List of people youngest in their field
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List of people youngest in their field is a list of people that, although not prodigies, did manage to be youngest in their respective fields.
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[edit] Acting
- Adrian Brody - Youngest Oscar winner for lead actor
- Marlee Matlin - Youngest Oscar winner for lead actress
- Timothy Hutton - Youngest Oscar winner as a supporting actor
- Tatum O'Neal - Youngest Oscar winner as a supporting actress, and the youngest person ever to win a regularly awarded Oscar
- Kristy McNichol - Youngest Drama acting Emmy Award
- Keshia Knight Pulliam - Youngest female nominated for an acting (prime-time) Emmy
- Fred Savage - Youngest male nominated for an acting (prime-time) Emmy
- Roxana Zal - Youngest person to win a (prime-time) Emmy.
[edit] Music and Dance
- Jimmy Osmond-Youngest to have a hit single
[edit] Business
- Sergey Brin-Currently tied for youngest self-made billionaire
- Y.Siddharth Reddy-Youngest CEO ever of a Public Limited Company (age: 22)
- Michael Dell-Youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500
- Lawrence E. Page-Currently tied for youngest self-made billionaire
- Albert II, Prince of Thurn and Taxis-Youngest billionaire
[edit] Directing
- Samira Makhmalbaf-Youngest Director nominated for the Palme d'Or
- John Singleton-Youngest Directing Oscar nominee
- Steven Soderbergh-Youngest director to win the Palme d'Or
[edit] Literature
- Rita Dove-Youngest Poet Laureate of the United States
- Laurence Eusden-Youngest Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- Rudyard Kipling-Youngest Nobel Prize in Literature
- Jhumpa Lahiri-Youngest Pulitzer Prize for fiction
[edit] Egyptology
- Carlos Blanco -Regarded as the youngest living Egyptologist by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in 1998, when he was 12.
[edit] Politics
- John C. Breckinridge-Youngest United States Vice President
- Joe Clark-Youngest Canadian Prime Minister
- Baronet Charles Clifford-First and youngest Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Süleyman Demirel-Youngest PM of Turkey
- Rajiv Gandhi-Youngest PM of India
- Giovanni Lonfernini-Youngest elected world leader during his time as captain regent
- Anna Lührmann-Youngest elected Parliamentarian in Europe
- Stevens T. Mason-Youngest governor in the United States history
- Matt Blunt-Youngest current governor in the United States
- William Pitt the Younger-Youngest PM of the United Kingdom
- Theodore Roosevelt-Youngest US President
- Roosevelt Skerrit-Youngest current Prime Minister of any nation
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter-Youngest Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Chris Watson-Youngest PM of Australia
[edit] Religion
- George Abbot-Possibly the Youngest Archbishop of Canterbury
- Maria Goretti-Youngest person canonized by the Catholic Church
[edit] Sports and Games
- Freddy Adu - Youngest Major League Soccer player
- Andrew Bynum - Youngest NBA player
- Phil Hellmuth Jr - Youngest person ever (23) to win the World Series of Poker main event (1989)
- Fu Mingxia - Youngest individual Olympic gold medalist
- Freddie Lindstrom - Youngest baseball player in a World Series
- Asa Long - Youngest English draughts champion
- Joe Nuxhall - Youngest Major League Baseball player
- Cindy Parlow - Youngest football player, male or female, to reach 100 caps
- Naim Süleymanoğlu - Youngest Weightlifting Record Breaker
- Mike Tyson - Youngest Champion in Heavyweight boxing
- Norman Whiteside - Youngest player in World Cup Soccer
- Boris Becker - Youngest winner of men's singles at Wimbledon
