Akira Haraguchi holds the unofficial world record for the most decimal places of pi recited by memory.Robert Evans can identify new objects that appear in starfields of 1,500 galaxies.He was able to, for example, repeat the Aeneid of Virgil from beginning to end without hesitation, and for every page in the edition he could indicate which line was the first and which was the last even decades after having read it. The mathematician Leonhard Euler has been characterized as having an eidetic memory.The Darawiish reciter Huseen Dhiqle could memorize upwards of a hundred poems of the Sayid's each of them hundreds of lines long after hearing them once.Another student stated that he could take any book from Lewis' shelf, open a page at random to read, and Lewis could summarize the rest of the page. One notable story from his student is someone could quote any line from Milton's epic Paradise Lost, and Lewis would continue the rest of the line from memory. Indeed, Lewis seemed to remember most of what he had read. Lewis, a scholar and theologian widely acclaimed to be "the best read man of his generation, one who read and remembers everything he read." In his mid-teens, Lewis was reading classical and contemporary works in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, and German. Colleagues attribute his courtroom success in part to this ability. David Boies, an American litigator, is frequently described as having a photographic memory that enables him to recite exact text, page numbers, and legal exhibits.Winnie Bamara, whose ability to paint scenes accurately and solely from memory attracted wide attention in the 1950s.His favourite party trick was to read a newspaper column then recite it backward. He claimed to have learnt Maori by memorizing a dictionary. His capacity to memorize a page at a glance enabled him to display an apparently inexhaustible supply of knowledge and to acquire several languages. Charles Nalder Baeyertz, a publisher and music critic in New Zealand.People claimed to possess an eidetic memory Regardless, the following list contains people who have claimed photographic memory.
This includes all winners of the annual World Memory Championships and most of the known scientific cases of excellent memories, like Solomon Shereshevsky. Most people showing amazing memory abilities use mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci. Eidetic imagery is virtually nonexistent in adults. A number of people claim to have eidetic memory, but science has never found a single verifiable case of photographic memory.