30 Famous Historical Figures When They Were Young

Our mental image of many famous historical figures is typically one of them late in life, only after they achieved widespread recognition for their deeds. To counter that, here are portraits of history's notables when they were children or young men and women.

Posted on August 27, 2012, 19:26 GMT

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1. Winston Churchill

2. Gandhi

3. Emily Dickinson

Emily is on the far left.

4. Theodore Roosevelt

5. Martin Luther King Jr.

6. Albert Einstein

7. Mark Twain

8. Amelia Earhart

9. Queen Victoria

10. Langston Hughes

11. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

12. J. R. R. Tolkien

Pictured on the left.

13. Marie Curie

14. Charles Darwin

15. Charles Dickens

16. Margaret Mead

17. Thomas Edison

18. John Quincy Adams

19. Frida Kahlo

20. Mother Teresa

21. Oscar Wilde

22. Abraham Lincoln

23. Walt Disney

24. Pearl S. Buck

25. Josef Stalin

26. Hank Aaron

27. Jane Addams

28. Henry Ford

29. Marie Antoinette

30. Robert Frost

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