15 Most Famous Child Geniuses

#4 Robert James Fischer

Robert “Bobby” Fischer, won the World Chess Championship when he was 14, thus becoming the youngest winner of the title. In the same year, he caught the attention of the chess world known as “the Game of the Century.”

In the following year, he broke another record when he became the youngest international grandmaster of all times at the age of 15. He was known to be the highest rated player in 1972, with an FIDE rating of 2785 and later in 1992, he played a match against an old rival in Yugoslavia and violated a United Nations sanction.

For the next 12 years, Fischer ducked away from authorities until his capture in Japan in 2004 and later was released in 2005 and was granted Icelandic citizenship. All the way through his chess career, he set many records, including beating two opponents at a quarter-final and semi-final for the world championship with same scores.

#3 Jacob Barnett

Jacob Barnett started attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) at the age of eight. With an IQ of 170, higher tha albert Einstein, he can more in par for a future Nobel Peace Prize for being the 13-year old’s professor at college.

He hasn’t let Aspergers syndrome, a mild form of autism to slow him down. He’s pursueing advanced astrophysics classes and is working on expanding Einstein’s theory of relativity as well as challenging the Big Bang theory. Apart from that, he delivered a TEDxTeen talk in 2012, “Forget What You Know.”

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