You’ve seen their names in the papers, news articles, TOP 10 lists, and even history books! These 30 world leaders have truly earned their fame (or infamy), but today you’ll be able to relate more to them, as you’ll see these legendary figures in a whole new light. Take a rare glimpse at the leaders from around the world. It’s really strange to see these people, who shaped the world we live in now, as teenagers playing baseball, or just smoking joints (looking at you, Obama!). Let’s roll!
1. Young Margaret Thatcher aka ‘The Iron Lady’, the former Prime Minister of the UK
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2. Young Bill Clinton shaking hands with president John F. Kennedy in the rose garden of the White House. July 24, 1963
3. George W. Bush in baseball garb at Yale University, CA, 1964-68
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4. Young Nelson Mandela in 1961
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5. Pope John Paul II shaving
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6. Pope Francis as a young boy
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7. Portrait of Fidel Castro in New York in 1955
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8. King Salman of Saudi Arabia at 19, in 1954
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9. John F. Kennedy at age 10, 1927
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10. Young Barack Obama smoking a joint
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11. Thin Hugo Chavez in military academy
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12. Young Adolf Hitler
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13. Kim Jong-Il with his father, Kim Il-Sung, and his mother, Kim Jong-Suk, 1945
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14. Joseph Stalin as a young man, 1902
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15. Richard Nixon as a member of a college football squad, ca, 1930s
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16. Vladimir Putin as a teenager, 1966
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17. A young Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister (bottom left) with his family in 1956
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18. Young Donald Trump in New York’s military academy
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19. Mahatma Gandhi in 1887 as a law student
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20. Karol Wojtyla, before he was Pope John Paul II
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21. Young Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq
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22. Bashar al-Assad as a kid, now the president of Syria
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23. Young Dalai Lama
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24. Young, and quite sexy, Hillary Clinton around 1969
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25. Eighteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth of England, 1945
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26. Young Nicolae Ceaușescu, the general secretary of the Romanian communist party
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27. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1972, shaking hands with president Zalman Shazar during his time in the Israeli defense forces
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28. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in the early 1970s
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29. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in 1970 when she was part of the guerrilla movement
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30. Angela Merkel prepares a meal on a campfire in July 1973
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