History Main / YoungFutureFamousPeople

---> '''Sam''': [[Music/BuddyHolly Buddy...]]
--->'''Buddy''': Yeah, Doc?
--->'''Sam''': Uh... why don't you try "Peggy Sue", it might... sound a little better.

* The two-part ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Time's Arrow" featured a young [[spoiler: Creator/JackLondon]], although the audience isn't aware of this until his last appearance in the episodes, before which he'd always been referred to by his first name only.

* ''Film/KermitsSwampYears'', a DirectToDVD Muppet film about Kermit the Frog's childhood, features a scene in which Kermit is knocked down in the road and a young human boy helps him up. The boy is standing in front of a mailbox throughout the brief scene, and when he is called in for dinner, the name painted on the side is revealed: ''[[spoiler:Henson.]]''

* The ''VideoGame/TheGreatAceAttorney'' duology features Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki as the defendant in two cases, and a witness in another. It depicts him during the period where he was living in Great Britain (although he's stated to have already published ''Literature/IAmACat'' when, in real life, he did so after returning to Japan).

* The TV miniseries ''Young Catherine'' featured a young UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, played by Julia Ormond, during her rise to power in Russia.

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[-[[caption-width-right:280:Before [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria she]] was [[EveryoneIsRelated the Grandmother of Europe]].]]-]

* ''Literature/TheAthenianMysteries'' feature a bratty 9-years-old Creator/{{Socrates}} as the brother of the protagonist

* One of ''Literature/WolfHall's'' major supporting characters is Thomas Cromwell's ward and apprentice, Rafe ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS Ralph]]) Sadler, who Cromwell raises to be as clever as himself. He accompanies Cromwell everywhere as he grows to adulthood and establishes his own household, sometimes acting as his spy. Sadler would survive his master's fall,[[note]]and tried unsuccessfully to bring down Norfolk and Gardiner, the men responsible[[/note]] go on to become an ambassador, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Elizabeth I... and, most impressively, died of ''old age''.

** In another episode, they save [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barry Obama]] from a rampaging telepathic gorilla.

** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'', Arno runs into [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte a certain young ambitious and extremely promising Corsican military commander...]]

* ''Film/{{Neruda}}'' has a small cameo by and reference to Augusto Pinochet, who at the time is a young military officer running a camp for captured political prisoners/dissidents. If main character and famed poet Pablo Neruda or his companions are captured, that camp is likely where they'll end up, and it's said that nobody escapes from Pinochet's camp. The film is set more than 20 years before Pinochet will launch a military coup and take over the country, but anyone who knows ''anything'' about Pinochet's treatment of political opponents, especially socialists, will immediately dread the possibility of the protagonists being sent there.

* ''Film/{{Neruda}}'' has a small, ominous reference to Augusto Pinochet, who at the time is a young military officer running a camp full of captured political prisoners/dissidents, where it's said that nobody escapes. The film is set more than 20 years before Pinochet will launch a military coup and take over the country, but anyone who knows ''anything'' about Pinochet's treatment of political opponents, especially socialists, will know that a camp run by Pinochet is the last place that protagonist Pablo Neruda will want to end up.

If the person lived long enough ago that details of their adolescence or youth are obscure or even non-existent, then this trope may be used as an excuse to ground an entirely fictional story in reality. Sometimes these characters are the leading characters, other times they may only serve as a fictional {{cameo}} or a ShoutOut to a HistoricalInJoke.

* Combined with CelebrityParadox in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' story ''Pier Pressure'', which is set in 1930s Brighton and features a young actor by the name of [[Creator/WilliamHartnel Billy Hartnell]].

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has Creator/LeonardoDaVinci in his younger years as an ally of protagonist Ezio.

** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'', Arno runs into [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte a certain young ambitious military commander whose career is on the rise...]]

* Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''Doni Tondo'' depicts the infant [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus]] of Nazareth long before becoming world famous as the central figure of UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}. In the background, one can also see a slightly older baby that can be inferred to be John the Baptist before his honey-and-locusts shtick.

* Happens at times in ''Series/MurdochMysteries'':
* ''Series/TheAlienist'' features New York City Police Commissioner UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt.

* One episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' had Sam unable to figure out what he was supposed to do in a leap until the end of the episode where a pig he was watching runs off and he tries to find it. The literal moment he utters "Here, piggy! Soo-ey!" his assistant belts out a song about "Piggy Soo-ey" on his guitar.
--> '''Sam''': [[Music/BuddyHolly Buddy...]]
-->'''Buddy''': Yeah, Doc?
-->'''Sam''': Uh... why don't you try "Peggy Sue", it might... sound a little better.

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

* ''Series/YoungRock'' is about a younger version of Creator/DwayneJohnson.