10 people who achieved great things later in life

1. Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) (75-78). Spent decades as a farm worker and homemaker, turning to painting in earnest around age 75 or 78 after arthritis made embroidery too difficult, and later becoming a world-famous folk artist.
2. John Glenn (77). He began as an astronaut but spent four terms as a senator frm the age of 53. Then at the age of 77 he became the oldest man to travel into space.
3. Nelson Mandela (75). Became South Africa’s first Black president and led the country's transition out of apartheid at age 75 (1994–1999), following 27 years in prison.
4. Golda Meir (70). Became Prime Minister of Israel at age 70 (1969–1974), steering the nation through major geopolitical crises including the Yom Kippur War after previously planning to retire.
5. Katsushika Hokusai (70,71). Produced art throughout his life, yet his most iconic masterpieces - including The Great Wave off Kanagawa and Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji - were created in his late 60s and early 70s.
6. Ronald Reagan (69). Worked as an actor and union leader until his mid-50s, winning his first political office as Governor of California at age 55 and becoming President of the United States at age 69.
7. Frank McCourt (66). Worked as a New York City high school English teacher for nearly 30 years before publishing his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut memoir, Angela's Ashes, at age 66.
8. Harland David "Colonel" Sanders (65). Founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) as a franchise business at age 65, turning a recipe and roadside diner concept into a global empire after a lifetime of various failed jobs.
9. Winston Churchill (65) Held various cabinet posts earlier in life, but his most defining role - serving as Prime Minister of the UK during WWII - began when he was 65 (1940).
10. Penelope Fitzgerald (58). Published her first book, a biography, at age 58 and her first novel at 61, going on to win the Booker Prize at 62 and writing her acclaimed masterpiece The Blue Flower at 78.