7 famous child prodigies and their gifted talents

Dec21,2023

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the child prodigy par excellence, playing songs on the harpsichord at four years old and composing simple music at five.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Some people have more mental power than they know what to do with. Biographers report that at the age of six the Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann was able to joke with his father in classical Greek. 

John von Neumann

She showed remarkable intellectual potential early on, learning to read at the age of three, learning Latin in about 20 lessons and wrote her first dramatic poem when she was eight years old

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

An outstanding student known for his exceptional memory, Ramanujan’s ascent into the highest levels of mathematics began in 1903, at age 16, when he was able to borrow an outdated copy of an English textbook of advanced mathematics. 

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Despite being blind from birth and growing up in poverty, Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Judkins Morris) became a skilled musician in early childhood, learning to write music, sing, and play the piano, organ, harmonica, and drums.

Stevie Wonder

The 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal wasn’t taught math at all as a child.

Blaise Pascal