Famous Children

I’m trying to help my son do his homework (he’s 10), and he has to write about a famous child, problem is, we can’t think of any.

We came up with NSYNC and the other obnoxious kid bands, but he did not want to write about them.

Any ideas, I’m drawing a blank?

Famous for what?

Some kid actors that come to mind at the moment:

Haley Joe Osment
The Olsen Twins

Um…well…I’ll like of some more after posting this probably.

Shirley Temple
The Jackson 5
Princes William & Harry
Elian Gonzalez

These are all examples of famous children past and present.

The Baby Jesus.

There were several rulers whose reigns began as children. Louis XIV of France and Richard II and Henry VI of England ruled their countries at very young ages.

The kid who plays Harry Potter - can’t get much more famous than him this week. And yet I can’t remember his surname!! Daniel… something. It will come to me.

Daniel Radcliffe, I’m quite sure.

The young monarchs idea is a good one, more interesting than most of the thing the kids will probably do.

I hardly thing NSYNC counts as kids. They’re in the 23-25 range, I believe.

Louis 14
George W. Bush

King Tut and Pocahontas come to mind.

Laura Ingalls Wilder got famous for writing about her childhood, does that count?

Macaulay Culkin
Kieran Culkin
Quinn Culkin
Christian Culkin
Rory Culkin

Hellen Keller

Ronald Reagan

How about W.A. Mozart?

Or Yehudi Menuhin while we’re at it.

Of course, in a different register, there is always Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney.

Or still, for something completely different, Pu Yi, China’s last emperor.

I think the best places to find famous kids are music, movies and nobility.

Lizzie Borden. :smiley:

Do they have to be kids now, or can it be a kid from history?

The kids of US Presidents were often in the spotlight, especially the Roosevelt children, and more recently, the Kennedy children, Amy Carter, and Chelsea Clinton.

(er…do teenagers count as “kids”?)
Anna Paquin
Raven what’s-her-name that used to be on The Cosby Show
Jonothan Lipnicki
Billy Gilman
Jake Lloyd (snickers)
Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle Willis (or Moore?) (Do they have to be famous in their own right?)
Jonathan Taylor Thomas

If they don’t have to be “current” kids, the following people all were famous as children:
Jodi Foster
Tatum O’Neal
Drew Barrymore
Jerry Mathers
Elizabeth Taylor

Historical:
Lady Jane Grey of England
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia :slight_smile:

More about kids on the throne…

Edwards III, V, and VI (all of England) were also crowned at a young age. Edward III reigned for a very long time – he ascended the throne after his mother, Isabella (the French princess from Braveheart), and her lover, Roger Mortimer, had his father killed in an exceedingly unpleasant fashion (involving a poker). Edward’s first official act as king was to execute Mortimer and exile Isabella. Edward V is best known for getting smothered in the Tower (either by Richard III or Henry VII), and Edward VI had poor health and only lived to be sixteen. (Also, he’s the “Prince” half of “The Prince and the Pauper.”)

Most monarchs who started early had a very bad time of it – those who survived the struggles for power that accompany the presence of a weak rule tended to grow up to have an incredibly inflated sense of their own power (Richard II) or be mentally unstable (Henry VI) or whatever…

While for the paper I’d suggest one of the “child rulers,” I’m somewhat surprised no one’s mentioned Anne Frank yet.

Lizzie Borden was in her thirties when she either killed her parents or didn’t.

The Lindbergh Baby.
Anakin Skywalker.
Moses.
Amy Grant.
Traci Lords.

If teenagers count: Joan of Arc.

Or how about the 2 girls that made the Salem Witch accusations?