In rankings, genius rankings refers to any one of a number of means of ranking or ordering geniuses per classifications or methodologies, such as brightness (IQ), greatness, polymathy, and or influence, etc. A work-in-progress chronological ranked collection of listings of various top 20 greatest genius thinkers of all-time, are shown below: Lists The following are a work-in-progress collection of rankings, by various means, of the world’s greatest minds, ordered chronologically, with fictional names removed, each respective listing showing only the top 20 names: [1]

In rankings, genius rankings refers to any one of a number of means of ranking or ordering geniuses per classifications or methodologies, such as brightness (IQ), greatness, polymathy, and or influence, etc. A work-in-progress chronological ranked collection of listings of various top 20 greatest genius thinkers of all-time, are shown below:

Lists
The following are a work-in-progress collection of rankings, by various means, of the world’s greatest minds, ordered chronologically, with fictional names removed, each respective listing showing only the top 20 names: [1]

Aristotle citation rankings | 322BC
→ Aristotle ←
(ranked)

6 Great Men | 1850
→ Ralph Emerson ←
(chronological)

Nietzsche Uberman | 1880
→ Friedrich Nietzsche ←
(chronological)

Cattell 1000 |1894
→ James Cattell ←
(space allocation ranking)

Cox 300 | 1926
→ Catherine Cox ←
(IQ ranked)

Greatest Minds of All Time | 1950
→ Will Durant ←
(chronological)

Walberg | 1981
→ Herbert Walberg ←
(word count ranking) (Ѻ)

Walberg | 1981
→ Herbert Walberg ←
(citation ranking) (Ѻ)

Walberg | 1981
→ Herbert Walberg ←
(IQ ranking) (Ѻ)

Buzan 100 | 1994
→ Tony Buzan ←
(IQ ranked)

Cox-Buzan IQ
(combined)

20 Greatest Minds | 1996
→ Jim Glenn ←
(chronological)

Simmons Scientific 100 | 2000
→ John Simmons ←

Combined sciences | 2003
→ Charles Murray ←
Murray 20

Western philosophy | 2003
→ Charles Murray ←
Murray 20

Western literature | 2003
→ Charles Murray ←
Murray 20

Wikipedia 20 most influential | 2012
→ Cesar Hidalgo ←
(ranked)

Hildago-Cattell
(Combined)

Street poll | 2010
→ Libb Thims ←
(ranked) (Ѻ)

TheTopTens.com | 2013
(thumbs up ranking) [3]

Hmolpedia genius IQs | 2013
→ Libb Thims ←
(ranked)

Hmolpedia citation rankings | 2013
→ Libb Thims ←
(ranked)

Hildago-Cattell-Hmolpedia
(Combined)

Ranker.com greatest minds | 2014
(voted ranked)

1. Plato
2. Homer
3. Empedocles
4. Anaxagoras
5. Democritus
6. Pythagoras
7. Euripides
8. Socrates
9. Heraclitus
10. Sophocles
11. Parmenides
12. Zeno of Elea
13. Coriscus
14. Hesiod
15. Isocrates
16. Gorgias
17. Melissus
18. Leucippus
19. Xenophanes
20. Antiphon

1. Plato
2. Emanuel Swedenborg
3. Michel Montaigne
4. William Shakespeare
5. Napoleon Bonaparte
6. Johann Goethe

1. Socrates
2. Julius Caesar
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Michelangelo
5. William Shakespeare
6. Johann Goethe
7. Napoleon Bonaparte

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. William Shakespeare
3. Voltaire
4. Francis Bacon
5. Aristotle
6. Johann Goethe
7. Julius Caesar
8. Martin Luther
9. Plato
10. Napoleon III
11. Burke
12. Homer
13. Isaac Newton
14. Cicero
15. John Milton
16. Alexander the Great
17. Pitt
18. George Washington
19. Augustus
20. Wellington

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Nicolaus Copernicus
4. Thomas Aquinas
5. Francis Bacon
6. Isaac Newton
7. Voltaire
8. Immanuel Kant
9. Charles Darwin

1. Samuel Johnson
2. Martin Luther
3. Rembrandt
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Napoleon Bonaparte
6. George Washington
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Johann Goethe
9. Isaac Newton
10. Charles Dickens

1. Rene Descartes
2. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Isaac Newton
4. Gottfried Leibniz
5. Martin Luther
6. Georg Hegel
7. Immanuel Kant
8. Charles Darwin
9. Galileo Galilei
10. Leonardo da Vinci

