10 of the world's most amazing child prodigies

Cleopatra Stratan: 3-year-old singer who earns 1,000 euros per song. This precocious Romanian girl is the youngest person to score commercial success as a singer. (SUPPLIED)
Aelita Andre: The 2-year-old artist. The Australian's talent for painting abstract art was discovered at age two, one year ago, when the director of a famous Melbourne art gallery agreed to put her work on show. (SUPPLIED)
Kim Ung-Yong: Man with world's highest IQ. Born in 1962, Kim is a Korean former child prodigy. With an IQ of 210, he was listed in the Guiness Book of Records as having the highest IQ in the world. Kim eventually returned to Korea in 1978, making a career switch from physics to civil engineering. Because of this, he has been called a "failed genius" by the Korean media. (SUPPLIED)
Akrit Jaswal: The 7-year-old surgeon. Akrit came to public attention in 2000, when he performed his first medical procedure at his family home. He was seven. (SUPPLIED)
Elaina Smith: World's youngest agony aunt. Just 7, Elaina Smith has a job at her local radio station, after she rang in to offer advice to a woman who had been dumped. (SUPPLIED)
Fabiano Luigi Caruana: Youngest Grandmaster at 14. The 16-year-old is a chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States. (SUPPLIED)
Gregory Smith: Nobel Peace Prize nominee at 12. Born in 1990, he could read at two and enrolled in university at 10. More impressively, he travelled the world as a peace and children's rights activist. (SUPPLIED)
Michael Kevin Kearney: Earned his first degree at 10 and became a reality show millionaire. Born in 1984, the 26-year-old was the world's youngest college graduate at the age of 10. He was speaking at four months, and finished high school at age six. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" (SUPPLIED)
Saul Aaron Kripke: Invited to apply for Harvard teaching post while still in high school. He was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in 1940. In the fourth grade he discovered algebra, and by the end of grammar school he had mastered geometry and calculus and taken up philosophy. (SUPPLIED)
Willie Mosconi: Professional billiards player at 6. Nicknamed Mr. Pocket Billiards, Mosconi was a American professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (SUPPLIED)