Fascinated by historical people that look like people today.

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This is the latest one I've seen, I think he looks like Data (Brent Spiner) from Star Trek.

www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10145768/Bravery-medal-won-in-WW2-on-sale-for-60000.html

Yes! I’m fascinated as well by how some contemporary people look somehow “medieval”. I like to look at a historical face and imagine then with modern clothing and hairstyle too.

You might like Google's art selfie. It shows a painting that looks like you.

Also looks like Baldrick

I'm not surprised by people looking like historical portraits and photos. I frequently teach kids who are not related, but who look so similar. It's like there are only a certain number of features that are possible so sometimes you get the same ones on different people and they end up looking the same iyswim.

I think that's true, I apparently have a doppelganger in the same town as me. Work colleagues and friends have all seen her and some have spoken to her. She even has a little red haired boy like mine.

DH and I were staying at a hotel relatively early on in our relationship and on the wall was a portrait of an old Turkish prince. He was the spit of my DH, it was quite bizarre.

Have name changed or it would out me.

Some time ago, I lived in an old village in a tranquil part of the Midlands. A farm-worker used to drive a small cab-less tractor through the village. Ocassionally he would call into the pub after work, lean against the bar drink a pint and then go home. He wore dark trousers, white shirt and a dark, coarse jacket. He was no look alike, he was in fact an identical, a doppelganger, for Abraham Lincoln. He had the same beard, piercing eyes and he would lean against the bar, quiet, observing, ancient even.

The second relates to a work colleague - let's call him P - from an old job. He was unusual looking, very unique. The sort you would not forget. We were headquartered in town C. One of our clients was based 200 miles away in town D. P and I had been to client D on different occasions for different purposes as our roles were completely different. The clients at D were used to seeing us both, perhaps once or twice a year.

Our roles were so different that we never needed to travel together or even communicate between each other as we reported only to the client D. One morning I arrived at D and there also in reception was P. Except it was not P. It was his doppelganger, a new guy from D's own head office. He had the same very unusual features, same mannerisms, same 6ft 4ins height, same 48 inch chest, same voice, except the clothes were completely wrong for P's role. That was freaky not just for me but for client D as well who had to be picked off the floor.

May I present...

Dennis Waterman and Mary I... it's uncanny!

Ha! I was going to say Dennis waterman/Mary I. It is uncanny!

There’s the immortal Keanu Reeves and Paul Mounet, too

(I can’t find a good link though)

These guys met on a plane randomly. No relation but its uncanny.

I have a mate who looks just like every bust of Emperor Hadrian.

I’ve met 2 people who were v like me. Turned out to be distant cousins

Some guy on Twitter posted this photo of his gran to Alan Davies...