10 Kim Peek <br /> <br />Kim Peek was born with severe brain damage., Kim has physical and social disabilities <br /> <br />The inspiration for Rain Man, Peek could read two pages of a book simultaneously (one with each eye) and instantly commit them to memory <br /> <br />His recall of more than 12,000 books made him a walking encyclopedia. Peek, who died in 2009, could also sum columns of numbers in the telephone book. <br /> <br /> <br />9 Stephen Wiltshire <br /> <br />London born Stephen has been the subject of many tests and observations. <br /> <br />Wiltshire, who is autistic, was drawing buildings by age 8. As an adult, he has created stunningly accurate portraits of cities from memory. <br /> <br />In 2007, he flew over the Thames for 15 minutes, then sketched seven square miles of London's streets, rivers, and buildings, precise down to the windows. <br /> <br />8 Daniel Tammet <br /> <br />Tammet can recite pi to 22,514 decimals, master a new language in one week's time, and perform lightning-quick calculations. <br /> <br />Asked by one researcher to compute 37 to the power of 4 (answer: 1,874,161), he did so instantly. <br /> <br />He perceives numbers and days as having distinct colors and emotional tones <br /> <br /> 7 Leslie Lemke <br /> <br /> Blind since birth, Lemke has a verbal IQ of 58. When he was 14, his family watched a movie featuring a Tchaikovsky piano concerto. <br /> <br /> Hours later, his mother awoke to the music and discovered Lemke playing it. He has performed around the globe and can reproduce thousands of songs from memory.
