Top 10 Smartest Celebrities

they're internationally famous faces with incredibly brilliant brains we've had an astonishing situation that's going to fight the recession the Federal Reserve has created paper money on a scale that's never been seen before in the history of mankind welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten smartest celebrities and it's a process of argument and give-and-take as to what happens for this list we've looked at any celebrity with a history of being cleverer than the average person why did the French have so many civil wars so they could win one now and again however those who've achieved fame as a direct result of their cleverness do not qualify the intelligence of today's contenders is not what their most famous for I think everybody would say oh yeah there must be a spike for World War one you know sure enough there it is like 25 million number-10 Natalie Portman a globally admired film star Natalie Portman is just as academically revered as well yes she's got an Oscar a BAFTA and two Golden Globes driven by these insecurities I decided that I was going to find something to do at Harvard that was serious and meaningful that would change the world and make it a better place but she's also a psychology graduate out of Harvard and she's fluent in Hebrew that's V I can you know sure she's a fan new cable channel oh gosh I'm at Harvard she contributed to a paper entitled frontal lobe activation during object permanence data from near-infrared spectroscopy which is hard to say let alone right I come up here sometimes and I can't sleep for I'm trying to reconcile particle data or when Darcy's driving me crazy Portman once famously said she'd rather be smart than a movie star as it turns out she's doing a seriously good job at being both when I was in Harvard I smoke weed every day I cheated every test and started all the yay I got a damn classy you got a bunch of dudes pump it right down your face and take a [ __ ] number nine Conan O'Brien snuck into the room to see what the I sneaked into the room snuck isn't a word Conan and you went to Harvard you should know that primarily known as America's longest working late-night talk show host before being a celeb interview supremo Conan O'Brien was also busy racking up intelligence at Harvard University I spent a very intense period in my senior year writing a thesis called literary progeria in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Wayne Faulkner an esteemed literature and history graduate O'Brien was president of the Harvard Lampoon comedy magazine while he studied his career as a writer was set out from an even earlier age though and anyway this is me they found this photo and that is actually me drumming getting their clothes he graduated high school as valedictorian in 1981 having won national awards for a short story of his titled to bury the living snuck past and passed part of me number eight Jodie Foster you want me to go back to my parents I mean they hate me why do you think I split the first place a film star with a thing for foreign languages Jodie Foster actually attended a French language prep school during childhood response accompany to tell you something you see that long-term solution consistently described as a gifted child she could read at the age of three and is at least competent at most major European languages in 1985 Foster graduated magna [ __ ] laude out of Yale University despite the fact that she was already a movie star by then the eighteen year old actress was taking a sabbatical from Hollywood to attend Yale University too often child stars suffer a well-documented fall from grace but for foster it was less self-inflicted scandal and much more schooling you fly back to school now little starting fine number seven Lisa Kudrow I'm sorry it's smelly cat smelly cat a surprisingly smart celeb given the role she's most famous for the real-life Lisa Kudrow is very different to her Phoebe from friends alter-ego oh no no don't stop cleansing my aura don't just leave my aura alone while Phoebe Buffay is the definition of ditzy Kudrow has a highly academic history there and you do your job Yes Doctor before starting out as an actor she worked for eight years on her father's medical staff during which time she developed particular expertise in the field of headaches and why we have them her brother is also a neurologist perhaps cleverness just comes naturally to the Kudrow's I'm sorry I can't do this I'm just an actor that's right you're not number six Rowan Atkinson an actor who's rumored to have listed his profession as engineer on his passport Rowan Atkinson can do that because he has a master's degree in electrical engineering from Oxford which is something that's almost impossible to believe considering his internationally acclaimed forays into goofball comedy most notably as silent slapstick mr. bean and chaotic secret servicemen Johnny English Johnny English I'm here to see Pegasus still no sense rushing things a frequent political commentator and activist as well as an automobile enthusiast the rev limiter good good good it turns out that beneath that famous turkey there's a marvelous mind number five James Woods I'm gonna knock this door down by coming there and shove your head up Turtles ass well known for playing the villain James Woods was anything but bad at school where are you here in that place were you the casino Nixon and Hercules actor smashed his SATs apparently even achieving a perfect 800 on the verbal portion but unlike you gods lounging about up here I regrettably have a full-time gig that you by the way so charitably bestowed on me Zeus he enrolled in a linear algebra course at UCLA while he was still in high school and eventually studied political science at MIT a lot of people thought it started way before bush it wasn't even Clinton I mean I - it's a political everyone should probably even more impressive than all of that however Woods boasts an IQ score in the 180s which is almost 