Hypatia has been considered a universal genius.
However, it is not given to anybody to be a universal genius.
And a man couldn't be a universal genius!
Leibniz was a real universal genius, a seventeenth-century superbrain who was good at everything.
He might well have become the first truly universal genius.
In one of the great periods of French civilization, he had the status, the authority and the rewards of a universal genius.
Terms such as polyhistor, polymath or even universal genius are sometimes employed as synonyms to the term.
I am not a universal genius.
She would never get anything done, if she suffered admirable Crichtons, and universal geniuses.
Her own explanation for this however, is that she is an intuitive player and so does not have to be a universal genius.