14 Photos Of Powerful People Long Before They Were Famous

by N/A, 10 years ago | 1 min read

This is what success looked like at an early age.

1. Oprah, age 17, winning Miss Fire Prevention in Nashville

2. Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan

Abe, (center) then in kindergarten, sits for a for photo with his family.

3. Hillary Diane Rodham, 1969

3. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, 1971

4. Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil

She was arrested for participating in a guerrilla movement against military dictatorship.

5. Donald Trump, 1964

Trump is pictured here during his senior year at New York Military Academy.

6. Bill Gates

He was arrested for a traffic violation.

7. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

8. Steve Jobs at the first West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

9. President Barack Obama, 1980

10. Albert Einstein, Age 14

11. Jorge Mario Bergoglio AKA Pope Francis, as a teenager in Bueno Aires, Argentina

12. Bill Clinton meeting JFK in 1963

13. Queen Elizabeth II, age 18

14. Mahatma Gandhi, 1906