Who was the smartest man ever?

[2gps125]

For STEM dork I would go with - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss.
For creative types - William Shakespeare.

 

[drstrangelov]

Probably Mozart. If some physicists and engineers developed means to travel the distant ends of the galaxy, they’d bring his work as evidence of the quality of human civilization.

 

[Idonotbelieveit]

John Rockefeller

 

[Knockouttibster]

Ken Jennings

 

[Midnighter]

Jesus Christ

 

[El Chimpo]

No votes for Tesla?

Edison stole them

 

[Jon Stark]

Define smartest.

 

[mushishi]

The first guy who figured out how to pimp hoes.

 

[Fatality]

Isaac Newton and it isn't even close.
Optics, Laws of Motion, Gravitational theory, Calculus, … Dude single handedly changed the game for centuries to come. It's a shame he lived three and a half centuries ago, imagine the shit an intellect like his could come up with given modern science and technology.