List of Famous people with last name Savant

Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. She was listed as having the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects. Among them was a discussion of the Monty Hall problem, to which she postulated an answer in 1990.

Douglas Peter Savant is an American actor, known for his roles as Matt Fielding in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place (1992–97), and Tom Scavo in ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives (2004–12).