Celebrities are people who never really get any credit for their intelligence. So, today let us put some light on the IQ’s of the celebrities. IQ’s are however not at all easy to measure but anyone scoring more than 110 is said to have intelligence above average. Let us have a look at the compiled report of IQ of famous 25 celebs.
1. James Franco – IQ 130
If you want to make it in Hollywood, it does not require a degree. So, it is very unlikely that you will see your favorite star in a college but James Franco is not a usual celeb. He is in fact far from it. He holds a Majors degree from UCLA in English literature and has taken up many courses on creative writing. He also likes teaching and can be easily spotted at UCLA, NYU, and USC.
2. Ashton Kutcher – IQ 160
Known best for his nicely chiseled jawline, his poor acting skills and being a husband to Mila Kunis but before this actor entered into Hollywood he was at the Iowa University studying Biochemical Engineering. Along with Madonna’s manager and an investment partner, Ashton is known to have provided money for applications like Airbnb and Uber.
3. Nicole Kidman – IQ 132
This Australian beauty has a high IQ and that comes as a little surprise as she belongs to a family of biochemists and doctors. Nicole has done exceptionally well in academics at her high school and forgo her further studies to study drama. She studies at the prestigious Victoria College of Arts in Melbourne.
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger – IQ 135
This actor and a former Governor of California had first made a name for him into professional bodybuilding. Coming from a small town in Austria he not only achieved his childhood dream of going to America and became a champion in bodybuilding without even speaking a single word in English but his success later as an A-listed actor and governor for the state later maybe explained by his very impressive 135 IQ level.
5. Natalie Portman – IQ 140
Natalie Portman was excellent at school and unlike many other child artistes, she used to skip after parties of the film premieres to study and do revisions for exams. Her dedication towards studies didn’t go unnoticed by the glare of media but she was never bothered and she took a Bachelors’s degree from Harvard Universty in Psychology. She is fluent in five languages and she is not just an Oscar winning actress but her work also got published scientific journals and also attended the classes at the University of Jerusalem.
6. Quentin Tarintino – IQ 160
He is the man who gave Hollywood some of the best-known movies and when asked about his craft, he is known as an encyclopaedia of knowledge.This director watches 200 movies a year and had worked in an adult movie theatre as an usher to know about cinema as much as he can. He dropped his schooling at an age of 15 and had no knowledge on filmmaking. Whatever knowledge he gained about filmmaking was after working in a shop that rented videos.
7. Sharon Stone – IQ 154
Actress and famous model around the world Sharon Stone had given the worldwide eyes when she crossed her legs in the classic “Basic Instinct”. She is not just famous for giving a sight of her private parts to the world but also has an amazing IQ. She was offered a scholarship at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania when she was just 15 years old and she withdrew it after two years because she wanted to be a model. She has an IQ of154 and is way smarter smarter than many stars.
8. Matt Damon –IQ 140
Matt Damon is extremely well-educated and was at Harvard University when he dropped out and chose to become an actor. His time there was not wasted though because he met Ben Affleck there who later went on co-writing the famous movie Good Will Hunting with him.
9. Jodie Foster – IQ 132
Even though actress Jodie Foster didn’t get as much love from the industry that her fellow star actress Meryl Streep went on to get even though she is a great actress and has an IQ that is eye-catching equally. She was homeschooled when she was a kid and that never made a difference really because she was writing very fluently when she was just 3 years old. She later received a degree in English literature from Yale University and also has a doctorate in fine arts.
10. Ivanka Trump – IQ 140
Ivanka who is President Donald Trump’s daughter possesses an amazing IQ of 140. Ivanka who had been for two years at Georgetown University then got into Wharton Business School and has a degree in economics.
11. Madonna – IQ 140
Madonna who is a famous singer was also an A grade student before she got really famous and even got a scholarship at the Michigan University. However, by then she knew she wanted a musical career.
12. Shakira – IQ 140
Voted as the sexiest woman alive by many magazines, there is a lot more to Shakira than just singing and good looks. Not known to many she has impressive academic credentials. She not only writes all her songs but can speak three languages. She has a lot of interest in different cultures around the world and also enrolled in a course at UCLA to study Western civilization’s history.
13. Cindy Crawford – IQ 154
Cindy Crawford is more than her complexion and flawless skin and a supermodel. In the year 1984. She graduated being a Valedictorian and wanted to pursue chemical engineering at the Northwestern University. Academically, her career was very short as she dropped out to become a model and had a huge success in her modeling career.
