- Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. - Marla Olmstead
Marla Olmstead (born 2000 in Binghamton, New York) is an artist, considered by some to be a child prodigy of abstract art. Olmstead began painting before her second birthday and by 2004 had attracted international media attention. Her abstract pieces have been as large as five feet (1.52m) square, hailed by critics as impressively complex, and have sold for tens of thousands of US dollars. Rarely has anyone but her parents witnessed her art during its creation. - David Helfgott
David Helfgott (born May 19, 1947) is a controversial Australian pianist. He is as well-known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film "Shine", directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor as Helfgott at different periods of his life. - Akiane Kramarik
Akiane Kramarik (born July 9, 1994) is an American artistic prodigy and poet. Akiane Kramarik was born in Mount Morris, Illinois to a Lithuanian mother and an American father. According to her website, she is homeschooled. Primarily a self-taught painter, Akiane Kramarik started drawing at age four, painting at six, and writing poetry at seven. Her first completed self-portrait sold for ten thousand US dollars. - William James Sidis
William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 - July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities. He first became famous for his precociousness, and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from the public eye. He avoided mathematics entirely in later life, writing on other subjects under a number of pseudonyms. - Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes "Szopen"; French: Frédéric François Chopin; English surname pronunciation: or ; March 1, 1810, Żelazowa Wola - October 17, 1849, Paris) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, and prolific composers for piano of all time. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, … - Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University. Born in New York City, Greene was a prodigy in mathematics. His skill in mathematics was such that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. - Alia Sabur
Alia Sabur (born February 22 1989) is an American child prodigy. She is best known for being accepted into graduate school at the age of 14. She left public school in 4th grade, was admitted to State University of New York at Stony Brook at the age of 10, graduating summa cum laude at 14. She also received a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at the age of 9. After Stony Brook, Sabur attended Drexel University where she received her M.S. in 2006. - Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality. Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 6 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, … - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Germany in 1777. Many enthusiasts of mathematical history would place him with Euler and Newton as one of the three best mathematicians of all time. Compared to Euler, Gauss published relatively little during his lifetime; however, virtually everything he did was extremely impactful (his motto was 'pauca sed matura,' which means 'few but ripe'). - Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Trucks took up the guitar at age 9, and it was quickly apparent that he was a child prodigy. He was playing with a band and touring within two years. His early repertoire was heavily blues-based, obviously inspired by The Allman Brothers Band slide guitarist, Duane Allman (his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, … - Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist of world fame for his deep interpretations of a huge, vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. - Michael Kearney
Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984) is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records, and teaching college at the age of 17. The son of a Japanese mother and a Caucasian father, he was schooled at home by his parents, especially his mother, and accelerated in his academic career. He was diagnosed with ADD and his parents declined to use the offered prescription of Ritalin. He spoke his first words at four months. - Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. A child prodigy, Tao is currently a professor of mathematics at UCLA. He was promoted to a full professor at age 24. In August 2006, he was awarded the Fields Medal. Just one month later, in September 2006, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Philippa Schuyler
Philippa Duke Schuyler (August 2, 1931-May 9, 1967) was a noted American child prodigy and pianist who became famous in the 1930s and 1940s as a result of her talent, mixed race parentage, and the eccentric methods employed by her mother to bring her up. Schuyler was the daughter of George S. Schuyler, a prominent black essayist and journalist of pronounced conservative views, and Josephine Cogdell, … - Adora Svitak
Adora Lily Svitak (born October 15, 1997) Usually known simply as Adora Svitak. Svitak is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full-length books. Adora first became known to the public when, at the age of 6, she was recognized on local news in Seattle for her writing abilities. Adora became an object of national interest at the age of 7 when she appeared with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. - Jay Greenberg
Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg (born December 131991, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American child prodigy composer who entered the Juilliard School in 2002 and has composed numerous works. He came to the world's attention in part through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman, who lauded Greenberg's youthful talent during a CBS News "60 Minutes" broadcast on November 28, 2004, and again on November 26, 2006. - Morton Gould
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 - February 21, 1996) was an American pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger. Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisation and composition. His first composition was published at age six. Gould studied at the Institute of Musical Art, although his most important teachers were Abby Whiteside and Vincent Jones. - Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 - May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He was born in Cheb (Eger), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) to a Russian-Jewish family. Hailed as a child prodigy, Serkin was sent to Vienna at the age of nine, where he studied piano with Richard Robert and, later, composition with Joseph Marx making his public debut with the Vienna Philharmonic at 12. - Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Elke Lawrence (born August 2, 1971) is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. Her 1990 paper, "Homological representations of the Hecke algebra", in Communications in Mathematical Physics, introduced, among other things, certain novel linear representations of the braid group. - Taylor Eigsti
