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Victor Serebriakoff – author and former international president of Mensa [88] Alexander Shulgin – medicinal chemist , biochemist, and rediscoverer of MDMA (ecstasy) [ 89 ] Clive Sinclair – inventor of the Sinclair Executive pocket calculator, founder of Sinclair Research , member of British Mensa, and chairman from 1980 to 1997 [ 90 ]
Kashe Quest, the youngest member of American Mensa; [43] Adam Kirby, the youngest member of British Mensa; [44] [45] and several Australian Mensa members joined at age two. [46] Elise Tan-Roberts of the UK and Miranda Elise Margolis of the US are the youngest people ever to join Mensa, having gained full membership at the age of two years and ...
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No. of members Approx. no. of countries Eligibility / Rarity Approx. IQ Mensa International: 1946: ≈ 145,000 (as of 2022) [12] 100: Top 2 percent of population (98th percentile; 1 person out of 50) 130 Intertel: 1966: ≥ 1,700 (as of July 2024) [13] 40: Top 1 percent (99th percentile; 1 out of 100) 135 Triple Nine Society: 1978
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Mensa was founded by Berrill and Lancelot Ware at Lincoln College, Oxford, England on 1 October 1946.They originally called it the "High IQ Club". Lance Ware had the initial idea for the society, but Berrill founded Mensa in the usual sense: he supplied the start-up cash, wrote some initial idiosyncratic pamphlets and became Mensa's first Secretary.
Czyz is a member of Mensa, [9] [10] the organization for people who have scored in the highest 2% of takers in an IQ test. He even wore a shirt with "MENSA" on it while walking to the ring to fight Evander Holyfield.
Dr. Lancelot Ware in May 1999. Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE (5 June 1915 – 15 August 2000) [1] was an English barrister and biochemist.He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946.