14. Kate Beckinsale – IQ 132
She graduated from the most prestigious Oxford University. She studied modern languages and is an accomplished polyglot. She is very fluent in three languages i.e. German, Russian and French.
15. Melania Trump – IQ “Very high”
The supermodels’s professor who briefly taught her at Slovenia’s University of Ljubljana remembered he beingvery bright and said that “her IQ was very high.”
She can speak five different languages.
16. Michelle Obama – IQ 130
A lot of websites have estimated that Michelle’s IQ is lower than what is expected and she admitted that she scored lower on her SAT exams than what was expected. But that didn’t stop her from becoming a lawyer she graduated from Ivy League College and that suggests that she has at least an IQ of 120 points.
17. Emma Watson – IQ 138
Emma is a graduate of Brown University having a degree in English Literature. She is, in fact, the only one who continued studies amongst her fellow co-stars from the Harry Potter series. It was a huge responsibility to study while working in a movie series worth billions but she managed. She used to study five hours in between the shots every day and maintained her A grades in both middle and her high school exams. She excelled not just inside the Hollywood but outside too. She is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN (United Nations) and promotes a campaign “HeforShe”.
18. James Woods – IQ 184
James Woods once admitted to James Lipton on a show called “Inside the Actor’s Studio” that his IQ is recorded to be 184 and to back his scores in SAT were 800 and 779 in verbal reasoning and mathematics respectively. Stephen Hawking’s IQ is rumored to be 160 and same is believed to be that of Albert Einstein.
19. Bill O’Reilly – IQ 150
There was always tension whenever this host interviewed anyone on the show atFox News called the ‘The O’ Reilly FACTOR’. The famous broadcaster and an author is undoubtedly very intelligent and is known to have an IQ of 150.
20. Lisa Kudrow – 160
She got famous as Phoebe on famous TV show Friends. She is a Bachelors in Biology and also worked as a medical researcher with her father. She even got credits for one paper of his which explored how left-handed people develop cluster headaches.
21. David Duchovny – 147
Well known for his shows the X-Files and Californication, this man has it all. He is wealthy, handsome and has some good acting credits to his name. he is a well-known director, screenplay writer, and a novelist. He is Masters of Arts from the prestigious Yale University.
22. Ke$ha – IQ 140
The well-known singer is known for all the wrong reasons including a dispute with Dr. Duke, her manager who she claims to have assaulted her sexually. This is a reason not many people remember her now for the songs she gave the world forget her IQ. She was not so popular kid at school and left high school at an early age to pursue her career in music.
23. Steve Martin – IQ 142
This funnyman and actor holds an IQ level of 142. He holds a Bachelors in Philosophy from California State University.
24. Mayim Bialik – IQ 163
Mayim Bialik got fame through the Big Bang Theory, the famous TV series. She played Sheldon’s girlfriend in the show who is a neuroscientist. Well, this may be very surprising for many that Bialik is a neuroscientist herself.
25. Robin Williams – IQ 140
Hollywood can never really come to terms with the demise of Robin Williams. He needs no introduction as his whole life he dedicated to arts. Before he enrolled at the Julliard, he was thinking about taking a degree in political science but guess life had something else in the store.
26. Ken Jeong – IQ 130
Ken Jeong who is a physician formerly who can be seen in ‘Dr. Ken’, an ABC family drama reprising his old occupation attended high school in North Carolina’s Greensboro. He had a very high IQ and played the violin. Being a part of the school orchestra he won Greensboro Youth of the Year award.later he studied at Duke University and medicine at the University of North Carolina.
27. Sasha Obama – IQ 146
Sasha Obama, who is the youngest daughter of Barack Obama, the former President of the U.S is known to have a very high IQ. Having both her parents as lawyers, she had the best education in the world. Only time will tell where she lands up but we are sure she has the capability to achieve great things.
28. Donald Trump – IQ 156
The American President has an estimated IQ of 156. Some find it very hard to believe that the man taking two ends of his tie together has graduated from the Wharton School at the Pennsylvania University in the year 1968 with a Bachelors in Science in two subjects i.e. Anthropology and Economics. However, his official transcripts from the school are unavailable so one cannot know his actual scores scholastically.
29. Barack Obama – IQ 145
Having attended both Chicago and Harvard Law Schools, Obama had been a state senator and became the president of the U.S.A. His IQ is considered to be very high and he was a civil rights attorney before entering politics.
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