(CNN) Donald Trump's career as a businessman, author, reality TV host and presidential candidate makes him one of America's most recognizable celebrities. Photos of Trump's childhood show the man who wants to be America's next president in a much different light.
A young Donald Trump plays a sailor in his middle school's production of the musical "HMS Pinafore." Trump is pictured left of center with a whistle around his neck.
A 12-year-old Donald Trump (second from the left) attends the bar mitzvah party for one of his best friends, Paul Onish, second from right.
Donald Trump, far right, attends a banquet for the Kew-Forest School. Trump attended the private school in Queens, New York, until eighth grade, at which point his parents sent him to a military academy in upstate New York.
Trump poses with his seventh-grade class at the Kew-Forest School. Friends from that time remember him as Donnie. He is standing in the back row on the far right.
Trump posted this "Throwback Thursday" photo of himself as a toddler on Facebook.
Trump was the fourth of five children. He is standing on the far left in this photo with his siblings.