Top Ten Smartest Celebrities

This list should only include actors, singers, reality stars, authors, athletes, comedians, hosts, interviewers, and people like that, rather than scientists, business people, or political figures.
The Top Ten
1 Brian May Brian Harold May is an English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen.

Jackie Evancho fans vote blindly on every list that exists. Singing songs in different languages doesn't make a person smart but a person who is an astrophysicist is extremely smart with a very high degree of intelligence. Not only does he have a PhD in that field but he's also a BRILLIANT musician. Long live DR BRIAN MAY!

Reasons Brian was amazing:

-best hair in the music business
-loves animals (who doesn't)
-smart
-I also think his work with one of the greatest bands of all time deserves a mention!

What a load of crock about Jackie Evancho! You don't have to be smart to sing, and there are plenty of other singers who have a better voice than hers. Obsessed, delusional stans.

Brian studied astronomy but decided to take three decades off to be a rock star before going back to academia. He finnished his doctoral thesis in 2007 :-)

2 K.S. Chithra Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala. Chithra also sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music.

I have seen many live performances, and in the moment, most performances are amazing. But Chithra haunts the mind and the emotions for days and weeks afterwards. She has something unique. She is the best.

She speaks so many different languages, and has a great academic record. she knows what she's doing and she's old enough to handle popularity, unlike so many stars that have crashed and burned before her. Really smart. She sings very clever notes in her songs, and the singles she put out, in the order she put them out, was brilliant, and very instrumental in her becoming the famous singer she is now

From her young age she learned the basics in music from her father, late Krishnan Nair who was a singer and composer of repute. The gifted singer learned music at the graduate and post-graduate levels and completed her B A in music with the third rank from the university. She went on to complete her MA in music from Kerala University

3 Jackie Evancho Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age. Since 2009, she has issued an EP and eight albums, including a platinum and gold album, and three Billboard 200 top 10 debuts. Evancho's latest album 'The Debut', was her eighth consecutive ...read more.

Jackie Evancho should head this list. How many other kids do you know that could memorize and sing any song in Italian, Latin, or French when she does not even speak those languages. She has been doing this since she was at lest 7 years old. Watch her on YouTube when she was on a talent show in MA at 9 years of age. She moved the female host to tears. So much so that the show had to stop taping for 10 minutes so the host could recover.

What an insult to all the other highly intelligent celebrities! Memorizing lyrics in languages other than English is no big deal. She's definitely not the first person who has done it and she certainly won't be the last.
Furthermore, if Jackie Evancho is a celebrity in the US, so be it but she's certainly not a celebrity around the world. In fact, probably only a few people have ever heard of her. Her fans are delusional!

Being bilingual doesn't make you smart. I go to a high school where half the kids there are bilingual, and for some, English is actually their second language. If you're ranking a bilingual singer above people that dedicated their whole lives into studying the mysteries of the universe, developed theories with amazing proof, and have been 100% accepted by the public, you have a problem.

Really why is she number 1 who cares if "she's smart for her age" this list isn't about that its about the smartest celebrities period there are so many celebrities who are far more intelligent than Jackie Evancho.Honestly can she not be first in for once at least like shes shouldn't be first in like everyother list ESPECIALLY ONES THAT SHE doesn't DESERVE TO BE LIKE THIS LIST!

4 Shakira Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian-Spanish singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, choreographer, and model.

She's certainly smarter than Jackie Evancho. Too bad the people on this site worship Jackie and can't accept that she isn't the best at everything...

She is amazing! I love her always have, always will! She is so smart, and kind she should be at the top! She is truly my favorite!

She speaks so many different languages, and has a great academic record.

5 John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He was assassinated by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980 at age 40. Lennon was characterised by the rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing and drawings, on film, and in interviews. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.

He was an arrogant, self centered, hypocritical, drug addict. His singing voice and guitar playing were mediocre at best. He would sing about money being evil, peace and love, and then get into his Rolls Royce and go physically and emotionally abuse his wife and kids.
Great role model.

More witty by far than anyone on this list. He also along with the beatles invented his own genre of music. Every one above him is just popular at the moment and everyone decides that they are smart cause they can write there own songs, sad...

He's smarter than Madonna! Come on Madonna is an idiot. Her music sucks! Beatles are AWESOME and his music can range from rock n roll, to INSANE, to beautiful but Madonna. I almost had a heart attack when I saw it on this list... oh my gosh people... just terrible... ugh.

He had the depth and sheer brilliance like no other. He was a poet, a lyricist, a brilliant melody writer and as witty, profound and deep as they come. Brilliant and so so missed.

6 Natalie Portman Natalie Portman is an actress, film producer and film director with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Portman is best known for her roles as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and Nina Sayers in Black Swan. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among other accolades, for her performance in the latter.

She has co-written 2 scientific papers, and went to Harvard.
I know you're probably thinking it's only because she is famous, but she graduated from Harvard before her fame.

Pretty and smart, just like me!

Oh sorry... I thought today was Opposite Day...

She actually graduated from Harvard! She speaks fluent Hebrew,which is really hard to learn.

She graduated from HARVARD! Plus she knows seven foreign languages, and her IQ is higher than Barrack Oboma.

7 Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biopics and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors. ...read more.

He's a genius,truly.acting requires living the character,living the character requires real intelligence.I say that because I've always thought creativity is pure intelligence.He,tom hanks,samuel L.jackson,Christian bale,russel crowe and many other actors and actresses who may be better than these I mentioned.By the way,I'm Egyptian and Egypt is a BAD country but many Egyptians aren't that bad,guys.

I watched Leo's environmental documentary about & he is very good with dealing with the environment problems. He knew what he was doing & what he was saying, which was very wise of Leo.

He is the greatest actor the world has ever seen
Love you Leo

His passionate for the environment!

8 Dolph Lundgren Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, screenwriter, producer, martial artist, and chemical engineer.

Dolph is a legendary master of many fields, aside from maybe Bruce Dickinson no other celeb has come close to his performance in so many aspects. Well before he began acting and directing, Dolph Lundgren was an accomplished, published and respected chemical engineer with an international background, having commenced his training in Sweden before earning a Master's in Australia and winning a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. It was there that Dolph learned the ropes and won the role of the Russian boxer in Rocky, to become one of the best and most popular action stars of recent years- in a foreign country where he moved as an adult, no easy feat. This alone would probably qualify him as the smartest celeb or whatever other title is used, but there's more. He speaks a host of foreign languages that he had to learn, not that he grew up speaking, served in the Swedish military in probably its toughest subdivision and became an accomplished musician. There's even more smartest celebrity fodder ...more

He is great at acting and is very intellectual I read he went to a really high quality university

Ivan Drago, that's all I have to say.

9 Alex Trebek

He's been the host of Jeopardy since 1984. Enough said.

10 Bruce Dickinson Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster. He is most well known for being the lead singer in heavy metal band Iron Maiden and his solo career.Outside his career in music, Dickinson has pursued a number of other activities. He undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, Cardiff Aviation, in 2012. Dickinson presented his own radio show ...read more.

Lead singer of Iron Maiden, songwriter, published author, world class fencer, airline pilot, businessman, invented technology for the rail industry incorporated worldwide, economics and politics aficionado. A living 5 string Polymath. A true genius.

Anyone can learn multiple languages. Before the 1900's, many, if not most, were bilingual, and in the Roman Empire, being tri(+)lingual was common.

This guy is really smart and talented. His achievements prove it. Also a great personality, down to earth.

To call Dickinson a celebrity is stupid. He's an artist, not a vain Hollywood superstar.

The Contenders
11 Sharon Stone Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, producer and former fashion model. She is the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as having received nominations for an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

I didn't notice this glaring omission until after after I made the list. Thank you, to whoever added her.

We must be honest - her IQ is over all celebrities. We can't even compare Beyonce, Katy Perry or Jessica Simpson with her!

She is nearly a genius, I'm impressed.

12 Katy Perry Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, professionally known by her stage name Katy Perry, was born on October 25, 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. She is a singer, songwriter, actress and an ambassador on one of the most popular companies of now, UNICEF.

She is also is one of the best-selling artists of all time. She won 4 Guinness World Records, 5 MTV Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 16'ASCAP Pop Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 14 People's Choice, 1 Juno Award, 2 Myx Music Awards, 3 NRJ Awards, 6 Teen Choice and a Brit Award. ...read more.

Katy is very smart. People always use the excuse that she didn't finish high school but she actually did. She took the GED test half way through 9th grade. The material on the test includes up until 12 grade because it is all English Science history and math needed to graduate. She passed the test as a freshman. Pretty good.

Katy Perry puts very inspiring lyrics in her music. She doesn't have many dirty videos or songs at all, she haves fun with music! She is really very creative with her videos. Watch Roar, And the lyric video for birthday. The best! #gokatyperry

She writes very clever things in her songs, and the singles she put out, in the order she put them out, was brilliant, and very instrumental in her becoming the famous singer she is now.

It takes someone of a very high intelligence to have achieved as much as she has, and as a UNICEF ambassador, it comes as little surprise that Katy Perry is highly intelligent

13 Rowan Atkinson Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

Undoubtedly the smartest celebrity! Obtained master's degree in 70s and yet still able to make the world laugh until today!

Of course he's smart. Smarter than Einstein!

He has very good sense of humour!

Master of physical comedy

14 James Woods

180 IQ is highest of all celebrities. That should make him the smartest. Would make him be in around the top.00001 percentile or lower. Smarter than einstein by a good amount and probably shouldn't be in acting as h I. Snt very popular

Actually he is the smartest celebrity with an iq ranking in the top 50 in the world.

I've just heard a lot about how smart he is.

Dear god baby jesus

15 Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone, known professionally as Madonna, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She influenced a lot of singers such as: Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Beyonce Knowles and Britney Spears. She is known as Queen of Pop and at modern pop culture specifically in 2012 "Madge" or MDNA. She has 14 studio albums (Madonna, Like a Virgin, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Erotica, Bedtime Stories, Ray of Light, Music, American Life, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Hard Candy, MDNA, Rebel Heart, and Madame X), 3 soundtrack albums (Who's That Girl, I'm Breathless, and Evita), 4 compilation albums (The Immaculate Collection, Something to Remember, GHV2, and Celebration), ...read more.

Madonna is not even that smart. Every time she says a tribute about another celebrities passing, she only cares about herself. I don't like her. I'm not being negative.

Madge controls her own business; she is great songwriter, writer, not bad producer and director. Madonna is everything

Madonna is a very intelligent businesswoman and pop music icon. Her IQ is said to be 140.

I always like everything she does and more

16 Mayim Bialik Mayim Chaya Bialik is an American actress, neuroscientist, author and film director. From 1991 to 1995, she played the title character of the NBC sitcom Blossom. From 2010 to 2019, she played neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
17 Woody Allen Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) ...read more.

Think of all the Writing awards!

18 Jarvis Cocker
19 Tom Hiddleston Thomas William Hiddleston is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Thor, The Avengers, and Thor: The Dark World.

Tom Hiddleston is one of the smartest celebrities ever! He attended the same prep school as Prince Harry and Eddie Redmayne, he speaks five languages, has memorized certain passages in Shakespear's play Othello, as well as countless others. He should be #1!

A double first in Classics and he speaks five languages.

20 Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as J. Lo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author and producer.

You may hate her personality but look at this - she works very hard! J. Lo doesn't have a strong voice but she can sing and dance at the same time NON-STOP! I visited her shows. She's a wonderful entertainer. Her acting is not bad. She is a very good businesswoman

21 John Williams John Williams is an American film composer. He often collaborated with Steven Spielberg on his films.
22 Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation.
23 Demetri Martin

His humor is so much more intelligent than everything else that's passed off as comedy.

24 Michael Douglas Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. His career includes a diverse range of films in both independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades both competitive and honorary.
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