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Well, Stark is actually a fictional character in a genre that too often uses the term "smartest X alive" when that's not how intelligence works at all. Also, like others have said, Howard Hughes is more likely the inspiration for Stark. That being said, the closest irl "tech savant" I can think of is John Carmack.
I vote John von Neumann for tech savant.
There's a long list of historic examples of people who actual are what the techbros fantasy about being. I was limiting myself to living examples of people who were just interested in the tech. Carmack's comments when he left facebook was fun to see. I always thought he was better then that company.
You could even put Ben Franklin as a tech savant of his time. While also being an influential person on the world stage and helped found a country at that.