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World famous personalities THEN and NOW
These are people we have read about in newspapers and seen on television; people who have made a difference. But very few may have seen them when they were young, long before they stepped into the limelight.
Here are a few images of some renowned personalities who were photographed much before they became world-famous.
American businessman and politician Mitt Romney is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002 but did not seek re-election in 2006.
Romney ran for the Republican nomination in the 2008 US presidential election and won several primaries and caucuses. However, he lost the nomination to John McCain.
He married Ann Davies in 1969 and they have five children.
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The current Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the founding of the state.
Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War, and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit.
Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988, member of the Likud Party, and was prime minister from June 1996 to July 1999.
His brother, Israeli Special Forces commander Yonatan Netanyahu, died in 1976 while commanding a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission.
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Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
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Queen Elizabeth is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations.
On the death of her father in 1952, she became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised.
Her reign of 60 years is the second-longest for a British monarch; only Queen Victoria has reigned longer.
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Carla Bruni is a French-Italian songwriter, singer, actress, and former model. She has been married to Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of the French Republic, since February 2008.
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John Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts.
He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to then President George W Bush.
He was an early backer of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but became a strong opponent of the subsequent war. Kerry based his 2004 presidential campaign on opposition to the Iraq War.
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Prince William is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. He is second in the line of succession, behind his father, to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms.
He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry and, two years later, earned his wings by completing pilot training at Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
Prince William married his longtime girlfriend, Catherine Middleton, on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey.
Prince Harry is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Harry was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry Regiment and completed his training as a tank commander. He served for 77 days on the front line in the Afghan War.
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Fidel Castro is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.
Castro is a controversial and highly divisive world figure, being lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but his critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad.
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