Two-Time Grammy Nominee Taylor Eigsti (born September 24, 1984) is an American jazz pianist, most associated with post-bop. He also incorporates elements of funk and soul music. He began at an unusually early age and because of this was often called a child prodigy. He started studying piano at four and by age eight he opened for David Benoit. He had his first CD, not sold nationally, … - Cy Coleman
Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. His mother, Ida (née Prizent) was an apartment landlady and his father was a brickmason. He was a child prodigy who gave piano recitals at Steinway Hall, Town Hall, and Carnegie Hall between the ages of six and nine. - Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz i Pascual (May 29, 1860 - May 18, 1909) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music. Born in Camprodon (Girona, Catalonia, Spain), Albéniz was a child prodigy who first performed at the age of four. At age seven he passed the entrance examination for piano at the Paris Conservatoire, … - Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. - Rachel Barton
Rachel Barton Pine (born October 11, 1974) is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at 3 and a half, and played at many renowned venues through her child and teen years. She regularly plays with the Chicago Symphony and on her own, tours worldwide, and has an active recording career. On January 16, 1995, Barton was severely injured in a train accident. As she was exiting a Metra commuter train in the suburb of Winnetka, … - Julian Bream
Julian Bream O.B.E. (born July 15, 1933) is a internationally celebrated British guitarist and lutenist. Among his other accomplishments, he has been successful in the renewal of interest in the Renaissance lute. =Biography= Bream was born in London and brought up in a very musical environment. His father played jazz guitar and the young Bream was impressed by hearing the playing of Django Reinhardt. - Carlos Blanco
Carlos Blanco (born in Coslada, Madrid, on March 7, 1986) is a Spanish Egyptologist and philosopher, famous for his collaboration as a child prodigy on television and radio programs distributed in Spain, Egypt, and South America. - Rachel Barton Pine
Rachel Barton Pine (born October 11, 1974) is a violinist from Chicago. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of 3 and a half. She played at many renowned venues through her child and teen years. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband Greg, plays regularly with the Chicago Symphony and on her own, tours worldwide, and has an active recording career. - Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. - Akrit Jaswal
Akrit Jaswal (born 23 April 1993) is a child prodigy who has gained fame in his native India as a physician, despite never having attended medical school. According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, this child genius was an early starter. He skipped the toddler stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month. - Lauren Harries
Lauren Charlotte Harries (formerly James Harries), was born in Surrey, England in 1978 and is a disputed ("see below") child prodigy who became famous in Britain after appearing on "Wogan", Terry Wogan's chat show in 1988. On the programme the ten-year-old boy appeared to demonstrate a knowledge about antiques far beyond his years and this, combined with a striking appearance, dress sense (bow ties and formal attire), blonde curly hair, … - Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 - January 9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna. - Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1 1994) is an American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's "America's Got Talent". At age 11, the prodigy repeatedly performed to standing ovations from the studio audiences, … - Billy Gilman
Billy Gilman (born William Wendell Gilman III May 24, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated country music singer and songwriter. Born in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, he lives with his parents Bill and Fran Gilman and his younger brother Colin. At a young age he attracted the attention of a local vocal coach, Angela Bacari, who later became his manager. He met and worked with Ray Benson of (Asleep at the Wheel) who helped record demos, including "Roly Poly". - Chloe Hanslip
Chloë Elise Hanslip is a British violinist. Chloë was born in Guildford, Surrey and has been playing the violin since she was two. At the age of four Chloë performed solo at the Purcell Room. When she was five she performed for Yehudi Menuhin and subsequently, at his invitation, studied with Natasha Boyarskaya at the Yehudi Menuhin School. By ten she had played in major concert halls throughout Europe and North America, … - Samuel Reshevsky
Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster. - William Crotch
William Crotch (July 5, 1775-December 29, 1847) was an English composer and organist and an artist. Born in Norwich to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent (a child prodigy). His composition "The Captivity of Judah" was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on June 4, 1789; his most successful composition in adulthood was the oratorio "Palestine" (1812). He may have composed the "Westminster Chimes" in 1793. - Christian Friedrich Heinecken
Christian Friedrich Heinecken also known as "the Infant of Lübeck," is a legendary German child prodigy reputed to have spoken within hours of his birth. By three, he was wel-versed in math, history, geography, and could speak Latin and French in addition to his native tounge. An illness at age four gave him cause to predict his own death, which occured the same year. - Michael Rabin
Michael Rabin (May 2 1936 - January 19 1972) was an American violin virtuoso. He studied under Ivan Galamian at Juilliard, who regarded Rabin as having an extraordinary talent: "no weaknesses, never". He was a musician of excellent pedigree, with a New York Philharmonic violinist for a father and a Juilliard-trained and relatively successful pianist for a mother. He started his study with Galamian from a young age, … - Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu was born February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad . Her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyaya, was a celebrated scientist, poet and social reformer whose brilliance foreshadowed that of his daughter's.
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