when it comes to rising to the top of
the Hollywood food chain some people
just have it all welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 famous
people smart enough to be in Mensa
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at celebrities
who have high marks in the IQ Department
we can’t officially claim that they are
Mensa certified since this info isn’t
officially released for celebrities but
we’re still confident that these entries
would be capable of getting an invite
number 10 Shakira this colombians hips
don’t lie and neither does their high IQ
with a reported rating of 140 is it
really that surprising that this singer
and dancer is also a businesswoman and
philanthropist though she’d been active
in her native Latin America in the late
80s and early 90s it was only at the
turn of the new millennium that she
broke into the English language market
but signs of her intelligence began
showing way earlier than that
Shakira wrote her first song when she
was 8 and released her debut full-length
a mere 5 years later
talent beauty and brains Shakira’s got a
tall number 9
Matt Damon who says actors aren’t smart
this a list actor started out as the
archetypal loner kid who got good grades
but never quite fit in his academic
skills landed him at Harvard where he
wrote an early treatment of what was to
become the screenplay for the Academy
award-winning Good Will Hunting the
story of a Boston native with
genius-level intellect is part art
imitating life as Damon has a reported
IQ of 160 as his acting career heated up
Damon left college behind before
finishing that degree since then he’s
gone on to portray many complex and
intellectually curious characters number
8 Dolph Lundgren next up also batting
with an alleged IQ of 160 is the Swedish
actor screenwriter and martial artist
Dolph Lundgren Lundgren’s ambition was
born out of a tough home life with an
abusive father that often called his son
a loser at the early age of seven
Lundgren became involved in combat
sports
and by the time he graduated high school
with all A’s he set his sights on
America
he studied Chemical Engineering in the
u.s. under several scholarships and was
awarded a master’s degree in chemical
engineering from the University of
Sydney in 1982 after being awarded a
Fulbright scholarship to MIT he left to
work for Grace Jones and their romantic
relationship led him to pursue a career
in acting
number 7 Madonna this Queen of Pop will
be one of the first to tell you that she
doesn’t often get recognized for her
smarts her chameleon-like ability to
change her image and her dynamic
performances keep attention on her body
but this singer also sports a brain with
a reported IQ of 140 in other words it’s
not just her knack for controversy
that’s helped her craft one of the most
successful careers in music while the
Internet continues to debate whether her
menses status is real or not it’s clear
that the Material Girl has a lot going
on upstairs
number six Goldie Hawn Goldie Hawn is
known for playing the iconic dumb blonde
but she is anything but starting her
career as a ballet and go-go dancer her
upbeat attitude and bikini body got her
typecast as a ditzy girl but by the time
she made it to her first major film role
in the late 1960s she was an
oscar-winning actress with a reported IQ
in the 140s Hahn found it frustrating to
play the same dumb down characters and
used her white-hot career to take on
more serious roles her commitment to
education was solidified in 2003 when
she opened the Hawn Foundation a
nonprofit that offers youth programs in
the hopes of improving their academic
performance number 5 Nolan Gould this
card-carrying Mensa member showed signs
early on that he was advanced for his
age Nolan Gould famously graduated high
school at the age of 13 and started
college at 14 all while sporting an IQ
of 150 fans of his character on Modern
Family are often surprised to find the
actor so much more intelligent than his
alter ego Luke in addition to acting he
excels at music playing the double bass
and the banjo Gould has always had big
plans for his future saying at age 11
that he hoped to build a company that
mass-produced hotels restaurants and
theme parks
number four Quentin Tarantino this
acclaimed filmmaker is famously a high
school dropout who worked at a porn
theater and put himself through acting
classes but once he started writing and
directing hit films like from dusk till
dawn and pulp fiction in the 90s his
reported 160 IQ genius became more
noticeable his dialogue heavy scenes and
clever satirical style have helped him
to become what one critic calls quote
the single most influential director of
his generation Tarantino’s highly
developed knowledge of film is
self-taught and he writes his films like
pieces of literature as a result a 2013
film magazine survey found that
Tarantino was the most cited director in
the UK for film essays and dissertations
number three Geena Davis some women get
beauty and brains and Geena Davis is one
of those women this former model turned
actress excels in the arts playing
multiple musical instruments and is also
fluent in Swedish she even tried out for
the US Olympic archery team in 1999
placing 24th out of 300 women after
having learned the sport two years prior
the award-winning actress with an IQ of
140 is featured as a prominent mention
on their website in 2007 Davis opened
the Geena Davis Institute on gender in
media the Institute has one of the
largest repositories on gender and media
as it’s been a collaborator in several
important research projects number 2
Steve Martin an accomplished banjo
player makes our list here funny man
Steve Martin is seriously smart
apparently clocking in with an IQ of 142
while attending college in California
Martin started acting and performing
comedy routines for fun but his studies
in philosophy had him seriously
considering leaving it all behind to be
a professor instead ironically it was
his philosophical background that got
him to see comedy from a whole new
perspective after changing his major to
theater he eventually dropped out at 21
to work the nightclub circuit in LA two
years later
Martin won his first Emmy for comedy
writing something he would continue to
excel at throughout his career before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions
number one Ashton Kutcher inspired to
find a cure for his brothers heart
problem Ashton Kutcher enrolled in
college with the intention of majoring
in biochemical engineering while at
school
Kutcher got scouted by a modeling agent
he dropped out of school and
subsequently turned his successful
modeling career into a successful acting
career he found stardom playing Michael
Kelso on that 70 show and Punk’d us all
into believing that he was the airhead
that he played in real life Kutcher is
wicked smart he has a reported IQ of 160
and is heavily involved in venture
capital investment and tech outside of
his acting career he’s no dummy he just
plays one on TV do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe
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the Hollywood food chain some people
