Bill Gates |180

 

Best known as the brain behind Microsoft, Bill Gates is the former chairman and CEO of the multinational technology company. The 65-year-old business magnate was the richest person in the world for the past few years until he was overtaken by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Before he reached the degree of success he has now, Gates already showed signs of high intelligence even from a young age. As an entrepreneur and inventor, he has an IQ score of 180.

At 13, he wrote his first software program. During his senior year, he and his friend Paul Allen formed a company called Traf-O-Data. He later enrolled at Harvard to study math and graduate-level computer science but dropped out at the end of his sophomore year to work at Microsoft. In 2008, later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at the company, he has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors.