Find Out Who You Look Like - MyHeritage.com

[Janus]

Ever been told that you look like someone famous?
Now here's the chance to find out if its true.

If you upload a picture to http://www.MyHeritage.com" , it has a face recognition program that will match the face(s) in the picture to celebrities.

I played around with it last night and it's a lot of fun. I also found out that, in my younger days, I was apparently a cross between Clark Gable, Cary Grant, and Tom Cruise. (Though later in life, after I grew a beard, I resembled President Grant and George Lucas)

 

[marlon]

I have tried two different frontal pictures of my face. The names that pop up in both cases (around 60% resemblance) are Jean-Louis Trintignant, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise (bwaaakkk)

marlon

 

[marlon]

ohh, yes and the best score (IN BOTH CASES) is Sarah Michelle Gellar...

Ohh yessssss

marlon

 

[fuzzyfelt]

first try - Christina Aguilera ... I might just leave it at that. Probably just means generic blonde, sadly.

 

[franznietzsche]

Steve Vai (dunno who that is), Robert Oppenheimer, Sharon Stone (I can live with that I guess), and Lindsay Lohan(I'm going to go shoot myself after that last one).

 

[Monique]

OMG, the first match that comes up is Indian!
My face looks like that of Madhuri Dixit, must be a past-lives thing

Second Sophie Marceau, third Liv Tyler.

 

[Cyrus]

I got sly stalone, J. Depp, the guy from american pie, and a whole buncha ppl I never heard of. I think if stalone and the guy from american pie had a retard kid, that would be me.

 

[Aether]

Hmm...my 20-something photo matches Denzel Washington, Yoko Ono, Anna Kournikova, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore.

 

[franznietzsche]

Hmm...my 20-something photo matches Denzel Washington, Yoko Ono, Anna Kournikova, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore.

I need a *boogle* smileu

third Liv Tyler.

Ooh la la!

 

[DaveC426913]

68% of me looks like Terry Pratchett.

 

[iansmith]

Albert Hofmann (61%)
Ozzy Osbourne (50%)
Lee Strasberg (49%)

 

[Cyrus]

Tigran Petrosian (64%)

http://www.chessbase-magazin.de/Nachrichten/Bilder/2002petrosian55.jpg

sly stallone (64%)
http://www.wallsoffame.com/assets/images/SLY_STALLONEa.jpg

Theodor Heuss (54%) -Ehhh...not really
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/gifs13/theodorheuss.jpg

Aretha Franklin (53%) WHAT? Thats -53%.

Johnny Depp (53%), no not really.

Jason Biggs (51%) That should be the thrid from the list, def above Aretha or Johnny.

http://www.abc-du-gratuit.net/images_stars/jason_biggs.jpg

I guess I do look like him...damn.

A. E. van Vogt (51%), more like -51%. But he wrote science fiction books, so that's kinda neat I guess.

 

[matthyaouw]

Alec Guiness (67%)

Also Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tarjer whassname, and Cliff Burton, among others.

Bah.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Et.

...

 

[BobG]

Damon Hill, Jacques Rogge, Claude Simon (who are they?)

Fourth on the list is the first person I recognize: Clint Eastwood.

I also look like Ian Thorpe, Edward Said, Sophie Marceau?, Koreen Kapoor?, and Charlton Heston.

I don't think so.

 

[Integral]

Billy Bob Thornton.. Jodie Foster! ... Ozzy Ozborn... Danny Devito.. Leo Tolstoy... Alan Alda... Lou Reed

It never occurred to me that the names on that list resembled each other so how I could I look like them?

 

[Art]

Two blondes walking down the street find a compact. One opens it up looks in the mirror and says "This face reminds me of somebody" her friend takes the mirror off her looks at it and says "Of course it does you stupid dumbass it's me!"

 

[Janus]

Billy Bob Thornton.. Jodie Foster! ... Ozzy Ozborn... Danny Devito.. Leo Tolstoy... Alan Alda... Lou Reed

My full list by descending order:

Tim Robbins
Julio Iglesias
Robert Palmer
Penelope Cruz ??
Clark Gable
Cary Grant
Richard Nixon
Ewan McGregor
Mikhail Gorbachev (must be that tattoo of Albania on my forehead.)
Tom Cruise.

So, if you can imagine all those people merged into one, you've got a good idea of what I look like.

It never occurred to me that the names on that list resembled each other so how I could I look like them?

The program probably looks for common features; Jaw line, eye shape etc. and make the "matches" according to how many individual features compare favorably. So you might share some features with certain people on your list and totally different ones with others.

It also seems that your facial expressions can alter your results. I used two different photos, one in which I was smiling and one in which I wasn't, and got two different lists. (The other included such notables as Steve Martin and Bud Abbot.)

I did the same for my father and Bing Crosby came up on both lists.
For my wife it was Meryl Streep in both cases.
Wynona Ryder came up for my daughter. (and she says that people have told her that she does resemble her.)

Fay Wray came up for both my wife and daughter (family traits?)

 

[Cyrus]

I always thought you looked like Santa Claus Integral. I think Santa vacations in Oregon during the off season.

 

[Evo]

Julie Christie
Brigitte Bardot
Bipasha Basu ??
Zhang Ziyi ??
Rani Mukhurjee ?
Grace Kelly
Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter
Audrey Hepburn
Mick Jagger
Ava Gardner

 

[SpaceTiger]

I tried it with several different photos and got completely different results each time, so I wouldn't trust it. In person, I've been told by several people that I look like George Harrison (and one person said Matthew Broderick).

 

[Evo]

Are you saying that I don't look like Mick Jagger?

 

[SpaceTiger]

Are you saying that I don't look like Mick Jagger?

I don't have any particularly high-resolution photos, so maybe that's the problem. It did successfully identify two of the four in this picture:

http://qonos.princeton.edu/nbond/Four_small.JPG

 

[Astronuc]

Zhang Ziyi is currently one of the top Chinese actresses. There is some controversy about her role as a 'geisha' girl in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha". The movie has been banned in China.

I probably look like Gandalf, but 25-30 years ago, people thought I looked like Jesus.

 

[Tsu]

Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler. :

 

[Cyrus]

Yeah, I could see that spacetiger.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Yeah, I could see that spacetiger.

I'm not sure what would have been better, getting with Mia Sara or singing "Twist and Shout" on a parade float.

 

[tribdog]

John Lennon and Martina Navritalova

 

[dduardo]

I look like the following people:

Enrico Caruso, Brad Pitt, Ewan McGregor, Milton Friedman, Celia Cruz, Olav V of Norway, Andy Rodick, Wayan Gretzky, Orlando Bloom, Alyson Hannigan

 

[tribdog]

Zhang Ziyi is currently one of the top Chinese actresses. There is some controversy about her role as a 'geisha' girl in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha". The movie has been banned in China.

I probably look like Gandalf, but 25-30 years ago, people thought I looked like Jesus.

have you seen Memoirs of a Geisha? I really liked it.
you didn't look like Jesus a few years ago. You looked like that guy that locked the Brady Bunch in the jail when they went to the Grand Canyon.

 

[Math Is Hard]

It said I looked like Sofia Coppola, which is OK with me, because I think shee-za one spicey meatball!

 

[Moonbear]

I can't use it...it doesn't work with my browser.

Oh, wait, tried my other browser and it worked!

My top match Lise Meitner 55%. Interesting: http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html
(I really do see the resemblence there too!)

Victoria de los Angeles 51%

Susan Sontag 48%

Rani Mukherjee 45%

Sharon Stone 44% (Hmm...yeah, I think I really see the resemblance there )

Among the men:
Liam Neeson 47%
Michel Faucalt 47%
George Harrison 47%
John Ashcroft 45%
Jefferson Davis 44% How funny!

 

[loseyourname]

I got Juan Carlos Ferrero.

Him:

http://www.jcferrero.friko.pl/pocz.jpg

Me:

 

[Cyrus]

John Ashcroft 45%

LOL! After all this hub-bub in the Politics Forum, that is hilarious!

Dude, nice Tee! You look like a younger krab.

 

[hypnagogue]

I get wildly varying results, but apparently I look sort of like a cross between Keanu Reeves (my girlfriend says: yeah right!) and John Travolta. Maybe with a dash of Cate Blanchett.

One of the pictures I uploaded happened to have a human skull in it, and the skull came up as a match for Kiefer Sutherland!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

1st run
Malcolm McDowell 63%
James Coburn 57%
Karl Lagerfeld 47%
Oscar Wilde 47% (hell yeah!)
David Beckham 45%
Malcolm X 45% (HAHAHAHAHA!)
Willaim Faulkner 44% (Another good one)
Jack Kerouac 44% (I always wanted to be a drunken writer)
Sigrid Undset 43%
Antonin Dvorak 43%

2nd run
Bing Crosby 67%
Yehuda Levi 63%
Ben Affleck 62% (this one I was dreading, I'm always told I look like him and I don't like him)
George Harrison 55%
Jennifer Connelly 53%
Mao Zedong 52%
Heinrich Boll 52%
Paul Newman 52%
Drew Barrymore 52%
Serge Gainsbourg 51%


Considering the people I apparently look the most like I guess it's no wonder that I tend to get more attention from the older women.

 

[pace]

I did one of those before, and I remember one of the guys I looked like was the last Pope

 

[Janus]

I ran a different test of the program last night. The program can recognise multiple faces in a photo, so I uploaded one of my Mom posing with her eight brothers.

Four of the brothers came up with a common match to one person.

 

[rocketboy]

I've been told countless times that I look like a young Tom Cruise...i'll check out what the webiste thinks.

 

[zoobyshoe]

It said I looked like Sofia Coppola, which is OK with me, because I think shee-za one spicey meatball!

I googled, and I don't particularly see it. from your pic in the member photo thread I'd say you strongly resemble Rene Zellwegger (sp?), who is a major cutie.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I googled, and I don't particularly see it. from your pic in the member photo thread I'd say you strongly resemble Rene Zellwegger (sp?), who is a major cutie.

That's pretty funny because my ex-boyfriend thought I looked like her, too. I used to have my hair very blonde with straight bangs on my forehead so he called me Nurse Betty!
http://www.filmfestivals.com/cannes_2000/pix/pix/nurse_betty.jpg
I thought that was a very cute movie, BTW.

update: oh, weird! I tried it with my pic from member photo thread and it matched Rene Zellweger!

 

[Gale]

well i experimented with it a lot with tons of different photos and facial expressions and all that. Seems I'm mostly a mix of Alyson Hannigan and Zhang Ziyi, with a touch of Liv tyler. i had a bunch of high matches with them...

i also had mult hits for:
Kareena Kapor, Lucy Lui, Emma Watson, Keira Knightly and Mira Sorvino.

 

[jimmy p]

I ran it a few times and it kept saying it couldn't find my face. Then I did several manual searches and it kept saying "No Matches".

I'm a freak!

 

[Math Is Hard]

I ran it a few times and it kept saying it couldn't find my face. Then I did several manual searches and it kept saying "No Matches".

I'm a freak!

No, you just over-heated the computer by making it search for perfection.

 

[jimmy p]

Ok, I tried it again, and after a "network couldn't find server" message (), I got through, and here is the not so glamorous list.

Neil Gaiman 66%
Edward Norton 57%
Roberto Baggio 44%
Bruce Willis 41%
Eddie Murphy 41% (how?)
Abhishek Bachchan 40% (who?)
Raymond Chandler 39% (who?)
Michel Foucault 39% (who?)

 

[jimmy p]

No, you just over-heated the computer by making it search for perfection.

:!) :!) :!) Marry me!:!) :!) :!)

 

[Math Is Hard]

:!) :!) :!) Marry me!:!) :!) :!)

I'm the virtual sister of your virtual mom, so I'll just have to remain one of your favorite aunties.

 

[jimmy p]

I'm the virtual sister of your virtual mom, so I'll just have to remain one of your favorite aunties.

... and to think, that's virtual incest!

Why does that turn me on??

 

[zoobyshoe]

That's pretty funny because my ex-boyfriend thought I looked like her, too. I used to have my hair very blonde with straight bangs on my forehead so he called me Nurse Betty!
http://www.filmfestivals.com/cannes_2000/pix/pix/nurse_betty.jpg
I thought that was a very cute movie, BTW.

update: oh, weird! I tried it with my pic from member photo thread and it matched Rene Zellweger!

Told you so!

I really wish we had as many pics of the lovely Math Is Hard in that thread as we do of some of the other lovely women of PF. But I know you're shy.

Yeah, that movie is interesting. The only time, I think, I've ever seen Morgan Freeman play a villain. Rene is one of those actresses like Juliette Lewis who is pure chamelion: they so thoroughly become their characters that you think they must be like that in real life.

 

[meteor]

My first match is Matt Leblanc, but fifth in the list is Carl Sagan

These are the top matches of 4 of the most influential politicians:

Tony Blair - Christiaan Barnard
GW Bush - JP Belmondo
Angela Merkel - Elizabeth Taylor
Saddam Hussein - Robert Oppenheimer (curious coincidence regarding weapons of mass destruction)