I'm just very curious to see if any of you have preferences about which widely considered genius you most admire. I'm going to try and post the main '15' or the most likely to choose 15...I bet i miss out an obvious one and look stupid! As their are only 15 options. If you do put other, just say.
Others to consider:
Imhotep
Confucius
Solon
Tales
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Euclid
Eratosthenes
Hypathia
Diophantus
avicenna
Brahmagupta
Aryabhata
Copernicus
Galileo
Kepler
Descartes
Pascal
Leibniz
Bach
Swedenborg
Kant
Hegel
Gauss
Hugo
Darwin
Marx
Dostoyevsky
Freud
Planck
Alan Turning
Stephen Hawking
Edit 1: MORE
John Stuart Mill
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Maria Curie Maria
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Simone de Beauvoir
Srinivasa Ramanujan
! William James Sidis ~ Bit of a big one in terms of pure intelligence at a young age. Didn't exactly achieve a great deal for his intellectual capabilities though.
René Descartes
Madame De Stael
Linus Carl Pauling
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Thomas Chatterton
Olof Palme
Rembrandt van Rijn
Anna Lindh
George Sand (Aurore Dupin)
Edit 2:: MORE
~Renaissance.. Think - Brunelleschi, Raphael, Titian, Donatello, blah blah. Can't be bothered to list them.
Edit 3::: MORE
That genius Guy
- i.e. either -
Lawrence G. Roberts
Leonard Kleinrock
Robert Kahn
Vinton Cerf.
Give me some options to add more!