A Brilliant Brain

#1 Nikola Tesla

1856–1943 — Serbia/USA

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 100

He lit the world and died in the dark.

#2 Louis Pasteur

1822–1895 — France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

#3 Solomon

c. 970–931 BC — Israel

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

He asked for wisdom. He received everything.

#4 Marie Curie

1867–1934 — Poland/France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

She refused to patent the process that killed her.

#5 Blaise Pascal

1623–1662 — France

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

He built the first computer, then gave everything away.

#6 Johann Sebastian Bach

1685–1750 — Germany

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

Soli Deo Gloria.

#7 Michael Faraday

1791–1867 — England

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 90

A bookbinder's apprentice who harnessed lightning.

#8 George Washington Carver

1864–1943 — USA

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

God gave them to me. How can I sell them?

#9 Daniel

c. 620–538 BC — Babylon/Israel

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

Integrity through every empire.

#10 Jesus Christ (Jesus of Nazareth)

c. 4 BC – c. AD 30/33 — Roman Judea (modern-day Israel/Palestine)

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 90

A humble carpenter whose radical message of love, justice, and forgiveness reshaped civilization and inspired billions.

#11 Norman Borlaug

1914–2009 — USA

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 81

The Green Revolution. He saved a billion people from famine. A billion.

#12 Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)

c. 563–483 BC — India/Nepal

Brilliance: 9/10 | Stewardship: 9/10 | Index: 81

He left a palace to understand suffering.

#13 Augustine of Hippo

354–430 AD — North Africa

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

From hedonist to the most influential theologian in Western history.

#14 Johannes Kepler

1571–1630 — Germany

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

He heard the music of the spheres.

#15 Grigori Perelman

1966– — Russia

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

Proved the Poincaré conjecture. Declined the $1 million prize and the Fields Medal.

#16 Socrates

469–399 BC — Greece

Brilliance: 10/10 | Stewardship: 8/10 | Index: 80

He knew that he knew nothing. They killed him for it.

#17 Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865 — USA

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

Self-educated. Preserved the Union. Freed the enslaved. Assassinated.

#18 William Wilberforce

1759–1833 — England

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

46 years. One cause. He won.

#19 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

1906–1945 — Germany

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

He could have stayed safe. He went back.

#20 Booker T. Washington

1856–1915 — USA

Brilliance: 8/10 | Stewardship: 10/10 | Index: 80

He built a university from a church and a shanty.

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