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=== [[Film]] ===
* ''1814'' is a Russian movie about several key figures of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, such as Pushkin, Delwig and Kuchelbecker (as well as the ''Russian'' Iron Chancellor, Gorchakov, often considered Bismarck's [[The Rival|archrival]] in international politics) when they were students at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, aged [[Title Drop|from 14 to 18]]. The same applies to the first part of the Yuri Tynyanov novel ''Kyuchlya'', which partly inspired it.
* [[Jane Austen]] in ''Becoming Jane''
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* This is the purpose of ''[[The Royal Diaries]],'' a series of books that depicts the youthful days of several famous royal women.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''Leonardo''
* ''[[Hawking]]'': features Stephen Hawking when he was an ambulatory, [[Adorkable|oddly cute]] 21 year old university student.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' has many pros as kids, who are playable characters in the games. Originally just ordinary characters, but then became the [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]].
=== 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]]...
=== [[Comics]] ===
* A pre-teen Aleister Crowley briefly appears in the graphic novel ''From Hell''.
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'': Elvis, learning how to dance from a kid with leg braces.
* ''[[John Carter (Film)|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>
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* As does ''[[The King's Speech]]'' with the future Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
=== [[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.
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* 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.''
=== [[Live Action Television]] ===
* ''[[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 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.
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* In an episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' Rob & Laura discover a hidden treasure inside a desk bequeathed to him by his [[Identical Grandson|Identical Grandfather]]: a picture of Grandpa as a baby. What makes it valuable (and this trope) is the [[Abraham Lincoln|young tall, beardless man]] who happens to have been standing on the stairway behind Gramps and his parents when the picture was taken.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' has [[Leonardo Da 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}}.
=== [[Web Comic]] ===
* In ''[[The Dreamer]]'', a young Alexander Hamilton is a supporting character in the series, as well as Nathan Hale, since he technically became famous posthumously. Benjamin Tallmadge also makes an appearance.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Clone High]]'' lives on this trope, but [[Justified Trope|justified]] because they are all clones of the originals.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', a flashback to Fry's childhood reveals that Mr. Panucci's delivery boy was a young law student named [[Barack Obama|Barack]]. Young Fry mentions that he doesn't want to end up like ''that'' loser.
{{quote| "Oh man, I have ''got'' to go back to law school."}}
=== Other ===
* A common [[Alternate History]] trope: expect to see a lot of people who only became famous in [[The Sixties]] in our history to appear as young soldiers in [[WW 2]], for instance.
=== 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]].
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