How the world's most powerful leaders looked when they were young

The world's most powerful people come from pretty interesting places - there are former Marxist guerillas, spies and special forces commanders, along with the sort of political nerds you might expect.

Despite their fame, pictures of their early lives and careers are often hard to come across. We've tried to collect some of the best here.

It'll be easier once all the world's leaders have grown up with Facebook, and there's a full and embarrassing record of their younger years - but you can make do with this until then.