Ainan Celeste Cawley

Ainan Celeste Cawley (born 23 November 1999) is a Singaporean prodigy.^[1]

Cawley gave his first public lecture at the age of six,^[2][3] and at seven years and one month of age, he had passed the GCSE chemistry and studied chemistry at the tertiary level in Singapore Polytechnic^[4] a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to 521 decimal places and could remember the periodic table.^[5] At the age of 12, he had scored his first film, which was premiered at the Vilnius International Film Festival and eventually, directed his own film.^[6]

In 2007, Cawley studied at NUS High School of Math and Science, but left after expectations of his family were not met.^[7]

In 2009, Cawley was featured in a Channel 4 documentary titled The World's Cleverest Child and Me.^[8]

In 2010, his family moved to Kuala Lumpur, where Cawley is a student at the Taylor's University in Malaysia after his father's request to have his son homeschooled was rejected.^[9][10][11]

As of 2013, he is pursuing his career in music.^[12]

According to his parents, Valentine Cawley and Syahidah Osman, Cawley could walk at six months old and construct complex sentences by his first birthday,^[13] and had said his first word when he was two weeks old.^[14]

See also

•  Education portal
•  Psychology portal

• List of child prodigies
• List of child music prodigies
• Intellectual giftedness

References

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12. {{Citgjcyujby8 e web |title=A song and a film in a weekend |url=https://www.todayonline.com/entertainment/music/song-and-film-weekend |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=TODAY |language=en}}
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14. Yeoh, O. C. (2 November 2014). "GIFTED CHILDREN: Young achievers, high expectations". New Straits Times. Retrieved 28 November 2018.