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70 Celebrities Who Could Easily Play Their Own Historical Counterparts

Despite being unrelated, people can have an uncanny resemblance to strangers due to genetic similarities. It seems that these similar genetic traits can transcend generations, too, as fans have noticed that certain celebrities look nearly identical to some figures from the past.  Diving deeper into this interesting phenomenon, our
Bored Panda team gathered many such pairs in the list below. To find them, all you have to do is scroll down.

#1 Keanu Reeves Looks Like Paul Mounet

Image credits: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

#2 Nicolas Cage Looks Like Civil War-Era Man

Image credits: 60 Minutes

#3 Matthew McConaughey Looks Like The Great Great Grandfather Of Reddit User

Image credits: Netflix Is A Joke

#4 Justin Timberlake Looks Like Old-Timey Criminal Charles Burns

Charles Burns was sentenced to 3 months at Newcastle City Gaol for the crime - false pretences.

Image credits: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

#5 Jimmy Fallon Looks Like Leader Of People's Liberation Party-Front Of Turkey, Mahir Çayan

Image credits: The Diary Of A CEO

#6 Andy Samberg Looks Like A Person In HS Yearbook From 1978

Image credits: Late Night with Seth Meyers

#7 Jay-Z Looks Like Person In Photo From 1939 Labelled "Harlem Loiterers"

Image credits: Letterman

#8 Peter Dinklage Looks Like Sebastián De Morra

Image credits: Jimmy Kimmel Live

#9 Orlando Bloom Looks Like Nicolae Grigorescu

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#10 Actor Robert De Niro Looks Like Counselor Of Wrocław Johann Vogt

Image credits: reelrave

#11 Lily Collins Looks Like Audrey Hepburn

Image credits: The View

#12 Christian Bale Looks Like Person In Old Picture

Image credits: People

#13 Kathy Bates Looks Like 7th President Of The United States, William Howard Taft

Image credits: Pach Brothers

#14 Leonardo Dicaprio Looks Like Judy Zipper From The 1960's

Image credits: Access Hollywood

#15 Mark Zuckerberg Looks Like King Philip IV Of Spain

Image credits: Y Combinator

#16 Rupert Grint Looks Like Self-Portrait Of Artist Sir David Wilkie From 1804-1805

Image credits: imdb.com

#17 Adrien Brody Looks Like 17th-Century English Philosopher John Locke

Image credits: GQ

#18 Jack Black Looks Like Paul Revere

Image credits: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

#19 George Carlin Looks Like Charles Darwin

Image credits: Official George Carlin

#20 Sofia Vergara Looks Like Italian Actress Sophia Loren

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#21 John Krasinski Looks Like Danish Businessman Carl Adolf Feilberg

Image credits: Late Night with Seth Meyers

#22 Liv Tyler Looks Like Actress Ava Gardner

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#23 Ian Somerhalder Looks Like Actor, Filmmaker, And Entertainment Host Rob Lowe

Image credits: Jimmy Kimmel Live

#24 Tommy Lee Jones Looks Like 17th President Of The United States, Andrew Johnson

Image credits: FilMagicians

#25 Maggie Gyllenhaal Looks Like American Journalist Rose Wilder Lane

Image credits: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

#26 Hugh Grant Looks Like Oscar Wilde

Image credits: BBC

#27 John Travolta Looks Like As Time Traveler

After a photo from 1860 was put up for sale on eBay, many Internet users jumped on the striking similarity between the subject and John Travolta, claiming the actor is a reincarnation of the man in the image.

