10 World's Most Extra Ordinary People

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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 guy alive today

(hes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ ofanyone 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 integralcalculus problems. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency inChinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, English, Japanese, and Korean. Kim waslisted in the Guinness Book of World Records under Highest IQ; the book estimatedthe boys score at over 210.

Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 until he 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 State University before he was 15. In

1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued thiswork until his return to Korea in 1978 where he decided to switch from physics to civilengineering and eventually received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance tostudy at the most 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 university at 10.But genius is only one half of the Greg Smith story. When not voraciously learning,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 hasmet with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in front of the UN. For these andother humanitarian and advocacy efforts, Smith has been nominated four times for a NobelPeace Prize. His latest achievement? He just got his driver license.

3. Akrit Jaswal: The Seven Year-Old Surgeon

Akrit Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called the worlds smartest boyand its easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest person his age inIndia a country of more than a billion people.

Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical procedure athis family home. He was seven. His patient a local girl who could not afford a doctor was eight. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing her fingers to close into a tightfist that wouldnt open. Akrit had no formal medical training and no experience ofsurgery, yet he managed to free her fingers and she was able to use her hand again.


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He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and at the age of twelve he claimed tobe on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer. He is now studying for a science degree atChandigarh College and is the youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University .

4. Cleopatra Stratan: a 3 year old singer who earns 1000 per song

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 scorecommercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vrsta de trei ani ( At the ageof 3). She holds the record for being the youngest artist that performed live for twohours in front of a large audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist toreceive 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 famous Gallery


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The abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in Australia s artworld talking.. Aelita is two (the works were painted when she was even younger).

Aelita got an opportunity to show her paintings when Mark Jamieson, the director ofBrunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne s Fitzroy, was asked by a photographer whosework he represented to consider the work of another artist. Jamieson liked what he sawand agreed to include it in a group show.

Jamieson then started to promote the show, printing glossy invitations and placing ads inthe magazines Art Almanac and Art Collector, featuring the abstract work. Only then didhe discover a crucial fact about the new artist: Aelita Andre is Kalashnikovasdaughter, and was just 22 months old. Jamieson was shocked and embarrassed but decidedto proceed with the exhibition anyways..

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


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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 and calculus and taken upphilosophy. While still a teenager he wrote a series of papers that eventually transformedthe study of modal logic. One of them earned a letter from the math department atHarvard, which hoped he would apply for a job until he wrote back and declined,explaining, My mother said that I should finish 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.


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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 showMillionaire.

24 year-old Michael Kearney became known as the worlds youngest college graduateat the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show WhoWants to be a Millionaire?

Kearny was born in 1984 and is was known for setting several world records and teachingcollege 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 Johns Hopkins precociousmath program and achieved a perfect score. He finished high school at age 6, enrolled atSanta Rosa Junior College graduating at 10 with an Associate of Science in Geology. He islisted in the Guinness Book as the worlds youngest university graduate at the age of10, receiving a bachelors degree in anthropology. For a while, he also held the recordfor the worlds youngest postgraduate.

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 theonline reality game.

8. Fabiano Luigi Caruana: a chess prodigy who became the youngest Grandmaster at age14


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Fabulous Fabiano is a 16-year-old chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dualcitizenship 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 April2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2649, making him the worlds highest rankedplayer 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 Americanprofessional pocket billiards (pool) player from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Williesfather owned a pool hall where he wasnt allowed to play, but Willie improvised bypracticing with small potatoes from his mothers kitchen and an old broomstick. Hisfather soon realized that his son was a child prodigy began advertising challenge matches,

and though Willie had to stand on a box in order to reach the table, he beat experiencedplayers many years his senior.In 1919, an exhibition match was arranged between six-year old Willie and the reigningWorld Champion, Ralph Greenleaf. The hall was packed, and though Greenleaf won thatmatch, Willie played very well launching his career in professional billiards. In 1924, at thetender age of eleven, Willie was the juvenile straight pool champion and was regularlyholding trick shot exhibitions.


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Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the BCA World Championship of pool anunmatched fifteen times. Mosconi pioneered and employed numerous trick shots, set manyrecords, and helped to popularize the game of billiards. He still holds the officiallyrecognized straight pool high run record of 526 consecutive balls.

10. Elaina Smith: youngest agony aunt aged 7

Her local radio station gave her the job after she rang and offered advice to a woman callerwho had been dumped. Elainas tip go bowling with pals and drink a mug of milk was so good she got a weekly slot and now advises thousands of adult listeners. Thelittler adviser tackles problems ranging from how to dump boyfriends and how to copewith relationship breakdown to dealing with smelly brothers.When one listener wrote to

Elaina asking how to get a man, she replied: Shake your booty on the dance floor andlisten to High School Musical. Another caller asked how to get her man back, Elaina toldher: He's not worth the heartache. Life's too short to be upset with a boy.

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