Marilyn Vos Savant – 225
Marilyn Vos Savant is a famous playwright from Missouri, USA, and many know her for her incredibly high degree of IQ. In fact, she has a one-time world record in the Guinness Book of World Records as the person with the highest recorded IQ. Marilyn isn’t the only person with notable achievements in her life but her husband as well, Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the artificial heart.
Marilyn gained so much attention for her world record accomplishment that she started her own column in Parade magazine called, Ask Marilyn. It is well-known that during the peak of her column’s success, Marilyn answered the famous Monty Hall problem, and she gained even more praise for resolving it. It still comes as a surprise to many people that Marilyn attained her world record of an incredible IQ of 225 when she was only ten years old.