they’re internationally famous faces
with incredibly brilliant brains we’ve
had an astonishing situation that’s
going to fight the recession the Federal
Reserve has created paper money on a
scale that’s never been seen before in
the history of mankind welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten smartest
celebrities and it’s a process of
argument and give-and-take as to what
happens for this list we’ve looked at
any celebrity with a history of being
cleverer than the average person why did
the French have so many civil wars so
they could win one now and again
however those who’ve achieved fame as a
direct result of their cleverness do not
qualify the intelligence of today’s
contenders is not what their most famous
for I think everybody would say oh yeah
there must be a spike for World War one
you know sure enough there it is like 25
million number-10 Natalie Portman
a globally admired film star Natalie
Portman is just as academically revered
as well yes she’s got an Oscar a BAFTA
and two Golden Globes driven by these
insecurities I decided that I was going
to find something to do at Harvard that
was serious and meaningful that would
change the world and make it a better
place but she’s also a psychology
graduate out of Harvard and she’s fluent
in Hebrew that’s V I can you know sure
she’s a fan new cable channel oh gosh
I’m at Harvard she contributed to a
paper entitled frontal lobe activation
during object permanence data from
near-infrared spectroscopy which is hard
to say let alone right I come up here
sometimes and I can’t sleep for I’m
trying to reconcile particle data or
when Darcy’s driving me crazy
Portman once famously said she’d rather
be smart than a movie star as it turns
out she’s doing a seriously good job at
being both when I was in Harvard I smoke
weed every day I cheated every test and
started all the yay I got a damn classy
you got a bunch of dudes pump it right
down your face and take a shit number
nine
Conan O’Brien snuck into the room to see
what the I sneaked into the room snuck
isn’t a word Conan and you went to
Harvard you should know that primarily
known as America’s longest working
late-night talk show host before being a
celeb interview supremo Conan O’Brien
was also busy racking up intelligence at
Harvard University I spent a very
intense period in my senior year writing
a thesis called literary progeria in the
works of Flannery O’Connor and Wayne
Faulkner an esteemed literature and
history graduate O’Brien was president
of the Harvard Lampoon comedy magazine
while he studied his career as a writer
was set out from an even earlier age
though and anyway this is me
they found this photo and that is
actually
me drumming getting their clothes he
graduated high school as valedictorian
in 1981 having won national awards for a
short story of his titled to bury the
living snuck past and passed part of me
number eight Jodie Foster you want me to
go back to my parents I mean they hate
me why do you think I split the first
place a film star with a thing for
foreign languages Jodie Foster actually
attended a French language prep school
during childhood response accompany to
tell you something you see that
long-term solution consistently
described as a gifted child she could
read at the age of three and is at least
competent at most major European
languages in 1985 Foster graduated magna
cum laude out of Yale University despite
the fact that she was already a movie
star by then the eighteen year old
actress was taking a sabbatical from
Hollywood to attend Yale University
too often child stars suffer a
well-documented fall from grace but for
foster it was less self-inflicted
scandal and much more schooling you fly
back to school now little starting
fine
number seven Lisa Kudrow
I’m sorry it’s smelly cat smelly cat a
surprisingly smart celeb given the role
she’s most famous for the real-life Lisa
Kudrow is very different to her Phoebe
from friends alter-ego oh no no don’t
stop cleansing my aura don’t just leave
my aura alone
while Phoebe Buffay is the definition of
ditzy Kudrow has a highly academic
history there and you do your job Yes
Doctor before starting out as an actor
she worked for eight years on her
father’s medical staff during which time
she developed particular expertise in
the field of headaches and why we have
them her brother is also a neurologist
perhaps cleverness just comes naturally
to the Kudrow’s I’m sorry I can’t do
this I’m just an actor that’s right
you’re not number six Rowan Atkinson an
actor who’s rumored to have listed his
profession as engineer on his passport
Rowan Atkinson can do that because he
has a master’s degree in electrical
engineering from Oxford which is
something that’s almost impossible to
believe considering his internationally
acclaimed forays into goofball comedy
most notably as silent slapstick mr.