1. Aristotle
2. Archimedes
3. Galileo Galilei
4. William Harvey
5. Rene Descartes
6. Blaise Pascal
7. Isaac Newton
8. Carl Gauss
9. Michael Faraday
10. Charles Darwin
11. Evariste Galois
12. Gregor Mendel
13. Robert Koch
14. Ivan Pavlov
15. Albert Einstein
16. Werner Heisenberg
17. John Neumann
18. Alan Turing
19. Linus Pauling
20. Stephen Hawking

1. Isaac Newton
2. Albert Einstein
3. Niels Bohr
4. Charles Darwin
5. Louis Pasteur
6. Sigmund Freud
7. Galileo Galilei
8. Antoine Lavoisier
9. Johannes Kepler
10. Nicolaus Copernicus
11. Michael Faraday
12. James Maxwell
13. Claude Bernard
14. Franz Boas
15. Werner Heisenberg
16. Linus Pauling
17. Rudolf Virchow
18. Erwin Schrodinger
19. Ernest Rutherford
20. Paul Dirac

1. Isaac Newton
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Aristotle
4. Johannes Kepler
5. Antoine Lavoisier
6. Rene Descartes
7. Christiaan Huygens
8. Pierre Laplace
9. Albert Einstein
10. Michael Faraday
11. Louis Pasteur
12. Ptolemy
13. Robert Hooke
14. Gottfried Leibniz
15. Ernest Rutherford
16. Leonhard Euler
17. Charles Darwin
18. Jacob Berzelius
19. Euclid
20. James Maxwell

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Rene Descartes
5. Georg Hegel
6. Thomas Aquinas
7. John Locke
8. David Hume
9. Augustine
10. Benedict Spinoza
11. Gottfried Leibniz
12. Socrates
13. Arthur Schopenhauer
14. George Berkeley
15. Friedrich Nietzsche
16. Thomas Hobbes
17. Bertrand Russell
18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19. Plotinus
20. Johann Fichte

1. William Shakespeare
2. Johann Goethe
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Virgil
5. Homer
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
7. Voltaire
8. Moliere
9. Lord Byron
10. Leo Tolstoy
11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. Petrarch
13. Victor Hugo
14. Friedrich Schiller
15. Giovanni Boccaccio
16. Horace
17. Euripides
18. Jean Racine
19. Walter Scott
20. Henrik Ibsen

1. Isaac Newton
2. Gandhi
3. Albert Einstein
4. Aristotle
5. Vasco da Gama
6. Leonardo da Vinci
7. Plato
8. Archimedes
9. Mao Zedong
10. William Shakespeare
11. Socrates
12. Karl Marx
13. Michelangelo
14. Nelson Mandela
15. Galileo Galilei
16. Julius Caesar
17. Joseph Stalin

1. Aristotle (4.5)
2. William Shakespeare (6.0)
3. Isaac Newton (6.5)
4. Plato (8.0)

1. Albert Einstein
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Thomas Edison
4. Isaac Newton
5. Stephen Hawking
6. Benjamin Franklin
7. Bill Gates
8. Galileo Galilei
9. Marie Curie
10. Nikola Tesla

1. Johann Goethe
2. Willard Gibbs
3. Rudolf Clausius
4. James Maxwell
5. Gilbert Lewis
6. Hermann Helmholtz
7. Isaac Newton
8. Ludwig Boltzmann
9. Sadi Carnot
10. Charles Darwin
11. Ilya Prigogine
12. Albert Einstein
13. William Thomson
14. Henry Adams
15. Max Planck
16. Claude Shannon
17. Georgi Gladyshev
18. Sigmund Freud
19. Torbern Bergman
20. John Neumann

1. Isaac Newton (7.0)

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Isaac Newton
3. Galileo Galilei
4. Aristotle
5. Albert Einstein
6. Plato
7. Nikola Tesla
8. Mozart
9. Archimedes
10. Marie Curie
11. Michelangelo
12. Charles Darwin
13. Johannes Kepler
14. Pythagoras
15. William Shakespeare
16. Nicolaus Copernicus
17. Benjamin Franklin
18. Immanuel Kant
19. Socrates
20. Stephen Hawking

