33 Celebrity Look Alikes From History That Ll Leave You Astounded

These celebrity look-alikes from the annals of history may have you wondering whether everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Eminem is actually immortal.

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1 of 34A young Joseph Stalin and Zayn Malik, formerly of One Direction. Wikimedia Commons, Jason Merritt/Getty Images 2 of 34Actress Hedy Lamarr in 1942 and Rose McGowan. Pinterest 3 of 34An unidentified archival photo of one particularly dapper gentleman and Eddie Murphy. Tumblr, Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images 4 of 34Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat and Jennifer Lawrence.YouTube, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images 5 of 34An unidentified photo of one particularly well-dressed man and Matthew McConaughey.Imgur/CC BY-SA 3.0, Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons 6 of 34Russian immunologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Robin Williams. Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty 7 of 34A young Albert Einstein circa 1905 and Shia LaBeouf. Imgur 8 of 34A young Vladimir Putin and Macaulay Culkin.Wikimedia Commons, Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images 9 of 34An unidentified uniformed man and Channing Tatum.Tony Shek/Wikimedia Commons, Imgur/CC BY-SA 2.0

10 of 34Writer Zora Neale Hurston in 1940 and Queen Latifah. LOC/Wikimedia Commons, aclu_socal/Flickr 11 of 34Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, the inventor of the inkblot test, and Brad Pitt.Wikimedia Commons, Eamonn McCormack/WireImage/Getty 12 of 34A girl named Judy Zipper, pictured in a high school yearbook circa the 1960s and Leonardo DiCaprio.Imgur 13 of 34An unidentified Civil War–era man and Nicolas Cage. Kirk Weaver, Wikimedia Commons

14 of 34World War I soldier (and later noted economist) Harold Innis and rapper Eminem. Facebook 15 of 34An unidentified gentleman from the distant past and Steve Carell.Imgur, Wikimedia Commons 16 of 34An unidentified vintage mugshot and Justin Timberlake. Tyne and Wear/Flickr, Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons 17 of 34Rose Wilder Lane — the daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder — and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Wikimedia Commons, Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic/Getty 18 of 34German World War I pilot Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a.k.a. “The Red Baron” and Arcade Fire’s Win Butler.Wikimedia Commons, Facebook 19 of 34Nicolae Grigorescu, a pioneer of modern Romanian painting, in 1860 and Orlando Bloom.Wikimedia Commons, Imgur 20 of 34U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 and Bruce Willis. Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore/Flickr 21 of 34Congressman Thomas Burchill in 1943 and Senator Ted Cruz.Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons 22 of 34An old Italian poster for the comedic opera The Barber of Seville and Jack Black.YouTube, Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty
23 of 34Jesse Pomeroy, the youngest convicted first-degree murderer in the history of Massachusetts (1874) and English singer Robbie Williams.Wikimedia Commons, Dave Hogan/Getty Images 24 of 34An unidentified man from the 1860s and John Travolta. Wikimedia Commons, Pinterest/CC BY-SA 3.0 25 of 34Union Army soldier (and Louisiana State Senator) Marshall H. Twitchell and Conan O’Brien. Wikimedia Commons, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner 26 of 34Soviet politician Leon Trotsky and actor Ben Schwartz. Wikimedia Commons, Eric Appel/Flickr 27 of 34Mugshot of a convict named Albert Johnson in 1885 and Gary Oldman.Nebraska History, Dark Knight Wiki 28 of 34Writer Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Degeneres. Wikimedia Commons, AOL 29 of 34A wide-eyed, unidentified young soldier and Jerry O’Connell.Pinterest, Ron Davis/Getty Images 30 of 34Actor Lee J. Cobb in 1955 and Jason Segel. Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Imgur 31 of 34Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader Mahir Çayan and Jimmy Fallon. Wikimedia Commons, Rob Rich/Flickr 32 of 34An unidentified Civil War–era man and Robert Pattinson. Imgur, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images 33 of 34British painter David Wilke in 1805 and Rupert Grint. Wikimedia Commons, Joella Marano/Wikimedia Commons
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Whether we’re talking about famous figures who helped shape our world or common people whose names are no longer even remembered, the internet has turned up a number of people who are dead ringers for modern-day celebrities.

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1 of 34A young Joseph Stalin and Zayn Malik, formerly of One Direction. Wikimedia Commons, Jason Merritt/Getty Images

2 of 34Actress Hedy Lamarr in 1942 and Rose McGowan. Pinterest

3 of 34An unidentified archival photo of one particularly dapper gentleman and Eddie Murphy. Tumblr, Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images

4 of 34Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat and Jennifer Lawrence.YouTube, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

5 of 34An unidentified photo of one particularly well-dressed man and Matthew McConaughey.Imgur/CC BY-SA 3.0, Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons

6 of 34Russian immunologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov and Robin Williams. Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty

7 of 34A young Albert Einstein circa 1905 and Shia LaBeouf. Imgur

8 of 34A young Vladimir Putin and Macaulay Culkin.Wikimedia Commons, Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic/Getty Images

