The Top 10 World’s Smartest People in History

6. William Shakespeare

A man of many talents he was and still is as his name has been preserved for centuries and may even last a lifetime from now too. Shakespeare is more known to laymen because of the difficult spelling of his name where most of us have had a teacher rebuking us over missing the “e”. Only later we learnt that there is much more to the legendary playwright than his misogynistic treatment of the female characters. Having written 36 plays for us, Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights that history produced. His ability to think from a different perspective is what led him to this stage.