Top 10 Extraordinary People in the World!!

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>10 Top Extraordinary People in the World

> 1. Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15; worlds 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 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 calculus problems.. 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
>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 this work until his return to Korea in
>1978 where he decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventually
>received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the
>most prestigious universities in Korea , but instead chose to attend a
>provincial university. 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

> 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
>promotes principles 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
>nominated four times for a Nobel Peace 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 boy and
>its easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest person his age
>in India a country of more than a billion people.
> Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical
>procedure at his 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 tight fist that wouldnt open. Akrit had no formal
>medical training and no experience of surgery, yet he managed to free her
>fingers and she was 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
>for a 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 1000€ per song

> Clepotra was born October 6, 2002 in Chisinau , Moldova and is the daughter of
>Moldovan-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
>young artist, 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 famous
>Gallery

> The abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in Australia
>s art world 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 of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne s 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
>placing ads 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 is Kalashnikovas daughter, and was just 22 months old. Jamieson was
>shocked and embarrassed but decided to proceed with the exhibition anyways.

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

> A rabbis son, Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in
>1940. 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 up philosophy. While still a teenager he wrote a series of papers that
>eventually transformed the study of modal logic. One of them earned a letter
>from the math department at Harvard , 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 .
>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

> 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 television
>game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
>Kearny was born in 1984 and is was known for setting several world records and
>teaching college at the age of 17.
> He spoke his first words at four months. At the age of six months, he said to
>his pediatrician “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 precocious math program and achieved a perfect score. He finished high
>school 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 worlds
>youngest university graduate at the age of 10, receiving a bachelors degree in
>anthropology. For a while, he also held the record for the worlds youngest
>postgraduate.
> But in 2006, he became worldwide famous after reaching the finals on the Mark
>Burnett/AOL quiz/puzzle game Gold Rush, and became the first $1 million winner
>in the online reality game.

> 8. Fabiano Luigi Caruana : a chess prodigy who became the youngest Grandmaster
>at age 14

> 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

> William Joseph Mosconi , nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards was a American
>professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
>Willie s father owned a pool hall where he wasnt allowed to play, but Willie
>improvised by practicing with small potatoes from his mothers kitchen and an old
>broomstick. 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
>to reach the table, he beat experienced players many years his senior.
> In 1919, an exhibition match was arranged between six-year old Willie and the
>reigning World Champion, Ralph Greenleaf . The hall was packed, and though
>Greenleaf won that match, Willie played very well launching his career in
>professional 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 pool
>an unmatched fifteen times. Mosconi pioneered and employed numerous trick shots,
>set many records, and helped to popularize the game of billiards. He still holds
>the officially recognized 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 caller who 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. The littler adviser tackles problems ranging from how to dump
>boyfriends and how to cope with relationship breakdown to dealing with smelly
>brothers.