History Main / YoungFutureFamousPeople

* Creator/EstherFriesner's ''Princesses of Myth'' series, about historical or semihistorical (or straight-up mythical) princesses of history during their childhood and young adulthood. So far she has taken on Helen of Troy, Nefertiti of Egypt, Himiko of Yamatai/Japan, and Maeve of Connacht/Ireland.

* ''Film/{{Hawking}}'': features Stephen Hawking when he was an ambulatory, [[{{Adorkable}} oddly cute]] 21 year old university student.

* Daisy, the Doctor's companion in ''Webcomic/DoctorWhoRegenerated'', really wants to meet Howard Carter, but when she gets the chance, he's seventeen and {{Adorkable}}. Not that she has a problem with it.

* On ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Lord Grantham mentions having a friend who got excellent returns from his investment with [[Ponzi Charles Ponzi]]. Fortunately, the Crawleys decide to go in a different direction.

* ''Film/NowhereBoy'' is about the teenage years of Music/JohnLennon.

** In '''Videogame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'', a segment featuring Jacob's descendant has her working with a young Winston Churchill, presumably before he became a Templar.

* The boxing documentary ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'', focusing on the 1974 fight between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli and George Foreman, includes footage of Ali sparring with Larry Holmes. Six years later, Holmes, by then the world heavyweight champion, would effectively end Ali's career in a bout so one-sided that Ali's corner stopped the fight after 10 rounds. (Ali had only one more fight, which he lost by decision.)

* The boxing documentary ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'', focusing on the 1974 fight between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli and George Foreman, includes footage of Ali sparring with Larry Holmes. Six years later, Holmes, by then the world heavyweight champion, would effectively end Ali's career in a bout so one-sided that Ali's corner stopped the fight after 10 rounds. (Ali had only one more fight, which he lost by decision.)

For the benefit of the audience, Young Future Famous People who are known to history by their StageName are often called that in such appearances in fiction, even if they are being depicted at a point in their lives before they had adopted such names. For example, a child Archibald Leach, better known to history as Creator/CaryGrant, or, as noted in the examples below, young Gladys Smith being called by her adult professional name, Creator/MaryPickford

* ''Series/Spy2019'': Of all of construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden's 56 children, of course it's a young Osama who makes a brief appearance.

* ''Series/Spy2019'': Of all of construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden's 56 children, of course it's a young Osama who makes a brief appearance.

A SisterTrope to InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous, LiteraryAgentHypothesis (can overlap when a minor character in a movie turns out to be the author of the book the movie is based on).

* ''Film/{{Backbeat}}'' portrays the Music/Beatles in their Hamburg era, and focuses on tragically doomed Stu Sutcliff and his romance with Astrid Kirchherr (a solid performance by a young Sheryl Lee).

* The premise of ''Series/{{Leonardo}}''

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' dabbles in this trope, including an episode in which the Legends convince a young Creator/GeorgeLucas not to give up on filmmaking and one where they save [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barry Obama]] from a rampaging telepathic gorilla.

* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory: Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' does this with Robert Kardashian's wife Kris Jenner and their children Creator/{{Kim|Kardashian}}, Khloe, Kourtney, and Rob, who are all enraptured by the sight of Robert on TV and amazed at the attention that they now receive. The show portrays the O. J. Simpson trial as the StartOfDarkness for the Kardashians, the point at which they, despite Robert's warnings about how CelebrityIsOverrated, committed themselves to becoming world-famous celebrities once they realized its perks.

* ''Series/AmericanCrimeStory'' shows the Kardashian sisters (and brother) at the time of the OJ Simpson trial.

* ''Series/TheAlienist'' features New York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt.
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' dabbles in this trope, including an episode in which the Legends convince a young George Lucas not to give up on filmmaking and one where they save Barry Obama from a rampaging telepathic gorilla.