Imagine going back in time and seeing your historical doppelganger. What an incredible sight it would be! Well, these celebrities are lucky enough to see people in the past that look just like them!
1. Greta Thunberg lookalike
Found in the University of Washington. The photograph was taken in 1898 on a gold mine. There is not one photo but two!
2. Young Joesph Stalin and Zayn Malik lookalike
Joseph Stalin was a dictator though, I am not sure he was a singer. Stalin seems much more dangerous.
3. Actress Hedy Lamarr in 1942 and Rose McGowan
Both are actresses but Hedy was an inventor as well since she invented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum. This is a technology for sending messages so that those messages are not easily stopped. Without this technology, we would not have blue teeth.
4. Eddie Murphy lookalike.
The man is not known.
5. Actress from Egypt Zubaida Tharwat and Jennifer Lawrence
Zubaida was the daughter of an Egyptian Navy officer. She won beauty contests and had nicknames like magic eyes.
6. Russian immunologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Robin Williams
The Ukrainian Jewish zoologist was known for research in immunology. He was very much atheist though because he followed Darwin’s teachings.
7. Young Albert Einstein and Shia Labeouf
8. Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach and Brad Pitt
This is a guy who developed that inkblot test we see on television shows. He does kind of look like Brad Pitt. What do you think?
9. Nicolas Cage, and an unidentified man in the civil war era
The ears look similar, the haircut even looks the same, but the photo on the left looks younger though could because it’s black and white.
10. Economist and WW1 soldier Harold Innis and Eminem
He did turn out to grow old and look different from Eminem. Maybe only in the photo, he looks similar.
11. Unknown gentleman and Steve Carell
They look very much similar except for the beard.
12. Mugshot of unknown guy and Justin Timberlake the singer
13. Rose Wilder Lane and Maggie Gyllenhall
Rose is the daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. She herself was a journalist and travel writer.
14. Nicolae Grigorescu and Orlando Bloom
Nicole was known for Romanian paintings in 1860.
15. US Army General Douglas MacArthur and Bruce Willis
General was prominent in Pacific War theatre in world war 2. He was active in 1930. He sure has a unique pipe for smoking.
16. John Travolta an unknown man from 1860
17. Marshall H. Twitchell and Conan O’Brien
Marshall was a prominent political figure and union army soldier in Vermont
18. Soviet politician Leon Trotsky and actor Ben Schwartz
Leon was Trotsky was a communist and developed his own Marxism ideology known as Trotskyism. He was critical of Stalinism, so he was expelled from the Soviet and moved to Mexico City where he would be killed by an assassin working for the Soviet.
19. Albert Johnson 1885 and Gary Oldman
Albert Johnson was a fugitive who attacked a police officer.
20. Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Degeneres
Henry was best known for Walde, a book about simple living in surround, and his essay “Civil Disobedience”. His writing influenced Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
21. Unknown young soldier and Jerry’O Connell
22. Actor Lee J. Cobb and Jason Segel: Lee J.
Was best known for exorcist(1973) and on the waterfront (1954). He was a New-Yorker from a Jewish family of Russian and Romanian Origin. He started acting in Manhattan-based group theatre in 1935.
23. Mahir Cayan and Jimmy Fallon
Mahir was a Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary.
24. Unknown man in Civil War-era and Robert Pattinson
25. David Wilke in 1805 and Actor Rupert Grint
David Wilke was an artist painter for Queen Victoria and William IV. The best painting by him is Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
How does one explain some of these lookalikes? The resemblance is sometimes remarkable. Could it be just chance? Or perhaps time travel!? Possibly it could even be a repeating pattern of DNA code from generation to generation. Can you find more celebrity lookalikes?