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Meta-analysis The following shows the number of times a person shows up in the above 22 listings, three or more times—hyperlinks shown below link specifically to mononymous, i.e. by a single name, articles, in contrast to full name linked articles above: ● Newton (16) — Quote (exact): “I can calculate the movements of stars, but not the madness of men.” (1690) ● Goethe (12) — Quote (mindset): “I can calculate the madness of men, but not the movements of stars.” (1809) ● Aristotle (10) — Quote (view): “I can almost calculate the madness of men, and the movements of stars.” (322BC) ● Galileo (10) ● Da Vinci (9) ● Einstein (8) ● Leibniz (8) ● Plato (8) ● Shakespeare (8) ● Darwin (7) ● Descartes (6) ● Voltaire (5) ● Napoleon (5) ● Faraday (4) ● Archimedes (4) ● Socrates (4) ● Franklin (4) ● Maxwell (3) ● Tesla (3) ● Laplace (3) ● Kant (3) ● Caesar (3) ● Pascal (3) ● Michelangelo (3) ● Copernicus (3) ● Homer (3) ● Luther (3) Those with two citations include: Gibbs, Clausius, Lewis, Bacon, Pythagoras, Euclid, Euler, Spinoza, Neumann, Gauss, Marx, Hegel, Eliot [F], Curie [F], Mill, Milton, Melanchthon, Berkeley, Edison, Aquinas, Washington, Dickens, Grotius, Sarpi, and Beethoven—the red ‘F’ signifying the only two double females in the list. Note: add Simmons (2000) and Ranker votes (2014). See also ● IQ ranking methodology ● Libb Thims (genius ranking) ● 100 essential thinkers \| Philip Stokes (Ѻ) References 1. Removals: Jesus Christ (#1), Confucius (#2), and Buddha (#16), are three Aggregate non-existive religio-mythology figures removed from the list, as they were not individual “people”, per se; the first and third, i.e. Jesus and Buddha, being religio-mythology figures, derived largely as extensions from the Imhotep-constructed Heliopolis creation myth theory, the second, i.e. Confucius, being largely a Chinese proverbs attributed aggregate figure, arguably non-existive, similar to other mythological figures, such as: Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, etc. (Ѻ) 2. Human Accomplishment – Wikipedia. 3. Ten Smartest People in History – TheTopTens.com.

Meta-analysis
The following shows the number of times a person shows up in the above 22 listings, three or more times—hyperlinks shown below link specifically to mononymous, i.e. by a single name, articles, in contrast to full name linked articles above:

● Newton (16) — Quote (exact): “I can calculate the movements of stars, but not the madness of men.” (1690)
● Goethe (12) — Quote (mindset): “I can calculate the madness of men, but not the movements of stars.” (1809)
● Aristotle (10) — Quote (view): “I can almost calculate the madness of men, and the movements of stars.” (322BC)
● Galileo (10)

● Da Vinci (9)
● Einstein (8)
● Leibniz (8)
● Plato (8)
● Shakespeare (8)
● Darwin (7)
● Descartes (6)
● Voltaire (5)
● Napoleon (5)
● Faraday (4)
● Archimedes (4)
● Socrates (4)
● Franklin (4)
● Maxwell (3)
● Tesla (3)
● Laplace (3)
● Kant (3)
● Caesar (3)
● Pascal (3)
● Michelangelo (3)
● Copernicus (3)
● Homer (3)
● Luther (3)

Those with two citations include: Gibbs, Clausius, Lewis, Bacon, Pythagoras, Euclid, Euler, Spinoza, Neumann, Gauss, Marx, Hegel, Eliot [F], Curie [F], Mill, Milton, Melanchthon, Berkeley, Edison, Aquinas, Washington, Dickens, Grotius, Sarpi, and Beethoven—the red ‘F’ signifying the only two double females in the list.

Note: add Simmons (2000) and Ranker votes (2014).

See also
● IQ ranking methodology
● Libb Thims (genius ranking)
● 100 essential thinkers | Philip Stokes (Ѻ)

References
1. Removals: Jesus Christ (#1), Confucius (#2), and Buddha (#16), are three Aggregate non-existive religio-mythology figures removed from the list, as they were not individual “people”, per se; the first and third, i.e. Jesus and Buddha, being religio-mythology figures, derived largely as extensions from the Imhotep-constructed Heliopolis creation myth theory, the second, i.e. Confucius, being largely a Chinese proverbs attributed aggregate figure, arguably non-existive, similar to other mythological figures, such as: Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Lao Tzu, etc. (Ѻ)
2. Human Accomplishment – Wikipedia.
3. Ten Smartest People in History – TheTopTens.com.