User blog comment:Mar-Vell2/Lunella Lafayette Is The Smartest Person In The Marvel Universe??/@comment-16461120-20160803193017/@comment-16461120-20160904130758

My apologies, I’d been meaning to reply to this, but took forever to get back on the subject. Beginning in 2005 as a baseline, and mentioning that it was specifically men, not women, that the Intelligencia complied a list of, we have:

1.) Reed Richards was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and was considered by the others to be one of the absolute most intelligent.

2.) Victor von Doom was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and is said to rival the smartest; however, we’ll go with "smart enough to not put on a mask of molten metal before it cools" as the tiebreaker.

3.) Henry Pym was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and was confirmed as third in Mighty Avengers.

4.) Bruce Banner was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and was confirmed as fourth in Dark Reign: The List - Hulk #1.

5.) Anthony Stark was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and was confirmed as fifth in Iron Man: The Legend #1.

6.) Henry McCoy was noted as one of the eight smartest during the Intelligencia story arc, but no exact position was given; however, by process of elimination, he was sixth.

7.) Amadeus Cho was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and was well established as seventh.

8.) T'Challa was noted as one of the eight smartest men during the Intelligencia arc and admitted to Peter Parker he was eighth.

9.) Otto Octavius was stated to be above the Intelligencia in intellect; however, rejected their offer to join and was not one of the eight smartest men, therefore, by default he was ninth.

10.) Samuel Sterns was noted during the Intelligencia arc to be the smartest member of the group not determined to be one of the eight smartest men, which by default made him tenth.

11.) George Tarleton was noted during the Intelligencia arc to be second only to Samuel Sterns in the group, which would have placed him eleventh.

12, 13, & 14.) Bentley Wittman, Ivan Kragoff, and the Mad Thinker were noted during the Intelligencia arc to be next in line; however, no further rankings were given, thus making them twelfth through fourteenth. --- Now from there, we have Mr. Fantastic off planet; Hank Pym at the very least off planet, though potentially deceased; Bruce Banner deceased; Otto Octavius believed deceased; and Ivan Kragoff deceased; which would make the current list, of men who are alive and on Earth, something like:
 * 1) 1 – The Maker
 * 2) 2 – Victor von Doom
 * 3) 3 – Anthony Stark
 * 4) 4 – Henry McCoy
 * 5) 5 – Amadeus Cho
 * 6) 6 – T'Challa
 * 7) 7 – Samuel Sterns
 * 8) 8 – George Tarleton
 * 9) 9 & #10 – Bentley Wittman and/or Mad Thinker