bean and chaotic secret servicemen
Johnny English Johnny English I’m here
to see Pegasus still no sense rushing
things a frequent political commentator
and activist as well as an automobile
enthusiast the rev limiter good good
good it turns out that beneath that
famous turkey there’s a marvelous mind
number five James Woods I’m gonna knock
this door down by coming there and shove
your head up Turtles ass well known for
playing the villain James Woods was
anything but bad at school where are you
here in that place were you the casino
Nixon and Hercules actor smashed his
SATs apparently even achieving a perfect
800 on the verbal portion but unlike you
gods lounging about up here I
regrettably have a full-time gig that
you by the way so charitably bestowed on
me Zeus he enrolled in a linear algebra
course at UCLA while he was still in
high school and eventually studied
political science at MIT a lot of people
thought it started way before bush it
wasn’t even Clinton I mean I – it’s a
political everyone should probably even
more impressive than all of that however
Woods boasts an IQ score in the 180s
which is almost 50 points higher than
the approximate entry level for Mensa I
don’t think this is for men you know in
in in this kind of situation he said if
it’s legal number four Mayim Bialik now
before this goes any further you should
know that all forms of physical contact
up to and including coitus are off the
table she plays a neurobiologist on TV
and she has a PhD in neuroscience in
real life when I auditioned for the part
I on my resume under miscellaneous
it says PhD neuroscience cuz I didn’t
know where else to put it on an acting
resume so I got it under miscellaneous
mayim Bialik’s is a role versus reality
match unlike anything else in the
industry
when I get back I’m gonna make you some
chicken soup how does that sound
Jewish after gaining fame as a child
star on Blossom Bialik was brought back
into the public eye when she starred as
super-smart Amy Farrah Fowler on the
geek comedy TV series The Big Bang
Theory my most recent paper on how a
cooperative long-term potentiation can
map memory sequences and dendritic
branches made the cover of neuron just a
few years before her debut on the show
Bialik finished her studies gaining
particular note as a specialist on
obsessive
of disorder in adolescence it’s no
wonder her on-screen brains are so
believable jewelry seriously Sheldon you
are the most shallow self-centered
person I have ever met do you really
think that another transparently manipul
oh it’s a tiara
number three john cleese lost oh the
government spent less on the Ministry of
National Defense widely listed as one of
the great comic geniuses of all time
John Cleese was overflowing with more
academic artistry as well it’s did this
what’s wrong nas its resting look look
my dad I know did pellet when I see when
and I’m looking at one right now a
graduate from downing College Cambridge
he was instrumental in making the
university’s footlights Club a prime
breeding ground for British comedy I
mean you’re allowed to be an asshole
right if they want a picture with you
warning creatures I meant
Oh wonderful I am and how can I be a
wonderful issue in terms of his actual
studies Cleese left with a law degree
but possibly his most important
achievement at Cambridge was his
befriending Graham Chapman you cats you
stupid bad brain yeah Kenny
beside a group of other highly educated
blokes the duo would go on to Penn Monty
Python one of the most surreal success
stories ever shown on TV
love it but they don’t tea enough to
stay when they are y-you we are back Oh
bad anti spies expense woman befell
number two Dolph Lundgren
the on-screen epitome of an all-action
hero there are considerable brains to
back up Dolph Lundgren’s brawn Drago
averages eighteen hundred and fifty
pound but that things are the results
quite obvious oh and what results are
those whatever he is destroyed best
known for playing Russian boxer Ivan
Drago in rocky for Lundgren may look
like a meathead on screen but he’s
actually a master of chemical
engineering graduating from the
University of Sydney in 1982 normally
very shy and humble about his mentor
stuff in his IQ which is a north of 160
by the way before that the Swedish actor
had already accumulated a chemistry
degree from Washington State and a
degree in chemical engineering from
stock homes Royal Institute of
Technology Dolph Lundgren’s intelligence
is an international affair um well I had
a scholarship to MIT in Boston and
wanted to finish there and get a PhD and
maybe go to Harvard or something but
then I met Grace Jones you know before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some honorable mentions on occasion when
was the last time you had one steak you
know
I need to know I will not be your doctor
grantee we have an economic crisis which
is ongoing caused by gross misconduct on
Wall Street and very very poor
government regulation for some reason I
caught the professor’s eye and he was
like honey I think you have the wrong
class and that made me so mad because it
was really the first time in my life
that I felt judged by the way that I
looked so we are to a large extent
responsible for exporting a rather
negative view of women around the world
Oh Jon Stewart Jon seda write it down
Jon stop number one Brian May
having earned fame and fortune as lead
guitarist and queen Brian May attained
an astrophysics PhD from Imperial
College London in 2007 after cutting
short his original studies in the
mid-70s and I discovered about the
formation of the earth and trilobites
and the emergence of life and I was
hooked forever and I used to beg to be
able to be allowed to stay up and watch
the sky at night since then he’s
co-authored twice with Sir Patrick Moore
and Chris Lynn taught on bang the
complete history of the universe and the
cosmic tourists in 2015 he was also
introduced as a science team
collaborator at NASA it’s NASA
ladies and gentlemen taking us out into
the very edges of the solar system to
Pluto and beyond he’s a specialist in
zodiacal dust although that’s not what
Freddie Mercury was famously referring
to do you agree with our list well I
went up for a couple of movies and yeah
without really having planned it I was
kind of a became a movie star yes which
smart celeb did we skip so I get to
graduate magna I get out of Harvard and
then I go off and I have this wild
career in comedy and ups and downs and
downs and ups and all these things
happen for more clever top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com right I’m going to the
staff room now but if I come back and
catch herpes in the corridor like the
headmaster did yesterday
then there’ll be trouble
with incredibly brilliant brains we’ve
had an astonishing situation that’s
going to fight the recession the Federal
Reserve has created paper money on a
scale that’s never been seen before in
the history of mankind welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten smartest
celebrities and it’s a process of
argument and give-and-take as to what
happens for this list we’ve looked at
any celebrity with a history of being
cleverer than the average person why did
the French have so many civil wars so
they could win one now and again
however those who’ve achieved fame as a
direct result of their cleverness do not
qualify the intelligence of today’s
contenders is not what their most famous
for I think everybody would say oh yeah
there must be a spike for World War one
you know sure enough there it is like 25
million number-10 Natalie Portman
a globally admired film star Natalie
Portman is just as academically revered
as well yes she’s got an Oscar a BAFTA
and two Golden Globes driven by these
insecurities I decided that I was going
to find something to do at Harvard that
was serious and meaningful that would
change the world and make it a better
place but she’s also a psychology
graduate out of Harvard and she’s fluent
in Hebrew that’s V I can you know sure
she’s a fan new cable channel oh gosh
I’m at Harvard she contributed to a
paper entitled frontal lobe activation
during object permanence data from
near-infrared spectroscopy which is hard
to say let alone right I come up here
sometimes and I can’t sleep for I’m
trying to reconcile particle data or
when Darcy’s driving me crazy
Portman once famously said she’d rather
be smart than a movie star as it turns
out she’s doing a seriously good job at
being both when I was in Harvard I smoke
weed every day I cheated every test and
started all the yay I got a damn classy
you got a bunch of dudes pump it right
down your face and take a shit number
nine
Conan O’Brien snuck into the room to see
what the I sneaked into the room snuck
isn’t a word Conan and you went to
Harvard you should know that primarily
known as America’s longest working
late-night talk show host before being a
celeb interview supremo Conan O’Brien
was also busy racking up intelligence at
Harvard University I spent a very
intense period in my senior year writing
a thesis called literary progeria in the
works of Flannery O’Connor and Wayne
Faulkner an esteemed literature and
history graduate O’Brien was president
of the Harvard Lampoon comedy magazine
while he studied his career as a writer
was set out from an even earlier age
though and anyway this is me
they found this photo and that is
actually
me drumming getting their clothes he
graduated high school as valedictorian
in 1981 having won national awards for a
short story of his titled to bury the
living snuck past and passed part of me
number eight Jodie Foster you want me to
go back to my parents I mean they hate
me why do you think I split the first
place a film star with a thing for
foreign languages Jodie Foster actually
attended a French language prep school
during childhood response accompany to
tell you something you see that
long-term solution consistently
described as a gifted child she could
read at the age of three and is at least
competent at most major European
languages in 1985 Foster graduated magna
cum laude out of Yale University despite
the fact that she was already a movie
star by then the eighteen year old
actress was taking a sabbatical from
Hollywood to attend Yale University
too often child stars suffer a
well-documented fall from grace but for
foster it was less self-inflicted
scandal and much more schooling you fly
back to school now little starting
fine
number seven Lisa Kudrow
I’m sorry it’s smelly cat smelly cat a
surprisingly smart celeb given the role
she’s most famous for the real-life Lisa
Kudrow is very different to her Phoebe
from friends alter-ego oh no no don’t
stop cleansing my aura don’t just leave
my aura alone
while Phoebe Buffay is the definition of
ditzy Kudrow has a highly academic
history there and you do your job Yes
Doctor before starting out as an actor
she worked for eight years on her
father’s medical staff during which time
she developed particular expertise in
the field of headaches and why we have
them her brother is also a neurologist
perhaps cleverness just comes naturally
to the Kudrow’s I’m sorry I can’t do
this I’m just an actor that’s right
you’re not number six Rowan Atkinson an
actor who’s rumored to have listed his
profession as engineer on his passport
Rowan Atkinson can do that because he
has a master’s degree in electrical
engineering from Oxford which is
something that’s almost impossible to
believe considering his internationally
acclaimed forays into goofball comedy
most notably as silent slapstick mr.
bean and chaotic secret servicemen
Johnny English Johnny English I’m here
to see Pegasus still no sense rushing
things a frequent political commentator
and activist as well as an automobile
enthusiast the rev limiter good good
good it turns out that beneath that
famous turkey there’s a marvelous mind
number five James Woods I’m gonna knock
this door down by coming there and shove
your head up Turtles ass well known for
playing the villain James Woods was
anything but bad at school where are you
here in that place were you the casino
Nixon and Hercules actor smashed his
SATs apparently even achieving a perfect
800 on the verbal portion but unlike you
gods lounging about up here I
regrettably have a full-time gig that
you by the way so charitably bestowed on
me Zeus he enrolled in a linear algebra
course at UCLA while he was still in
high school and eventually studied
political science at MIT a lot of people
thought it started way before bush it
wasn’t even Clinton I mean I – it’s a
political everyone should probably even
more impressive than all of that however
Woods boasts an IQ score in the 180s
which is almost 50 points higher than
the approximate entry level for Mensa I
don’t think this is for men you know in
in in this kind of situation he said if
it’s legal number four Mayim Bialik now
before this goes any further you should
know that all forms of physical contact
up to and including coitus are off the
table she plays a neurobiologist on TV
and she has a PhD in neuroscience in
real life when I auditioned for the part
I on my resume under miscellaneous
it says PhD neuroscience cuz I didn’t
know where else to put it on an acting
resume so I got it under miscellaneous
mayim Bialik’s is a role versus reality
match unlike anything else in the
industry
when I get back I’m gonna make you some
chicken soup how does that sound
Jewish after gaining fame as a child
star on Blossom Bialik was brought back
into the public eye when she starred as
super-smart Amy Farrah Fowler on the
geek comedy TV series The Big Bang
Theory my most recent paper on how a
cooperative long-term potentiation can
map memory sequences and dendritic
branches made the cover of neuron just a
few years before her debut on the show
Bialik finished her studies gaining
particular note as a specialist on
obsessive
of disorder in adolescence it’s no
wonder her on-screen brains are so
believable jewelry seriously Sheldon you
are the most shallow self-centered
person I have ever met do you really
think that another transparently manipul
oh it’s a tiara
number three john cleese lost oh the
government spent less on the Ministry of
National Defense widely listed as one of
the great comic geniuses of all time
John Cleese was overflowing with more
academic artistry as well it’s did this
what’s wrong nas its resting look look
my dad I know did pellet when I see when
and I’m looking at one right now a
graduate from downing College Cambridge
he was instrumental in making the
university’s footlights Club a prime
breeding ground for British comedy I
mean you’re allowed to be an asshole
right if they want a picture with you
warning creatures I meant
Oh wonderful I am and how can I be a
wonderful issue in terms of his actual
studies Cleese left with a law degree
but possibly his most important
achievement at Cambridge was his
befriending Graham Chapman you cats you
stupid bad brain yeah Kenny
beside a group of other highly educated
blokes the duo would go on to Penn Monty
Python one of the most surreal success
stories ever shown on TV
love it but they don’t tea enough to
stay when they are y-you we are back Oh
bad anti spies expense woman befell
number two Dolph Lundgren
the on-screen epitome of an all-action
hero there are considerable brains to
back up Dolph Lundgren’s brawn Drago
averages eighteen hundred and fifty
pound but that things are the results
quite obvious oh and what results are
those whatever he is destroyed best
known for playing Russian boxer Ivan
Drago in rocky for Lundgren may look
like a meathead on screen but he’s
actually a master of chemical
engineering graduating from the
University of Sydney in 1982 normally
very shy and humble about his mentor
stuff in his IQ which is a north of 160
by the way before that the Swedish actor
had already accumulated a chemistry
degree from Washington State and a
degree in chemical engineering from
stock homes Royal Institute of
Technology Dolph Lundgren’s intelligence
is an international affair um well I had
a scholarship to MIT in Boston and
wanted to finish there and get a PhD and
maybe go to Harvard or something but
then I met Grace Jones you know before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some honorable mentions on occasion when
was the last time you had one steak you
know
I need to know I will not be your doctor
grantee we have an economic crisis which
is ongoing caused by gross misconduct on
Wall Street and very very poor
government regulation for some reason I
caught the professor’s eye and he was
like honey I think you have the wrong
class and that made me so mad because it
was really the first time in my life
that I felt judged by the way that I
looked so we are to a large extent
responsible for exporting a rather
negative view of women around the world
Oh Jon Stewart Jon seda write it down
Jon stop number one Brian May
having earned fame and fortune as lead
guitarist and queen Brian May attained
an astrophysics PhD from Imperial
College London in 2007 after cutting
short his original studies in the
mid-70s and I discovered about the
formation of the earth and trilobites
and the emergence of life and I was
hooked forever and I used to beg to be
able to be allowed to stay up and watch
the sky at night since then he’s
co-authored twice with Sir Patrick Moore
and Chris Lynn taught on bang the
complete history of the universe and the
cosmic tourists in 2015 he was also
introduced as a science team
collaborator at NASA it’s NASA
ladies and gentlemen taking us out into
the very edges of the solar system to
Pluto and beyond he’s a specialist in
zodiacal dust although that’s not what
Freddie Mercury was famously referring
to do you agree with our list well I
went up for a couple of movies and yeah
without really having planned it I was
kind of a became a movie star yes which
smart celeb did we skip so I get to
graduate magna I get out of Harvard and
then I go off and I have this wild
career in comedy and ups and downs and
downs and ups and all these things
happen for more clever top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com right I’m going to the
staff room now but if I come back and
catch herpes in the corridor like the
headmaster did yesterday
then there’ll be trouble
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