50 points higher than the approximate entry level for Mensa I don't think this is for men you know in in in this kind of situation he said if it's legal number four Mayim Bialik now before this goes any further you should know that all forms of physical contact up to and including coitus are off the table she plays a neurobiologist on TV and she has a PhD in neuroscience in real life when I auditioned for the part I on my resume under miscellaneous it says PhD neuroscience cuz I didn't know where else to put it on an acting resume so I got it under miscellaneous mayim Bialik's is a role versus reality match unlike anything else in the industry when I get back I'm gonna make you some chicken soup how does that sound Jewish after gaining fame as a child star on Blossom Bialik was brought back into the public eye when she starred as super-smart Amy Farrah Fowler on the geek comedy TV series The Big Bang Theory my most recent paper on how a cooperative long-term potentiation can map memory sequences and dendritic branches made the cover of neuron just a few years before her debut on the show Bialik finished her studies gaining particular note as a specialist on obsessive of disorder in adolescence it's no wonder her on-screen brains are so believable jewelry seriously Sheldon you are the most shallow self-centered person I have ever met do you really think that another transparently manipul oh it's a tiara number three john cleese lost oh the government spent less on the Ministry of National Defense widely listed as one of the great comic geniuses of all time John Cleese was overflowing with more academic artistry as well it's did this what's wrong nas its resting look look my dad I know did pellet when I see when and I'm looking at one right now a graduate from downing College Cambridge he was instrumental in making the university's footlights Club a prime breeding ground for British comedy I mean you're allowed to be an [ __ ] right if they want a picture with you warning creatures I meant Oh wonderful I am and how can I be a wonderful issue in terms of his actual studies Cleese left with a law degree but possibly his most important achievement at Cambridge was his befriending Graham Chapman you cats you stupid bad brain yeah Kenny beside a group of other highly educated blokes the duo would go on to Penn Monty Python one of the most surreal success stories ever shown on TV love it but they don't tea enough to stay when they are y-you we are back Oh bad anti spies expense woman befell number two Dolph Lundgren the on-screen epitome of an all-action hero there are considerable brains to back up Dolph Lundgren's brawn Drago averages eighteen hundred and fifty pound but that things are the results quite obvious oh and what results are those whatever he is destroyed best known for playing Russian boxer Ivan Drago in rocky for Lundgren may look like a meathead on screen but he's actually a master of chemical engineering graduating from the University of Sydney in 1982 normally very shy and humble about his mentor stuff in his IQ which is a north of 160 by the way before that the Swedish actor had already accumulated a chemistry degree from Washington State and a degree in chemical engineering from stock homes Royal Institute of Technology Dolph Lundgren's intelligence is an international affair um well I had a scholarship to MIT in Boston and wanted to finish there and get a PhD and maybe go to Harvard or something but then I met Grace Jones you know before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions on occasion when was the last time you had one steak you know I need to know I will not be your doctor grantee we have an economic crisis which is ongoing caused by gross misconduct on Wall Street and very very poor government regulation for some reason I caught the professor's eye and he was like honey I think you have the wrong class and that made me so mad because it was really the first time in my life that I felt judged by the way that I looked so we are to a large extent responsible for exporting a rather negative view of women around the world Oh Jon Stewart Jon seda write it down Jon stop number one Brian May having earned fame and fortune as lead guitarist and queen Brian May attained an astrophysics PhD from Imperial College London in 2007 after cutting short his original studies in the mid-70s and I discovered about the formation of the earth and trilobites and the emergence of life and I was hooked forever and I used to beg to be able to be allowed to stay up and watch the sky at night since then he's co-authored twice with Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lynn taught on bang the complete history of the universe and the cosmic tourists in 2015 he was also introduced as a science team collaborator at NASA it's NASA ladies and gentlemen taking us out into the very edges of the solar system to Pluto and beyond he's a specialist in zodiacal dust although that's not what Freddie Mercury was famously referring to do you agree with our list well I went up for a couple of movies and yeah without really having planned it I was kind of a became a movie star yes which smart celeb did we skip so I get to graduate magna I get out of Harvard and then I go off and I have this wild career in comedy and ups and downs and downs and ups and all these things happen for more clever top 10s published every day be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com right I'm going to the staff room now but if I come back and catch herpes in the corridor like the headmaster did yesterday then there'll be trouble

Channel: WatchMojo.com

Views: 12,189,771

Rating: 4.7825518 out of 5

Keywords: celebrities, smartest celebrities, intelligence, celebrity, rowan atkinson, lisa kudrow, jodie foster, conan o'brien, natalie portman, dolph lundgren, john cleese, mayim bialik, brian may, jon stewart, top 10, watchmojo

Id: OwFSs_-Kd3Q

Length: 13min 48sec (828 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 27 2016