just have it all welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 famous
people smart enough to be in Mensa
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at celebrities
who have high marks in the IQ Department
we can’t officially claim that they are
Mensa certified since this info isn’t
officially released for celebrities but
we’re still confident that these entries
would be capable of getting an invite
number 10 Shakira this colombians hips
don’t lie and neither does their high IQ
with a reported rating of 140 is it
really that surprising that this singer
and dancer is also a businesswoman and
philanthropist though she’d been active
in her native Latin America in the late
80s and early 90s it was only at the
turn of the new millennium that she
broke into the English language market
but signs of her intelligence began
showing way earlier than that
Shakira wrote her first song when she
was 8 and released her debut full-length
a mere 5 years later
talent beauty and brains Shakira’s got a
tall number 9
Matt Damon who says actors aren’t smart
this a list actor started out as the
archetypal loner kid who got good grades
but never quite fit in his academic
skills landed him at Harvard where he
wrote an early treatment of what was to
become the screenplay for the Academy
award-winning Good Will Hunting the
story of a Boston native with
genius-level intellect is part art
imitating life as Damon has a reported
IQ of 160 as his acting career heated up
Damon left college behind before
finishing that degree since then he’s
gone on to portray many complex and
intellectually curious characters number
8 Dolph Lundgren next up also batting
with an alleged IQ of 160 is the Swedish
actor screenwriter and martial artist
Dolph Lundgren Lundgren’s ambition was
born out of a tough home life with an
abusive father that often called his son
a loser at the early age of seven
Lundgren became involved in combat
sports
and by the time he graduated high school
with all A’s he set his sights on
America
he studied Chemical Engineering in the
u.s. under several scholarships and was
awarded a master’s degree in chemical
engineering from the University of
Sydney in 1982 after being awarded a
Fulbright scholarship to MIT he left to
work for Grace Jones and their romantic
relationship led him to pursue a career
in acting
number 7 Madonna this Queen of Pop will
be one of the first to tell you that she
doesn’t often get recognized for her
smarts her chameleon-like ability to
change her image and her dynamic
performances keep attention on her body
but this singer also sports a brain with
a reported IQ of 140 in other words it’s
not just her knack for controversy
that’s helped her craft one of the most
successful careers in music while the
Internet continues to debate whether her
menses status is real or not it’s clear
that the Material Girl has a lot going
on upstairs
number six Goldie Hawn Goldie Hawn is
known for playing the iconic dumb blonde
but she is anything but starting her
career as a ballet and go-go dancer her
upbeat attitude and bikini body got her
typecast as a ditzy girl but by the time
she made it to her first major film role
in the late 1960s she was an
oscar-winning actress with a reported IQ
in the 140s Hahn found it frustrating to
play the same dumb down characters and
used her white-hot career to take on
more serious roles her commitment to
education was solidified in 2003 when
she opened the Hawn Foundation a
nonprofit that offers youth programs in
the hopes of improving their academic
performance number 5 Nolan Gould this
card-carrying Mensa member showed signs
early on that he was advanced for his
age Nolan Gould famously graduated high
school at the age of 13 and started
college at 14 all while sporting an IQ
of 150 fans of his character on Modern
Family are often surprised to find the
actor so much more intelligent than his
alter ego Luke in addition to acting he
excels at music playing the double bass
and the banjo Gould has always had big
plans for his future saying at age 11
that he hoped to build a company that
mass-produced hotels restaurants and
theme parks
number four Quentin Tarantino this
acclaimed filmmaker is famously a high
school dropout who worked at a porn
theater and put himself through acting
classes but once he started writing and
directing hit films like from dusk till
dawn and pulp fiction in the 90s his
reported 160 IQ genius became more
noticeable his dialogue heavy scenes and
clever satirical style have helped him
to become what one critic calls quote
the single most influential director of
his generation Tarantino’s highly
developed knowledge of film is
self-taught and he writes his films like
pieces of literature as a result a 2013
film magazine survey found that
Tarantino was the most cited director in
the UK for film essays and dissertations
number three Geena Davis some women get
beauty and brains and Geena Davis is one
of those women this former model turned
actress excels in the arts playing
multiple musical instruments and is also
fluent in Swedish she even tried out for
the US Olympic archery team in 1999
placing 24th out of 300 women after
having learned the sport two years prior
the award-winning actress with an IQ of
140 is featured as a prominent mention
on their website in 2007 Davis opened
the Geena Davis Institute on gender in
media the Institute has one of the
largest repositories on gender and media
as it’s been a collaborator in several
important research projects number 2
Steve Martin an accomplished banjo
player makes our list here funny man
Steve Martin is seriously smart
apparently clocking in with an IQ of 142
while attending college in California
Martin started acting and performing
comedy routines for fun but his studies
in philosophy had him seriously
considering leaving it all behind to be
a professor instead ironically it was
his philosophical background that got
him to see comedy from a whole new
perspective after changing his major to
theater he eventually dropped out at 21
to work the nightclub circuit in LA two
years later
Martin won his first Emmy for comedy
writing something he would continue to
excel at throughout his career before we
unveil our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions
number one Ashton Kutcher inspired to
find a cure for his brothers heart
problem Ashton Kutcher enrolled in
college with the intention of majoring
in biochemical engineering while at
school
Kutcher got scouted by a modeling agent
he dropped out of school and
subsequently turned his successful
modeling career into a successful acting
career he found stardom playing Michael
Kelso on that 70 show and Punk’d us all
into believing that he was the airhead
that he played in real life Kutcher is
wicked smart he has a reported IQ of 160
and is heavily involved in venture
capital investment and tech outside of
his acting career he’s no dummy he just
plays one on TV do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe
and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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