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* [[John Keats]] in [[Bright Star]]. Though he was already a poet, technically he got the 'fame' part posthumously.
* ''Coco Before Chanel''
* ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' has [[Geoffrey Chaucer (Creator)|Geoffrey Chaucer]] as a freelance [[Smart Guy]] with a gambling problem. Ends with an [[I Should Write a Book About This]].
* ''Max'' is a film about an art dealer in 1918 Germany who attempts to encourage a young fellow war veteran named [[Adolf Hitler]] to focus on becoming an artist. [[Foregone Conclusion|He ends up becoming more interested in politics.]]
* ''The Motorcycle Diaries'' is about young [[Che Guevara]].
* ''[[The Pirates! inIn Anan Adventure Withwith Scientists!]]'' includes a young [[Charles Darwin]]. He's on his way to being famous by the end of the movie, [[The Gump|with a little help from the main character.]]
* ''[[Nowhere Boy]]'' is about the teenage years of [[John Lennon]].
* ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]''
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== Young Future Famous People as supporting characters: ==
=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* In ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'', a young eye specialist and insignificant writer named Arthur was invited to Ciel's dinner party, only to be caught up in a murder mystery. After he finds out {{spoiler|Ciel works for the Queen, Sebastain is a demon and they framed a man for someone's murder and they let Arthur live with this knowledge}}, it is heavily implied Arthur does become [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|a famous mystery writer]], though his middle and last name are never revealed.
* ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]'' is basically ''[[Clone High]]'' {{smallcaps|[[Recycled in Space|IN JAPAN]]}} (and not quite so wacky). It's got teenage clone versions of Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Einstein, [[Freud Was Right|Sigmund]] [[All Psychology Is Freudian|Freud]]...
 
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=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'': Elvis, learning how to dance from a kid with leg braces.
* ''[[John Carter (Filmfilm)|John Carter]]:'' [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]] is John Carter's adoring nephew and heir.<ref>In some of the [[John Carter of Mars]] novels, Burroughs presents himself as Carter's friend and [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|literary executor]]; in the movie, he actually appears as a minor character in the framing scenes.</ref>
* ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' again, with John Webster making a couple of appearances as an adolescent boy fond of [[Gorn]] in plays.
* ''[[Shanghai Knights]]'':
** A young Charlie Chaplin as a supporting character.
** Ditto a young [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|Arthur Conan Doyle]]
* In the film ''Troy'', Aeneas makes a cameo as the civilians escape through the tunnel. A charming little addition considering the movie is basically a big "eff-you" to accuracy of any sort.
* ''[[The Tudors]]'' has the future Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Edward VI as supporting characters.
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* The [[Axis of Time]] series by John Birmingham features accidental time-travelers from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] going back to [[World War Two]], where their revelations about the future course of movies and music leads entrepreneurs to find young Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, among others, and present them with contracts to buy the rights to their future creative output.
* In Time Cat, one of the adventures takes place in Italy, where the protagonists meet a young Leonardo [[Da Vinci]] and help discover his painting talent.
* Played with in [[A World of Laughter, aA World of Tears]] set in an [[Alternate History]] so while some of the figures famous, they aren't famous for the things they are in the real timeline. For example, one viewpoint character, a young [[Bill Clinton]] will grow up for an important role for his work in civil rights but will never become President. Meanwhile another important viewpoint character, a young [[Jerry Brown]], ''will.''
 
 
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* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' features gangsters like Al Capone, Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano and Mayer Lansky in 1920 at the beginning of the Prohibition. They will not reach the height of their infamy for at least another decade.
* The episode "The Girl in the Fireplace" from the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'' features young Madame de Pompadour.
* A creepier version happens in ''[[Forever Knight (TV)|Forever Knight]]''. During a flashback, Lacroix is sitting on a train next to an unshaven German soldier returning from [[World War One|the western front]] after the cease-fire. He seriously considers turning him and comes within seconds of taking a bite as he is shaving, but something tells him that adding vampirism to the darkness he already sensed in his soul would be a Bad Idea... just as the soldier turns around to reveal ''that'' [[Adolf Hitler|mustache]]. Which is a bit of an inaccuracy as photos of Hitler show that he had a handlebar moustache when he was younger.
* This happened from time to time in ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', due to Sam [[The Gump|just having amazing luck]]. For example, on one occasion, he met a nerdy teenager named [[Stephen King]], and on another brushed past a pre-teen saxophonist introduced as "Billy C from Hope, Arkansas".
** Bigger list [[wikipedia:Quantum Leap (TV series)#Brushes with History|here]].
* The two-part ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Time's Arrow" featured a young {{spoiler|Jack London}}, although the audience isn't aware of this until his last appearance in the episodes, before which he'd always been referred to by his first name only.
* The TV miniseries ''Young Catherine'' featured a young Catherine The Great, played by Julia Ormond, during her rise to power in Russia.
* The [[German Media|German television series]] ''Löwengrube'' (''Lion Pit'') bases on this, as it tells the history of the Munich middle class family ''Grandauer'' from the 1870s to the 1960s, following them through two world wars and the post-war episodes. One of the various examples would be the start of the first world war. In the police station (where the family patriarch works) [[Adolf Hitler|a certain Austrian artist]] applies for German citizenship because he feels very German. Around the same time, the Grandauer's son (who is around 12 years old) is seen being buddies with a short and bespectacled dorky kid from his class, called {{spoiler|Himmler, Heinrich}}.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' has [[Leonardo Dada Vinci]] in his younger years as an ally of protagonist Ezio.
** ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Revelations]]'' has Suleiman [[The Magnificent]] as a 17-year old prince and grandson of Beyazid II, {{spoiler|though his father Selim I takes the throne by the end}}.
 
 
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