Raven (Scott Levy)
Entertainment
American professional wrestler, actor and podcaster (ring name: "Raven"). He is best known for his appearances with professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NWA Total Nonstop Action (TNA).
Jodie Foster
Entertainment
American actress and filmmaker. Foster started her career as a child actor before establishing herself as a leading actress in film. As a performer, she is known for her versatility. She has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Honorary Palme d'Or.
Gal Gadot
Entertainment
Israeli actress. She gained recognition for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe films (2016–2023). In 2018, Gadot was named one of Time's 100 most influential people and ranked by Forbes as the tenth-highest-paid actress, later rising to third in 2020. She became the first Israeli actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2025.
James Woods
Entertainment
American actor. He has won numerous three Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Noted film roles include Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Chaplin (1992), Casino (1995), Contact (1997) andThe Virgin Suicides (1999) among other films.
Geena Davis
Entertainment
American actor. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Noted film roles: Tootsie (1982), The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice and The Accidental Tourist (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), and A League of Their Own (1992) among other films.
Emma Dumont
Entertainment
American actor, model, and dancer. Noted roles: Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series Bunheads, Emma Karn in the NBC series Aquarius, Lorna Dane/Polaris in the FOX series The Gifted, and Jackie Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan biographical thriller Oppenheimer (2023).
Nolan Gould
Entertainment
American actor. He is known for his role as Luke Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020).
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
She has published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
Jean M. Auel
Author
American author of The Clan of the Cave Bear, first in the series of her Earth's Children books - a series of novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores human activities during this time, and touches on the interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. Her books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Author
Italian-Australian author, journalist and singer-songwriter based in England. She is best known for her memoir The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, and her memoir/maternal feminist polemics Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution and Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine.
Richard Lederer
Author
American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. His weekly column Lederer on Language appears in the San Diego Union-Tribune, and his articles are in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States including the Mensa Bulletin.
Lucy Irvine
Author
She is known for spending a year on the uninhabited island of Tuin and for her book, Castaway (1983), describing the experience.
Marilyn vos Savant
Mensa
American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written Ask Marilyn, a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall Problem in 1990.
Kyle Devin Hamilton
Sports
American professional football safety for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, earning consensus All-American honors in 2021 before being selected by the Ravens in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft.
Erik Kuselias
Broadcast Personality
TV/Radio personality and host who currently works for CBS Sports, where he hosts Sportsline and CBS Sports HQ. Kuselias is known for his high intellect, attempts at pop culture humor and fast-paced energetic hosting style. He is one of the nation's leading experts on fantasy football and sports wagering. Born, and currently resides, in Hamden CT.
Gert Mittring
"Mental Calculator"
German mental calculator, inspired by the late Wim Klein. He has competed in the MSO mental calculation event every year since 2004, failing to win the gold medal outright on only four occasions. He has held numerous world records for mental calculation, such as calculating the 89247th root of a 1000000 digit number. He has doctorates in statistics and mathematics education, and is a member of the Intelligence Research Committee of Intertel.
Cícero Moraes
3D Reconstructionist
Brazilian 3D designer and researcher who has digitally reconstructed the faces of some historical figures. Moraes' best-known work is the facial reconstruction of St. Anthony of Padua, performed in partnership with the Centro Studi Antoniani (which works inside the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua), the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Padua, the Technology Center Renato Archer and the archaeological research group Arc-Team
Markus Persson
Tech
Known by the pseudonym "Notch," Persson is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game development company Mojang Studios in 2009.
Radoslav Rochallyi
Artist
Born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, Rochallyi is a philosopher, contemporary painter, writer, and interdisciplinary artist known for Golden Ratio Poetry, Equation poetry
science art and mathematical art. He resides in Malta, and the Czech Republic.
Martin Cooper
Tech
American engineer known for his pioneering work in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. On April 3, 1973, Cooper placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs
Maria Shriver
Journalist
American writer. Shriver is a member of the Shriver family and Kennedy family, a former First Lady of California, and the founder of the non-profit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience".
Joseph Harris-Birtill
Mensa
He was officially welcomed into the fold at age 2 years and 182 days, earning the record for youngest Mensa member (male). It’s an achievement his incredibly proud parents, Drs Rose and David Harris-Birtill (both are 39 and work in academic fields) say that Joseph has always been advanced for his age, right from birth. Rose explained: "It soon became clear that he was an exceptional little being - he first rolled over at five weeks, said his first word at seven months, and read his first book out loud from cover to cover at one-and-three-quarter years."
Isla McNabb
Mensa
Youngest ever female Mensan (2 years, 195 days).Hailing from Crestwood, Kentucky, USA,
Isla joined the organization after scoring in the 99th percentile of intelligence for her age on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. Although she was clearly very bright, nothing seemed quite out of the ordinary until she began learning. Isla’s parents would find multi-colored toy letters by objects around the house. Next to a chair, they found the letters C-H-A-I-R and by the couch, they found the letters S-O-F-A. Even their cat Booger was found with the letters C-A-T by his side. It was at that point that they knew they should get Isla tested.
C. J. de Mooi
Polymath
Connagh Joseph "CJ" de Mooi (pronounced [də ˈmoːi]; born Andrew Paul Booth on 5 November 1969) is a British actor, writer, former professional quizzer and television personality. He first appeared on the television quiz show Eggheads in 2003, as one of the five original members of the show's eponymous team.