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* [[Jane Austen]] in ''Becoming Jane''
* [[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]] 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.]]
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* ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with 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]]''
* ''Young Edison''
* ''Young Einstein''
* ''Young Mr. Lincoln''
* ''Young Mr. Pitt'': A slight subversion, since [[William Pitt the Younger]] was twenty-four when he became Prime Minister for the first time.
* ''[[The Young Victoria]]''
* ''Young Winston''
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== Young Future Famous People as supporting characters ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* In ''[[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|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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=== [[Literature]] ===
* The ''[[1632]]'' series by Eric Flint:
** Has a cameo appearance by an infant Baruch Spinoza,<ref>actually quite tragic; his parents and community abandoned him the moment they realized who he'd grow up to be due to philosophical disagreement</ref> and a young-ish Oliver Cromwell who is thrown into prison by Charles I for a regicide he had yet to commit.
** Young Rembrandt becomes a famous artist when people learn that in the future-that-was, he was a famous artist. This happens to quite a few people who haven't done anything yet, and most of 'em are driven ''crazy'' by the attention and expectations.
*** Rembrandt though does decide not to paint the paintings that are going to be famous, instead painting new ones.
** An eleven year old Blaise Pascal ends up becoming a ward of Grantvile and becomes a frequent source of headaches as he attempts insanely dangerous experiments.
* The cyberpunk short story ''Mozart In Mirrorshades'' featured a young [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] being introduced to synthesizers and electronic music by time-travelers from an alternate dimension. A young [[Marie Antoinette]] also makes an appearance.
* In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', in which [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]] is heavily in action, it is a kid named [[Benjamin Franklin|Ben]] who brings Enoch Root to Daniel Waterhouse, after the former has arrived in Massachusetts. Then, cue the flashback to Enoch visiting [[Isaac Newton]]'s school when Isaac was a kid...
* Possibly the ''youngest'' Future Famous Person occurs in M.J. Trow's ''Lestrade'' novels. The inspector points at a baby in a pram and sarcastically declares the child could play [[Sherlock Holmes]] at least as well as William Gillette. It is then strongly hinted that this is a pre-verbal Basil Rathbone.
* 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, A 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]]''. During a flashback, Lacroix is sitting on a train next to an unshaven German soldier returning from [[World War
* 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: The 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}}.
* The Russian miniseries ''[[Series/Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]]'' features ''[[Daddy's Daughters]]'' actress [[Liza Arzamasova]] as a young Sofia Kovalevskaya, who would later become Russia's first female mathematician.
* This is a staple of ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'', though the titular character was not an example.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' has [[Leonardo da Vinci]] in his younger years as an ally of protagonist Ezio.
** ''[[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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=== Real Life ===
* On occasion a picture or video include (often as a bystander or generally not the main subject) a person who would achieve fame later. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/44042852@N04/4902736400/ Here's] [[Winston Churchill]] in 1918 in a Victory Parade in France. Churchill was already famous then. The Army officer in front of him is a then unknown Bernard Law Montgomery, a man who would achieve great fame in [[WW 2]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uErdlyTUo Here] is a news-report about a Boys Nation visit to the [[JFK]] White House. One of the boys who shakes hands with the President? A teen-aged [[Bill Clinton]].
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_14876_before-they-were-famous-10-most-regrettable-celebrity-commercials.html Before They Were Famous: 10 Most Regrettable Celebrity Commercials] shows ads done by present day celebrities before they made it. Overlaps with [[Old Shame]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131212205011/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/pow0-038 This] is a picture of a young Lt. Colonel meeting the Secretary of Defense. Nothing strange about it, except the young Lt Colonel is Colin Powell. Moreover, the Secretary of Defense? Donald Rumsfeld, which makes it...very funny.
* They're out there right now. Getting conceived, being born, in school, doing normal things. No one knows when or who they will be, but in 20 years, more or less, the newspapers, magazines, and the Internet will be throwing out their name left and right without even having to explain who they are - eventually someone's going to be making a [[TV Tropes]] page for them!
* Books dealing with the Mexican-American war often mention minor things done by very junior officers that would not normally make it into descriptions of battle. This is because the officers would have names like Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
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