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Reed Richards.
The OP does name most of the major candidates, with the exception of Hank Pym, and in addition has identified the cabal that's been running the United States as a kind of shadow government for quite some timem namely Reed, Tony, Dr. Strange, and Xavier.
Peter Parker has been identified as having Stark/Richards level scientific intelligence and has been apprenticed to each on occasion.
Of the non-cosmic powered entities, Reed is generally accepted as the standard by which all scientific intelligence is measured, with Doom just a slight bit lower down.
In Mark Waid's run, he explained the silly name in a speech Reed makes to Valeria. The celebrity lifestyle and the ego-driven name were part of an attempt to compensate for the pain he infliced on his friends by miscalculating the effects of the cosmic storm.
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