Have you ever wondered if there’s someone, somewhere in the world, who looks just like you?
Of course, if you’re a twin or a triplet, you may already know what that’s like — but for most of us, we’ve never experienced the amazing sensation of looking into a face that looks just like the one we see in the mirror every day.
But there’s a name for the phenomenon, ‘twin strangers,’ and there are a handful of people who have experienced it first hand — like this girl who tracked down her very own doppelgänger thousands of miles away.
To be fair, it’s a lot easier to find a ‘twin stranger’ using the power of the internet. For example, lots of celebrities with famous and easy-to-recognize faces have been matched up with their own lookalikes with the help of clever netizens.
In fact, keen-eyed folks surfing the web have discovered some truly incredible coincidences between modern day celebs and doppelgängers from a bygone era.
Scroll through the gallery below to see the most uncanny matches!
Millard Fillmore, president of the United States from 1850–1853, looks just like…
…Alec Baldwin, world-famous movie star and beloved sitcom actor!
Meanwhile, as a young man, the genius physicist Albert Einstein bore a striking resemblance to…
…Transformers actor Shia Labeouf, who's rocking just a bit more facial hair than his historical counterpart.
Ginger Rogers, blonde bombshell dancer and actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood, calls to mind another sultry starlet…
…Christina Aguilera! Right down to the blonde curls, the two could be sisters!
And Zora Neale Hurston, the elegant writer and scholar who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the spitting image of…
…actress and legendary performer Queen Latifah!
We think everyone can agree that Turkish politico Mahir Çayan could be the elaborately mustachioed twin brother of…
…Jimmy Fallon, former SNL star and current host of The Tonight Show.
And Rose Wilder Lane, who is the daughter of acclaimed novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder, is a dead ringer for…
…Academy Award nominated-actress Maggie Gyllenhaal!
Meanwhile, we can't help but notice a few similarities between political activist Leon Trotsky as a young man…
…and Spiderman himself! Actor Andrew Garfield, who has a remarkably similar hairdo.
And, last but not least, Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat, who is a perfect carbon copy of…
…Hunger Games star and Oscar winner, Jennifer Lawrence! Uncanny, don't you think?
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