There is no precise way to measure intelligence. Further people have different abilities and different areas of "smartness". Finally achievement is only indirectly related to intelligence. People who achieve great things may do so with hard work and single-minded focus more than with raw intelligence. There are a number of people who were very bright and did fine work such as Leonardo da vinci, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Stuart Mill, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and others.
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I was under the impression that William James Sidis had the highest IQ ever tested. Upwards of 300.
Impossible to say. There are over 7 billion people in the world and we do not know how smart they all are
the smaryest man was albert einstein
Iron Man and Bat Man have never fought each other in the comics though Batman is universally hailed as the smartest man in D.C. Comics.
There is no doubt that he is one of the most brilliant scientists ever, but his fame in popular culture is not necessarily an indication that he is the smartest man on earth. There are many scientists and people from other fields who are astonishingly smart, and possibly much smarter than Hawking, it's just that for whatever reason they are not widely known or celebrated.
Accounting for inflation John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in history. In 1916 he was worth $1 billion which now would be equated to $329.9 billion.
Albert Einsteins I think