25 Celebrities And Historical Figures Who You Probably Have Never Seen What They Looked Like When They Were Young

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We all have a picture in our heads of what these people are supposed to look like.

And here’s Lucille at 23 years old (around 1934), when she first arrived in Hollywood and was a platinum blonde starlet:

2. Here’s John F. Kennedy in 1961, during his first year in office:

And here’s JFK in 1938 at 20 years old, when his father was appointed United States ambassador to the United Kingdom:

And here’s a photo of Che around 15 years earlier, circa 1950, when he was a 22-year-old medical student:

4. Here’s a picture of acclaimed American author Ernest Hemingway in 1944:

And here’s a 19-year-old Hemingway, when he was an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross Motor Corps in Italy during WWI:

5. Here’s a photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935:

And here’s FDR at age 21 in 1903:

And here’s Oprah when she became co-anchor of Eyewitness News on WJZ, at age 24 in 1978:

7. Here’s Steve Jobs announcing the iPad at an Apple Event in Jan. 2010:

And here’s a 22-year-old Jobs debuting the Apple II computer at the first West Coast Computer Faire in 1977:

8. Here’s legendary actor James Earl Jones attending the 70th Annual Tony in June 2016:

And here’s James starring in a TV production for CBS at age 31 in 1962:

9. Here’s a photo of Charlie Chaplin from around 1925, when he was 36 years old:

And here’s Chaplin circa 1910, when he was 21 years old:

10. Here’s Elvis Presley in 1962 at age 27:

And here’s Elvis as a kid in the early 1940s. You can also see his natural blonde hair in the photo. He famously dyed it jet black throughout his career:

11. Here’s Dr. Maya Angelou speaking to a sold-out audience in April 2009:

And here’s a 26-year-old Dr. Angelou during a performance of Porgy and Bess in Europe in 1954:

12. Here’s Pablo Picasso at age 84 in 1966:

And here’s a photo of Picasso when he first moved to Paris at 23 years old in 1904:

13. Here’s Anthony Hopkins at the 94th Annual Academy Awards in March 2022:

And here’s Hopkins at age 31 in a publicity photo for his 1969 film, The Looking Glass War:

14. Here’s a photo of the great American writer Mark Twain, in which he looks exactly how we would picture him in our heads:

And here’s a photo of Twain in 1860 at 24 years old when he went by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain is a pen name) and he piloted a riverboat:

15. Here’s Maggie Smith arriving at the premiere of her film, The Lady in the Van, in Oct 2015.

And here’s a 22-year-old Dame Smith backstage in her dressing room after appearing in a performance of the musical Share My lettuce:

16. Here’s Dr. Jane Goodall attending the LA premiere of her Apple TV+ series, Jane, in April 2023:

And here’s a 31-year-old Dr. Goodall in a promotional photo for her 1965 CBS special, Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees:

17. Here’s an iconic photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue to photographers on his 72nd birthday on March 14, 1951:

Here’s Einstein circa 1905, at age 26, when he wrote his annus mirabilis papers:

18. Here’s the iconic artist Frida Kahlo at around age 37 in 1944:

And here’s Frida as a student at 19 years old:

19. Here’s Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, at 20 years in May 1962:

And here’s a 12-year-old Ali in 1954:

20. Here’s Jane Fonda at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival in 2024:

And here’s a photo of a 21-year-old Jane modeling for Vogue in 1959:

21. Here’s Patrick Stewart in June 2023:

And here’s Patrick at age 30, starring as Launce in The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1970:

22. Here’s a photo of Walt Disney at age 59, taken circa 1960:

And here’s a 30-year-old Walt vacationing at the Hotel National in Havana, Cuba in Oct. 1931:

23. Here’s Dolly Parton at the release party for her album, Rockstar, in Nov. 2023:

And here’s Dolly at age 19 in 1965:

24. Here’s a photo of Anna Wintour on the red carpet of the 2024 Met Gala:

And here’s a photo of a 23-year-old Anna at a fashion show in 1973, when she was an editorial assistant at Harper’s Bazaar:

25. Lastly, here is Willie Nelson performing at during the Farm Aid Music Festival in 2023:

And here’s Willie at age 32 in 1965:

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