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1. Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15; World's highest IQ

This Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guyalive today (hes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having thehighest IQ of anyone on the planet). By the age of four he was already able to read

in Japanese, Korean, German, and English.

At his fifth birthday, he solved complicated differential and integral calculusproblems. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency in

Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, English, Japanese, and Korean.Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under Highest IQ; the

book estimated the boys score at over 210.

Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 untilhe was 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA. He finished his

university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado StateUniversity before he was 15. In 1974, during his university studies, he began hisresearch work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978

where he decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventuallyreceived a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at themost prestigious universities in Korea, but instead chose to attend a provincialuniversity. As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National

University.2. Gregory Smith: Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12

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Born in 1990, Gregory Smith could read at age two and had enrolled in universityat 10. But genius is only one half of the Greg Smith story. When not voraciouslylearning, this young man travels the globe as a peace and childrens rights activist.

He is the founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization that promotesprinciples of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world.He has met with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in front of the UN.

For these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts, Smith has been nominatedfour times for a Nobel Peace Prize. His latest achievement? He just got his driver

license.3. Akrit Jaswal: The Seven Year-Old Surgeon

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Akrit Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called the worlds smartest boy andits easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest person his age in

Indiaa country of more than a billion people.

Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medicalprocedure at his family home. He was seven. His patient a local girl who couldnot afford a doctor was eight. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing herfingers to close into a tight fist that wouldnt open. Akrit had no formal medical

training and no experience of surgery, yet he managed to free her fingers and shewas able to use her hand again.

He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and at the age of twelve he

claimed to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer. He is now studying fora science degree at Chandigarh College and is the youngest student ever accepted

by an Indian University.

4. Cleopatra Stratan: A 3 year old singer who earns GBP 1,000 per song

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Clepotra was born October 6, 2002 in Chisinau, Moldova and is the daughter ofMoldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan. She is the youngest person ever to

score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vrsta de trei ani(At the age of 3). She holds the record for being the youngest artist that

performed live for two hours in front of a large audience, the highest paid youngartist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to

score a #1 hit in a country (Ghita in Romanian Singles Chart).

5. Aelita Andre: The 2-year-old artist who showed her paintings in a famousgallery

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The abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in Australias

art world talking. Aelita is two (the works were painted when she was evenyounger). Aelita got an opportunity to show her paintings when Mark Jamieson,the director of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbournes Fitzroy, was asked by a

photographer whose work he represented to consider the work of another artist.Jamieson liked what he saw and agreed to include it in a group show.

Jamieson then started to promote the show, printing glossy invitations and placingads in the magazines Art Almanac and Art Collector, featuring the abstract work.

Only then did he discover a crucial fact about the new artist: Aelita Andre isKalashnikovas daughter, and was just 22 months old. Jamieson was shocked andembarrassed but decided to proceed with the exhibition anyways.

6. Saul Aaron Kripke: Invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still inhigh school

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A rabbis son, Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in1940. By all accounts he was a true prodigy. In the fourth grade he discovered

algebra, and by the end of grammar school he had mastered geometry andcalculus and taken up philosophy. While still a teenager he wrote a series of

papers that eventually transformed the study of modal logic. One of them earneda letter from the math department at Harvard, which hoped he would apply for ajob until he wrote back and declined, explaining, My mother said that I shouldfinish high school and go to college first. After finishing high school, the college

he eventually chose was Harvard.

Kripke was awarded the Schock Prize, philosophys equivalent of the Nobel.Nowadays, he is thought to be the worlds greatest living philosopher.

7. Michael Kevin Kearney: Earned his first degree at age 10 and became a reality

show Millionaire

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24 year-old Michael Kearney became known as the worlds youngest college

graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the televisiongame show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Kearny was born in 1984 and is was known for setting several world records andteaching college at the age of 17.

He spoke his first words at four months. At the age of six months, he said to hispediatrician I have a left ear infection and learned to read at the age of ten

months. When Michael was four, he was given diagnostic tests for the JohnsHopkins precocious math program and achieved a perfect score. He finished highschool at age 6, enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College graduating at 10 with an

Associate of Science in Geology. He is listed in the Guinness Book as the worldsyoungest university graduate at the age of 10, receiving a bachelors degree in

anthropology. For a while, he also held the record for the worlds youngestpostgraduate.

But in 2006, he became worldwide famous after reaching the finals on the MarkBurnett/AOL quiz/puzzle game Gold Rush, and became the first $1 million winner

in the online reality game.

8. Fabiano Luigi Caruana: a ches prodigy who became the youngest Grandmasterat age 14

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Fabulous Fabiano is a 16-year-old chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual

citizenship of Italy and the United States.

On 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20

days the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.In the April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2649, making him the worlds

highest ranked player under the age of 18.

9. Willie Mosconi: Played professional Billiards at age 6

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William Joseph Mosconi, nicknamed Mr. Pocket Billiards was a American

professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Williesfather owned a pool hall where he wasnt allowed to play, but Willie improvised

by practicing with small potatoes from his mothers kitchen and an oldbroomstick. His father soon realized that his son was a child prodigy began

advertising challenge matches, and though Willie had to stand on a box in order toreach the table, he beat experienced players many years his senior.

In 1919, an exhibition match was arranged between six-year old Willie and thereigning World Champion, Ralph Greenleaf. The hall was packed, and though

Greenleaf won that match, Willie played very well launching his career inprofessional billiards. In 1924, at the tender age of eleven, Willie was the juvenile

straight pool champion and was regularly holding trick shot exhibitions.

Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the BCA World Championship of poolan unmatched fifteen times. Mosconi pioneered and employed numerous trick

shots, set many records, and helped to popularize the game of billiards. He stillholds the officially recognized straight pool high run record of 526 consecutive

balls.

10. Eliana Smith: Youngest Agony Aunt at age 7

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Her local radio station gave her the job after she rang and offered advice to a

woman caller who had been dumped. Elainas tip go bowling with pals and drinka mug of milk was so good she got a weekly slot and now advises thousands ofadult listeners. The littler adviser tackles problems ranging from how to dump

boyfriends and how to cope with relationship breakdown to dealing with smellybrothers.

When one listener wrote to Elaina asking how to get a man, she replied: Shakeyour booty on the dance floor and listen to High School Musical. Another caller

asked how to get her man back, Elaina told her: Hes not worth the heartache.Lifes too short to be upset with a boy.