Image credits: ScreenSlam

#28 Queen Latifah Looks Like Zora Neale Hurston

Image credits: Yahoo

#29 Ellen Degeneres Looks Like American Essayist Henry David Thoreau

Image credits: TheEllenShow

#30 Peter Greene Looks Like English Writer A.A. Milne

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#31 Robin Williams Looks Like Nobel Prize Winner Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

Image credits: Conan O'Brien

#32 Soccer Star Mesut Ozil Looks Like Enzo Ferrari

Image credits: Sky Sports Premier League

#33 Alec Baldwin Looks Like Millard Fillmore

Image credits: Team Coco

#34 Michael Douglas Looks Like George Washington

Image credits: CBS Sunday Morning

#35 Bill Murray Looks Like Edgar Allan Poe

Image credits: Letterman

#36 Mayim Bialik Looks Like Actress Margaret Hamilton

Image credits: missmayim

#37 Maggie Smith Looks Like Painting Titled "Lady In Blue"

Image credits: Downton Abbey

#38 Edward Norton Looks Like Catalan-French Baroque Painter Hyacinthe Rigaud

Image credits: Remembrance of Things Past

#39 Vincent Cassel Looks Like Dancer And Actor Fred Astaire

Image credits: vincentcassel

#40 Maya Rudolph Looks Like Actress And Singer Dorothy Dandridge

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#41 Luke Perry Looks Like American Folk Musician Woody Guthrie

Image credits: Splash News

#42 Jason Segel Looks Like Lee J. Cobb

Image credits: GQ

#43 Andrew Garfield Looks Like Leon Trotsky

Image credits: Amelia Dimoldenberg

#44 Michael Phelps Looks Like Charles Lamb

Image credits: Hindustan Times

#45 Bill Bailey Looks Like Philosopher Thomas Hobbes

Image credits: Classic FM

#46 Hank Azaria Looks Like Philosopher Rudolf Steiner

Image credits: Team Coco

#47 Benedict Cumberbatch Looks Like Polish Artist Zygmunt Waliszewski

Image credits: BuzzFeed Celeb

#48 Ted Cruz Looks Like Businessman And Politician Thomas Burchill

Image credits: Harris and Ewing, photographers

#49 Karlie Kloss Looks Like Actress Lauren Bacall

Image credits: karliekloss

#50 Robbie Williams Looks Like Jesse Pomeroy

Jesse Pomeroy was the youngest person in the history of Massachusetts to be convicted of murder. He was 15 years old when he was convicted of murdering four-year-old Horace Millen in 1874.

Image credits: The Jonathan Ross Show

#51 Christina Aguilera Looks Like Ginger Rogers

Image credits: Jimmy Kimmel Live

#52 Alicia Keys Looks Like Lena Horne

Image credits: Alicia Keys

#53 Luciana Barroso And Matt Damon Looks Like Redditor's Parents During Their Wedding

Image credits: Nicki Swift

#54 Daniel Day-Lewis Looks Like Abraham Lincoln

Image credits: FilMagicians

#55 Eminem Looks Like Severus Alexander

Image credits: 60 Minutes

#56 Charlie Seen Looks Like John Brown

Image credits: Netflix

#57 Anne Hathaway Looks Like English Peeress Anne Clifford

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#58 Rose McGowan Looks Like American Actress And Inventor Hedy Lamarr

Image credits: EdKclips

#59 Nicole Kidman Looks Like Polish Poet, Prose Writer And Painter Elżbieta Szemplińska-Sobolewska

Image credits: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

#60 Michelle Williams Looks Like Actress And Singer Brigitte Bardot

Image credits: paramountpictures.com

#61 Minka Kelly Looks Like Actress Raquel Welch

Image credits: disneyplus.com

#62 Paul Giamatti Looks Like Reincarnation Of William Shakespeare

Image credits: GQ

#63 Brad Pitt Looks Like Hermann Rorschach

Image credits: Variety

#64 Bruce Willis Looks Like Us Military Leader And Chief Of Staff, General Douglas Macarthur

Image credits: Conan O'Brien

#65 Zach Galifianakis Looks Like Louis Vuitton

Image credits: Netflix Is A Joke

#66 Shia Labeouf Looks Like Albert Einstein

Image credits: Jimmy Kimmel Live

#67 Florence Welch Looks Like Joan Of Arc

Image credits: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

#68 Chuck Norris Looks Like Vincent Van Gogh

Image credits: Conan O'Brien

#69 Nick Jonas Looks Like Franklin Pierce

Image credits: GQ

#70 George Clooney Looks Like Cary Grant

Image credits: Jimmy Kimmel Live

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