and resilience after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars. He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa’s best known and loved hero.

He was born at Qunu, near Umtata on 18 July 1918. His father, Henry Mgadla Mandela, was chief councillor to Thembuland’s acting paramount chief David Dalindyebo. When his father died, Mandela became the chief’s ward and was groomed for the chieftainship.

A decade before being imprisoned, Mandela had spoken out against the introduction of Bantu Education, recommending that community activists “make every home, every shack or rickety structure a centre of learning”. Robben Island, where he was imprisoned, became a centre for learning, and Mandela was a central figure in the organised political education classes. In prison Mandela never compromised his political principles and was always a source of strength for the other prisoners.

He was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994 – June 1999.

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Thanks for you time. I would like to end this article with a quote.

“We define success in terms of Michael Jordan and Bill Gates and Cindy Crawford and Julia Roberts. And they’re not the success. Success is the school teachers trying to teach math and English in a society that’s more interested in spouting clichés. …sixty percent of schoolteachers need second jobs to support their families, where ball bouncers [professional athletes] are multi-millionaires.” -Patch Adams

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