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I'm always fascinated by historical celebrity doppelgangers--random people in historical photos or paintings or whatever who bear an uncanny resemblance to a living celebrity. In general, when you seem them side by side, the pictures usually try to match pose/expression/hair to make them look as similar as possible, but I always wonder how obvious they are outside of context. So here's a bunch of them:

01. 02. 03. 04.

05. 06. 07. 08.

09. 10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15. 16.

17. 18. 19. 20.

21. 22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27. 28.

Many of these are just unidentified people from the past, but some I know:

1. Barber of Seville poster
2. Charles Darwin
4. David Wilkie (19th century Scottish painter)
5. Egyptian statue
6. Franciabigio (16th century Italian painter)
9. Henry David Thoreau
10. John Locke
11. Louis XII of France
12. Marshall Harvey Twitchell (Union soldier and Republican politician)
13. Millard Filmore
15. Nicolae Grigorescu (19th century Romanian painter)
16. Paul Mounet (19th century French actor)
17. Phillip IV of Spain
18. Pope Gregory
20. Roman statue
21. Ronald Reagan
24. Albert Einstein
25. Zubaida Tharwat (20th century Egyptian actress)

Post guesses, but I'd recommend doing it without looking at everyone else's answers first. Some of them I think are super-obvious. Others... we'll see. I know the answers, so I can't be objective.

Here's my guesses for who the photos are of. It's really a shame that I'm much better at knowing who the historical figure is than knowing what celebrity they're supposed to look like.

2. Charles Darwin - Looks a bit like George Carlin, maybe?
11. Pretty sure that's Louis XII... maybe a bit of Vladimir Putin in there?
13. Millard Fillmore/Alec Baldwin
21. General MacArthur/ Bruce Willis

I think #4 looks like a young version of Pete without facial hair, for what it's worth.

EDIT: Mike, you crushed me on those!

Oh no... most of the historical names I have just because the pictures originally had tags on them. I'm amazed you got as many as you did. I'm not qualified to do any guessing. The ones I didn't name likely are lost to history.

The only ones I knew without help were Ronald Reagan and Charles Darwin.

No... I'm wanting people to guess the celebrities. Like I say, I think most of them are obvious, but I don't know if that's really true.

OK here goes. I only have about half the list - most of the early #s I have no clue who it's supposed to be. Some are downright spooky.

1.

FIN

Obvious Jack Black (1) is sitting right above Michael Jackson (5). And those are pretty good. But then I thought this was kind of a waste until I saw Alec Baldwin (13) sitting right next to Jimmy Fallon (14).

There are several that I can guess what people are saying- like the red haired guy is whatever red-haired actor/singer is popular. Or number 18 as Sylvester Stallone. But I don't think those are that accurate. But here's the ones I think are uncanny:

20. Emminem

23. Eddie Murphy (or maybe more Charlie Murphy)

25. Jennifer Lawrence- but is this just because of a makeup style? If we saw them without the makeup would we see any similarities?

27. John Travolta

28. JT

Here's ones I saw

1.

Update: Looks like me and Phoebe disagree on #2 and #19. I'd be very suprised if I don't have both.

Update2: did an image search to see the answer for 19, and it's bullshit. I have the better answer.

There's more than one portrait who bears a striking resemblance to Michael Jackson, and he shuffled off this mortal coil a while back too, Zen

19. Jon Heder from his role in Napolean Dynamite.
6. Ashton Kutcher?
4. Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)
10. An aging Peter O'Toole

"Correct" answers if anyone is interested:

But if you do a google image search for pictures of Jennifer Lawrence and look a just the first 8 rows of pictures that come up (on the width my screen is now) I get a total of 46 pictures. Of them 6 are NOT blonde. 28 have her hair down, either long, or shoulder length. And the only ones that vaguely resemble the pictures you just posted are the ones with her hair up, but not all of those. You, my friend, are cherry picking!

Zen... do you primarily see and identify women by hair color and style? Seriously?

And I don't mean to sound harsh. It's a serious question. Some people have trouble with facial features.