Ainan Celeste Cawley
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Ainan Celeste Cawley (born 23 November 1999) is a Singaporean prodigy.[1] He was born to an Irish father and Singaporean mother.[2]
Cawley gave his first public lecture at the age of six,[3][4] 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[5] a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to 521 decimal places and could remember the periodic table.[6] 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.[7]
In 2007, Cawley studied at NUS High School of Math and Science, but left after expectations of his family were not met.[8]
In 2009, Cawley was featured in a Channel 4 documentary titled The World's Cleverest Child and Me.[9]
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.[10][11][12]
As of 2013, he is pursuing his career in music.[13]
According to his parents, Valentine Cawley and Syahidah Osman, Cawley could walk at six months old and construct complex sentences by his first birthday,[14] and had said his first word when he was two weeks old.[15]
