這是2007年的一篇報導，報導由英國每日電訊報選出當時尚存人世的百大天才，由4000名英國人請他們選出10名心目中最聰明的天才，然後加總得到的結果。當時我基於好奇就順便把這一百個人是誰都做了一些簡單的介紹。2012年回過頭來更新了一些資訊，不過大部份應該都是訃聞。底下每位人名最後的數字代表的是得票數字，這項調查還真的蠻英國研究的…因為認為Albert Hoffman是第一名也才27個人。
五年後(2007-2012)從原本100位變成93位，又再三年(2013-2015)後變成85位
R.I.P. 不知道未來又有誰會補上呢。
2015.09.07 update 新增訃文
英國研究、韓國起源、中國製造、台灣報導…請參考
The British Telegraph had such a report, and let’s take a look a those geniuses
1= Albert Hoffman (Swiss) Chemist 27
He is the guy who invented LSD-25
這位化學家於2008年已經去世。
1= Tim Berners-Lee (British) Computer Scientist 27
He is the guy who invented WWW
3 George Soros (American) Investor & Philanthropist 25
He is the stock investor and financial speculator who once destroyed the economy of south eastern Asia
4 Matt Groening (American) Satirist & Animator 24
He is the guy who created The Simpsons
5= Nelson Mandela (South African) Politician & Diplomat 23
He is the former president of South Africa
這位政治人物已於2013年去世
5= Frederick Sanger (British) Chemist 23
He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
這位化學家已於2013年去世
7= Dario Fo (Italian) Writer & Dramatist 22
He is a famous playwright and theater director, especially comedy
7= Steven Hawking (British) Physicist 22
He is the guy who is said to be the second theoretical physicist to Einstein
9= Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian) Architect 21
He is a famous architect in modern architecture
這位仁兄應該是名單裡面最老的，1907年生，已於2012年去世
9= Philip Glass (American) Composer 21
He is a famous composer who is equal to minimalist
9= Grigory Perelman (Russian) Mathematician 21
He is the guy who solved the famous Poincaré conjecture
12= Andrew Wiles (British) Mathematician 20
He is the guy who proved Fermat’s Last Theorem
12= Li Hongzhi (李洪志)(Chinese) Spiritual Leader 20
He is the founder of Falun Gong
12= Ali Javan (Iranian) Engineer 20
He is the guy who invented the gas laser
15= Brian Eno (British) Composer 19
He is the father of modern ambient music
15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19
He is a famous artist for the work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”
15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19
He is an autistic savant
這位仁兄是這名單裡面最年輕的一位，1979年生。
18 Nicholson Baker (American) Writer 18
He is a famous unconventional novelist
19 Daniel Barenboim (Argentina/Israel) Musician 17
He is a famous pianist and conductor, and a friend of Edward Said
20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16
He is a famous artist and illustrator, you can visit his official site
20= Richard Dawkins (British) Biologist and philosopher 16
He is famous as a popular science writer
20= Larry Page & Sergey Brin (American) Publishers 16
They established Google
20= Rupert Murdoch (American) Publisher 16
He is a global media tycoon
20= Geoffrey Hill (British) Poet
He is a famous poet
25 Garry Kasparov (Russian) Chess Player 15
He is the guy who was defeated by the IBM Deep Blue
26= The Dalai Lama (Tibetan) Spiritual Leader 14
He is The Dalai Lama
26= Steven Spielberg (American) Film maker 14
He is a famous film director
26= Hiroshi Ishiguro (石黑浩)(Japanese) Roboticist 14
He is a the guy who created the famous GeminoidHI-1
26= Robert Edwards (British) Pioneer of IVF treatment 14
He is the father of test-tube baby
這位生物學家已於2013年去世
26= Seamus Heaney (Irish) Poet 14
He is a poet who was awarded Nobel Prize in literature
31 Harold Pinter (British) Writer & Dramatist 13
He is a famous playwright in post-modernism and theater of the absurd
Harold Pinter已於2008年去世。
32= Flossie Wong-Staal (黃以靜)(Chinese) Bio-technologist 12
She is one of the discoverers who found the HIV virus
32= Bobby Fischer (American) Chess Player 12
He is the only American born World Chess Champion
這位世界棋王於2008年去世。
32= Prince (American) Musician 12
He is a famous and prolific musician
32= Henryk Górecki (Polish) Composer 12
He is a famous compser
偉大的作曲家於2010年去世。
32= Avram Noam Chomski (American) Philosopher & linguist 12
He is a famous linguist
32= Sebastian Thrun (German) Probabilistic roboticist 12
He is the director of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
32= Nima Arkani Hamed (Canadian) Physicist 12
He is a supporter of String Theory
32= Margaret Turnbull (American) Astrobiologist 12
She is a famous astronomer
40= Elaine Pagels (American) Historian 11
She is a writer who writes gnostic gospels
40= Enrique Ostrea (Philippino) Pediatrics & neonatology 11
He is the one who invented the Method for Detecting Maternally Transferred Drug Metabolites in Newborn Infants
這位仁兄沒有英文維基的資料。
40= Gary Becker (American) Economist 11
He is a Nobel laureate in economics
這位經濟學家於2014年去世
43= Mohammed Ali (American) Boxer 10
He is a famous boxer
43= Osama Bin Laden (Saudi) Islamicist 10
He is a successful terrorist
恐怖份子於2011年遭到美國軍方擊斃。
43= Bill Gates (American) Businessman 10
He is a the guy who established Micro$oft
43= Philip Roth (American) Writer 10
He is a famous fictional novelist
43= James West (American) Invented the foil electrical microphone 10
He is an acoustician who invented the foil electrical microphone
43= Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese) Bio-Medical Scientist 10
He is a famous inventor in biomedical field, especially on Nano-Manipulator System
49= Brian Wilson (American) Musician 9
He is the singer and bassist of The Beach Boys
49= Stevie Wonder (American) Singer songwriter 9
He is a blind singer who has won 22 Grammy Awards
49= Vint Cerf (American) Computer scientist 9
He is one of the founders of the Internet and TCP/IP protocols
49= Henry Kissinger (American) Diplomat and politician 9
He is a politician of Nobel laureate in peace
49= Richard Branson (British) Publicist 9
He is the owner of Virgin Group
49= Pardis Sabeti (Iranian) Biological anthropologist 9
She is the one who developed an algorithm helping to establish the effects of genetics on the evolution of human disease
49= Jon de Mol (Dutch) Television producer 9
He is a Dutch media tycoon
49= Meryl Streep (American) Actress 9
She is the actress who holds the most Academy Award nomination of any actor(11 Best Actoress, 3 Best Supporting Actress )
49= Margaret Attwood (Canadian) Writer 9
She is a prolific poet and novelist
58= Placido Domingo (Spanish) Singer 8
He is one of the world-renown tenors
58= John Lasseter (American) Digital Animator 8
He is the chief creative officer of the Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios
58= Shunpei Yamazaki(山崎俊平) (Japanese) Computer scientist & physicist 8
He is the guy who holds over 1700 patents in US
58= Jane Goodall (British) Ethologist & Anthropologist 8
She is well-known for her chimpanzee study
58= Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (Indian) Historian 8
He is a famous historian
58= John Goto (British) Photographer 8
He is a photographer who masters Photoshop
58= Paul McCartney (British) Musician 8
He is one of the founders of The Beatles
58= Stephen King (American) Writer 8
He is a famous novelist of terror and fantasy
58= Leonard Cohen (American) Poet & musician 8
He is a famous poet and songwriter
67= Aretha Franklin (American) Musician 7
She is the Queen of Soul
67= David Bowie (British) Musician 7
He is a famous singer
67= Emily Oster (American) Economist 7
She is a famous economist
67= Steve Wozniak (American) Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers 7
He is the co-founder of Apple Computers
67= Martin Cooper (American) Inventor of the cell phone 7
He is the guy who invented cell phone
72= George Lucas (American) Film maker 6
He is a famous film director
72= Niles Rogers (American) Musician 6
He is a prolific musician
72= Hans Zimmer (German) Composer 6
He is a famous film score composer
72= John Williams (American) Composer 6
He is a famous film score composer
72= Annette Baier (New Zealander) Philosopher 6
He is a famous philosopher who focuses on Hume‘s moral psychology
這位哲學家於2012年去世
72= Dorothy Rowe (British) Psychologist 6
She is a famous psychologist who focuses on the study of depression
72= Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian) Artist & sculptor 6
He is a famous sculptor
72= Robin Escovado (American) Composer 6
He is a composer who wrote many choral works in 1960
網路上相關的資料已經被移除了，Wikipedia目前也沒有他的資料。
72= Mark Dean (American) Inventor & computer scientist 6
He led teams who invented ISA bus and the first 1GHz CPU
72= Rick Rubin (American) Musician & producer 6
He is a famous record producer
72= Stan Lee (American) Publisher 6
He is one of the creators of Spider-Man and X-Men
83= David Warren (Australian) Engineer 5
He is the guy who invented the Flight Data Recorder(黑盒子)
這位工程師於2010年去世
83= Jon Fosse (Norwegian) Writer & dramatist
He is a famous dramatist
83= Gjertrud Schnackenberg (American) Poet 5
She is a famous poet
83= Graham Linehan (Irish) Writer & dramatist 5
He is a famous TV sit-com writer
83= JK Rowling (British) Writer 5
She is the author of Harry Potter
83= Ken Russell (British) Film maker 5
He is a famous film director
大導演於2011年去世。
83= Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian) Small arms designer 5
He invented AK47
這位設計師於2013年去世
83= Erich Jarvis (American) Neurobiologist 5
He is a neurobiologist in Duke University Jarvis Lab
91= Chad Varah (British) Founder of Samaritans 4
He is the founder of Samaritans(撒馬利亞會)
這位牧師於2007年去世
91= Nicolas Hayek (Swiss) Businessman and founder of Swatch 4
He is chairman of Swatch Group
創辦人於2010年去世。
91= Alastair Hannay (British) Philosopher 4
He is a philosopher who focuses on Søren Kierkegaard
94= Patricia Bath (American) Ophthalmologist
She is the first African American woman who received patent in US
94= Thomas L. Jackson (American) Aerospace engineer
He is an engineer who focuses on Advanced Rocket
這位仁兄目前還沒有Wikipedia的資料。
(Note: the original source mistook the name as Thomas A. Jackson)
94= Dolly Parton (American) Singer 3
She is a famous country music singer
94= Morissey (British) Singer 3
He is a famous singer
94= Michael Eavis (British) Organiser of Glastonbury 3
He is the founder of the Glastonbury Festival
94= Ranulph Fiennes (British) Adventurer 3
He is the first one who walked through the Antarctic
100=. Quentin Tarantino (American) Filmmaker
He is a famous film director