2. James Woods has one of the highest IQs in the world.
This American actor who has been nominated for 2 Academy Awards and who has won 3 Emmys, can boast about his long career in film and television. From big-screen classics like Once Upon a Time in America, to giving a voice to Hades’ in Disney’s Hercules, he’s a real star. But apart from that, Woods has one of the highest Intellectual Coefficients. It’s estimated that he holds an IQ of 180, which put him among the 10 most intelligent people on the planet in 2013, next to great minds like Stephen Hawking and chess master Garri Kasparov.