9 of 34An unidentified uniformed man and Channing Tatum.Tony Shek/Wikimedia Commons, Imgur/CC BY-SA 2.0

10 of 34Writer Zora Neale Hurston in 1940 and Queen Latifah. LOC/Wikimedia Commons, aclu_socal/Flickr

11 of 34Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach, the inventor of the inkblot test, and Brad Pitt.Wikimedia Commons, Eamonn McCormack/WireImage/Getty

12 of 34A girl named Judy Zipper, pictured in a high school yearbook circa the 1960s and Leonardo DiCaprio.Imgur

13 of 34An unidentified Civil War–era man and Nicolas Cage. Kirk Weaver, Wikimedia Commons

14 of 34World War I soldier (and later noted economist) Harold Innis and rapper Eminem. Facebook

15 of 34An unidentified gentleman from the distant past and Steve Carell.Imgur, Wikimedia Commons

16 of 34An unidentified vintage mugshot and Justin Timberlake. Tyne and Wear/Flickr, Georges Biard/Wikimedia Commons

17 of 34Rose Wilder Lane — the daughter of author Laura Ingalls Wilder — and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Wikimedia Commons, Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic/Getty

18 of 34German World War I pilot Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a.k.a. “The Red Baron” and Arcade Fire’s Win Butler.Wikimedia Commons, Facebook

19 of 34Nicolae Grigorescu, a pioneer of modern Romanian painting, in 1860 and Orlando Bloom.Wikimedia Commons, Imgur

20 of 34U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 and Bruce Willis. Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore/Flickr

21 of 34Congressman Thomas Burchill in 1943 and Senator Ted Cruz.Wikimedia Commons, Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

22 of 34An old Italian poster for the comedic opera The Barber of Seville and Jack Black.YouTube, Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty

23 of 34Jesse Pomeroy, the youngest convicted first-degree murderer in the history of Massachusetts (1874) and English singer Robbie Williams.Wikimedia Commons, Dave Hogan/Getty Images

24 of 34An unidentified man from the 1860s and John Travolta. Wikimedia Commons, Pinterest/CC BY-SA 3.0

25 of 34Union Army soldier (and Louisiana State Senator) Marshall H. Twitchell and Conan O’Brien. Wikimedia Commons, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner

26 of 34Soviet politician Leon Trotsky and actor Ben Schwartz. Wikimedia Commons, Eric Appel/Flickr

27 of 34Mugshot of a convict named Albert Johnson in 1885 and Gary Oldman.Nebraska History, Dark Knight Wiki

28 of 34Writer Henry David Thoreau and Ellen Degeneres. Wikimedia Commons, AOL

29 of 34A wide-eyed, unidentified young soldier and Jerry O’Connell.Pinterest, Ron Davis/Getty Images

30 of 34Actor Lee J. Cobb in 1955 and Jason Segel. Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Imgur

31 of 34Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader Mahir Çayan and Jimmy Fallon. Wikimedia Commons, Rob Rich/Flickr

32 of 34An unidentified Civil War–era man and Robert Pattinson. Imgur, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

33 of 34British painter David Wilke in 1805 and Rupert Grint. Wikimedia Commons, Joella Marano/Wikimedia Commons

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Sometimes it’s one feature, and sometimes it’s a lot of features. Other times it’s an expression, an attitude, or a detail you can’t even really put your finger on. But either way, these photos might just make you wonder if some of your favorite celebrities are actually immortal time travelers.

And as if these photos of celebrity look-alikes themselves weren’t spooky enough, there’s also a spooky mythology behind the notion of doppelgängers. Ancient Norse and Finnish mythology, for example, are full of stories of people who showed up at prearranged appointments only to be told that they had already been there and left.

Needless to say, many cultures believed that running into your double was a bad sign. Tudor stories from 17th-century England even say that Queen Elizabeth I walked into her room one evening and saw herself lying on her bed, looking pale and weak. Shortly after that, she fell ill and died in that very bed.

Wikimedia CommonsThe Death of Elizabeth I, Queen of England by Paul Delaroche. 1828.

Though tales like these add a little chill to the idea of celebrity look-alikes and celebrity doppelgangers, logic tells us that there are simply a finite number of ways in which a human face can appear. Given the vast number of people who have walked the earth, there are bound to be some similarities.

When you find a photo of someone from the past, it’s easy to compare them to people you see often — and celebrities’ faces are everywhere all the time. So as more old photos hit the internet, instances of dead-ringer celebrity look-alikes will surely only increase.

After this gallery of celebrity look-alikes from the past, check out this collection of vintage mugshots and see if you can spot any more doppelgängers. Then, peruse these bizarre historical photos that prove just how strange the past really was.

These celebrity look-alikes from the annals of history may have you wondering whether everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Eminem is actually immortal.#

These celebrity look-alikes from the annals of history may have you wondering whether everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Eminem is actually immortal.